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Bruce Katz, the Director and Co-founder of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, discusses how communities can engage in creating a prospectus for Opportunity Zone investments. Credit: The Enterprise Center
Read MoreToday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the second set of proposed regulations related to Opportunity Zones, a bipartisan initiative included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The Economic Innovation Group’s President and CEO, John Lettieri, said, “The success of this initiative depends, first and foremost, upon a regulatory framework that…
Read MoreOn May 21, we’re launching our new Forbes Opportunity Zones Summit in Newark, New Jersey.
Read MoreAbout The Event Unlocking Potential for Investors & Communities The inaugural Forbes Opportunity Zones Summit: Investing for Impact will convene visionary investors and leaders in government, finance, real estate, economic development, and philanthropy to explore and accelerate the implementation of OZ best practices and strategies to unlock transformative economic potential...
Event Overview The 8th Annual Summit on the Economy, organized by the Governor’s Woods Foundation and the Economic Innovation Group, assembled a diverse array of economic thinkers, innovators, policymakers, technologists, business leaders, and media commentators who wrestled through the questions of how to best understand and tackle the vast challenges...
Since 2014, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest tour has traveled 8,000 miles to 33 cities and invested in local startups across the country. EIG was excited to join the 7th edition of this road trip series, ROTR’s spring 2018 tour, will traverse the Southeastern United States, making stops in Dallas,...
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