A Year of Growth & Renewal
2021 was a flurry of activity - continuing our critical pandemic relief work - and yet we made time to celebrate impact, develop our team and set the groundwork for the next stage of our strategic work.
2021 Highlights
01.14.21 | STORY
These nonprofits give small businesses what they need to survive and thrive
So much goes into the relationship between small businesses and the nonprofit business development organizations (BDOs) that are dedicated to supporting them and helping them grow. The three BDOs profiled here, longtime LISC partners, have gone above and beyond to help entrepreneurs survive the COVID-19 pandemic. They know that the wellbeing of small businesses means jobs preserved, goods and services are accessible to the community, and local economies have a better chance of weathering the pandemic-borne recession.
03.24.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
Grand opening of their Patina Mountain Preserve Wellness Center and Dunlap Point Housing Community
On March 24th we celebrated the opening of Dunlap Pointe, a 54-unit permanent supportive housing community designed to serve chronically homeless persons including a focus on veterans.
Situated on the edge of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, this secured community is accessed through a single point of entry. As one part of a two-part campus, Dunlap Pointe is adjacent to Patina Mountain Preserve, a 55-bed congregate living community. Together, these developments will create a safe and secure environment with rich and holistic supportive services, using best practices from NAC’s 45+ year history serving the residents of Phoenix.
04.21.21 | STORY
LISC + Lowe’s: A COVID Response That Buoyed 2,782 Small Businesses
Over the past 10 months, a $55 million commitment from Lowe’s enabled LISC to deploy emergency relief and resiliency grants to nearly 2,782 small businesses, mostly minority- and woman-owned enterprises, inclusing 55 in the Phoenix-area like Palabras Bilingal Bookstore.
Learn more [+]
06.21.21 | STORY
A Phoenix Group That Helps Nourish the Bodies and Hearts of LGBTQ+ Youth
One n ten, a Phoenix non-profit and LISC partner, serves a wide range of LGBTQ+ young people, many of them homeless, with food, hygiene supplies, resource navigation and a sympathetic ear. And during the darkest days of the pandemic, they helped clients understand that social distance doesn’t have to mean social isolation.
07.20.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
New Arizona tax credit could spur $160 million in affordable housing development
09.15.21 | STORY
“We’re very much building Culdesac Tempe to be a bridge to the surrounding community. It’s really offering life at your front door, not only for our residents but for the surrounding community.”
- Lavanya Sunder, General Manager, Culdesac
Culdesac Tempe helps redirect traffic of ideas about growth and development
Irony has taken up residence in the Apache Boulevard corridor, and it looks right at home in Tempe.
10.28.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
2021 Community Awards Honorees
Check out all of the 2-minute videos to see us present the awards and hear the honorees talk about their community impact.
11.23.21 | STORY
In South Phoenix, tending the indigenous seeds of a more nourishing world
Maria del Carmen Parra Cano and the other founders of the Cihuapactli Collective, an Indigenous- and women-run organization in South Phoenix, are growing cultural, spiritual and physical nourishment, literally from the ground up. In recognition of Native American Heritage Month and the Thanksgiving season, we are pleased to share their story.
12.03.21 | STORY
For formerly incarcerated women in Arizona, a fair chance at financial wellness
The Arouet Foundation supports women returning from incarceration in Phoenix, helping them work toward financial stability and avoid recidivism—beginning while they are still imprisoned. The Foundation’s Alison Rapping sat down with LISC to explain how the Financial Opportunity Center model, combined with other wrap-around services, has been extraordinarily successful in assisting clients to get past the unjust obstacles that block the progress of so many returning citizens.
02.17.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix executive director, Terry Benelli, appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Los Angeles Branch Board of Directors
03.22.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
$2 million in grants for 276 microenterprises in Phoenix
04.07.21 | STORY
Anti-displacement strategies help preserve what’s special about commercial corridor ecosystems
Roosevelt Row, the stretch of downtown Phoenix made popular by artists and small business owners, is a lot of things to a lot of people. Today, it is also well-known for what it is not: It is nothing, goes the common lament, like it used to be. Redevelopment removed a lot of the physical character and the people who made the cultural vibe in the Roosevelt corridor so popular that developers wanted to be part of it, even if it meant capitalizing with projects that caused displacement.
05.10.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix assistant program officer, Mariana Torres, named to the Greater Phoenix Workforce Leadership Academy
Learn more [+]
06.16.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
“These deserving award recipients will create intentionally connected communities and foster healthier individuals, families and economies.”
- Lorry Bottrill, CEO, Mercy Care & Home Matters Arizona Governance Fund Chair
Home Matters Arizona Fund Grantees Announced, Summer Applications Open
The Home Matters Arizona Fund has announced three more funded projects and the opening of the summer 2021 round of applications. The fund is a collaboration of Arizona's managed care organizations that aims to ensure a new generation of affordable housing developments for Arizonans that intentionally create connected communities and prioritize healthier individuals, families and economies.
07.07.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
Low-interest loans from Wells Fargo help McDowell Corridor businesses like Authentic EthioAfrica Restaurant grow
09.01.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, an artist who thinks like a sociologist and acts like an anthropologist, is named artist-in-residence for LISC Phoenix
Learn more [+]
10.01.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix welcomes Sandra Flores to LISC as an assistant program officer.
Learn more [+]
10.28.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
LISC receives $5 million grant from SBA for small business support
In October, LISC was announced as a recipient of a $5 million grant from the Community Navigator Pilot Program, part of the federal American Rescue Plan and designed to reduce barriers to capital and other support that small businesses face, especially those owned by BIPOC, women and U.S. veteran entrepreneurs. The total $100 million initiative, administered by the Small Business Administration, will help a total of 51 organizations acting as hubs to connect small businesses with federal resources.
11.22.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix welcomes David Longoria to the team as a program officer.
Learn more [+]
12.02.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
Trellis @ Mission groundbreaking
In December we celebrated the groundbreaking of Trellis' newest project, Trellis @ Mission!
This 43-unit townhouse community in Sunnyslope will provide affordable homeownership opportunities through a lease-to-purchase program.
12.31.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
LISC Phoenix sets 2022-2024 Strategic Plan to guide work for the next three years
01.14.21 | STORY
These nonprofits give small businesses what they need to survive and thrive
So much goes into the relationship between small businesses and the nonprofit business development organizations (BDOs) that are dedicated to supporting them and helping them grow. The three BDOs profiled here, longtime LISC partners, have gone above and beyond to help entrepreneurs survive the COVID-19 pandemic. They know that the wellbeing of small businesses means jobs preserved, goods and services are accessible to the community, and local economies have a better chance of weathering the pandemic-borne recession.
02.17.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix executive director, Terry Benelli, appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Los Angeles Branch Board of Directors
03.22.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
$2 million in grants for 276 microenterprises in Phoenix
03.24.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
Grand opening of their Patina Mountain Preserve Wellness Center and Dunlap Point Housing Community
On March 24th we celebrated the opening of Dunlap Pointe, a 54-unit permanent supportive housing community designed to serve chronically homeless persons including a focus on veterans.
Situated on the edge of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, this secured community is accessed through a single point of entry. As one part of a two-part campus, Dunlap Pointe is adjacent to Patina Mountain Preserve, a 55-bed congregate living community. Together, these developments will create a safe and secure environment with rich and holistic supportive services, using best practices from NAC’s 45+ year history serving the residents of Phoenix.
04.07.21 | STORY
Anti-displacement strategies help preserve what’s special about commercial corridor ecosystems
Roosevelt Row, the stretch of downtown Phoenix made popular by artists and small business owners, is a lot of things to a lot of people. Today, it is also well-known for what it is not: It is nothing, goes the common lament, like it used to be. Redevelopment removed a lot of the physical character and the people who made the cultural vibe in the Roosevelt corridor so popular that developers wanted to be part of it, even if it meant capitalizing with projects that caused displacement.
04.21.21 | STORY
LISC + Lowe’s: A COVID Response That Buoyed 2,782 Small Businesses
Over the past 10 months, a $55 million commitment from Lowe’s enabled LISC to deploy emergency relief and resiliency grants to nearly 2,782 small businesses, mostly minority- and woman-owned enterprises, inclusing 55 in the Phoenix-area like Palabras Bilingal Bookstore.
Learn more [+]
05.10.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix assistant program officer, Mariana Torres, named to the Greater Phoenix Workforce Leadership Academy
Learn more [+]
06.16.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
“These deserving award recipients will create intentionally connected communities and foster healthier individuals, families and economies.”
- Lorry Bottrill, CEO, Mercy Care & Home Matters Arizona Governance Fund Chair
Home Matters Arizona Fund Grantees Announced, Summer Applications Open
The Home Matters Arizona Fund has announced three more funded projects and the opening of the summer 2021 round of applications. The fund is a collaboration of Arizona's managed care organizations that aims to ensure a new generation of affordable housing developments for Arizonans that intentionally create connected communities and prioritize healthier individuals, families and economies.
06.21.21 | STORY
A Phoenix Group That Helps Nourish the Bodies and Hearts of LGBTQ+ Youth
One n ten, a Phoenix non-profit and LISC partner, serves a wide range of LGBTQ+ young people, many of them homeless, with food, hygiene supplies, resource navigation and a sympathetic ear. And during the darkest days of the pandemic, they helped clients understand that social distance doesn’t have to mean social isolation.
07.07.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
Low-interest loans from Wells Fargo help McDowell Corridor businesses like Authentic EthioAfrica Restaurant grow
07.20.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
New Arizona tax credit could spur $160 million in affordable housing development
09.01.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, an artist who thinks like a sociologist and acts like an anthropologist, is named artist-in-residence for LISC Phoenix
Learn more [+]
09.15.21 | STORY
“We’re very much building Culdesac Tempe to be a bridge to the surrounding community. It’s really offering life at your front door, not only for our residents but for the surrounding community.”
- Lavanya Sunder, General Manager, Culdesac
Culdesac Tempe helps redirect traffic of ideas about growth and development
Irony has taken up residence in the Apache Boulevard corridor, and it looks right at home in Tempe.
10.01.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix welcomes Sandra Flores to LISC as an assistant program officer.
Learn more [+]
10.28.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
LISC receives $5 million grant from SBA for small business support
In October, LISC was announced as a recipient of a $5 million grant from the Community Navigator Pilot Program, part of the federal American Rescue Plan and designed to reduce barriers to capital and other support that small businesses face, especially those owned by BIPOC, women and U.S. veteran entrepreneurs. The total $100 million initiative, administered by the Small Business Administration, will help a total of 51 organizations acting as hubs to connect small businesses with federal resources.
10.28.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
2021 Community Awards Honorees
Check out all of the 2-minute videos to see us present the awards and hear the honorees talk about their community impact.
11.22.21 | STAFF HIGHLIGHTS
LISC Phoenix welcomes David Longoria to the team as a program officer.
Learn more [+]
11.23.21 | STORY
In South Phoenix, tending the indigenous seeds of a more nourishing world
Maria del Carmen Parra Cano and the other founders of the Cihuapactli Collective, an Indigenous- and women-run organization in South Phoenix, are growing cultural, spiritual and physical nourishment, literally from the ground up. In recognition of Native American Heritage Month and the Thanksgiving season, we are pleased to share their story.
12.02.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
Trellis @ Mission groundbreaking
In December we celebrated the groundbreaking of Trellis' newest project, Trellis @ Mission!
This 43-unit townhouse community in Sunnyslope will provide affordable homeownership opportunities through a lease-to-purchase program.
12.03.21 | STORY
For formerly incarcerated women in Arizona, a fair chance at financial wellness
The Arouet Foundation supports women returning from incarceration in Phoenix, helping them work toward financial stability and avoid recidivism—beginning while they are still imprisoned. The Foundation’s Alison Rapping sat down with LISC to explain how the Financial Opportunity Center model, combined with other wrap-around services, has been extraordinarily successful in assisting clients to get past the unjust obstacles that block the progress of so many returning citizens.
12.31.21 | ANNOUNCEMENT
LISC Phoenix sets 2022-2024 Strategic Plan to guide work for the next three years
BY THE NUMBERS
In 2021
leveraged
invested
granted
affordable homes and apartments
square feet of commercial space
OUR FUNDERS
2021 Private Sector Support
Alliance Bank of Arizona
American Express
Arizona Cardinals
Arizona Community Foundation
AZCH - CCP
Bank of America
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Banner Health
Ross Bergstedt
BMO Harris Bank
Capital One
Care1st Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.
CIT Bank, N.A.
Dignity Health
Downtown Phoenix Partnership
Dunlap & Magee Property Management
Maria T. & Craig P. Echeveste
Enterprise Bank
Federal Home Loan Banks
FineMark National Bank & Trust
First Bank Holding Company
Foothills Bank
Friends of Transit
Gorman & Company, Inc.
Harkins
Health Choice
Joseph M. Horiye
Horizon Community Bank
Rachel Hughes
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Lenovo United States
Lincoln Financial Foundation
Magellan
Mercy Care
MidFirst Bank
Dan Nahom
The NARBHA Institute
National Bank of Arizona
New York Community Bank
Northern Trust
Pacific Premier Bank
PNC
PNC Foundation
State Farm
Sunbelt Holdings
Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program™
Tradition Capital Bank
TrustBank
U.S. Bank
U.S. Bank Foundation
United HealthCare
Valley Metro
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Foundation
2021 Public Sector Support
City of Mesa
City of Phoenix
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
U.S. Small Business Administration
OUR LOCAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
Maria Echeveste Chair of the LAC, Bank of America
Barbara Boone Alliance Bank
Teniqua Broughton State of Black Arizona
Saré Burke JPMorgan Chase
Katie Campana Wells Fargo
Jennifer Fletcher MidFirst Bank
Jon Ford Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Marcos Garay National Bank of Arizona
Augie Gastelum Patchwork Community Inclusion
Imad Hatoum First Bank
Hillary Holcomb State Farm
Thomas Hosier Stearns Bank
Paul Huleatt City of Phoenix
Maria Laughner City of Tempe
Luis Marquez BMO Harris Bank
Jeff McVay City of Mesa, Managers office
Gina Montes City of Phoenix
Mitchel Moore ACCEL
Garrett Murdock U.S. Bank
Melinda Nypen JPMorgan Chase
Lisa Price Wells Fargo
Horace Raymond Arizona Cardinals
Adrian Ruiz Valley Metro
Joan Serviss Arizona Housing Coalition
Alex Shaffer Arizona Federal Credit Union
Lourdes Sierra PNC Bank
Mark Stapp WP Carey School Of Business
Serena Unrein Arizona Partnership for Healthy Communities
Lisa Van Ella Foothills Bank
Derric Walker Northern Trust Bank N.A.
Michael "Steve" Warwick Amtrust, New York Community Bank
David Weinglass APS
Diana "Dede" Yazzie-Devine Native American Connections
What a year, and what amazing partners by our side! Though contributions big and small, thought partnership, trust and hard work, we couldn't have had this impact without you.