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Finance Fund is pleased to award $12.8 million in federal and $2.56 million in state New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) financing to Ironville to expand operations at the Toledo Port’s Midwest Terminal. PNC New Markets Investment Partners, LLC, the investor, provided an additional $2.5 million federal allocation. The new construction project is located in a [...]
”As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy Thank you for your support of Finance Fund and our mission to bring economic vitality to underserved communities. I am grateful to our funders, partners, clients, staff members, legislators [...]
James Klein, Finance Fund CEO, has been elected to a seat on the Executive Committee of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition (NMTCC). The 48-seat board is comprised of members from leading organizations that utilize NMTC, lending institutions, investors, and business professionals. Klein’s duties include advising on policy and regulatory issues that affect the use [...]
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On May 12, we celebrated with over 200 guests, including partners, investors and legislators, the revitalization work that Finance Fund accomplished in Ohio communities in 2010. The 22nd Annual Reception was an evening full of opportunities to reflect on the past year’s work and look forward to the projects to come. Our theme for 2010 [...]
On May 27, in Jackson, Ohio, my staff and I ventured to picturesque Jackson, Ohio, located in the Appalachian foothills, to celebrate the economic development success of another fruitful partnership—Ohio Basic Minerals. Patrick McDonald, Ohio Basic Minerals CEO, and Jeff Schrader, founder of the original Schrader and Sons Sand and Gravel, spoke to the crowd [...]
Finance Fund utilizes the New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) program to fund many worthy projects in some of the most distressed areas of Ohio. In fact, as shared in previous posts, we have more than $50 million in NMTC for development projects throughout the state. We’ve had several NMTC success stories in the past few [...]
On February 19th I participated in a conference call in which senior Treasury officials provided remarks preceding a press release and fact sheet further supporting the inclusion of a New Markets Tax Credit program extension for 2010 & 2011 in the President’s proposed budget. “As part of the Administration’s strategy to restore prosperity and create [...]
On Wed., Feb. 3, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner announced that CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) banks, thrifts and credit unions may now access funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (T.A.R.P.). This is part of the Obama Administration’s movement to support business lending by community development banks and development credit unions. Mark Pinsky, [...]
“Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.” – Napoleon Bonaparte It was a busy week for our government leaders. President Obama made a stop here in the [...]
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