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- November 04, 2023
Petoskey News-Review: Lofts at Lumber Square Breaks Ground in Petoskey
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- November 03, 2023
WGVU’s The Shelley Irwin Show: How Uneven Access to Affordable Child Care Divides Kent County
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- November 02, 2023
Fox 17 West Michigan: School Safety and Housing Among Topics of Focus During Kent County’s State of the County Address
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- October 26, 2023
Crain’s Chicago Business: Opinion: The Business Survival Case for Arming Arts Leaders with Financial Tools and Resources
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- October 25, 2023
City of Bloomington: CDFI Friendly Bloomington Celebrates Accomplishments and Hosts Partners
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- October 23, 2023
Empower Magazine: IFF’s Executive Director of Chicago Region, O. Victoria Lakes-Battle Shares the Impact of Chicago’s Cultural Treasures
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- October 13, 2023
WGVU: New Study Finds Demand for Early Childcare Slots in Kent County Falls Thousands Short
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- October 12, 2023
Lake County News-Sun: PADS Lake County Using Hotels More Than Churches to House the Homeless
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- October 12, 2023
The Kresge Foundation: CDFIs: An Under-Represented Stakeholder in the Public Finance Ecosystem?
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- October 05, 2023
Urban Milwaukee: Join the Parade of Garden Homes
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- October 04, 2023
Weekly Citizen: Chicago’s Cultural Treasures Continues to Support BIPOC Arts and Cultural Organizations
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- September 29, 2023
NBC Nightly News: Iowa Neighborhood’s First New Grocery Store in 50 years Bringing ‘Real Hope’ to Community
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- September 22, 2023
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: All-in-Grocers Store to Celebrate Grand Opening in Waterloo Oct. 3
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- September 18, 2023
Star Tribune: Huge Improv Theater Set to Move into its Own Building for the First Time in its History
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- September 13, 2023
Chicago Sun-Times: Common Pantry Opens First Stand-Alone Location in its 56-Year History of Helping the Hungry
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- September 12, 2023
Kansas City Business Journal: ULI Kansas City Selects 23 Professionals to Newest Real Estate Diversity Initiative Cohort
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- September 01, 2023
Properties Magazine: IFF Opens Cleveland Office
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- August 29, 2023
Austin Weekly News: Meet the Key Players Responsible for the Aspire Center Construction
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- August 22, 2023
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Nonprofit Receives $10M State Loan to Invest in West Michigan Housing Projects
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- August 18, 2023
Urban Milwaukee: Garden Homes Sees New Life Through Perseverance
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- August 11, 2023
WGVU: Kent County Sets Parameters for New Affordable Housing Loan Fund, Enters Partnership with IFF
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- August 11, 2023
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Kent County to launch affordable housing revolving loan fund with initial $58M
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- August 10, 2023
Fox 2 Detroit: Gov. Whitmer’s new state budget includes $254M expanding free pre-K for up to 5,600 children
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- August 10, 2023
WOOD-TV: Kent Co. approves framework for affordable housing fund
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- August 04, 2023
Indianapolis Business Journal: Momentum builds to turn dormant far-east-side high school into services hub
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- June 21, 2023
NBC Kansas City: Going 360: Kansas City-area early childhood education system ‘in crisis’
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- June 15, 2023
Opportunity Finance Network: Chicago-Based CDFI Accelerates Positive Social Impact and Systems Change
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- June 07, 2023
WGHN: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Approves $1.5 Million Investment in IFF’s Affordable Housing Revolving Loan Fund
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- June 06, 2023
Cinnaire Welcomes Three New Board Members
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- May 29, 2023
KSAL.com: Funding for Kansas Healthy Food
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- May 25, 2023
NBC Kansas City: New study delves into ’crisis’ within Kansas City’s early-childhood education system
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- May 23, 2023
Crain’s Cleveland Business: Lender/developer IFF opens Cleveland office to boost nonprofits
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- May 23, 2023
Press Release: IFF Opens New Cleveland Office
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- May 11, 2023
Aurora Beacon-News: Officials say 1449 Senior Estates development a game changer for public housing in Aurora
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- April 29, 2023
Robotics & Automation News: mHUB investing $50 million to build ‘largest independent manufacturing center in America’
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- April 25, 2023
MLive: Congresswoman Scholten advocates for affordable, high-quality childcare in Grand Rapids
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- April 10, 2023
Crain’s Chicago Business: Chicago community lenders among recipients of grants announced by VP Kamala Harris
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- March 24, 2023
Ideastream Public Media: State officials visit Cleveland to explore funding for improving early child care facilities
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- March 10, 2023
Mid-Michigan Now: 16 organizations to receive $2.4 million to expand access to low or no-cost childcare
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- February 15, 2023
BadCredit.org: IFF Builds on a Legacy of Helping Midwestern Nonprofits Purchase and Modernize Facilities
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- February 10, 2023
Crain’s Chicago Business: A city-owned bank draws skepticism — not just from usual suspects
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- January 20, 2023
Crain’s Detroit Business: MacKenzie Scott has given more than $226 million to Michigan nonprofits
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- January 18, 2023
Inside Indiana Business: Glick Philanthropies awards $1.4M in grants
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- January 17, 2023
Press Release: Stronger Nonprofits Initiative Returns to Chicago, Addressing Barriers Leaders of Color Face in Accessing Resources
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- January 12, 2023
Press Release: Executive Director for IFF’s Southern Region, Stephen Westbrooks, among the recipients of the 2023 St. Louis Titan 100
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- December 30, 2022
Austin Weekly News: A look at what’s ahead for the West Side in 2023
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- December 21, 2022
St. Louis Business Journal: Construction starts on Green Street’s new $81M apartment complex in Forest Park Southeast
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- December 19, 2022
Aeris Announces 45 New CDFI Ratings and 2 New Subscribers
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- December 18, 2022
MLive: ‘Generations of new housing:’ Leaders have big hopes for $17.5M Kent County housing fund
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- November 24, 2022
Holland Sentinel: Ottawa County approved $33.5 million in ARPA funds for 24 projects. Here’s what passed
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- November 23, 2022
Press Release: 40 BIPOC-led Arts & Culture Organizations from Across Chicago Come Together as Chicago’s Cultural Treasures Grantees
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- November 17, 2022
Urbanize Chicago: Schiller Place Apartments celebrate ribbon cutting
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- November 17, 2022
Students to start Nov. 28 at new North Chicago middle school; ‘This will empower our students to do so much more’
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- November 16, 2022
Press Release: North Chicago’s New Neal Math and Science Academy Opens, Funded by a Donation from AbbVie
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- November 03, 2022
Press Release: Gov. Whitmer Announces Application is Now Live for $50M in Grants to Open and Grow Child Care Facilities in Michigan
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- October 27, 2022
Developer To Build 20 More Affordable Apartments In Maywood
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- September 27, 2022
Press Release: IFF Receives Top Aeris® Ratings, Maintained Since 2013
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- September 13, 2022
New accessible, affordable housing development nearly complete in Maywood
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- June 13, 2022
Commercial Observer: How JPMorgan Chase Works with CDFIs to Provide Resources for Underserved Communities
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- February 11, 2022
Crain’s Chicago Business: We need to hack appraisal-based lending
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- January 25, 2022
Next City: Is There a Formula to Creating an Anti-Racist School?
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- November 30, 2021
ABC Detroit WXYZ: Groundbreaking held in Detroit for city’s first Healthy Housing Center
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- November 05, 2021
St. Louis Business Journal: Training program for nonprofit groups led by people of color comes to St. Louis
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- November 04, 2021
ENR Midwest: ENR Midwest Names 2021 Best Projects
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- October 05, 2021
Block Club Chicago: Little Black Pearl Will Open A Coworking Lounge, Launch Workshops For Adult Creatives This Month
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- September 29, 2021
Business Journal: Ohio Community Development Association Gathers Next Week in Youngstown
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- September 27, 2021
Next Street: Are CDFIs embracing innovation?
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- September 21, 2021
St. Louis Business Journal: Kranzberg Foundation’s latest hub for St. Louis arts community, 3333, to open in Grand Center
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- September 21, 2021
Next City: These Street Vendors Needed a Kitchen, So They Bought One
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- September 17, 2021
The Kresge Foundation: New, state-of-the art Marygrove Early Education Center celebrates grand opening
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- September 16, 2021
Nonprofit Quarterly: CDFIs and the COVID-19 Moment: Whither Now, Community Finance?
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- September 16, 2021
Press Release: Stronger Nonprofits Initiative Launches in Indianapolis, Addressing Barriers Leaders of Color Face in Accessing Resources
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- September 07, 2021
St. Louis Business Journal: U.S. Department of Treasury awards $275M in tax credit authority to St. Louis groups
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- August 18, 2021
MLive: Transforming learning spaces: Program aims to improve access to early childhood education
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- June 02, 2021
Bloomberg: MacKenzie Scott’s Donations Touch Charities Far Beyond the Original Grantees
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