Category: Healthy Foods

A group of staff and volunteers from Star Farm Chicago standing in front a van the nonprofit uses to distribute locally grown organic produce in and around Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood

January 2022 Loan Roundup

January 31, 2022

December 2021 Loan Roundup

December 31, 2021
Grand Avenue Market sign in Plains, Kansas

Grand Avenue Market: A 20-Year Quest to Re-establish a Local Grocery Store in Rural Kansas

December 14, 2021
Headshot of Dr. Nicole Howell-Scott, Founder of the American Association of Single Parents

“If you want better, you have to change your narrative”: A Q&A with Dr. Nicole Howell-Scott, Founder and CEO of the American Association of Single Parents

December 14, 2021

October 2021 Loan Roundup

October 31, 2021
Nicole Robinson Greater Chicago Food Depository

Transforming the Emergency Food System with an Eye on Equity: A Q&A with Greater Chicago Food Depository’s Nicole Robinson

October 13, 2021
RecycleForce Groundbreaking

September 2021 Loan Roundup

October 1, 2021
Dana Britto BDO FMA

Q&A with BDO FMA Managing Director Dana Britto: Building Financial Capacity Post-Pandemic

August 16, 2021

CDFI Friendly Bloomington a Prototype for Successful Community Development in Small Markets

August 16, 2021

“Not Here, Not Yet” – When Is the Right Time and Place for Nonprofit Facility Projects?

July 12, 2021

2020 Annual Report

June 28, 2021

Stronger Nonprofits Initiative Spotlight: InsideOut Literary Arts Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen

June 14, 2021

May 2021 Loan Roundup

May 31, 2021

Free financial training series for Chicago-area nonprofits

December 15, 2020

Partnerships, Equity & the CDFI Way: How 159 Midwest nonprofits received PPP loans through IFF

October 12, 2020

Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History (Part 2)

September 1, 2020

2019 Annual Report

May 27, 2020

Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History

April 15, 2020

Nonprofits & the Paycheck Protection Program

April 14, 2020

Summary: Federal Response to COVID-19

April 8, 2020

Nonprofits are eligible for these two new federal programs from the SBA

April 2, 2020
COVID-19 virus graphic

COVID-19 Resources for Nonprofits

April 1, 2020

Chicago Tribune: There’s a 16-year gap in life expectancy between Chicago’s West Side and the Loop. Here’s what local hospitals are doing about it.

February 26, 2020

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Treasury awards $4.4 million in funds to help St. Louis organize low-income banking services

January 24, 2020

10 pieces of advice to help your organization prosper in 2020

January 2, 2020

Press Release: Stronger Nonprofits Initiative launches in Detroit to maximize impact of local organizations on Detroit’s recovery

October 28, 2019

Intro: Two community investors, two Midwest cities, two approaches to reaching more leaders of color with the financing tools they want

October 25, 2019

WTTW: The Hatchery Chicago Cooking Up Food and Jobs on the West Side

April 30, 2019

IFF’s 2018 Annual Investors Report

April 11, 2019

Exploring the continuum: Why community development projects need so much more than capital

March 12, 2019