News Archives
2011
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LIIF Receives $5.5 Million from Bank of America to Finance Energy Efficient Building Retrofits
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“Health Affairs” Article Explores Community Development & Health Sector Collaboration
The November issue of Health Affairs features an article co-authored by LIIF President & CEO Nancy O. Andrews and David Erickson of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on community development strategies to improve health outcomes for low income people.…
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Marketplace Officially Opens
News of the Highlands covered the October 28 ribbon cutting ceremony for MyTown Marketplace, the new grocery store opened with support from the New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities Fund. The event was attended by New York Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets Darrel Aubertine, Town Supervisor Ed Magryta and Village Mayor Joseph D’Onofrio.…
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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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