Local Initiatives Support Coalition, Virginia mobilizes corporate, government, and philanthropic support to provide Richmond community development organizations with loans and grants as well as technical and management assistance. It has helped develop homes, child care facilities, and senior housing throughout Richmond, in neighborhoods like the Old South District, the Fan, Church Hill, Barton Heights, and Bensley. Most notable of its contributions to Richmond, the organization helped to negotiate disputes among community development practitioners involved in Richmond’s Neighborhoods in Bloom initiative in 1999.
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