New Markets Support Company
New Markets Support Company (NMSC) delivers creative financing solutions to empower underserved communities across the country. We increase access to capital by tailoring our products and services to meet the needs of our clients and partners. Over the past 15 years, we've invested more than $1 billion in distressed communities.
We are a subsidiary of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), one of the country's largest community development financial institutions. NMSC and LISC are currently working towards the successful implementation of the new Opportunity Zones program, providing guidance through its inaugural stages and access to resources and tools.
News and Stories
From National LISC:
6.19.2018
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LISC Stories,
New Markets Tax CreditsCatalyzing Kalamazoo
For 15 years, LISC has been investing in Kalamazoo's historic Edison neighborhood, where decades of deindustrialization and decline had severed residents from jobs, educational opportunities and accessible healthcare. Today, gleaming new community facilities and flourishing small businesses are generating good jobs, and preparing people for employment. And resident-led projects to beautify the district and create social bonds are nudging the neighborhood into a more connected, dynamic future.
6.19.2018
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In the News,
Opportunity Zones
Opportunity Zones and Institutional Reform
Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak of The Brookings Institution will create an "Investment Prospectus" to enable cities, counties and states to identify concrete investable projects and propositions in designated Opportunity Zones, a typology of designated census tracts to identity investment possibilities of distinct urban geographies and an Institutional Audit that cities can use to assess the capacities of their current institutions to utilize the Opportunity Zones tool.
5.30.2018
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In the News,
Opportunity Zones
Did States Maximize their Opportunity Zones Selections?
The Urban Institute published an analysis of Opportunity Zone designations as of May 2018, evaluating the needs of the communities in selected census tracts and their potential to benefit from Opportunity Zone tax incentives.