Website
http://liscindianapolis.org/
Primary Contact
Tedd Grain
Executive Director
Contact via email
Mission statement
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation of Indianapolis (LISC) is a not-for-profit that exists to help resident-led, community-based development organizations transform distressed communities and neighborhoods into healthy sustainable ones — good places to live, do business, work, and raise families. By providing capital, technical expertise, training and information, LISC supports the development of local leadership and the creation of affordable housing; commercial industrial, and community facilities; businesses; and jobs.
Actions
Actions are activities derived from the Plan 2020 planning process that a partner has committed to implement.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is working on the following actions:
Strategy
Develop desirable baseline criteria for all neighborhoods.
Action
Expand the number of grass-roots driven planning efforts, such as Quality of Life planning, as the baseline framework for working with neighborhoods
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
70%
Strategy
Grow supportive services for adult workers seeking to overcome barriers to gaining employment at wages that will get them out of poverty.
Action
Create a network of Bridge workforce training programs that link Centers for Working Families with technical certification programs
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
45%
LISC is currently supporting Bridge Workforce training programs at four sites in Indianapolis neighborhoods: Southeast Community Services, Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center, John H. Boner Center, and Edna Martin Christian Center. Future plans include partnering more intentionally with Employ Indy to expand the bridge workforce training program.
Strategy
Leverage philanthropic, grant, tax and development dollars to enhance existing pipeline projects in order to ensure high-quality design and best-practice implementation.
Action
Explore the creation of a Design Center
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2016
Progress
55%
LISC has partnered with Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning to collocate services at the Platform, providing additional synergy for neighborhood partners seeking design and planning.
Strategy
Ensure that every neighborhood has high quality schools serving their residents.
Action
Prioritize individual school level reform efforts within villages, existing and proposed
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
55%
LISC has supported increased quality education in each of the three Great Places, with significant impact on IPS Schools 43 and 15.
Affiliate Projects
Affiliate projects are independent projects that are significantly aligned with the strategies of The Bicentennial Plan, and while not derived directly from the Plan 2020 planning process, have been accepted as mutually reinforcing activities.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is working on the following projects:
Great Places 2020
http://www.greatplaces2020.orgThe goal of Great Places 2020 is to transform neighborhoods and spur urban revitalization to help address the following challenges:
- High levels of pollution and obesity
- High unemployment and poverty rates in certain areas
- Population loss to neighboring counties
- Low graduation rates
Recent efforts–such as the Super Bowl Legacy initiative–have demonstrated that a coordinated and strategic focus on neighborhood revitalization can bring about fundamental change in a targeted area. Great Places 2020 hopes to similarly structure initial funding sources and strategic programming so that private investment follows. Investments in each Great Place will be organized into four outcomes:
- Livability: Healthy and beautiful
- Opportunity: Entrepreneurs and jobs
- Vitality: Growing population
- Education: Lifelong learning