Capacity Building - Consulting Accomplishments
In addition to our real estate services, LISC has provided grants and technical assistance to our partners since 1990.
Grants
- LISC has brought $1,700,500 of HUD Section 4 funds to Richmond since 1999. To date, HUD Section 4 has provided the following funding to Richmond-based CDCs:
- LISC has given $215,000 in Home Depot Green Building Grants since 2005. In the past two years, LISC has brought $165,000 in Home Depot Green Building Grants to our partners in Richmond and Petersburg:
- In 2008, LISC brought $50,000 in NFL Playing Fields Grants to Highland Park and Blackwell, which was then leveraged by a $75,000 match by the Richmond Parks and Recreation Foundation.
| Better Housing Coalition | $1,105,000 |
| Virginia Supportive Housing | $185,000 |
| ElderHomes Corp. | $200,000 |
| Interfaith Housing | $100,000 |
| Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services | $90,000 |
| Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council | $10,500 |
| IMANI Intergenerational CDC | $10,000 |
| Better Housing Coalition | $65,000 |
| Virginia Supportive Housing* | $50,000 |
| Pathways | $30,000 |
| ElderHomes Corp. | $20,000 |
Organizational Development Consulting Services & Capacity Building
- LISC has paid for consultants to provide over 1,000 hours of organizational development consulting services to our nonprofit partners – at no charge to our partners.
- Since 2003 we have provided over $220,000 in consulting services to our CDC partners.
- In 2005 and 2006 LISC provided $45,000 in scholarships for the Executive Directors of Better Housing Coalition, Virginia Supportive Housing, Highland Park CDC, and ElderHomes, to attend nonprofit Executive Director training Harvard University.
- LISC’s Housing Authority Resource Center (HARC) is providing strategic planning services to the Petersburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority (PRHA).
- LISC brought national resources to Richmond to help Better Housing Coalition establish a property management company. Quality property management has become one of BHC’s strongest qualities.
- LISC engaged Capital One to issue a $50 million 501(c)(3) bond to help finance community development, which their status as a “Special Purpose” bank would otherwise have precluded them from doing.
- LISC took Virginia Supportive Housing to Chicago for training in Blended Management, which they utilized in their SRO projects.
*To support “green” components of two SROs in Hampton Roads.