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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.
The Bay Area Jobs First Collaborative, part of the California Jobs First statewide initiative, has released their in-depth Early Care and Education Activation Plan. LIIF Senior Vice President, National ECE Angie Garling and ECE Vice President, Advisory and State Policy Shelly Masur presented on today’s webinar, joined by our partners in this effort. The topic…
We stand at an inflection point for community development finance that will determine whether CDFIs emerge stronger from current challenges or find themselves marginalized in an increasingly competitive landscape. That’s why 200+ nonprofit industry leaders, mission-focused industry partners, and investors and financing professionals headed to Charlotte, North Carolina this week for the Housing Partnership Network’s…
A wide range of organizations and groups have endorsed Sen. Deb Fischer’s (R-Neb.) Child Care Modernization Act. Fischer today introduced the bipartisan bill alongside Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.). The Child Care Modernization Act will reauthorize, for the first time in over a decade, the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) to help provide quality, affordable child…
Today was the groundbreaking for Brooklyn’s Coney Landing, which will offer 178 much-needed affordable apartments, including 106 supportive units (see rendering below). From the press release:“As a longtime investor in the production and preservation of affordable housing in New York City, LIIF was proud to provide catalytic capital to make Coney Landing a reality by…
For 25+ years, LIIF has strategically partnered with the San Francisco Department of Early Childhood to strengthen the city’s child care ecosystem. Our latest collaboration is the scaling of Felton Institute’s footprint across San Francisco. With the opening of their newly refurbished 300 Leland Avenue center, Visitacion Valley families now have a quality space for…
Today, LIIF staff attended the grand opening of the new North Bay Children’s Center (NBCC) campus in Novato, California. First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom delivered the keynote, with opening remarks by Marin County Supervisor Eric Lucan and the Governor’s Chief Service Officer Josh Fryday. LIIF has stood by this center’s side for 18 years, originally…
LIIF has provided a $2 million Growing Housing Developers (GHD) Project-Readiness Line of Credit to nonprofit Community League of the Heights (CLOTH). With this line of credit, CLOTH will continue to work on affordable housing projects in their pipeline in the historically undercapitalized Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. ABOUT GHD: To increase the…
LIIF has closed on a $19 million secured New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) source loan to Carmen High School of Science and Technology, a nonprofit charter school located in a historically underinvested neighborhood on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (renderings below). The intricate capital stack includes LIIF at $6 million; peer CDFI co-lender IFF…
CONTACT Christopher Gil Director of Strategic Communications and Influence (415) 287-3197, cgil@liifund.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LIIF Awarded LA RISE Funding from Ballmer Group and FireAid for L.A. County Child Care Wildfire Disaster Relief Funding will provide grants to licensed Los Angeles County child care providers impacted by January 2025 wildfires SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 8, 2025) — The Low Income…
LIIF Board Director Carol R. Naughton has been named to the “2025 Forbes 50 Over 50” list in the “Impact” category. This is a prestigious recognition that celebrates women whose impact touches every corner of America. The 2025 Class of 50 Over 50 are trailblazers making their most powerful contributions in the second half of their careers.…