Need flexible capital? LIIF is your community real estate lender of choice.
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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’s Joe Fretwell has published an in-depth report on the economics and state of child care in South Dakota. This paper, entitled “Too Expensive, and Not Expensive Enough: Investing in Child Care to Strengthen South Dakota’s Economy,” includes outputs of a financial model for assessing the capacity of child care providers to increase pay for…
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…
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…
A session that started with promise and big ideas to address the needs of New York’s youngest children, their families and the child care workforce ended with numerous bright spots, though challenges remain. Read full statement. The Low Income Investment Fund applauds the Governor and legislative leaders for prioritizing child care with investments in the…
LIIF’s Vice President, Early Care and Education Angie Garling was quoted in a BBC article around the federal mandates around child care for the semiconductor sector. The mandate was put forth as the U.S. started soliciting applications from firms for the first of the billions in subsidies for the chips industry that Congress approved last…
From high-rise buildings on urban streets to rural neighborhoods with miles between houses, families are at the core of every community across the country. It’s the parents and children, brothers and sisters, grandparents and close friends who we celebrate with in good times and grieve with together in challenging times. Family is what forms so…
Like many stakeholders across the community development industry and beyond, LIIF has spent much of the last year closely following the Biden-Harris administration’s Build Back Better Act and envisioning opportunities to fundamentally shift inequitable systems. The more than $400 billion proposed investment in the early care and education (ECE) sector – including universal pre-K for all three and four-year-olds and policies…
More than 100 home and center-based child care providers received a five-year, zero-interest loan to sustain their businesses during the pandemic, thanks to the San Francisco Economic Recovery Loan Program. The program was launched by San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s office through the Office of Early Care and Education in July 2021. LIIF served as…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Photos of the ribbon cutting here and transformations here. “Green” Makeovers of Child Care Spaces Connect San Francisco’s Youngest Children to Nature SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 14, 2021) – Young children at nine San Francisco child care centers and family child care homes are enjoying green outdoor play spaces after community volunteers worked multiple…