Catch up on IFF news, read stories about community development projects across the Midwest, and gain insight from our team.

Stories
April 30, 2021
April 2021 Loan Round-up
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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 26, 2021
Next STL: Union At The Grove to Break Ground
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November 19, 2020
Citi Foundation Provides $15 Million in Support to 30 Community Development Financial Institutions Across the U.S.
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Stories
October 12, 2020
Partnerships, Equity & the CDFI Way: How 159 Midwest nonprofits received PPP loans through IFF
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Thought Leadership
October 08, 2020
Interested in Racial Justice? Invest in Early Childhood Education.
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Resources
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September 15, 2020
10 Steps to Creating a Nonprofit Budget
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September 02, 2020
Learning to Change: Reflections of the CDFI Racial Equity Collaborative on Education
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Thought Leadership
September 01, 2020
Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History (Part 2)
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Stories
May 27, 2020
2019 Annual Report
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Thought Leadership
April 15, 2020
Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History
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Thought Leadership
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April 08, 2020
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): IFF’s Letter to Comptroller Otting and Chairman McWilliams
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Stories
Montage of images from projects contributing to the $1 billion of loans
February 04, 2020
What does $1 billion in community lending look like?
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January 27, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: YouthBridge to commit 25% of endowment to local investments
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January 24, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Treasury awards $4.4 million in funds to help St. Louis organize low-income banking services
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January 06, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: St. Louis CDFI’s Awarded $4.4M in Federal Grants
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May 16, 2019
BadCredit.org: IFF Loans Enable Nonprofit Agencies to Purchase Facilities and Deliver Social Services to Low-Income Communities Across the Midwest
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Stories
April 11, 2019
IFF’s 2018 Annual Investors Report
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Thought Leadership
March 12, 2019
Exploring the continuum: Why community development projects need so much more than capital
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March 06, 2019
Understanding health equity: A conversation with Dr. Jason Purnell
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Thought Leadership
February 26, 2019
IFF CEO Joe Neri testifies at Congressional hearing on CDFI Fund
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Stories
February 05, 2019
St Louis’s Center of Creative Arts: Bridging the divide through the arts
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January 18, 2019
Top 10 Pieces of Advice in 2018
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January 09, 2019
‘Schools, not jails:’ Kansas City leaders welcome new child care center
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Stories
November 12, 2018
Ministering to the soul: St. Louis nonprofit grows into new space for the formerly incarcerated
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Stories
November 12, 2018
IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest
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September 05, 2018
High School that Emphasizes Service Makes Investment in IFF
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September 05, 2018
‘People learn to live again here:’ Kansas City’s Healing House expands to meet growing need
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September 04, 2018
Profile: Lisa Mensah, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network
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June 06, 2018
Profile: Maxine Clark, CEO of Clark-Fox Family Foundation
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