Catch up on IFF news, read stories about community development projects across the Midwest, and gain insight from our team.
- May 15, 2025
Achieving Greater Impact with an Ecosystem Approach to Community Development Technical Assistance
Category: Thought Leadership
- February 26, 2025
Urban Institute: Leveraging the Community First Fund to Scale FHLBanks’ Mission Impact
Category: Thought Leadership
- July 10, 2024
Urban Institute: Federal Home Loan Banks Can Act Now to Better Support Community Development
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- February 02, 2024
FHFA’s Home Loan Bank Report is a Policy Unicorn. Don’t Let It Escape.
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- January 13, 2024
Wisconsin State Journal: Madison Project with Housing, Child Care Under One Roof Shows Need for Federal Fund
Category: Thought Leadership
- November 08, 2023
Organizational Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Must Begin with Intentionality
Category: Thought Leadership
- October 16, 2023
Shelterforce: Let’s Act Now to Stop Racism in Real Estate Appraisals
Category: Thought Leadership
- August 17, 2023
How IFF is Putting Equity into Practice – Part Two
Category: Thought Leadership
- August 17, 2023
How IFF is Putting Equity into Practice – Part One
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- March 23, 2023
Commentary: State initiative is a leap forward for early childhood facilities and those they serve
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- September 21, 2022
Stronger Together: Health Care Systems Investing in Early Care & Education
Category: Thought Leadership
- February 11, 2022
Crain’s Chicago Business: We need to hack appraisal-based lending
Category: Thought LeadershipCategory: Press
- November 16, 2021
Home-based early childhood education providers deserve to be included in funding, supports
Category: Thought Leadership
- November 15, 2021
Want to make capital access more equitable? Reconsider your target market criteria.
Category: Thought Leadership
- November 09, 2021
Better Together: How FQHCs and CDFIs can leverage COVID-19 Relief Funds
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- May 05, 2021
How Learning Spaces Expansion to Grand Rapids Addresses Inequity and Shapes Children’s Futures
Category: Thought Leadership
- April 07, 2021
Five Ways That Lenders Can Interrupt Racism and Provide Restorative-Justice Capital in Our Communities
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- January 27, 2021
Impact Investors and CDFIs Can Partner to Create Greater Impact
Category: Thought Leadership
- January 05, 2021
“How My School Fights a Virus:” IFF publishes children’s book with practical tips on returning to school
Category: Thought Leadership
- October 08, 2020
Interested in Racial Justice? Invest in Early Childhood Education.
Category: Thought Leadership
- September 01, 2020
Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History (Part 2)
Category: Thought Leadership
- June 05, 2020
Letter: Community Reinvestment Act Addresses Racism
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- April 15, 2020
Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History
Category: Thought Leadership
- April 08, 2020
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): IFF’s Letter to Comptroller Otting and Chairman McWilliams
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- January 29, 2020
CEOs of Four National CDFI Loan Funds Comment on CRA Rulemaking
Category: Thought Leadership
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- 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
- September 26, 2019
Using data to drive investment and impact
Category: Thought Leadership
- Category: Thought Leadership

- May 09, 2019
The Appraisal Bias: How more equitable underwriting can increase capital in communities of color
Category: Thought Leadership
- March 12, 2019
Exploring the continuum: Why community development projects need so much more than capital
Category: Thought Leadership
- February 26, 2019
IFF CEO Joe Neri testifies at Congressional hearing on CDFI Fund
Category: Thought Leadership