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- May 03, 2024
Traverse City Record-Eagle: Goodwill, City Team Up On Housing Plan for Chronically Homeless
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- May 02, 2024
Kansas City Business Journal: PACE KC Adult Wellness Center Receives Award for Community Impact
Category: Press - May 01, 2024
April 2024 Loan Round-up
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- April 30, 2024
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Buys Former Church for Expansion Plan
Category: Press - April 28, 2024
10 Years of Impact in Detroit: How Three Nonprofits Have Evolved to Strengthen Communities
Category: Stories
- April 25, 2024
Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave: Battle Creek’s Early Childhood Education Poised to Flourish — And Save a Church at the Same Time
Category: PressCategory: Stories - April 24, 2024
How Shermann “Dilla” Thomas is Championing Chicago’s Neighborhoods by Shining a Light on Underappreciated History
Category: Stories
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- April 23, 2024
Second Wave Michigan: CDFI Funding Helps Corktown Health Expand Services for Detroit Area’s LGBTQ Residents
Category: PressCategory: Stories - April 19, 2024
Joyful Spaces: New Program Advances Early Childhood Education Facility Quality in St. Louis
Category: Stories
- April 18, 2024
Sunflower State Radio: USDA Rural Development Partnership Helps Local Organization Create and Expand Food Programs in Rural Kansas
Category: Press - April 17, 2024
Institute for Sustainable Communities: Investing in Decarbonization – The Role of CDFIs
Category: Press - April 11, 2024
Chicago Tribune: Former NFL Player Opens Englewood Small Business Incubator to Encourage South and West Side Youths
Category: Press - April 10, 2024
Male Mogul Initiative Celebrates Grand Opening of Small Business Incubator on Chicago’s South Side
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- April 10, 2024
Crain’s Chicago Business: Small Business Incubator Backed by Former NFL Player Set to Open in Englewood
Category: Press - April 10, 2024
Traverse City Record-Eagle: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation Invests $1 Million in Housing Projects via IFF
Category: Press - April 08, 2024
WTTW-TV’s Whitney Reynolds Show: Forgotten City
Category: Press - April 01, 2024
March 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- March 29, 2024
Indiana Daily Student: City of Bloomington Offers Grant Funding Up to $25,000 for Solar, Energy Efficiency, & Lighting
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- March 28, 2024
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Grand Rapids OKs City’s First Housing Brownfield Incentives Under New State Law
Category: Press - March 27, 2024
IFF’s Real Estate Solutions Team Shares Tips to Prepare for a Nonprofit Facility Project
Category: Resources
- March 27, 2024
“This is where you start a straight A student”: Quality Facilities for All Supports Early Childhood Education in Illinois
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- March 24, 2024
Chicago Sun-Times: Affordable Housing Developments in Edgewater, West Pullman Among Those Awarded Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
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- March 14, 2024
Weekly Citizen: Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Housing Announce 2023 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Awardees
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- March 01, 2024
February 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- February 28, 2024
IFF’s Home First Honored by Cook County Land Bank Authority as Nonprofit Developer of the Year
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- February 20, 2024
IFF’s Vickie Lakes-Battle Joins City Club of Chicago Panel Discussion About the Role of the Humanities in Community and Economic Development
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- February 20, 2024
The Kresge Foundation: How IFF Navigated Layering Partners, Capital to Build a New Early Childhood Center
Category: Press - February 16, 2024
WGN Radio: The Humanities’ Impact – Fostering Economic Development in Chicago and Beyond
Category: Press - February 14, 2024
Rapid Growth Media: How Ryan Kilpatrick and Housing Next Are Changing the Paradigm About Affordable Housing
Category: Press - February 13, 2024
Ohio Nonprofit Completes Facility Expansion to Create the World’s Largest Ronald McDonald House
Category: Stories
- February 12, 2024
Block Club Chicago: Private School with Social Justice Focus Coming to Bronzeville’s Closed Hales Franciscan High School
Category: Press - February 09, 2024
City of South Bend Office of Sustainability: City Program Supports Solar in South Bend
Category: Press - February 08, 2024
Milwaukee Business Journal: See $8M Rehab of Homes in Historic Milwaukee Neighborhood
Category: Press - February 06, 2024
Energy Assistance & Solar Savings Initiative Expands in South Bend with IFF’s Support
Category: Stories
- February 06, 2024
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Leader of New Kent County Housing Nonprofit Offers Case Study on Challenges for Renters
Category: Press - February 02, 2024
FHFA’s Home Loan Bank Report is a Policy Unicorn. Don’t Let It Escape.
Category: Thought Leadership - February 01, 2024
January 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- January 31, 2024
IFF Borrower 30th Street Industrial Corridor Completes Rehab of Milwaukee’s Historic Garden Homes
Category: Stories
- January 24, 2024
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Developer Plans 202 Apartments in Second Holland-Area Project
Category: Press - January 23, 2024
New Residential Treatment Facility Expands Milwaukee Nonprofit’s Capacity to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
Category: Stories
- January 23, 2024
New Markets Tax Credits: A Primer for Nonprofit Leaders
Category: Resources
- January 23, 2024
Investing in Chicago’s West Side, One Young Person at a Time: Q&A with MAAFA Redemption Project’s Marshall Hatch, Jr.
Category: Stories
- January 18, 2024
Press Release: IFF Promotes Donna Sink to Director of Real Estate Solutions for the Indiana Region
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- January 13, 2024
Wisconsin State Journal: Madison Project with Housing, Child Care Under One Roof Shows Need for Federal Fund
Category: Thought Leadership - January 12, 2024
Enterprise Podcast Network: Preserving BIPOC-Led and Focused Arts and Culture in Chicago
Category: Press - January 09, 2024
Lake County News-Sun: Officials Say Lake County at Inflection Point in Homelessness Crisis; Population Growing as Affordable Housing Lags Behind
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- January 01, 2024
December 2023 Loan Round-up
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- December 30, 2023
Chicago Defender: ITAV Elevates Mission with Historic Acquisition of Hales in Bronzeville
Category: Press - December 19, 2023
Quality Facilities for All (QFA) Initiative Completes First Cohort of ECE Facility Renovations in Chicago
Category: Stories
- December 19, 2023
Second Wave Michigan: Report Highlights Need for More Equitable Early Childhood Care and Education
Category: PressCategory: Stories - December 01, 2023
November 2023 Loan Round-up
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- November 20, 2023
A $50 Million Healthy Living Campus Aims to Address Historic Inequities in West Dayton
Category: Stories
- November 20, 2023
IFF Leverages FHLBank Chicago Membership to Unlock $33.5+ Million in Funding for Affordable Housing in the Midwest
Category: Stories
- November 19, 2023
Evanston RoundTable: The Aux Launches First Phase of Construction
Category: Press - November 09, 2023
Crain’s Cleveland Business: Chicago-based Lender Helps Cleveland Nonprofits Secure Capital to Achieve Their Mission
Category: Press - November 08, 2023
Columbus Business First: Columbus Foundation Grants More Than $2 Million to Nonprofits for Capital Improvements
Category: Press - November 08, 2023
Organizational Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Must Begin with Intentionality
Category: Thought Leadership
- November 04, 2023
Petoskey News-Review: Lofts at Lumber Square Breaks Ground in Petoskey
Category: Press - 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
Category: Press - November 01, 2023
October 2023 Loan Round-up
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- October 27, 2023
Stronger Nonprofits Initiative’s Chicago Cohorts Gather for Reunion
Category: Stories
- October 26, 2023
Crain’s Chicago Business: Opinion: The Business Survival Case for Arming Arts Leaders with Financial Tools and Resources
Category: Press - October 25, 2023
City of Bloomington: CDFI Friendly Bloomington Celebrates Accomplishments and Hosts Partners
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- October 25, 2023
HUGE Improv Theater Bounces Back in the Twin Cities
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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
Category: Press - October 16, 2023
Commentary: Hope Starts Here Marks Progress in Detroit, Kellogg and Kresge recommit their support
Category: Stories
- October 16, 2023
Shelterforce: Let’s Act Now to Stop Racism in Real Estate Appraisals
Category: Thought Leadership
- October 13, 2023
WGVU: New Study Finds Demand for Early Childcare Slots in Kent County Falls Thousands Short
Category: Press - October 12, 2023
Lake County News-Sun: PADS Lake County Using Hotels More Than Churches to House the Homeless
Category: Press - 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
Category: Press - October 04, 2023
Weekly Citizen: Chicago’s Cultural Treasures Continues to Support BIPOC Arts and Cultural Organizations
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