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  1. May 15, 2025

    Achieving Greater Impact with an Ecosystem Approach to Community Development Technical Assistance
    Category: Thought Leadership
  2. February 26, 2025

    Urban Institute: Leveraging the Community First Fund to Scale FHLBanks’ Mission Impact
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  3. July 10, 2024

    Urban Institute: Federal Home Loan Banks Can Act Now to Better Support Community Development
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  4. May 30, 2024

    Shelterforce: Want Leaders in Community Development? Develop a New Hiring Strategy
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  5. February 02, 2024

    FHFA’s Home Loan Bank Report is a Policy Unicorn. Don’t Let It Escape.
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  6. January 16, 2024

    Crain’s Cleveland Business: How CDFIs Are Helping Northeast Ohio Thrive
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  7. January 13, 2024

    Wisconsin State Journal: Madison Project with Housing, Child Care Under One Roof Shows Need for Federal Fund
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  8. November 08, 2023

    Organizational Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Must Begin with Intentionality
    Category: Thought Leadership
  9. October 16, 2023

    Shelterforce: Let’s Act Now to Stop Racism in Real Estate Appraisals
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  10. August 17, 2023

    How IFF is Putting Equity into Practice – Part Two
    Category: Thought Leadership
  11. August 17, 2023

    How IFF is Putting Equity into Practice – Part One
    Category: Thought Leadership
  12. June 21, 2023

    Honoring Culture’s Influence on Early Childhood Education and Spaces 
    Category: Thought Leadership
  13. March 23, 2023

    Commentary: State initiative is a leap forward for early childhood facilities and those they serve
    Category: Thought Leadership
  14. February 20, 2023

    From Scarcity to Inspiration: Rethinking the Value of Nonprofit Facilities
    Category: Thought Leadership
  15. September 21, 2022

    Stronger Together: Health Care Systems Investing in Early Care & Education
    Category: Thought Leadership
  16. February 11, 2022

    Crain’s Chicago Business: We need to hack appraisal-based lending
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  17. November 16, 2021

    Home-based early childhood education providers deserve to be included in funding, supports
    Category: Thought Leadership
  18. November 15, 2021

    Want to make capital access more equitable? Reconsider your target market criteria.
    Category: Thought Leadership
  19. November 09, 2021

    Better Together: How FQHCs and CDFIs can leverage COVID-19 Relief Funds
    Category: Thought Leadership
  20. July 13, 2021

    Nonprofits & Real Estate: When to “build capacity” and when to just help
    Category: Thought Leadership
  21. May 05, 2021

    How Learning Spaces Expansion to Grand Rapids Addresses Inequity and Shapes Children’s Futures
    Category: Thought Leadership
  22. April 07, 2021

    Five Ways That Lenders Can Interrupt Racism and Provide Restorative-Justice Capital in Our Communities
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  23. March 04, 2021

    Doubling Down on IFF Commitments to Further Impact Midwest Communities
    Category: Thought Leadership
  24. January 27, 2021

    Impact Investors and CDFIs Can Partner to Create Greater Impact
    Category: Thought Leadership
  25. January 05, 2021

    “How My School Fights a Virus:” IFF publishes children’s book with practical tips on returning to school
    Category: Thought Leadership
  26. October 08, 2020

    Interested in Racial Justice? Invest in Early Childhood Education.
    Category: Thought Leadership
  27. September 01, 2020

    Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History (Part 2)
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  28. June 05, 2020

    Letter: Community Reinvestment Act Addresses Racism
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  29. June 03, 2020

    A message from IFF CEO Joe Neri and IFF Board Chair Guadalupe Preston
    Category: Thought Leadership
  30. April 15, 2020

    Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  31. April 08, 2020

    Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): IFF’s Letter to Comptroller Otting and Chairman McWilliams
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  32. February 12, 2020

    Can we finally change our sexist funding policies for early care and education?
    Category: Thought Leadership
  33. January 29, 2020

    CEOs of Four National CDFI Loan Funds Comment on CRA Rulemaking
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  34. December 02, 2019

    Part 2: Reaching more leaders of color with the financing tools they want
    Category: Thought Leadership
  35. October 25, 2019

    Part 1: Reaching more leaders of color with the financing tools they want
    Category: Thought Leadership
  36. October 25, 2019

    Intro: Two community investors, two Midwest cities, two approaches to reaching more leaders of color with the financing tools they want
    Category: Thought Leadership
  37. September 26, 2019

    Using data to drive investment and impact
    Category: Thought Leadership
  38. July 24, 2019

    Why community developers should care more about early childhood education
    Category: Thought Leadership
  39. May 09, 2019

    The Appraisal Bias: How more equitable underwriting can increase capital in communities of color
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  40. March 12, 2019

    Exploring the continuum: Why community development projects need so much more than capital
    Category: Thought Leadership
  41. February 26, 2019

    IFF CEO Joe Neri testifies at Congressional hearing on CDFI Fund
    Category: Thought Leadership