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      <image:caption>Why have so few New Markets Tax Credit projects happened in the DMV? We sat down with the organizations leading the way to learn what it really takes to get these transformative projects built.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - What Our Strategic Plan Revealed About Maryland's NMTC Gap - NMTC-eligible tracts vs. tracts with deployed NMTC investment, Maryland, 2003–2022. Source: CDFI Fund; SB Friedman; Maryland Community Investment Corporation.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Over the more than two-decade history of the New Markets Tax Credit program, roughly $9 of every $10 in NMTC investment directed to Maryland has landed in Baltimore City.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A taxonomy of community ownership models. Source: Brookings Institution.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>MCIC’s leadership structure includes a cadre of diverse, cross sector, statewide leaders.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Maryland Community Investment Corporation and the Public Finance Initiative tour Cambridge, MD, kicking off the rural convening.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cross Street Partners, NTCIC, MCIC, NeighborWorks Capital, and U.S. Bank line up for a NMTC 101 panel focused on the Packing House.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rural leaders build their community development finance muscle at MCIC’s convening.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Materials from the Investing in People, Place, and Possibility rural convening.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>MCIC CEO Michael Pokorny briefs attendees at inaugural Maryland CDE Roundtable.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Representatives from Maryland CDEs and their cross-sector partners join MCIC for a CDE Roundtable.</image:caption>
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