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  • Including Family Child Care in Affordable Housing: Policy, Design, and Financing Considerations

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  • Strategies to Include Child Care as a Key Community Resource

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  • Mobilizing Capital to Build Communities of Opportunity, Equity and Well-Being: LIIF Strategic Plan 2020-2024
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  • Pathway to Parks and Affordable Housing Joint Development
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  • How Local Leadership Can Drive Prosperity for All: A New Vision for Promoting Equitable Growth and Infrastructure Development in America’s Communities
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  • Building Pre-K: Philanthropy & CDFI Collaborations in Financing Early Education Facilities
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  • Partnering for Prevention: Hospital Community Benefit Investments for Community Development
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  • Integrated Transactions: An Emerging Focus for Community Development
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  • Leveraging Resident Services Programs in Affordable Housing as Partners in Health Care Transformation
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  • Equitable Transit-Oriented Development: A New Paradigm for Inclusive Growth in Metropolitan America
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  • People and Place: A New Vision for Healthy Communities
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  • Filling the Financing Gap for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
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    Bridges to Dreams: The Story of the Low Income Investment Fund
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    Community Development

    Weathering the Great Recession: A CDFI Case Study in Patient Capital

    Kimberly Latimer-Nelligan, LIIF COO and Executive Vice President of Community Investment Programs; Ellen Seidman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper, September 2015
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    How Much Do Healthy Communities Cost?

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO; Commentary, Institute of Medicine, December 2014
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    Community Development Needs a Quarterback

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO, Brandee McHale, Chief Operating Officer, Citi Foundation; Stanford Social Innovation Review, July 2014
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    People and Place: A New Vision for Healthy Communities

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO, June 2013
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    Investing in What Works for America’s Communities: Essays on People, Place & Purpose

    Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, LIIF, August 2012
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    Partnerships Among Community Development, Public Health, And Health Care Could Improve The Well-Being Of Low-Income People

    David Erickson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO, Health Affairs, November 2011, vol. 30 no. 11
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    Coming Out as a Human Capitalist: Community Development at the Nexus of People and Place

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO; Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Investment Review, Winter 2009
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    The Economic Crisis and Community Development Finance: An Industry Assessment

    Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Development Investment Center Working Paper, June 2009
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    Homes in America, Government Sponsored Enterprises

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO; Next American Opportunity
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    Taking Capital for Social Purposes to a New Level

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO; Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Investment Review, June 2006
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    The Role of PRIs in Creating Scale and Leverage

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO; Address at the PRI Makers Network and Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Center for Social Innovation PRI Conference 2006
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    Velcro Arms, Teflon Heart

    Tom Miller and Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO; Commissioned by the Affinity Group on Development Finance of The Ford Foundation, December 1998
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    Affordable Housing

    Leveraging the Power of Place: Using Pay for Success to Support Housing Mobility

    Dan Rinzler, Philip Tegeler, Mary cunningham, and Craig Pollack, July, 2015
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    Nancy O. Andrews testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on the need for an Affordable Housing Fund within GSE reform legislation

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO, March 6, 2008
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    Episode 4: “Housing plus Child Care”

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO; LINC Housing Corporation Podcast Series, June 8, 2006
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    Literature Review: Impact of Affordable Housing on Individuals and Families

    Stephen Jacob and Paul A. Leonard, LIIF Report to the Community, June 2005
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    Trends in Affordable Housing: Observations from the Affordable Housing Symposium

    Low Income Investment Fund, December 2003
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    Equity with a Twist (EQT)

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, April 2001
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    Housing Affordability and Income Mobility for the Poor: A Review of Trends and Strategies

    Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF President and CEO, Meeting America’s Housing Needs: A Habitat II Follow-Up Project, April 1998
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    Child Care

    Building Pre-K

    Low Income Investment Fund, October 2016
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    Quality Environments for Children: A Design and Development Guide for Child Care and Early Education Facilities

    Low Income Investment Fund, July 2010
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    Child Care Facilities Development: A Report on California’s Readiness

    Low Income Investment Fund, February 2010

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    New York Seed Fund Policy Brief

    Low Income Investment Fund, February 2010

    Facilities for Early Care and Education Programs Investment Publication
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    Visit our Child Care Library of Tools for more publications and resources on child care facilities development.

    Education

    A Decade of Results: Charter School Loan & Operating Performance

    Prepared for the Low Income Investment Fund, The Reinvestment Fund and Raza Development Fund by the Quantitative Economics and Statistics Practice of Ernst & Young LLP, May 2011
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    Charting a Path to College and Beyond: How Charter Schools Are Increasing College Access and Success Rates for Low Income Students

    Julie Obbard, LIIF Report to the Community, June 2009
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    Charter School Facilities Requirements: A Guide for Developers, Brokers and Landlords

    Julie Obbard, LIIF Report to the Community, November 2007
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    Mixed Use Facilities: Charter Schools’ Innovative Classroom Choices

    Julie Obbard, LIIF Report to the Community, December 2006
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    Overview of Charter School Facility Development and Financing

    Joanna Smith and M. Jill Wells, LIIF Report to the Community, June 2006
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    Charter School Financing: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned

    Thomas Miller and Julie Obbard, LIIF Report to the Community, November 2004
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    Funding our Future: Charter School Finance 101

    Susan Harper, LIIF Education Program Director, 2004
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    Transit-Oriented Development

    Filling the Financing Gap for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development

    Brian Prater, Low Income Investment Fund, Melinda Pollack, Enterprise Community Partners, April 2013
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    How Transit-Oriented Development Can Help Get America to Work

    Nancy O. Andrews, President and CEO of LIIF, Audrey Choi, Managing Director and Head of Morgan Stanley Global Sustainable Finance, August 2012
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    Equitable TOD in the Wasatch Front

    Low Income Investment Fund and Enterprise Community Partners, August 2012
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    CDFIs and Transit-Oriented Development

    Prepared by Center for Transit-Oriented Development; Published by the Federal Reserve Ban of San Francisco Community Development Investment Center, October 2010
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