Catch up on IFF news, read stories about community development projects across the Midwest, and gain insight from our team.
- December 15, 2025
Reflecting on a Career Spent Strengthening Nonprofits and the Communities They Serve: Q&A with IFF CEO Joe Neri
Category: Stories
- November 19, 2025
Three IFF-Sponsored Projects Awarded Grant Funding Through FHLBank Chicago’s Affordable Housing Program
Category: Stories
- 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
- October 29, 2025
Carmen Schools of Science and Technology Builds for the Future with a $55 Million Home for STEAM Success
Category: Stories
- October 23, 2025
IFF CEO Joe Neri Honored with Opportunity Finance Network’s 2025 Executive Leadership Award
Category: Stories
- September 25, 2025
A Community-Driven Nonprofit Transforms a Blighted Property into a “Beacon of Light” in Milwaukee
Category: Stories
- September 12, 2025
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago: FHLBank Chicago, IFF, Impact Seven, and Cinnaire Celebrate Groundbreaking of Trailview Cottages
Category: Press
- July 29, 2025
Press Release: IFF Announces Upcoming CEO Transition
Category: Press
- June 12, 2025
Crain’s Chicago Business: JPMorgan Chase Commits $18 Million to Chicago Nonprofit Lender
Category: Press
- 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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- June 01, 2025
May 2025 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
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- May 01, 2025
April 2025 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- February 01, 2025
January 2025 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- January 27, 2025
Filling a Community Need for Affordable Dental Care, Nonprofit Clinic Doubles Capacity with New Facility
Category: Stories
- January 01, 2025
December 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- October 23, 2024
High-Performing Charter School Expands to Create Pathways to Local STEM Careers for More Milwaukee Students
Category: Stories
- October 01, 2024
September 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- September 01, 2024
August 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- August 27, 2024
A New Tribal Facility in Rural Wisconsin Leverages New Markets Tax Credits to Transform Health and Wellness Services
Category: Stories
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- July 01, 2024
June 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- May 08, 2024
Sawyer County Record: IFF Client Receives Deal of the Year Award for New $42 Million Health Center
Category: Press
- May 08, 2024
Sawyer County Record: LCO Receives Deal of the Year Award for New $42 Million Health Center

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- February 08, 2024
Milwaukee Business Journal: See $8M Rehab of Homes in Historic Milwaukee Neighborhood
Category: Press
- January 31, 2024
IFF Borrower 30th Street Industrial Corridor Completes Rehab of Milwaukee’s Historic Garden Homes
Category: Stories
- January 23, 2024
New Residential Treatment Facility Expands Milwaukee Nonprofit’s Capacity to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
Category: Stories
- January 13, 2024
Wisconsin State Journal: Madison Project with Housing, Child Care Under One Roof Shows Need for Federal Fund
Category: Thought Leadership
- January 01, 2024
December 2023 Loan Round-up
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 01, 2023
October 2023 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- October 05, 2023
Urban Milwaukee: Join the Parade of Garden Homes
Category: Press
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- August 18, 2023
Urban Milwaukee: Garden Homes Sees New Life Through Perseverance
Category: Press
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- March 22, 2023
A $30 Million Mixed-Use Development Provides a Fresh Start for Kenosha’s Uptown Neighborhood
Category: Stories
- March 01, 2023
February 2023 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- 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
- January 01, 2023
December 2022 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- December 19, 2022
Together We Build More Vibrant, Equitable Communities
Category: Stories
- May 18, 2022
Madison Nonprofits Team Up on Affordable Housing and Early Childhood Education in a Win-Win for Everybody
Category: Stories
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- May 01, 2022
April 2022 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- April 01, 2022
March 2022 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- January 18, 2022
Photo Tour: Seeds of Health’s Tenor High School Opens New Campus in Historic Milwaukee Location
Category: Stories
- 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
- November 04, 2021
ENR Midwest: ENR Midwest Names 2021 Best Projects
Category: Press
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- July 31, 2021
July 2021 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- June 30, 2021
June 2021 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- June 28, 2021
2020 Annual Report
Category: Stories
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- June 14, 2021
$2.5 Million in IFF Loans Strengthen CDFI Industry and Support Small Businesses in the Midwest
Category: Stories
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- May 31, 2021
May 2021 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- March 31, 2021
March 2021 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- February 28, 2021
February 2021 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- January 29, 2021
Milwaukee Courier: IFF and JPMorgan Chase’s Stronger Nonprofit Initiative Assisting Milwaukee Nonprofit Leaders of Color
Category: Press
- December 11, 2020
WTMJ-TV Milwaukee: Increasing racial diversity among nonprofit leadership starts with achieving financial literacy
Category: Press
- November 19, 2020
Citi Foundation Provides $15 Million in Support to 30 Community Development Financial Institutions Across the U.S.
Category: Press
- October 23, 2020
Press Release: Stronger Nonprofits Initiative Launches in Detroit and Milwaukee, Providing Free Financial Resources for Leaders of Color
Category: Press
- October 12, 2020
Partnerships, Equity & the CDFI Way: How 159 Midwest nonprofits received PPP loans through IFF
Category: Stories
- September 15, 2020
10 Steps to Creating a Nonprofit Budget
Category: Resources
- September 02, 2020
Learning to Change: Reflections of the CDFI Racial Equity Collaborative on Education
Category: Press
- September 01, 2020
Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History (Part 2)
Category: Thought Leadership
- May 27, 2020
2019 Annual Report
Category: Stories
- 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
- October 09, 2019
IFF clients give advice on how to spread awareness during Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Category: Stories
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- 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
- April 11, 2019
IFF’s 2018 Annual Investors Report
Category: Stories
- 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
- January 18, 2019
Top 10 Pieces of Advice in 2018
Category: Stories
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- November 12, 2018
IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest
Category: Stories
- September 05, 2018
High School that Emphasizes Service Makes Investment in IFF

- September 04, 2018
Profile: Lisa Mensah, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network
Category: Stories
- July 10, 2018
Breaking old ground: How Arts@Large is resurrecting the old Polish Arts Center in Milwaukee
Category: Stories
- June 07, 2018
Ground broken for new Arts @ Large Community Center, to be ‘hub of activity’ in Walker’s Point
Category: Press
- May 15, 2018
Chicago Reader: Chicago’s civic and business elite put on epic display of wokeness, roll out racial equity plan
Category: Press
- May 03, 2018
Profile: Jeremy Nowak, Author and Strategist
Category: Stories
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- April 16, 2018
From IFF CEO Joe Neri: Celebrating 30 Years of Change
Category: Stories
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- February 23, 2018
Daily Reporter: Work begins on affordable housing project in Milwaukee
Category: Press