Catch up on IFF news, read stories about community development projects across the Midwest, and gain insight from our team.
- March 15, 2022
Photo Tour: New Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Creates an Arts-Centric Gateway for a Local Business District
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- March 01, 2022
February 2022 Loan Round-up
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- February 16, 2022
Built from Within: PODER Begins Construction of Chicago’s First Immigrant Integration and Job Center
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- February 16, 2022
Nonprofit Facility Planning Myths, Misconceptions, and Red Flags: Takeaways from The Columbus Foundation’s Nonprofit Forum
Category: Resources
- February 16, 2022
Facility Turnaround in Detroit Helps Nonprofit Focus on “The Right Work at the Right Time in the Right Place”
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- February 16, 2022
Virtual Tour: Two model homes on Chicago’s West Side demonstrate proof of concept for a bold community revitalization strategy
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- February 16, 2022
Building a Dream Incubator: 5 Questions for baso Founder and President Claudette Soto
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- February 11, 2022
Crain’s Chicago Business: We need to hack appraisal-based lending
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- January 31, 2022
January 2022 Loan Round-up
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- January 25, 2022
Next City: Is There a Formula to Creating an Anti-Racist School?
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- January 18, 2022
Photo Tour: The Paddocks Bring Affordable Workforce Housing to Rural Indiana Community
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- January 18, 2022
Photo Tour: Seeds of Health’s Tenor High School Opens New Campus in Historic Milwaukee Location
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- January 18, 2022
Photo Tour: The Marygrove Early Education Center Puts Young Learners at the Center of Community Revitalization
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- December 31, 2021
December 2021 Loan Round-up
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- December 14, 2021
Grand Avenue Market: A 20-Year Quest to Re-establish a Local Grocery Store in Rural Kansas
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- December 14, 2021
Full Circle Communities and Christian Community Health Center Take on Link Between Health and Housing in South Suburban Chicago
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- December 14, 2021
Indianapolis Social Enterprise Begins Construction of $13 Million Workforce Development Complex for Returning Citizens
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- December 14, 2021
“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
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- December 01, 2021
November 2021 Loan Round-up
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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 16, 2021
Birth Detroit Reimagines Maternal and Infant Care with Plan for Community-Based, Black-led Birth Centers
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- November 16, 2021
Financial Literacy and Career Readiness Come to Life in Junior Achievement of Greater Kansas City’s New Facility
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- November 16, 2021
Understanding that we are a collective: How vision became reality for the Chatham Education & Workforce Center
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- November 16, 2021
Bridging the Gap Between Communities of Color and the Health Care System: A Q&A with UniteWI Founder and Executive Director Bria Grant
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- 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
- 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 31, 2021
October 2021 Loan Round-up
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- October 13, 2021
Family Christian Health Center Responds to Pandemic by Leaning Further into Its Mission
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- October 13, 2021
The Night Ministry’s “The Crib” Designed with Both Its Clients and Community in Mind
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- October 13, 2021
Transforming the Emergency Food System with an Eye on Equity: A Q&A with Greater Chicago Food Depository’s Nicole Robinson
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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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- October 01, 2021
September 2021 Loan Round-up
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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 15, 2021
Equitable Community Development in Action: The Redevelopment of North Chicago’s Neal Math and Science Academy
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- September 15, 2021
Paramount Schools of Excellence Charts New Path in Indiana with Statewide Expansion
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- September 15, 2021
Profile: Detroit Achievement Academy Founder Kyle Smitley on Starting a Charter School, Expansion, and Her “Unhinged” Love for Facilities Projects

- 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 31, 2021
August 2021 Loan Round-up
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- August 18, 2021
MLive: Transforming learning spaces: Program aims to improve access to early childhood education
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- August 16, 2021
Transformational New Facility Unlocks Potential for Early Childhood Learners in Kansas City
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- August 16, 2021
Columbus Nonprofit Revives Community Asset as Permanent Facility for Teen Mentorship
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- August 16, 2021
CDFI Friendly Bloomington a Prototype for Successful Community Development in Small Markets
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- August 16, 2021
Q&A with BDO FMA Managing Director Dana Britto: Building Financial Capacity Post-Pandemic
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- July 31, 2021
July 2021 Loan Round-up
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- July 12, 2021
“Not Here, Not Yet” – When Is the Right Time and Place for Nonprofit Facility Projects?
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- June 30, 2021
June 2021 Loan Round-up
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- June 28, 2021
2020 Annual Report
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- June 14, 2021
$2.5 Million in IFF Loans Strengthen CDFI Industry and Support Small Businesses in the Midwest
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- June 14, 2021
Stronger Nonprofits Initiative Spotlight: InsideOut Literary Arts Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen
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- June 14, 2021
Long-term Relationships and Trust Underpin COVID-19 Vaccination Success in Homan Square
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- June 02, 2021
Bloomberg: MacKenzie Scott’s Donations Touch Charities Far Beyond the Original Grantees
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- June 01, 2021
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: MacKenzie Scott’s No-Strings Giving Reverberates Way Beyond the Direct Beneficiaries
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- May 31, 2021
May 2021 Loan Round-up
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- May 05, 2021
How Learning Spaces Expansion to Grand Rapids Addresses Inequity and Shapes Children’s Futures
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- April 28, 2021
IFF and Children’s Home & Aid Bolster East St. Louis Child Care Providers with COVID-19 Relief Grants
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- April 28, 2021
Covenant House Illinois Doubles Down on Ending Youth Homelessness with More Beds and Services in East Garfield Park
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- April 07, 2021
Five Ways That Lenders Can Interrupt Racism and Provide Restorative-Justice Capital in Our Communities
Category: Thought Leadership
- April 05, 2021
Chicago Architect Magazine: Home First
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- March 31, 2021
March 2021 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- March 30, 2021
Impact Alpha: Five ways that lenders can interrupt racism and provide restorative-justice capital in our communities
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- March 23, 2021
The Lakeshore West Michigan: GHACF invests $1.5M to provide low-cost loans to community nonprofits
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- February 28, 2021
February 2021 Loan Round-up
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- February 25, 2021
Model D: This faith-based nonprofit helped spark a revival in Detroit’s Regent Park
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- February 22, 2021
OFN & Twitter announce first Finance Justice Fund loans
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- February 01, 2021
USA Today: They’ve nurtured our babies through COVID-19 horrors; now, child care workers aren’t sure when they’ll get vaccinated
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- February 01, 2021
Bridge Detroit: Cradle-to-career program at Marygrove campus serves Detroit’s littlest people
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- February 01, 2021
IFF and JPMorgan Chase’s Stronger Nonprofit Initiative Assisting Milwaukee Nonprofit Leaders of Color
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- January 31, 2021
January 2021 Loan Round-up
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- January 29, 2021
Milwaukee Courier: IFF and JPMorgan Chase’s Stronger Nonprofit Initiative Assisting Milwaukee Nonprofit Leaders of Color
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- January 29, 2021
St. Louis Business Journal: Here’s when construction will start on Green Street’s $40M housing project in The Grove
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- January 27, 2021
Impact Investors and CDFIs Can Partner to Create Greater Impact
Category: Thought Leadership
- January 26, 2021
Next STL: Union At The Grove to Break Ground
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- January 26, 2021
WILX Lansing: Children’s Book Provides Practical Tips for Returning to In-Person Learning
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- January 22, 2021
The News-Gazette: With homes filled and park open, Bristol Place ‘a really great community’
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