Dear Friend:
Maurice Jones, our CEO & President, was in San Diego last week as the Keynote Speaker at the Convention Sports & Entertainment Facilities conference to share the latest news about LISC's increased commitment to providing sports and recreation programs for underserved youth.
For example, LISC’s partnership with the NFL Foundation on our Grassroots Program makes it possible for community groups to build and renovate youth and adult playing fields around the country.
In addition, LISC’s partnership with ESPN has helped create and new basketball courts through our Home Court Program and turn blighted, vacant sites into much needed recreation spaces.
We have also teamed with Under Armour to improve the quality, safety, and accessibility of youth sports and recreation facilities in Baltimore, with plans for other cities, as well.
Recently, I was honored to attend Bank of America’s Neighborhood Builders leadership training conference in Portland. Our involvement was part of Bank of America’s generous contribution to our efforts along the
Little Saigon corridor.
The conference was a prime opportunity to meet with nonprofit leaders across the country and learn more about best practices in our industry, as we continue to broaden our impact in San Diego.
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Ricardo Flores
Executive Director
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Financial Coaching Training
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Earlier this month, LISC San Diego hosted a Financial Coaching Training for staff in our Financial Opportunity Centers (FOC) network.
LISC Program Officer Bryndan Stueve, led the training of 18 financial coaches; participating organizations include the San Diego Housing Commission, Casa Familiar, MAAC, and the International Rescue Committee.
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HDTI Fundamentals: Session 2
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HDTI increases the development capacity of community-based nonprofit development organizations by providing practical, comprehensive, and intensive skill training in affordable housing development and community development strategies and techniques.
The 2018-2019 LISC HDTI is made possible with generous support from
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“Small Business Is Personal for Us”:
Q&A with Julie Huston, CEO of immito
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Last year, LISC launched its newest subsidiary, the SBA-guaranteed lender immito, to scale our ability to reach and support underserved small businesses and help spur job growth across the country.
Julie Huston, immito’s founding president, is a seasoned small business expert—in fact, she recently testified before Congress re: new budget
proposals that would hamper small business entrepreneurs’ access to credit (watch her here). We caught up with Huston at her base in Denver to learn more about immito, the economic and social power of small business, and why all this is so close to Huston’s heart.
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It Takes a Crowd to Raise a Small Business
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New to LISC’s partnership with Kiva? Our collaboration with the crowd-funding microloan platform helps us help entrepreneurs get the capital and technical support they need to launch and grow businesses. One of our favorite parts of the relationship is getting to know determined small business owners and hearing their stories. Meet four owners who, armed with their LISC + Kiva loans, are injecting creativity, resources and dynamism into their communities.
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LISC AmeriCorps Leadership Program
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Local Advisory Committee member,
Maria Vizcarra from
CalPrivate Bank enlisted her colleague,
Mary Brandt, to join us at our May monthly meeting hosted by
Ivey Ranch Park Association and
North County Lifeline, to train members on
Personal Branding to help improve their leadership development skills.
Thank you Maria and Mary!
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Nao Kabashima
Executive Director
Karen Organization of San Diego
When Nao Kabashima first came to the United States from her native Japan as a young graduate student at California State University, Chico, she had no idea where her career might lead her.
Now, some 10 years after relocating here, she serves as executive director of Karen Organization of San Diego (KOSD), directly working with adults, children and families of Karen, one of the many ethnic minority groups that have long been persecuted in the Southeast Asia nation of Burma, now known as Myanmar.
The 9-person social service agency serves hundreds of former refugees at its 2,000 square foot facility in the Colina del Sol neighborhood, providing a gathering place for several generations of Karen and others who are originally from Burma.
While most Karen are from Burma, they prefer not to be called Burmese because of the government’s repressive, brutal reign during their lifetimes and before. The agency’s name reflects the fact that Karen community leaders co-founded the KOSD in 2009.
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