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Finance Fund Receives $40 Million in NMTC Funding

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The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program is one of Finance Fund’s strongest resources. Today, we received the long awaited news that the U.S. Department of Treasury awarded us $40 million in NMTC. This is the eighth round of NMTC funding we have received, totaling $240 million since 2004. The NMTC funding fuels our New [...]

Capital and Credit Webinar Helps Small Businesses Thrive

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Small business owners and entrepreneurs often contact Finance Fund after they’ve been turned down for a traditional bank loan. We work hard to find ways to partner with traditional lenders and leverage grants and other forms of funding to make financing for these folks possible.  It’s often difficult, complex work, but extremely rewarding. Finance Fund [...]

Finance Fund CEO, James R. Klein, To Serve on the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition Executive Committee

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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 [...]

Finance Fund Welcomes Ohio General Assembly leaders to special open house highlighting Ohio community development

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On Wed., April 21, we proudly hosted several state legislators, community leaders and Finance Fund project partners at the Capital Club in downtown Columbus. It was an excellent opportunity to share how Finance Fund has positively impacted some of the state’s most distressed communities. We highlighted four partnership “success stories,” including Ohio Basic Minerals in [...]

Treasury Continues to Support NMTC Program

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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 [...]

$50 Million to Finance Fund : New Markets Tax Credits Announced Today

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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 [...]

New Markets Tax Credits: WHAT IS IT, how does it work.

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New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) was designed to stimulate investments in commercial real estate and business ventures located in low income urban and rural areas.


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