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Real Estate Solutions

With IFF, change begins where you are now. Our Real Estate Solutions team provides nonprofits of all sizes and many sectors, with the expertise needed to take their facility projects from concept to reality, supporting them throughout the feasibility assessment, planning, site selection, design, financing, groundbreaking, and construction to ribbon-cutting.

We know that every nonprofit and every situation is unique. Whether you would like to optimize your existing space, strengthen your financial position, or deliver more impactful service, we will meet you wherever you are, help you define your facility goal and a strategy, in order to bring your project to fruition.

Here are some of our areas of expertise:

Feasibility Assessment

Facility Improvements and Space Planning

Strategic Facilities Plan

Site Search and Due Diligence

Owner's Representation

Technical Assistance

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How We Help
Why Us?

Partnering with nonprofits to create thriving communities is at the heart of everything we do. We take the time to understand the nonprofit leadership’s vision and become their trusted advisor when it comes to making real estate decisions with more confidence. We also work closely with municipalities and community-serving groups to help provide solutions to nonprofits in under-resourced communities.

Because the needs of nonprofits are unique, we developed a specialized team of real estate specialists to support nonprofits in every step of the way, from the early stages of a project all the way through construction.

Trusted advisor – Our team can help you understand your options, develop a customized plan that fits your specific requirements, provide more confidence in the project to funders and lenders and avoid backtracking and mistakes.

Focus on your mission – We represent the best interests of our clients, with specialized resources and knowledge so they can focus on growing their organizations while we meet their facility goals.

Sector Expertise – We are a nonprofit serving nonprofits, with expertise in many sectors in the Midwest, including charter schools, early childhood education and health clinics, to help organizations create buildings that respond to their needs.

Ask a Real Estate Expert

Our team works with a wide array of nonprofits that each have unique needs. In these articles, we answer a series of real estate-related questions we’ve gotten throughout the years from our nonprofit clients:

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Client Spotlight · Early Childhood Education

Emmanuel Family and Child Development Center

“It was difficult to get people to come and work in an old building that constantly had to be patched up,” said Deborah Mann, founder and executive director of Emmanuel Family and Child Development Center, which is located in an area of Kansas City, MO, classified as a “child care desert.” “Now, I’m able to attract certified teachers because of our facility. That means the kids are getting high-level education and good quality experience that gets them ready for kindergarten. It’s been really amazing!”

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Client Spotlight · Health Care

Birth Detroit

Startup nonprofit, Birth Detroit, is addressing persistent racial disparities in the health care system for birthing persons of color and their children by establishing a new model of care in Detroit, with a goal to open the city’s first freestanding birth center. The center will be Black-led, staffed by Black midwives, and focused on supporting birthing persons of color before, during, and after they give birth to improve health outcomes, strengthen the patient experience, and lower costs as compared to hospitals. IFF supported the project with a facility feasibility analysis.