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  1. December 15, 2025

    Reflecting on a Career Spent Strengthening Nonprofits and the Communities They Serve: Q&A with IFF CEO Joe Neri
    Category: Stories
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  2. November 19, 2025

    Three IFF-Sponsored Projects Awarded Grant Funding Through FHLBank Chicago’s Affordable Housing Program
    Category: Stories
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  3. October 30, 2025

    Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago: FHLBank Chicago Awards $5.9 Million for Developer Program to Empower Emerging Leaders in Affordable Housing
    Category: Press
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  4. October 29, 2025

    Carmen Schools of Science and Technology Builds for the Future with a $55 Million Home for STEAM Success
    Category: Stories
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  5. October 23, 2025

    IFF CEO Joe Neri Honored with Opportunity Finance Network’s 2025 Executive Leadership Award
    Category: Stories
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  6. September 25, 2025

    A Community-Driven Nonprofit Transforms a Blighted Property into a “Beacon of Light” in Milwaukee
    Category: Stories
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  7. September 12, 2025

    Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago: FHLBank Chicago, IFF, Impact Seven, and Cinnaire Celebrate Groundbreaking of Trailview Cottages
    Category: Press
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  8. July 29, 2025

    Press Release: IFF Announces Upcoming CEO Transition
    Category: Press
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  9. June 12, 2025

    Crain’s Chicago Business: JPMorgan Chase Commits $18 Million to Chicago Nonprofit Lender
    Category: Press
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  10. June 12, 2025

    Chicago Business Journal: JPMorgan Chase Injects $18 Million into IFF to Boost Nonprofit Real Estate Projects in Midwest
    Category: Press
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  11. June 12, 2025

    Press Release: JPMorganChase Commits $18 Million to IFF to Increase Access to Capital For Nonprofits in Chicago and the Greater Midwest
    Category: Press
  12. June 01, 2025

    May 2025 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
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  13. May 21, 2025

    IFF’s 2024 Annual Report: Investing in People, Places, and Possibilities
    Category: Stories
  14. May 01, 2025

    April 2025 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
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  15. February 01, 2025

    January 2025 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  16. January 27, 2025

    Filling a Community Need for Affordable Dental Care, Nonprofit Clinic Doubles Capacity with New Facility
    Category: Stories
  17. January 01, 2025

    December 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  18. October 23, 2024

    High-Performing Charter School Expands to Create Pathways to Local STEM Careers for More Milwaukee Students
    Category: Stories
  19. October 01, 2024

    September 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  20. September 01, 2024

    August 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  21. August 27, 2024

    A New Tribal Facility in Rural Wisconsin Leverages New Markets Tax Credits to Transform Health and Wellness Services
    Category: Stories
  22. August 19, 2024

    Milwaukee’s Serenity Inns Opens the Doors to New Residential Treatment Facility
    Category: Stories
  23. July 01, 2024

    June 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  24. May 08, 2024

    Sawyer County Record: IFF Client Receives Deal of the Year Award for New $42 Million Health Center
    Category: Press
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  25. May 08, 2024

    Sawyer County Record: LCO Receives Deal of the Year Award for New $42 Million Health Center
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  26. May 07, 2024

    IFF’s 2023 Annual Report: A Historic Investment in Local Changemakers
    Category: Stories
  27. May 01, 2024

    Indian Gaming Magazine: IFF Borrower, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Awarded for New Community Health Center
    Category: Press
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  28. March 07, 2024

    Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago’s Affordable Housing Program Helps Wisconsin Nonprofits Address Two Community Needs in One High-Quality Facility in Madison
    Category: Stories
  29. February 08, 2024

    Milwaukee Business Journal: See $8M Rehab of Homes in Historic Milwaukee Neighborhood
    Category: Press
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  30. January 31, 2024

    IFF Borrower 30th Street Industrial Corridor Completes Rehab of Milwaukee’s Historic Garden Homes
    Category: Stories
  31. January 23, 2024

    New Residential Treatment Facility Expands Milwaukee Nonprofit’s Capacity to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
    Category: Stories
  32. 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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  33. January 01, 2024

    December 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  34. November 20, 2023

    IFF Leverages FHLBank Chicago Membership to Unlock $33.5+ Million in Funding for Affordable Housing in the Midwest
    Category: Stories
  35. November 01, 2023

    October 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  36. October 05, 2023

    Urban Milwaukee: Join the Parade of Garden Homes
    Category: Press
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  37. October 03, 2023

    WisBusiness: Grand Opening Oct. 5 for Multi-Family Development on Winnebago
    Category: Press
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  38. August 18, 2023

    Urban Milwaukee: Garden Homes Sees New Life Through Perseverance
    Category: Press
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  39. June 17, 2023

    Urban Milwaukee: Midtown Vacant Lot To Become Substance Abuse Treatment Center
    Category: Press
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  40. June 07, 2023

    Stronger Nonprofits Initiative: Five Years of Investment and Impact
    Category: Stories
  41. May 05, 2023

    IFF’s 2022 Annual Report: Together We Build a Stronger Midwest
    Category: Stories
  42. March 22, 2023

    A $30 Million Mixed-Use Development Provides a Fresh Start for Kenosha’s Uptown Neighborhood
    Category: Stories
  43. March 01, 2023

    February 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  44. February 21, 2023

    100 Years After Breaking New Ground, Milwaukee’s Garden Homes Neighborhood Gets a New Lease on Life as an Anchor for Community Revitalization
    Category: Stories
  45. January 01, 2023

    December 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  46. December 19, 2022

    Together We Build More Vibrant, Equitable Communities
    Category: Stories
  47. May 18, 2022

    Madison Nonprofits Team Up on Affordable Housing and Early Childhood Education in a Win-Win for Everybody
    Category: Stories
  48. May 18, 2022

    IFF’s 2021 Annual Report | Meeting the Moment: Change, Equity, Impact
    Category: Stories
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  49. May 01, 2022

    April 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
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  50. April 01, 2022

    March 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  51. January 18, 2022

    Photo Tour: Seeds of Health’s Tenor High School Opens New Campus in Historic Milwaukee Location
    Category: Stories
  52. 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
    Category: Stories
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  53. November 04, 2021

    ENR Midwest: ENR Midwest Names 2021 Best Projects
    Category: Press
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  54. October 19, 2021

    Milwaukee Community Journal: Seeds of Health gears up to celebrate Tenor High School’s new Journal Square location and a 2021 CARW Deal of the Year nomination
    Category: Press
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  55. July 31, 2021

    July 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  56. June 30, 2021

    June 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  57. June 28, 2021

    2020 Annual Report
    Category: Stories
  58. June 14, 2021

    A New Facility in Milwaukee Has Eco-Friendly Blue Skies Landscaping Seeing Green
    Category: Stories
  59. June 14, 2021

    $2.5 Million in IFF Loans Strengthen CDFI Industry and Support Small Businesses in the Midwest
    Category: Stories
  60. June 01, 2021

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bria Grant studied this building’s development potential for a class project. Now, she’s renovating it for a restaurant and other uses.
    Category: Press
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  61. May 31, 2021

    May 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  62. March 31, 2021

    March 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  63. February 28, 2021

    February 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  64. January 29, 2021

    Milwaukee Courier: IFF and JPMorgan Chase’s Stronger Nonprofit Initiative Assisting Milwaukee Nonprofit Leaders of Color
    Category: Press
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  65. December 11, 2020

    WTMJ-TV Milwaukee: Increasing racial diversity among nonprofit leadership starts with achieving financial literacy
    Category: Press
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  66. November 19, 2020

    Citi Foundation Provides $15 Million in Support to 30 Community Development Financial Institutions Across the U.S.
    Category: Press
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  67. October 23, 2020

    Press Release: Stronger Nonprofits Initiative Launches in Detroit and Milwaukee, Providing Free Financial Resources for Leaders of Color
    Category: Press
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  68. October 12, 2020

    Partnerships, Equity & the CDFI Way: How 159 Midwest nonprofits received PPP loans through IFF
    Category: Stories
  69. September 15, 2020

    10 Steps to Creating a Nonprofit Budget
    Category: Resources
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  70. September 02, 2020

    Learning to Change: Reflections of the CDFI Racial Equity Collaborative on Education
    Category: Press
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  71. September 01, 2020

    Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History (Part 2)
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  72. May 27, 2020

    2019 Annual Report
    Category: Stories
  73. April 15, 2020

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

    Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): IFF’s Letter to Comptroller Otting and Chairman McWilliams
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  75. October 09, 2019

    IFF clients give advice on how to spread awareness during Domestic Violence Awareness Month
    Category: Stories
  76. June 07, 2019

    Milwaukee’s Lindsay Heights welcomes ‘dream’ housing development
    Category: Stories
  77. May 16, 2019

    BadCredit.org: IFF Loans Enable Nonprofit Agencies to Purchase Facilities and Deliver Social Services to Low-Income Communities Across the Midwest
    Category: Press
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  78. April 12, 2019

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Only one in five Milwaukee families has access to licensed child care for their pre-K kids
    Category: Press
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  79. April 11, 2019

    IFF’s 2018 Annual Investors Report
    Category: Stories
  80. March 12, 2019

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

    IFF CEO Joe Neri testifies at Congressional hearing on CDFI Fund
    Category: Thought Leadership
  82. January 18, 2019

    Top 10 Pieces of Advice in 2018
    Category: Stories
  83. November 12, 2018

    Profile: Wendy Baumann, Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation
    Category: Stories
  84. November 12, 2018

    IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest
    Category: Stories
  85. September 05, 2018

    High School that Emphasizes Service Makes Investment in IFF
  86. September 04, 2018

    Profile: Lisa Mensah, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network
    Category: Stories
  87. July 10, 2018

    Breaking old ground: How Arts@Large is resurrecting the old Polish Arts Center in Milwaukee
    Category: Stories
  88. June 07, 2018

    Ground broken for new Arts @ Large Community Center, to be ‘hub of activity’ in Walker’s Point
    Category: Press
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  89. May 15, 2018

    Chicago Reader: Chicago’s civic and business elite put on epic display of wokeness, roll out racial equity plan
    Category: Press
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  90. May 03, 2018

    Profile: Jeremy Nowak, Author and Strategist
    Category: Stories
  91. May 03, 2018

    Milwaukee Christian Center stabilizes neighborhoods one home at a time
    Category: Stories
  92. April 16, 2018

    From IFF CEO Joe Neri: Celebrating 30 Years of Change
    Category: Stories
  93. April 04, 2018

    New full-service grocery store opening in Milwaukee’s Park West neighborhood
    Category: Stories
  94. March 08, 2018

    Faith-based pantry brings food, emergency service to Wisconsin’s frontier
    Category: Stories
  95. February 23, 2018

    Daily Reporter: Work begins on affordable housing project in Milwaukee
    Category: Press
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