Dear Friend:
As part of our local mission, we are proud to provide financial resources to nonprofit organizations through our LISC AmeriCorp program.
Several weeks ago, we donated more than $500,000 to 14 locally-based nonprofits, led by donations to the International Rescue Committee ($86,643), the Regional Task Force on the Homeless ($28,881), and the San Diego Community Housing Corporation ($28,881).
The funds will help train LISC AmeriCorps' latest cohort of members in the best practices of providing invaluable service to their respective communities. We're proud that many of our AmeriCorps members pursue careers devoted to public service.
As a reminder, our annual
LISC Gala is Tuesday, Oct. 23, 5:30 pm at the San Diego Central Library. We hope you'll help us celebrate our 27th anniversary. Special guests will include LISC National President/CEO Maurice Jones and keynote speaker Rick Allen, who was instrumental in forming AmeriCorps in the mid-1990s, as directed by President Clinton. For more info, please add item below.
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Ricardo Flores
Executive Director
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Want to join our LISC San Diego team?
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LISC San Diego seeks a Lending Program Officer to advance its community development lending program.
This person will be responsible for lending business development and loan originations that support LISC’s strategic priorities and a comprehensive approach to neighborhood revitalization.
Primary responsibilities will include identifying project opportunities; providing technical assistance to local borrowers; initial vetting of projects and structuring financing needs; and developing key relationships and partnerships with public and private leaders in local markets.
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LISC San Diego will celebrate 27 years of community development in San Diego at our annual Gala, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 23, at the downtown Central Library.
Our featured speaker will be Rick Allen, a distinguished author and CEO who created AmeriCorps -- the domestic Peace Corps -- while a high-ranking member of President Clinton's executive staff in the early 1990s. LISC administers AmeriCorps here in San Diego and throughout the country.
What's more, Allen is the author of "RFK: His Words for Our Times," an acclaimed best-selling book of Robert F. Kennedy's most memorable speeches. The book's recent publishing marked the passage of 50 years since RKF's assassination in 1968. In early June,
Allen joined with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, one of Kennedy's 11 children, in making the network rounds.
By added coincidence, it was Bobby Kennedy whose early-1960s walking tour of New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant led to the nation's first CDC (Community Development Corp), later to become a forerunner to the creation of LISC.
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We are grateful for the continued support we receive from our funders.
This month, we thank SDG&E and JPMorgan Chase for their ongoing generosity and commitment to LISC San Diego.
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What’s immito?
LISC’s Powerful New Catalyst for Small Businesses
We’ve got news! LISC is ramping up its national economic development work with the launch of a new small business lending affiliate called immito.
“Nothing catalyzes opportunity in a community like new businesses launching and expanding,” said Maurice A. Jones, LISC president and CEO. immito is expected to do $100 million in annual lending and will spark new jobs and growth across America—especially in places where demand for capital access is high.
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2018 Strength Matters Financial Management Conference
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When? Tuesday, Oct 16, 2018 12:00 Noon - Thursday, Oct 18, 2018 12:00 Noon
Where? Westin Dallas Downtown
Who should attend? CEOs, Board Members, CFOs and other finance professionals working in the affordable housing industry. Open to all groups interested in learning and networking with finance staff from other affordable housing organizations.
Why? To strengthen the community of leaders that is critical to the success of the community development industry.
The Strength Matters Financial Management Conference the only event of its kind serving the strategic and finance arms of the community development sector. The conference begins with a kick-off lunch on Tuesday, October 16th featuring David Erickson of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Formerly known as the NeighborWorks CFO Convening, this newly expanded format will significantly increase the peer exchange and learning opportunities. More than 250 CFOs and other senior financial staffs are expected to attend for networking and hands-on workshops to help strengthen organizational capacity in rental development and ownership, lending, home building, financial reporting, and business management.
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Recruitment for 2018 - 2019 Cohort
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Interested in joining LISC AmeriCorps? Know someone who might be? Review the opportunities by clicking on the link below. There are 22 positions available at 14 different nonprofits across the county!
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Stacy Dertien
Director of Volunteers & Community Engagement
The Salvation Army
Founded more than 150 years ago, The Salvation Army (TSA) has long provided much-needed social services that go way beyond those familiar bell-ringers during the holidays.
For Stacy Dertien, her role as Director of Volunteers and Community Engagement brings her closer to needy San Diegans who rely on those services, helping them build a better life for themselves in the process.
Now in her seventh year with TSA, she oversees volunteer programming at seven community centers throughout San Diego County, plus she serves as a LISC AmeriCorps supervisor.
Stacy has worked in the field of volunteerism for 15 years in a variety of capacities, including oversight of volunteer programs for national organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters and, more recently, the YMCA.
Prior to joining TSA, she spent five years with the YMCA as the director of a mentoring program for children of prisoners.
Originally from Michigan, she holds a BA degree in psychology/anthropology from Grand Valley State University (Michigan) and a master’s in health and human services from Springfield College (Massachusetts).
Away from work, Stacy enjoys water-related sports such as surfing and kayaking, plus tennis and volunteering to care for foster dogs at a local rescue.
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