News Archives
2014
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New Tool Can Quantify Your Social Impact
In a new post on the Living Cities blog, LIIF President and CEO Nancy O. Andrews answers questions about LIIF’s recently released Social Impact Calculator and the methodology behind it…
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Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits Announces 2014 Community Development Awards Winners
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LIIF Unveils Social Impact Calculator
Affordable Housing Finance covered the launch of LIIF’s launch new Social Impact Calculator, a first-of-its-kind tool that puts a dollar value on the social impact of community investments. Built as a tool for LIIF to assess its effectiveness in creating opportunity and reducing inequality, LIIF recently released the calculator as an open-source digital tool for others to use and adapt…
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New Tool Puts Dollar Value on Social Projects
A new feature in The Chronicle of Philanthropy profiles LIIF’s newly launched Social Impact Calculator and highlights the open-source nature of the tool…
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Low Income Investment Fund Releases First-of-Its-Kind Social Impact Calculator Tool
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Plan Gets Funding to Turn Abandoned Harlem School Into Boys and Girls Club
In the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, LIIF is making an investment to transform a former public school building into a mixed-use, mixed-income development. In a recent feature, DNAinfo.com highlights the historic preservation and conversion of the former public school into the new flagship space for the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem…
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Small community loan program keeps childcare centers afloat
In a new audio and news feature, Southern California Public Radio profiles the success of LIIF’s Los Angeles Early Childhood Education (LA ECE) Bridge Fund, a first-of-its-kind fund that provides financing to preserve child development and education services for low income children in Los Angeles County…
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Community Development Needs a Quarterback
In a new blog post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Nancy O. Andrews of LIIF and Brande McHale of the Citi Foundation make a case for “community quarterbacks” to tackle the issues facing low-income families and communities.…
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Los Angeles Early Care and Education Bridge Fund Preserves Affordable Child Care for Thousands of Working Families
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Bipartisan Legislation to Increase Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Housing Introduced in Congress
