Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping nonprofit community development organizations transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity -- good places to work, do business and raise children. LISC is committed to building Sustainable Communities that offer the positive environments needed to ensure that all residents of varied income levels are provided the opportunities and tools to build assets, to participate in the benefits inuring to their communities, and to become part of the mainstream economy. This commitment is realized through five goals:
* Developing, preserving, and investing in the physical environment
* Increasing family income and wealth
* Stimulating economic activity, locally and regionally
* Improving access to quality education
* Fostering livable, safe, and healthy environments
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