Local Initiatives Support Corporation
30th Anniversary
Leadership Symposium & Gala Wrap-up
LISC recently brought together hundreds of community development thought leaders from around the country to discuss the outlook for disinvested neighborhoods and innovative opportunities for helping low-income families improve their quality of life.
“LISC understood from the beginning that the critical center of what it undertook was not bricks and mortar—bricks and mortar were the vehicle,” said Peter Goldmark, former head of the Rockefeller Foundation and an original LISC board member, who delivered the keynote address. “What the vehicle nurtured and created was human cooperation, an ethic of responsibility and self-help, neighborhood values, and mutual obligations. Your Building Sustainable Communities initiative exemplifies that.”
Goldmark also noted the remarkable progress that has been made since the late 1970s, when so many urban areas were in an economic and social free-fall. “There are many in this country who don’t grasp the magnitude of what has been accomplished over the last 30 years."
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