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Which team?
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LISC works through these entities to catalyze resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity.

What are community-based organizations/local partner network?


Through our 37 local offices, a rural program that reaches more than 2,200 counties in 45 states, and LISC-founded affiliates and entities, we work with a vast network of community-based partners to make investments in housing, businesses, jobs, education, safety and health.

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The cornerstone of this structure was laid on July 4 1848; Abraham Lincoln & the 90-year-old widow of Alexander Hamilton were in attendance.

What is the Washington Monument?

100
These entities share a common goal of expanding economic opportunity in communities with low incomes by providing access to financial products and services for local residents and businesses. 

What are Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)?

100

For quick instant messages, and maybe a GIF thrown in for fun, this is the application.

What is MS Teams?

100

I need a corporate credit card or Staples account to buy supplies for my team. 

Who is Administrative Services?

200

This LISC affiliate was created in 1987 as a syndicator of Low Income Housing Tax Credits.

Who National Equity Fund (NEF)?

200

Fort Point was built between 1853 & 1861 to protect this bay.

What is the San Francisco Bay?

200

501c3 non-profit organizations that are created to support and revitalize communities, especially disinvested and marginalized communities.

What are Community Development Corporations (CDCs)?

200

It's not just a place to store files, you can also use this application to work on docs with teammates using the comments feature, online documents and creating tasks. 

What is Box?

200

I need help processing an invoice for my event.

Who is Accounting?

300

These are what guide us through our work - Equity, Community, Collaboration, Innovation and Learning.

What are LISC's Core Values

300

The historic First & Second Banks of the U.S. are one block apart in this city.

What is Philadelphia?

300

The Ford Foundation established this organization in 1979 to give "technical assistance, investments, and matching seed money" in order to leverage greater investments "in the economic, physical and social improvements of the participating communities." 

What is LISC?

300

Everyone knows you go here to record your time, but did you know you can also track your personal, sick and vacation days here as well?

What is ADP?

300

I took the RPA Boot Camp but still need some questions answered.

Who is GCM (Grants & Contracts Management)?

400

LISC plays this role direct and leverage flow of capital to people and communities with underdeveloped assets.

What is investor?

400

The clock in front of this New York City railway terminal may be the world's largest example of Tiffany glass.

What is Grand Central Station?

400

An approach that centers on helping community members identify the changes they want to see and supporting them in pursuing their goals.

What is resident engagement?

400

This system helped us track grants for a while, but it's on its way out as we work on moving everything over to Salesforce!

What is the PA system?

400

I don't know what types of transactions LISC is able to finance.

Who is Lending?

500

$24 billion

What is our total investment in communities since LISC was created.

500

In the fall of 2013, this striking building that's home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrated its 10th birthday.

What is Disney Hall?

500

The Special Impact Program was an amendment to this 1964 law, which allowed the federal funding of community development projects in poor urban areas, and led to the formation of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

What is the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964?

In 1966, Bobby Kennedy and his aides conceived the idea of a “community development corporation,” a prototype of which they worked to set up in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it, the Bedford-Stuyvesant project would “get the market to do what the bureaucracy cannot.”

500

Among other features, you'll see informal shout outs in the "update" section, as well as an abundance of organizational updates and resources in its Newsfeed. Plus you can always access the Feedback Portal here.

What is Jostle

500

I want to organize a Testing Lab for my new project or initiative in order to solicit internal feedback.

 Who is Strategy & Innovation?

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