MCIC’s inaugural Building What Lasts webinar launches our Community Advisory Board and outlines how community voice will help shape the deployment of capital across Maryland. Watch to learn how the CAB works, what participation entails, and how you can get involved.

What does it take to make rural development more possible in Maryland — equitably, consistently, and at scale? In partnership with the Public Finance Initiative, MCIC convened local leaders and public officials from Mountain Maryland and the Eastern Shore to chart a path forward.

MCIC convened Maryland’s NMTC community to examine how collaboration, alignment with State tools, and long-term market formation can strengthen community investment statewide. Here are three key lessons that emerged from that conversation.

Maryland created a new state investment corporation in 2024 specifically to work alongside federal community development programs, but the Trump Administration's lack of support for the CDFI Fund puts that partnership at risk, state officials write.