Who We Are

Portland New Markets Fund I & USBCDE LLC -- Community Transitional School in Portland, OR
The New Markets Tax Credit Coalition is a national membership organization that promotes increased economic activity in low income urban and rural communities through the New Markets Tax Credit program.The New Markets Tax Credit Coalition carries out action-oriented research, policy review and analysis, technical assistance and lobbying in support of the New Markets Tax Credit.
Founded in 1998 as the Community Development Tax Credit Coalition, the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition worked with the Clinton Administration and the Congress to design and enact the original New Markets Tax Credit legislation in 2000. The Coalition then worked with the Bush Administration to develop regulations and application procedures necessary to launch the program in 2002. Following that, the Coalition lobbied the Congress to expand NMTC to the GOZONE and extend the program in 2008 and 2009. In late 2008 and 2009 the Coalition worked with the incoming Obama Administration and the Congress to express NMTC to $5 billion per year in the America Reinvestment and Recovery Act.