Communities

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LISC/Chicago organizes capital and other resources to support initiatives that will stimulate the comprehensive development of healthy, stable neighborhoods and foster their connection to the socioeconomic mainstream of the metropolitan region.

LISC’s $125 million investment in Chicago’s neighborhoods over the past 25 years has leveraged $3.2 billion in financing from private and public sources.

LISC/Chicago efforts include:

• Affordable housing
• Retail/commercial development
• Economic development
• Community facilities (healthcare, daycare, schools, open space)
• Capacity building (including leadership development and technology initiatives)
• Asset management
• New Communities Program
• Support of neighborhood-based employment centers, Centers for Working Families
• Great Neighborhoods Program
• Americorps
  
  

LISC/Chicago facts

Year established		1980
Community-based partners		140
Housing financed		20,401 units
Retail/commercial financed		3.85 million square feet
Community facilities financed		22,936 square feet
Training and technical support to community-based organizations		$5.8 million
Individuals served through LISC employment network		18,000+
Total grants and loans		$125.7 million
Total funds leveraged		$3.2 billion
Total 2003 program activity		$53,916,054 (grants, loans, and equity investments)
Affiliate equity investment		$97,964,659
Number of active CDC relationships		78
Number of professional LISC staff		9

For more information, see the LISC/Chicago web site at www.lisc-chicago.org

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