Sammies nominees highlight superior public service
The Partnership for Public Service recently announced the finalists for the 2016 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.
Lisa M. Jones
Citizen Services Winner
Program Manager, CDFI Bond Guarantee Program
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
Department of the Treasury
Washington, D.C.
Lisa Jones received the 2016 Citizen Service Medal Sept. 20, at the 2016 Service to America Medals ceremony. Read the full story here.
Jones created a bond program for poor urban and rural communities to help create small businesses, affordable housing, day-care and senior centers, and other community resources. Since 2013, it has made available more than $852 million in loans specifically for low-income individuals.
“What Lisa Jones has accomplished is highly unique. The program is an example of great innovation,” Tricia Kerney-Willis, a senior advisor at the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund said. “There is no way this financing program would be successful without Lisa.”
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