Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping nonprofit community development organizations transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice. Encouraging investments on commercial corridors is a key component of this work.

Urban Forum 2008 will give LISC an opportunity to honor those community development practitioners, community groups, and leaders who have helped to change the economic landscape of their community. Awards will be distributed in three categories, Community Leadership, Place-making, and Development.

Award Recognition
Both finalists and award winners will be recognized in a variety of ways. The transformational and innovative work of finalists will be compiled in an issue of the Commercial Markets Advisory Service's newsletter, the Commercial Advisor. The three award winners will garner national attention when they are announced during a plenary session at Urban Forum. Their achievements will be outlined in an article in the planned post-conference publication booklet, which will be distributed as part of two trade publications, Retail Traffic and American City and County. (These publications have a combined distribution list of 120,000 real estate, retail and economic development professionals.)

Please email [email protected] to receive a copy of the RFP. We will hold a web-based informational session on February 13th at 2 PM EST. Go to http://www.lisc.org/content/calendar/detail/6767/ for more information on how to attend.

Have you registered for Urban Forum? Register by February 29th to take advantage of the early-bird rate of $300.

About Urban Forum 2008:
LISC's Commercial Markets Advisory Services (CMAS) and Indianapolis LISC will host Urban Forum 2008, taking place April 28th-30th in Indianapolis, Indiana. Urban Forum is LISC's highest profile national conference focused exclusively on neighborhood commercial development in urban markets. This year we are collaborating with the National League of Cities to make Urban Forum 2008 the largest conference we have had to date. For more information on the 2008 Urban Forum, go to www.liscurbanforum.org.

Related Link: Register for Urban Forum 2008!

For more information contact:

Alnisha Maniaci
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
501 Seventh Avenue, 7th Floor
New York
New York 10018
US

Phone: 2124559811
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.liscurbanforum.org