The Low Income Investment Fund

The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) provides financing and technical assistance to hundreds of community organizations serving the nation's poorest and hardest-to-reach populations. LIIF’s primary focuses are affordable and supportive housing, and child care and education facilities benefiting low income people. Currently, LIIF operates in three regions of the United States: northern California, southern California and the New York City metropolitan Area, with offices in three cities: San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA and New York City. LIIF has a professional staff of 55 people.

LIIF’s ABCD Initiative is a multi-faceted program designed to support the development of quality child care facilities throughout the state of California. ABCD was launched in 2003 to address the rapidly growing need for quality child care in California, which currently has only enough licensed child care spaces to accommodate 25 percent of the 3.8 million children of the state’s working parents. The long-term goal of the Initiative is to support 15, 000 spaces for child care by 2010. The two primary funders of the ABCD Initiative are David & Lucille Packard Foundation and First 5 California. For more information on the ABCD Initiative visit LIIF on the Web at: http://www.liifund.org/programs/childcare/abcd/abcd_overview.htm.