written on January 21st, 2010 | by James R. Klein
Finance Fund is proud to join an esteemed, knowledgeable panel of experts on the Early Childhood Advisory Council’s Early Childhood Financing Workgroup. The workgroup, commissioned by Gov. Strickland, will develop recommendations that explore the implementation of a single financing system for early care and education programs. This will provide a new and consistent way to [...]
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written on October 30th, 2009 | by James R. Klein
This is a pretty important day in the history of Finance Fund. We learned this morning that we have been awarded $50 million in New Markets Tax Credits from the CDFI Fund in the U.S. Department of Treasury. The funding will be used to offer low-interest financing for projects that revitalize both urban and rural low-income [...]
Tags: CDFI, CDFI Coalition, Community Development Entities, Community Development Finance Institution, Congress, Finance Fund, James Klein, Jobs, Low Income Community, New Markets Tax Credit, NMTC, State of Ohio, stimulus, tax credits, US GAO, US Treasury Department
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written on October 21st, 2009 | by James R. Klein
Driving through many neighborhoods across the state of Ohio is more like driving through ghost towns. Vacant, abandoned properties litter the once-thriving communities, reminding passers-by of the crisis facing us all and the disparity of resource allocation in our country. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, more than 1.5 million properties received a foreclosure [...]
Tags: economic challenges, Finance Fund, Finance Fund Capital Corporation, Jobs, Low Income Community, neighborhoods, New Markets Tax Credit, Ohio Department of Development, State of Ohio, stimulus
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written on October 5th, 2009 | by James R. Klein
I like to dress up. It’s very seldom that I don’t wear a coat and tie, which I believe is a piece of my past that continually pokes it head through my frame of reference. My maternal grandfather was English and a proper bloke. He came to the States at seventeen years old and never [...]
Tags: Columbus Dispatch, Community, Community Development Entities, Development, Finance Fund, James Klein, neighborhoods, village
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