Liz Ward is owner and principal of Give Impact, an advisory services company founded in 2020 to help bring more participants and creative solutions forward to address the affordable housing need in the Charlotte MSA. Give Impact exclusively works with developers and funders who desire to make a difference in equity outcomes through strategic investments in real estate.  Liz’s team helps clients clearly identify the impact they want to make, ways to creatively maximize their resources and development plans, and ultimately guide them to a strategy (and investment opportunities) that will make a lasting impact on their community.  Clients include non-profits, foundations, municipalities, private companies, and market rate developers.  Give Impact is advising in the placement of over $22MM+ in private capital and helped negotiate the city’s first formal Community Benefits Agreement with the West Boulevard Coalition.  Give Impact is registered as a MWSBE firm through NC’s Historical Underutilized Business Program.

Liz brings a unique perspective to her clients with over 15 years in the commercial real estate industry spanning across corporate, small business and non-profit companies. She has worked in many capacities, including both lending, ground up development, property acquisition and capital advisory work.  She has underwritten more than 6,500 multifamily units and has helped secure various types of capital including traditional equity, construction debt, permanent debt, municipal debt, tax credit equity, grant capital and private/corporate participations. 

Prior to starting Give Impact, Liz was an affordable housing developer for DreamKey Partners (previously The Housing Partnership) and a relationship manager for Wells Fargo providing construction lending to local private real estate developers in the Carolinas

Liz is a Charlotte native and proud mother of two.