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New Markets Tax Credit Program Conference

Wednesday May 8, 2002
9:00am - 1:30pm
Room AV-1
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
600 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA

Agenda

8:15am Continental Breakfast and Registration
   
9:00am

Welcome

Marilyn Weekes, Assistant Vice President and Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

   
9:05am

New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program: Overview, Community Development Entity Certification and Guidelines

Community Development Financial Institutions Fundpdf(2.9MB)

Matt Josephs, Financial and Program Advisor, CDFI Fund, Washington, DC

Benson Roberts, Vice President for Policy, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Washington, DC

   
10:15am

New Markets Venture Capital Program

New Markets Venture Capital (NMVC) Programpdf (181K)

Austin J. Belton, Director, New Markets Venture Capital Program, Small Business Administration, Washington, DC

   
10:45am Break
   
11:00am

NMTC Investment Panel

Moderator

Elyse D. Cherry, CEO and Venture Fund President, Boston Community Capital, Boston, MA

Panelists

David Kavanaugh, Esq., Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston, MA

New Markets Tax Credit: Opportunities for CDFIs and Financial Institutionspdf (60K)
Beth Lipson, Manager, Special Projects, National Community Capital Association, Philadelphia, PA

Renee Simms, Senior Vice President, Director of Strategic Investments, Fleet Development Ventures, Boston, MA

   
12:00pm Q&A Session
   
12:25pm

Closing Remarks

Shirley Parish, Community Affairs Officer, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Braintree, MA

   
12:30pm Networking Lunch
   
1:30pm Adjournment


Sponsors:
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Office of Thrift Supervision
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Resources

Information on the NMTC program is available at: http://www.cdfifund.gov/programs/nmtc/.

Details on the SBA’s new markets venture capital program are available at: http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/inv/nmvc/INV_NMVC_INDEX.html.

How New Markets Tax Credits Will Work, a publication of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

 

 
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