Sister Diane Donoghue
Esperanza Community Housing Corp.
Mike Sviridoff Leadership Award Winner

LISC offers a wide range of technical assistance to assist local community organizations rebuild their neighborhoods. Through a network of 30 local field offices in urban areas, Rural LISC that works in 36 states, and a range of national programs, LISC provides these groups with expert technical assistance to undertake revitalization activities: affordable housing, retail, and facility development; organizational capacity building; and increasingly, programs that improve quality-of-life such as community safety, youth recreation and education.

Typical assistance centers around:

• Real estate development (e.g., preparation and appropriation of housing and community development public funding and tax credits);

• Staff training and skill building;

• Organizational and management assistance (e.g., strategic planning, program and organization expansion, crisis intervention); and

• Effective execution of services under successful proposals.