Recent News & Stories
LISC and Coalition Partners Awarded $2 Billion via National Clean Investment Fund
LISC is one of five organizations leading Power Forward Communities, a new coalition investing in green housing and jobs to support economic opportunity and climate resilience. Today, the EPA awarded the coalition $2 billion to implement a decarbonization strategy that also lifts up under-resourced communities—making housing more affordable, expanding employment, mitigating climate impacts and improving local health. Capital and programs will be deployed over a series of years, and LISC Duluth will alert local partners to opportunities as they become available.
Sharing the Story of Social Justice Investing
With the launch of the new book, The Social Justice Investor, LISC’s Christina Travers reflects on the ways that CDFIs have tapped the capital markets to deepen their impact—working to upend lingering misconceptions among some investors. "Whether we are financing affordable housing, small businesses, health, safety, climate resilience, racial equity or jobs, we see financial performance and local impact as part of the same whole."
LISC Awarded a $28M HUD Section 4 Grant to Strengthen Local Nonprofit Housing Organizations Serving Under-Resourced People and Places Across the U.S.
LISC is among three of the country's largest community development and housing groups receiving a total of $83M in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 4 capacity building funding. LISC will use its $28M allocation to support 480 community development corporations nationwide, focusing on affordable housing access in historically disinvested communities. The grant includes a three-to-one match commitment of $85 million.
Rising to the Challenge in 2021
View our online event celebrating 24 Years Working in Duluth - Rising to the Challenge
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Meet Microgrant Recipients: Janessa Lott & Ray Moore
Building Healthy Communities Award - Featured Project: Decker Dwellings
What's Happening in Duluth
Click Image to View 2021 Video: The COVID-19 pandemic brought many new challenges to our way of life -- changing the way we work, interact with others and learn. LISC Duluth and partners rose to the challenge to address inequities in health, wealth and education through digital inclusion and access. [...]
Opportunity Zones
Duluth Opportunity Zones Portal
Explore our new portal to learn more about Duluth's zones and the Opportunity Zones incentive. [...]
We Are in the Zones
Find our how LISC is working in Opportunity Zones across the country [...]
Resources
Get the latest tools and information related to Opportunity Zones. Including federal and state resources [...]
Opportunity Zones 101
Not sure what Opportunity Zones are? We've compiled frequently asked questions on design, timeline and impact [...]
About Duluth LISC
Duluth LISC is one of 31 local offices of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a national nonprofit community development organization and CDFI. Overall, LISC has invested $17.3 billion in neighborhoods and rural communities across the United States.
We combine corporate, government and philanthropic resources and have invested $90 million, leveraging $302,331,771 million in Duluth to develop or preserve 1,684 units of housing, created 186 new child-care spaces, 1,553 new jobs. Duluth LISC works to see people and places prosper by addressing comprehensive revitalization, affordable housing development and preservation, and building the capacity of local community development organizations to see neighborhoods are places of choice and opportunity to all. Learn more.