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.
LIIF strives daily to meet its mission that “everyone in the United States should benefit from living in a community of opportunity, equity and well-being.” That mission is what inspired our Lending team toward having a banner year in 2023, driving a record $292 million into historically excluded communities across the nation. Of that amount,…
In 2020, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) initiated a strategic shift toward integrating racial equity into all its work. Central to this change was the development of the Impact-Risk-Profitability Framework (IRP Framework), designed to recalibrate how we evaluate and execute lending decisions. The IRP Framework is not just a set of tools; it’s a…
A quick glance inside just one of the classrooms at GAP Community Child Development Center showcases families from around the globe. While some were born in the U.S. — and even in GAP’s Petworth community — many emigrated from countries such as Mexico, Nigeria and El Salvador. This local community resource is a true reflection…
The 2023 Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) Conference left the LIIF team feeling both inspired and energized. It was a distinct pleasure to be in our nation’s capital to spend three jam-packed days networking, learning, sharing and ideating. We are continually amazed by the CDFI sector’s abundance of talented professionals and their passion for the work. …
LIIF has a longstanding history of innovative capital deployment that supports the expansion of the housing supply. While we have invested significant amounts to produce and preserve housing, we continued to grapple with a persistent housing crisis that significantly burdened Black, Latino, and other people and communities of color. As we embarked on our strategic…
Creating communities of opportunity, equity and well-being requires us to examine how historically excluded communities are able to access quality, affordable child care. Through our strategic planning process, LIIF identified early care and education (ECE) as a vital component to a thriving community because when children are provided with high-quality care and education, they are…
LIIF’s strategic pillar of impact-led lending springs from our goal of nimble deployment of capital as the vehicle for effecting deeper impact in the communities we serve. With racial equity center to our mission, LIIF needed to consider where and how our efforts as a CDFI addressed the systemic inequities that create barriers to opportunity…
Child care has been widely recognized as an essential public resource that can produce a triple halo effect across society: thriving small businesses, high-quality early education for children, and broader economic opportunity and support for working parents. Yet child care supply gaps across the country continue to limit this potential, with Black, Latino, Indigenous, and…
In our strategic plan, LIIF committed to shifting the way we do business through a new impact-led lending approach informed by equity-centric decision-making tools. An “impact-led lending approach” means that our investments in vital community assets like affordable homes, quality early care and education, schools and other facilities will be driven by qualitative and quantitative rubrics to help us predict whether an investment or program drives expanded access, improved outcomes,…
For years the predominantly Black neighborhood of Avondale in Cincinnati has seen a dramatic disinvestment that left the community with underutilized and unsafe amenities like Avondale Town Center, a suburban style retail strip with neither a walkable neighborhood center nor quality retail options. The city-owned Town Center site was originally developed in 1983 and quickly…