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  1. April 29, 2026

    IFF’s 2025 Annual Report: Standing Together for Midwest Communities
    Category: Stories
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  2. February 21, 2026

    Hoodline: SNAP Squeeze Hits Chicago Heights as Respond Now Pantry Roars Back
    Category: Press
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  3. November 23, 2025

    Nodaway News Leader: Community Food Providers Unite to Strengthen Food Access
    Category: Press
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  4. November 22, 2025

    Chicago Sun-Times: Green Era’s Food Waste Processor Creates Compost and Renewable Energy in Auburn Gresham
    Category: Press
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  5. October 29, 2025

    Seed St. Louis Grows Gardens and Communities Through a Long-Term Partnership with IFF
    Category: Stories
    A group of people posing in a lush community garden with raised beds and various plants.
  6. October 17, 2025

    Cleveland’s Iconic West Side Market Gets a $70 Million Overhaul
    Category: Stories
    Interior of a historic market hall with arched brick ceilings and vendor stalls.
  7. May 27, 2025

    TCA Health Develops the Recipe for a Healthier Community with New Nutrition, Innovation, and Wellness Center
    Category: Stories
  8. May 21, 2025

    IFF’s 2024 Annual Report: Investing in People, Places, and Possibilities
    Category: Stories
  9. September 01, 2024

    August 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  10. June 25, 2024

    Second Wave Michigan: Repurposing Community Assets Strengthens Communities in Pontiac and Detroit
    Category: Press
    Category: Stories
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  11. June 06, 2024

    The Ark Celebrates the Reopening of a Human Services Hub for Chicago’s Jewish Community
    Category: Stories
  12. May 07, 2024

    IFF’s 2023 Annual Report: A Historic Investment in Local Changemakers
    Category: Stories
  13. May 01, 2024

    April 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  14. April 18, 2024

    Sunflower State Radio: USDA Rural Development Partnership Helps Local Organization Create and Expand Food Programs in Rural Kansas
    Category: Press
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  15. April 01, 2024

    March 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  16. February 01, 2024

    January 2024 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  17. December 01, 2023

    November 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  18. November 20, 2023

    A $50 Million Healthy Living Campus Aims to Address Historic Inequities in West Dayton
    Category: Stories
  19. November 01, 2023

    October 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  20. September 29, 2023

    NBC Nightly News: Iowa Neighborhood’s First New Grocery Store in 50 years Bringing ‘Real Hope’ to Community
    Category: Press
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  21. September 25, 2023

    Going “All In” on Waterloo’s East Side with the Iowa Community’s First Grocery Store in 54 Years
    Category: Stories
  22. September 22, 2023

    Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: All-in-Grocers Store to Celebrate Grand Opening in Waterloo Oct. 3
    Category: Press
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  23. September 13, 2023

    Chicago Sun-Times: Common Pantry Opens First Stand-Alone Location in its 56-Year History of Helping the Hungry
    Category: Press
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  24. September 01, 2023

    August 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  25. August 21, 2023

    “Game Changing” Urban Farm Expands Kheprw Institute’s Capacity to Build Community Wealth
    Category: Stories
  26. June 01, 2023

    May 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  27. April 24, 2023

    A Rural Kansas Community Bands Together to Open a Locally Owned, Full-Service Grocery Store
    Category: Stories
  28. April 01, 2023

    March 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
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  29. March 22, 2023

    A $30 Million Mixed-Use Development Provides a Fresh Start for Kenosha’s Uptown Neighborhood
    Category: Stories
  30. March 22, 2023

    Celebrating 10 Years of Impact in Indiana and Doubling Down on Statewide Solutions
    Category: Stories
    At the Paramount Cottage Home school, a photo of the 10-year celebration of IFF's work in Indiana
  31. March 01, 2023

    February 2023 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  32. January 01, 2023

    December 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  33. November 11, 2022

    October 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  34. August 31, 2022

    August 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  35. July 08, 2022

    Crain’s Chicago Business: Auburn Gresham sets itself up for a revitalization
    Category: Press
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  36. June 21, 2022

    Chicago’s Academy for Global Citizenship Anchors New State-of-the-Art Learning, Sustainability, and Wellness Hub Catered to Community Needs
    Category: Stories
    Architect's rendering of the Academy for Global Citizenship at the Cultivate Collective hub
  37. June 01, 2022

    May 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
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  38. May 18, 2022

    IFF’s 2021 Annual Report | Meeting the Moment: Change, Equity, Impact
    Category: Stories
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  39. January 31, 2022

    January 2022 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
    A group of staff and volunteers from Star Farm Chicago standing in front a van the nonprofit uses to distribute locally grown organic produce in and around Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood
  40. December 31, 2021

    December 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  41. December 14, 2021

    Grand Avenue Market: A 20-Year Quest to Re-establish a Local Grocery Store in Rural Kansas
    Category: Stories
    Grand Avenue Market sign in Plains, Kansas
  42. 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
    Headshot of Dr. Nicole Howell-Scott, Founder of the American Association of Single Parents
  43. October 31, 2021

    October 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  44. October 13, 2021

    Transforming the Emergency Food System with an Eye on Equity: A Q&A with Greater Chicago Food Depository’s Nicole Robinson
    Category: Stories
    Nicole Robinson Greater Chicago Food Depository
  45. October 01, 2021

    September 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
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  46. June 28, 2021

    2020 Annual Report
    Category: Stories
  47. May 31, 2021

    May 2021 Loan Round-up
    Category: Stories
  48. October 12, 2020

    Partnerships, Equity & the CDFI Way: How 159 Midwest nonprofits received PPP loans through IFF
    Category: Stories
  49. September 01, 2020

    Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History (Part 2)
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  50. May 27, 2020

    2019 Annual Report
    Category: Stories
  51. April 15, 2020

    Racial Equity in Times of Crisis: Let’s Interrupt History
    Category: Thought Leadership
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  52. 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
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  53. 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
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  54. 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
  55. April 30, 2019

    WTTW: The Hatchery Chicago Cooking Up Food and Jobs on the West Side
    Category: Press
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  56. April 11, 2019

    IFF’s 2018 Annual Investors Report
    Category: Stories
  57. March 12, 2019

    Exploring the continuum: Why community development projects need so much more than capital
    Category: Thought Leadership
  58. February 26, 2019

    IFF CEO Joe Neri testifies at Congressional hearing on CDFI Fund
    Category: Thought Leadership
  59. January 18, 2019

    Top 10 Pieces of Advice in 2018
    Category: Stories
  60. December 07, 2018

    Chicago Sun-Times: The Hatchery, a $34 million food/beverage incubator, opens in East Garfield Park
    Category: Press
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  61. November 12, 2018

    IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest
    Category: Stories
  62. October 15, 2018

    Illinois Fresh Food Fund generates $34 million in community investment
    Category: Stories
  63. September 05, 2018

    High School that Emphasizes Service Makes Investment in IFF
  64. September 04, 2018

    Profile: Lisa Mensah, President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network
    Category: Stories
  65. August 06, 2018

    Profile: Eric Weinheimer, President and CEO, Forefront
    Category: Stories
  66. April 16, 2018

    From IFF CEO Joe Neri: Celebrating 30 Years of Change
    Category: Stories
  67. April 04, 2018

    New full-service grocery store opening in Milwaukee’s Park West neighborhood
    Category: Stories
  68. March 08, 2018

    Faith-based pantry brings food, emergency service to Wisconsin’s frontier
    Category: Stories
  69. March 05, 2018

    Video: Kansas Healthy Food Initiative
    Category: Stories