While tools like New Markets Tax Credits create structural challenges for community ownership, MCIC is working to bridge that gap by developing creative financing approaches, supporting community partners, and helping scale models that put residents in control of the places that mean the most to them.

Why deepen our bench of experts? As MCIC grows, our goal is simple: every region of Maryland should be competitive for community development capital. That means aligning strategy with lived experience, and pairing financial tools with the voices of those closest to the work.

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.