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September 25, 2024
IFF’s Continuum in Practice: Supporting Community-Driven Revitalization in Southeast Grand Rapids
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Welcome sign for McClellan Ribbon Cutting.
August 20, 2024
Celebrating the McClellan Early Childhood Center
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July 16, 2024
Foundation for Homan Square Celebrates Past, Present, and Future Housing Opportunities
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July 11, 2024
Crain’s Detroit Business: Detroit Seeks Developer for Neighborhood Center Near Michigan Central
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June 26, 2024
Home Sweet Homan: Affordable, Single-Family Smart Homes Offer Wealth-Building Opportunities on Chicago’s West Side
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May 14, 2024
Crain’s Chicago Business: North Lawndale Getting New Factory-Built Affordable Homes
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May 13, 2024
JPMorgan Chase: Quality Child Care Anchors Detroit Community
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May 07, 2024
IFF’s 2023 Annual Report: A Historic Investment in Local Changemakers
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April 28, 2024
10 Years of Impact in Detroit: How Three Nonprofits Have Evolved to Strengthen Communities
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April 08, 2024
WTTW-TV’s Whitney Reynolds Show: Forgotten City
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March 26, 2024
The Real Deal: Which Developers Won Low-Income Housing Tax Credits in Chicago?
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March 24, 2024
Chicago Sun-Times: Affordable Housing Developments in Edgewater, West Pullman Among Those Awarded Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
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March 14, 2024
Weekly Citizen: Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Housing Announce 2023 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Awardees
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March 07, 2024
WGHN-AM: Rep. Scholten Secures $11.5M for Community Projects Across West Michigan
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March 06, 2024
City of Chicago Press Release: Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Housing Announce 2023 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Awardees
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February 20, 2024
The Kresge Foundation: How IFF Navigated Layering Partners, Capital to Build a New Early Childhood Center
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May 05, 2023
IFF’s 2022 Annual Report: Together We Build a Stronger Midwest
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January 19, 2023
IFF’s Continuum in Practice: Going Deep in Place in Chicago’s North Lawndale Neighborhood
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December 19, 2022
Together We Build More Vibrant, Equitable Communities
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November 17, 2022
Students to start Nov. 28 at new North Chicago middle school; ‘This will empower our students to do so much more’
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November 16, 2022
Press Release: North Chicago’s New Neal Math and Science Academy Opens, Funded by a Donation from AbbVie
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Architect's Rendering of the new Neal Math and Science Academy
May 18, 2022
New Neal Math and Science Academy on Track for November 2022 Grand Opening
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Cover of IFF's 2021 Annual Report
May 18, 2022
IFF’s 2021 Annual Report | Meeting the Moment: Change, Equity, Impact
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January 18, 2022
Photo Tour: The Marygrove Early Education Center Puts Young Learners at the Center of Community Revitalization
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A multi-purpose room at the Chatham Workforce Education & Workforce Center
November 16, 2021
Understanding that we are a collective: How vision became reality for the Chatham Education & Workforce Center
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November 04, 2021
ENR Midwest: ENR Midwest Names 2021 Best Projects
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September 17, 2021
The Kresge Foundation: New, state-of-the art Marygrove Early Education Center celebrates grand opening
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Neal Math and Science Academy External Rendering
September 15, 2021
Equitable Community Development in Action: The Redevelopment of North Chicago’s Neal Math and Science Academy
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June 28, 2021
2020 Annual Report
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June 14, 2021
Long-term Relationships and Trust Underpin COVID-19 Vaccination Success in Homan Square
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