Category: Lending

Top 10 Pieces of Advice in 2018

January 18, 2019

Profile: Inna Kinney, Founder and CEO, Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI)

January 9, 2019

‘Schools, not jails:’ Kansas City leaders welcome new child care center

January 9, 2019

Chicago Sun-Times: The Hatchery, a $34 million food/beverage incubator, opens in East Garfield Park

December 7, 2018

Foundations College Prep: From a ‘tiny beginning’ to a thriving community

November 12, 2018

Ministering to the soul: St. Louis nonprofit grows into new space for the formerly incarcerated

November 12, 2018

IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest

November 12, 2018

Illinois Fresh Food Fund generates $34 million in community investment

October 15, 2018

Tax credits enable faith-based CDC to open “nonprofit mall” and game-changing community center in Lafayette, IN

October 2, 2018

High school that emphasizes service makes investment in IFF

September 5, 2018

‘People learn to live again here:’ Kansas City’s Healing House expands to meet growing need

September 5, 2018

Profile: Lisa Mensah, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network

September 4, 2018

The Real Deal Neighborhood Spotlight: Can North Lawndale’s future live up to its past?

September 4, 2018

Voices of Cody Rouge: Chris Uhl of IFF on the importance of early childhood education

‘He always, always had my back’: How IFF partnered with Heartland Alliance to open a specialized health care facility on Chicago’s south side

The ‘homeland’: JEI’s historic reno brings nonprofit back to Jefferson Chalmers and anchors community development efforts

From concrete to commercial: How one community is breaking a 30-year development drought

Fort Wayne’s ‘The Landing’: Development brings new life to one of Indiana’s oldest commercial districts

Resilience: How the Stronger Nonprofits Initiative is ensuring access while changing the narrative

Breaking old ground: How Arts@Large is resurrecting the old Polish Arts Center in Milwaukee

Model D: Voices of Cody Rouge: How a local church and its partners saved a key community resource center

Early Childhood Education Summit 2018

Ground broken for new Arts @ Large Community Center, to be ‘hub of activity’ in Walker’s Point

‘We just don’t give up:’ How one alternative school is reaching homeless, dropout youth throughout Michigan

Profile: Maxine Clark, CEO of Clark-Fox Family Foundation

A Total Partnership: How IFF and Centers for New Horizons are planning for the future

Former candy factory transformed into sustainable, affordable housing facility in Indianapolis

Milwaukee Christian Center stabilizes neighborhoods one home at a time

Chicago Artists Coalition utilizes MacArthur program’s financial training to manage rapid growth

From IFF CEO Joe Neri: Celebrating 30 Years of Change