Dear Friend:
Here at LISC, we like to celebrate our successes, large and small.
That's why it was so heartwarming to take part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month to dedicate a new synthetic-turf athletic field at the William J. Oakes Boys & Girls Club in Logan Heights.
The event was part of LISC National's "NFL Grassroots" program that provides youth-oriented athletic fields in the NFL's franchise cities. Though the Chargers are no longer here, the team opted to donate $50,000 toward the cost of installing of the field.
We were grateful to receive extensive media coverage for the ribbon-cutting, which featured the Chargers' recent fifth-round draft choice, offensive guard Scott Quessenberry, from UCLA and La Costa Canyon High school in La Costa.
Meanwhile, we hope you'll join us for our first "LISC Night at the Movies," featuring Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," on Thursday, July 26, 7 pm, hosted at
Media Arts Center, 2921 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92104.
It's a totally free event -- free admission, popcorn, soft drinks, plus the Oscar-nominated movie whose title reflects our mission.
Wishing all a happy and healthy summer!
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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 Roundtable Series: "Building Across the Income Spectrum"
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Join us and the San Diego Housing Federation for the latest "LISC Roundtable" featuring guest speaker Assemblyman Todd Gloria on
"Building Across the Income Spectrum."
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
9am-11:30am
The Prado at Balboa Park
1549 El Prado
Loggia Room, 2nd Floor
San Diego, CA 92101
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City Heights Cultural District
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There is currently an opportunity to apply a portion of City Heights for California Cultural District designation by the California Arts Council.
The City Heights Economic Development Collaborative (CHEDC) and LISC San Diego have interest in applying to the next round in 2019.
Previous designations include downtown Oceanside, Barrio Logan and Balboa Park.
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LISC San Diego Gala: Coming in October
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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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SDHF's annual conference: "Demanding Solutions"
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We are proud to be the Mobile App sponsor at the San Diego Housing Federation's annual Affordable Housing & Community Development Conference, Thursday, Oct. 4.
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We are grateful for the continued support we receive from our funders.
This month, we thank Caterpillar Foundation, and Silvergate Bank for their ongoing generosity and commitment to LISC San Diego.
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Maurice Jones: "Now is the time to build an inclusive economy"
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Over the next ten years, LISC National will direct 50 percent of our annual investments to fuel inclusive economic development in underinvested communities across America.
That means preparing people to take on high quality, well-paying jobs. And it means ramping up our work to help small businesses succeed and transforming vibrant commercial and industrial districts.
“We have no doubt that this kind of progress is good for residents, good for communities and good for the country,’ says Maurice A. Jones, LISC CEO.
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Message from the President/CEO
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In this episode, Maurice reflects on LISC’s 20-year partnership with the NFL Foundation and highlights our work in the Twin Cities, MN (home to the 2018 NFL Super Bowl) together with special guest Andriana Abariotes, executive director of our office there.
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LISC San Diego invites our community non-profit partners to submit an application to host an AmeriCorps member for our next program year which begins October 1, 2018.
Members are funded through our national LISC AmeriCorps program via an application to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
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A Few Minutes with...
Getting to know the people of LISC
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Anne Wilson
Community Housing Works
Anne Wilson takes pride in her frequent walking tours of the many affordable apartment complexes she’s helped bring to life during her nearly 30-year career.
Photo credit: KPBS
That’s one of the joys of her executive role at Community Housing Works (CHW), a non-profit agency that develops, rehabilitates, preserves and operates affordable apartment communities in San Diego and throughout California.
Since joining CHW in 2002, Anne has managed the development of over 2,400 of CHW’s 3,106 apartments including residential and mixed-use, new construction, acquisition, preservation and rehabilitation projects. Currently, she manages a 15-person staff, overseeing real estate development, finance and strategy.
Among CHW’s recent projects, the agency helped build San Diego’s first affordable apartment complex that’s fully outfitted with photo-voltaic solar panels, as well as the city’s first such LGBT-affirming seniors complex.
Originally from Boston, where she spent 13 years in the housing industry, Anne relocated to San Diego in 1991 to serve as LISC's first executive director, her role for the next seven years. This defining quote sums up her career: “It’s such a gift to see how people’s lives are changed.”
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