Catch up on IFF news, read stories about community development projects across the Midwest, and gain insight from our team.
- 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
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- June 12, 2020
The Hill: Community Development Financial Institutions funding in HEROES Act is key to helping economic fallout
Category: Press - June 05, 2020
Letter: Community Reinvestment Act Addresses Racism
Category: Thought Leadership - May 27, 2020
2019 Annual Report
Category: Stories
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- April 30, 2020
Nonprofit Quarterly: A Moment of Choice: Racial Equity, CDFIs, and the PPP Lending Fiasco
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- 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 - March 06, 2020
Architectural Digest: Inside a Historic Detroit Charter School That Takes Cues From Wes Anderson
Category: Press - March 02, 2020
Detroit Prep revives century-old school building to serve up to 500 students in Pingree Park
Category: Stories
- February 27, 2020
Affordable Housing Finance: Housing and Finance Organizations Receive Capital Magnet Funds
Category: Press - February 27, 2020
WGN: Lightfoot announces $6 million investment in West Side community health improvements
Category: Press - February 26, 2020
Chicago Tribune: There’s a 16-year gap in life expectancy between Chicago’s West Side and the Loop. Here’s what local hospitals are doing about it.
Category: Press - February 14, 2020
You, Me, and Your Top Three Podcast: Becoming a Multiplier with Chris Uhl, Executive Director – Eastern Region
Category: Press - Category: Thought Leadership
- February 04, 2020
What does $1 billion in community lending look like?
Category: Stories
- February 03, 2020
Advancing Communities Podcast: IFF CEO Joe Neri
Category: Press - January 29, 2020
CEOs of Four National CDFI Loan Funds Comment on CRA Rulemaking
Category: Thought Leadership - January 27, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: YouthBridge to commit 25% of endowment to local investments
Category: Press - January 24, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Treasury awards $4.4 million in funds to help St. Louis organize low-income banking services
Category: Press - January 06, 2020
Traverse City Record Eagle: Dann’s House doubles up
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- December 24, 2019
The Ticker: Women’s Resource Center, Dann’s House Expanding
Category: Press - Category: Thought Leadership
- November 18, 2019
Chalkbeat: After years of fundraising and legal battles, a Detroit charter celebrates its new home
Category: Press - November 18, 2019
Austin Weekly News: How to preserve the black middle class
Category: Press - November 18, 2019
American School & University Magazine: Detroit charter moves into vacant elementary
Category: Press - November 11, 2019
Profile: Rick Velasquez shares lessons learned from over four decades of work with Illinois’ children and families
- November 11, 2019
United Methodist Community House reimagines itself — and Grand Rapids’ Southeastern Community
Category: Stories
- November 11, 2019
Chicago Tribune: Longstanding preschool in Highland Park celebrates new home: ‘We just were not going to let it die’
Category: Press - October 30, 2019
Crain’s Detroit Business: JPMorgan Chase investing $675,000 to help 20 nonprofits led by or serving people of color
Category: Press - Category: Thought Leadership
- October 25, 2019
Intro: Two community investors, two Midwest cities, two approaches to reaching more leaders of color with the financing tools they want
Category: Thought Leadership
- October 10, 2019
People Helping People Podcast with IFF’s Joe Neri and Omar Elhagmusa
Category: Press - October 09, 2019
IFF clients give advice on how to spread awareness during Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Category: Stories
- October 08, 2019
New YMCA in Kentucky’s west Louisville neighborhood reimagines public health through an equity lens
Category: Stories
- September 26, 2019
Using data to drive investment and impact
Category: Thought Leadership
- September 04, 2019
Lincoln Park Community Services triples its capacity to serve Chicagoans experiencing homelessness
Category: Stories
- September 04, 2019
Chicago’s North Lawndale Employment Network to transform former bank building into community hub
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- July 20, 2019
Do you really need a policies & procedures manual?
Category: Resources
- July 20, 2019
What should you track on your dashboard?
Category: Resources - July 20, 2019
Who sets the budget?
Category: Resources - July 20, 2019
Want to build a strong future? Build LUNA.
Category: Resources - Category: Stories
- July 08, 2019
Photo Tour: Chicago Artists Coalition embraces its new home in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor
Category: Stories
- June 07, 2019
Addressing health disparities in the LGBTQ community
Category: Stories
- June 07, 2019
‘Leveling Up’ with Maya-Camille Broussard: A conversation with one of The Hatchery’s first resident food entrepreneurs
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- May 22, 2019
Nonprofit Quarterly: An Illinois CDFI Leader Explains Why Appraisals Reinforce Structural Racism
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- May 09, 2019
The Appraisal Bias: How more equitable underwriting can increase capital in communities of color
Category: Thought Leadership
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- May 01, 2019
De-stigmatizing mental health care through integration, specialized support, and space design
Category: Stories
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- April 11, 2019
IFF’s 2018 Annual Investors Report
Category: Stories
- April 05, 2019
Crain’s Chicago Business: To tackle a lack of affordable housing, nonprofits become developers
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- April 03, 2019
Artspace and IFF: Teaming up since 2011 to increase affordable housing options in the Midwest
Category: Stories
- March 12, 2019
Exploring the continuum: Why community development projects need so much more than capital
Category: Thought Leadership
- March 06, 2019
Humboldt Park’s La Casa Norte answers question: ‘What are all the things someone needs to be well?’
Category: Stories
- February 26, 2019
IFF CEO Joe Neri testifies at Congressional hearing on CDFI Fund
Category: Thought Leadership
- February 05, 2019
One of the nation’s best schools takes a deep dive in Indianapolis – breathing life into historic Naval structure
Category: Stories
- February 05, 2019
St Louis’s Center of Creative Arts: Bridging the divide through the arts
Category: Stories
- February 05, 2019
Creative match-making leads to new early childhood education center on Detroit’s East Side
Category: Stories
- January 18, 2019
Top 10 Pieces of Advice in 2018
Category: Stories
- January 09, 2019
Profile: Inna Kinney, Founder and CEO, Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI)
Category: Stories
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- December 07, 2018
Chicago Sun-Times: The Hatchery, a $34 million food/beverage incubator, opens in East Garfield Park
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- November 12, 2018
Ministering to the soul: St. Louis nonprofit grows into new space for the formerly incarcerated
Category: Stories
- November 12, 2018
IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest
Category: Stories
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- October 02, 2018
Tax credits enable faith-based CDC to open “nonprofit mall” and game-changing community center in Lafayette, IN
Category: Stories
- September 05, 2018
High School that Emphasizes Service Makes Investment in IFF
- September 05, 2018
‘People learn to live again here:’ Kansas City’s Healing House expands to meet growing need
Category: Stories
- September 04, 2018
Profile: Lisa Mensah, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network
Category: Stories
- September 04, 2018
The Real Deal Neighborhood Spotlight: Can North Lawndale’s future live up to its past?
Category: Press - August 07, 2018
Voices of Cody Rouge: Chris Uhl of IFF on the importance of early childhood education
Category: Press - August 06, 2018
‘He always, always had my back’: How IFF partnered with Heartland Alliance to open a specialized health care facility on Chicago’s south side
Category: Stories
- August 06, 2018
The ‘homeland’: JEI’s historic reno brings nonprofit back to Jefferson Chalmers and anchors community development efforts
Category: Stories
- July 10, 2018
Fort Wayne’s ‘The Landing’: Development brings new life to one of Indiana’s oldest commercial districts
Category: Stories
- July 10, 2018
Breaking old ground: How Arts@Large is resurrecting the old Polish Arts Center in Milwaukee
Category: Stories
- June 26, 2018
Model D: Voices of Cody Rouge: How a local church and its partners saved a key community resource center
Category: Press - June 07, 2018
Ground broken for new Arts @ Large Community Center, to be ‘hub of activity’ in Walker’s Point
Category: Press - June 06, 2018
‘We just don’t give up:’ How one alternative school is reaching homeless, dropout youth throughout Michigan
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