Catch up on IFF news, read stories about community development projects across the Midwest, and gain insight from our team.
- Category: Press

- November 22, 2025
Chicago Sun-Times: Green Era’s Food Waste Processor Creates Compost and Renewable Energy in Auburn Gresham
Category: Press
- October 29, 2025
Seed St. Louis Grows Gardens and Communities Through a Long-Term Partnership with IFF
Category: Stories
- October 17, 2025
Cleveland’s Iconic West Side Market Gets a $70 Million Overhaul
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- May 27, 2025
TCA Health Develops the Recipe for a Healthier Community with New Nutrition, Innovation, and Wellness Center
Category: Stories
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- September 01, 2024
August 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- June 25, 2024
Second Wave Michigan: Repurposing Community Assets Strengthens Communities in Pontiac and Detroit
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- June 06, 2024
The Ark Celebrates the Reopening of a Human Services Hub for Chicago’s Jewish Community
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- May 01, 2024
April 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- April 18, 2024
Sunflower State Radio: USDA Rural Development Partnership Helps Local Organization Create and Expand Food Programs in Rural Kansas
Category: Press
- April 01, 2024
March 2024 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- February 01, 2024
January 2024 Loan Round-up
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- December 01, 2023
November 2023 Loan Round-up
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- November 20, 2023
A $50 Million Healthy Living Campus Aims to Address Historic Inequities in West Dayton
Category: Stories
- November 01, 2023
October 2023 Loan Round-up
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- September 29, 2023
NBC Nightly News: Iowa Neighborhood’s First New Grocery Store in 50 years Bringing ‘Real Hope’ to Community
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- September 25, 2023
Going “All In” on Waterloo’s East Side with the Iowa Community’s First Grocery Store in 54 Years
Category: Stories
- September 22, 2023
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: All-in-Grocers Store to Celebrate Grand Opening in Waterloo Oct. 3
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- September 13, 2023
Chicago Sun-Times: Common Pantry Opens First Stand-Alone Location in its 56-Year History of Helping the Hungry
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- September 01, 2023
August 2023 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- August 21, 2023
“Game Changing” Urban Farm Expands Kheprw Institute’s Capacity to Build Community Wealth
Category: Stories
- June 01, 2023
May 2023 Loan Round-up
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- April 24, 2023
A Rural Kansas Community Bands Together to Open a Locally Owned, Full-Service Grocery Store
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- April 01, 2023
March 2023 Loan Round-up
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- March 22, 2023
A $30 Million Mixed-Use Development Provides a Fresh Start for Kenosha’s Uptown Neighborhood
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- March 01, 2023
February 2023 Loan Round-up
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- January 01, 2023
December 2022 Loan Round-up
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- November 11, 2022
October 2022 Loan Round-up
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- August 31, 2022
August 2022 Loan Round-up
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- June 01, 2022
May 2022 Loan Round-up
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- January 31, 2022
January 2022 Loan Round-up
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- December 31, 2021
December 2021 Loan Round-up
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- December 14, 2021
Grand Avenue Market: A 20-Year Quest to Re-establish a Local Grocery Store in Rural Kansas
Category: Stories
- December 14, 2021
“If you want better, you have to change your narrative”: A Q&A with Dr. Nicole Howell-Scott, Founder and CEO of the American Association of Single Parents
Category: Stories
- October 31, 2021
October 2021 Loan Round-up
Category: Stories
- October 13, 2021
Transforming the Emergency Food System with an Eye on Equity: A Q&A with Greater Chicago Food Depository’s Nicole Robinson
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- October 01, 2021
September 2021 Loan Round-up
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- June 28, 2021
2020 Annual Report
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- May 31, 2021
May 2021 Loan Round-up
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- October 12, 2020
Partnerships, Equity & the CDFI Way: How 159 Midwest nonprofits received PPP loans through IFF
Category: Stories
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest
Category: Stories
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- September 05, 2018
High School that Emphasizes Service Makes Investment in IFF

- September 04, 2018
Profile: Lisa Mensah, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network
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- August 06, 2018
Profile: Eric Weinheimer, President and CEO, Forefront
Category: Stories
- April 16, 2018
From IFF CEO Joe Neri: Celebrating 30 Years of Change
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- March 05, 2018
Video: Kansas Healthy Food Initiative
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