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 serving nonprofit corporations in five states.

Mr. Neri established IFF’s successful real estate consulting and development business in 1997. In this role he designed and led the Chicago Children’s Capital Fund and the Charter School Capital Fund, becoming a national expert on innovative finance in these sectors as well as community development nonprofit finance. In 2006, as Vice President of Lending, Mr. Neri created the strategic plan for regional growth and extended IFF’s lending into affordable housing.

As Executive Vice President, he significantly broadened the affordable housing lending program to include real estate development, consulting with municipalities on housing plans, 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, IFF has established Health Care for Healthy Communities, a financing and real estate development program for community health clinics throughout the Midwest.
 

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: