Michael Cowan

Community LIFT, also known as LIFT (Leveraging Investments For Transformation), emerged as the Greater Memphis Neighborhoods (GMN) plan’s driving organization and its top recommendation. Community LIFT (LIFT), is a nonprofit economic and community development intermediary has been a catalyst for change, working to advance Memphis by enabling the revival of its distressed neighborhoods. They attract national dollars and align them with local resources. Together those investments are strategically distributed in the form of grants to community development corporations and grassroots leaders for maximum impact. LIFT also operates an affiliate organization called River City Capital Investment Corp., which serves as its economic development arm. River City Capital primarily makes loans to spur job creation and better educational outcomes and to increase quality affordable housing.