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Need flexible capital? Make LIIF your lender of choice.
Looking to make an impactful investment? Connect with LIIF.
Have facilities needs? LIIF supports government agencies and child care providers.
Looking to make a difference? LIIF advocates so communities are strengthened.
In conjunction with Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, LIIF’s charter-school lending in the Southeast was highlighted in their Saporta Report. The case study of Ethos Classical is featured. Read the Saporta Report guest blog. Ethos is just one success story of many around this work that puts racial equity in education into our lending practices.…
The LIIF Early Care and Education (ECE) team headed to the Richmond Parkway YMCA Early Learning Center, joining Mayor Eduardo Martinez and child care leaders to celebrate a community win in Richmond, California. The YMCA leveraged a $1.5 million grant — facilitated by LIIF via the California Department of Social Services’ Infrastructure Grant Program (IGP)…
CONTACT Christopher Gil Director of Strategic Communications and Influence (415) 287-3197, cgil@liifund.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Ballmer Group Award Grants to Scale LIIF’s Los Angeles County Child Care Impact Grants totaling $2.1 million combined will strengthen the county’s early care and education ecosystem SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 25, 2024) — The Low…
Last winter, LIIF staff toured the construction site of The Hub in San Francisco’s historically excluded Sunnydale community. LIIF provided $13.6 million in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation authority, a $1.5 million capital campaign bridge loan and $3 million in early care and education (ECE) grant funding to finance the construction of this 28,000-square-foot,…
LIIF has been helping providers rehabilitate their child care facilities to mitigate the deleterious effects of the climate emergency. This article details LIIF’s efforts as facilitator of California’s $350.5 million Infrastructure Grant Program (IGP). Read the KQED article. Projects include solar panels, shade structures, HVAC systems, insulated windows and misting systems to keep children cool…
The Charlotte Post covered the “The Future Scape: An Equity in Real Estate Development Symposium” at Queens University of Charlotte. The importance of investing in developers of colors was discussed. Read The Charlotte Post article. Read the Florida Realtor article. LIIF had the explicit goal of investing in more people of color. LIIF Vice President,…
In 2022, LIIF invested in the six-story Rindge Commons Economic Mobility Hub in N. Cambridge, Massachusetts, with our Senior Loan Officer, Northeast Region Adyam Ghebre attending a groundbreaking ceremony (photo below, third from right). Our organization offered an $11 million source loan and $13 million via a New Markets Tax Credit allocation for this community…
They may call it “Steel City,” but LIIF’s community facilities Lending team is taking a shine to glassmaking in Pittsburgh. The is LIIF’s first loan in this city — and the organization’s first to an arts programming space anywhere in the nation. LIIF’s total commitment to Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) was $5.2 million, split between…
LIIF Board Vice Chair Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner, child care leaders and co-founders of All Or Kin, are the recipients of the 2024 The Heinz Award for the Economy. The Heinz Award judges indicated that “independent analyses show that All Our Kin’s work contributes to the creation of thriving, neighborhood-based, early learning environments. All…
CONTACT Christopher Gil Director of Strategic Communications and Influence (415) 287-3197, cgil@liifund.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LIIF Maintains Strong S&P and Aeris Ratings for Fiscal Year 2023 Nationally renowned, 40-year-old CDFI’s stellar ratings highlight continued fiscal soundness SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 13, 2024) — The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) has announced that both S&P and Aeris have once again highly…