Joe Neri, Chief Executive Officer
As IFF’s CEO, Joe Neri leads IFF in achieving its vision and in continually developing strategies for growth to better meet the mission of strengthening nonprofit corporations and the communities they serve across a five-state region. Mr. Neri has worked in comprehensive community development for over 25 years providing clients and communities with substantial expertise in child care facilities design and finance; charter school authorizing, finance and development; and affordable housing development.  He provides national commentary on community development finance and the nonprofit sector.

From 1997 to 2008, Mr. Neri created IFF's Real Estate Services division, developed IFF's Children's Capital Fund program, initiated IFF’s Research division, managed IFF’s lending program, designed the Charter School Capital Program, and created a strategic plan for regional growth. As Executive Vice President, he significantly broadened the affordable housing lending program to include real estate development, consulting with municipalities on housing plans, and acquiring foreclosed homes for nonprofit corporations whose services included housing for the disabled, winning the largest Neighborhood Stabilization Program award in Illinois.

Under Mr. Neri’s leadership as CEO, IFF has established Health Centers for Healthy Communities, a financing and real estate development program for community health clinics throughout the Midwest, and Home First Illinois, an initiative in which IFF develops, owns, and manages accessible homes that will remain permanently affordable to very low-income people with disabilities who require accessible housing. 
 

Trinita Logue, President
Trinita Logue, IFF founder and President, leads the design and funding of new IFF partnerships and initiatives with CEO Joe Neri.

Ms. Logue is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Opportunity Finance Network, the national association of CDFIs, and serves on the Executive Committee of the CDFI Coalition, an advocacy organization focused on funding for programs that support CDFIs. She also serves on the Illinois Attorney General’s Charitable Advisory Committee, the Illinois Treasurer's Charitable Trust Stabilization Advisory Committee, and the Community Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In March 2011, then Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanual appointed Ms. Logue to the transition committee on Government Reinvention and Budget.

Ms. Logue brings her decades of experience in the nonprofit sector and community development finance to these leadership roles as she works to strengthen the CDFI industry in the Midwest.

 

Mr. Neri, Ms. Logue, and other IFF professionals are available to comment or present on the following issues: