News Archives
2011
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LIIF Joins Starbucks & OFN to Create Jobs
The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) is excited to announce that it was named as one of the first community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to receive a capital grant from the Create Jobs for USA Fund, a collaboration between Starbucks and Opportunity Finance Network (OFN). The Create Jobs for USA funds will help LIIF to […]…
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Mid-Hudson Valley Community Celebrates New Supermarket & New Jobs
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New LIIF-Enterprise Partnership to Push for TOD
Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) and Enterprise are forming a partnership to advance the cause of transit-oriented development (TOD) nationally. The partners will formally announce this new partnership, as well as an assortment of financing strategies for TOD projects, at the Rail-Volution conference this week in Washington, D.C.…
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Transit-Oriented Development Partnership Goes National
Enterprise Community Partners and the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) are expanding efforts to build transit-oriented development (TOD) to a national scale. The groups announced their partnership at the Rail-Volution conference Oct. 17 in Washington, DC. The effort builds on earlier TOD efforts in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the latter area work resulting in […]…
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Enterprise and LIIF Partner to Advance Transit-Oriented Development Nationwide
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LIIF Commends SF on New Green Finance Program
The City of San Francisco announced the new GreenFinanceSF-Commercial Program that helps commercial property owners green their buildings. The program takes advantage of an “open market” Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing model. With the support of Living Cities, LIIF worked closely with the City of San Francisco to ensure that the program would serve […]…
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NMTCs Support Hundreds of Small and Minority-Owned Businesses
More than 200 commercial businesses, 200 craftspeople and 100 farmers make their living operating out of Seattle’s Pike Place Market. The market’s commercial tenants include a community medical clinic, senior service center, food bank and childcare center. A large portion of the market’s 500 businesses are low-income and/or minority-owned. The market complex also provides housing […]…
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LIIF-Financed Hyde Bronx High School Opens
Hyde-Bronx High School, one of LIIF’s New Markets Tax Credit projects, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony that was covered in several local publications, including the New York Times and Gotham Schools. The high school is the first to be built from the ground up in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx in over 30 years. […]…
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LIIF Receives Award to Support Small Businesses
LIIF received a $7.5 million award through the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Small Business Lending Fund. …
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CDFI Fund Awards LIIF $3 Million for Healthy Food Financing
Today, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) received a $3 million award from the U.S. Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. LIIF was one of only 12 organizations nationally to receive an award. LIIF will use the funds to further its work to increase access to nutritious and healthy food in low income and […]…
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