Authored by Sydney England, Client Development Manager, LOCUS Impact Investing. 

Photo: January 2014 renovation of the Jessie Ball duPont Center. Sherry Magill is pictured secod from the right

The Jessie Ball duPont Fund has made a $3 million Program-Related Investment (PRI) in LISC that will support affordable housing, community facilities and small business development in the Jacksonville, Florida urban core and surrounding areas.

Deb Markley, co-founder and managing director for the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and Senior Vice President of LOCUS Impact Investing writes about how local investing for impact is creating an entreprenurial opportunity.