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Low Income Investment Fund Joins All Five Early Care and Education Site Tour, Convenes State and Local Elected Officials

CONTACT Christopher Gil Director of Strategic Communications and Influence  (415) 287-3197, cgil@liifund.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   LIIF Joins All Five Early care and Education Site Tour, Convenes State and Local Elected OfficialsVisit celebrates one prime example of the impact of California’s $350.5 million Infrastructure Grant Program MENLO PARK, CALIF. (Oct. 26, 2023) — Build Up CA and Build Up…

LIIF’s Angie Garling in KQED Climate Emergency Article

This article showcases the need for climate mitigation in child care facilities. LIIF’s Angie Garling is quoted throughout. Read the article. One of the things we have to do is take the climate resources coming through the Inflation Reduction Act, and make sure that we prioritize young children, both in multifamily housing and early care/education. LIIF…

LIIF’s Angie Garling Co-Authors CHIPS Act Op-ed in Semiconductor Digest

We have the secret sauce for the CHIPS Act, the recent federal mandate that all in the semiconductor industry applying for more than $150 million in direct government funding must offer their workers one of three options: on-site child care; subsidized center-based child care; or subsidized home-based child care. Now is the time for the…

LIIF’s Wassia Kamon Spotlighted in CFO Brew

LIIF’s Wassia Kamon was featured in a CFO Brew article on tips offered for those in the finance world. She offers five suggestions to bridge the gap between marketing and finance, including: acknowledging common roadblocks; starting with the big picture; and agreeing on common rules. Read the article. Find alignment at a high level before…

LIIF’s Atlanta ECE Grant Administration and Technical Assistance in SaportaReport Article

The Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students (GEEARS) and the Promise All Atlanta Children Thrive (PAACT) $20 million education initiative received media attention, spotlighting our CDFI’s work around grant administration and technical assistance for Atlanta child care facilities. The article spoke to a celebratory event with Mayor Andre Dickens in attendance. Read “Mission Accomplished: PAACT and…

LIIF’s Joe Fretwell a Keynote Speaker at Early Learner South Dakota Summit

Early Learner South Dakota (ELSD) is hosting its second annual summit on Sept. 21-22 to convene business leaders, economic development directors and child care providers throughout the state to discuss solutions to the rising cost of child care. In June 2023, ReadyNation presented a report that highlighted the impact of the growing cost of child…

LIIF Submits Comment Letter on Capital Magnet Fund to CDFI Fund

Responding to the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund)’s Request for Information (RFI) around the Capital Magnet Fund (CMF), LIIF has submitted a comment letter. The CDFI Fund’s latest RFI will help to enhance and increase the impact of CMF, streamline or minimize the administrative burden on CMF Applicants and Award Recipients, as…

LIIF’s Stephanie McFadden Part of Urban Land Institute Magazine Roundtable on Affordable Housing

In this Urban Land Institute article, experts discuss the growing crisis of housing attainability for lower- and middle-income households across the United States, including ways the private and public sectors could help increase housing production, preserve existing affordable housing, and give more people access to housing; strategies for encouraging communities to accept more housing construction;…