Need flexible capital? LIIF is your community real estate lender of choice.
Looking to make an impactful investment? LIIF provides impact and financial returns.
Need a grant or capacity-building? We support government agencies and providers.
How is LIIF equaling the playing field? Our policy work is yielding results.
Need flexible capital? LIIF is your community real estate lender of choice.
Looking to make an impactful investment? LIIF provides impact and financial returns.
Need a grant or capacity-building? We support government agencies and providers.
How is LIIF equaling the playing field? Our policy work is yielding results.
Our efforts continue to repair the long history of inequitable systems and financial institutions excluding Black, Latino, and other people and communities of color. I am pleased to share with you the progress we’ve made over the past year in redefining LIIF’s role in the community development ecosystem. In 2020, we set a goal to…
This post is featured in LIIF’s 2020 Annual Impact Report. LIIF is reimagining how we build our business to reflect our new mission and vision and to achieve our goal of mobilizing $5 billion in capital for racial equity. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought immense challenges to our country, and Black, Latino and Indigenous communities…
“CDFI borrowers and the communities they serve benefit from long-term strategies, especially when they are most needed, during economically stressful times.” When my co-author, Ellen Seidman, and I wrote those words in 2015, we were reflecting on the lessons learned from community development financial institutions’ (CDFIs) performance during the Great Recession. The sector’s unique mix…