New Market Tax Credits (NMTC) 101 for Community Facilities
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In this webinar, Sierra Johnson and Nicolo Pinoli, CPA break down the essentials of NMTC and help you assess whether your project is positioned for success.
Topics Covered:
- NMTC Fundamentals: Why the program exists and how it supports community-serving projects
- Eligibility & Fit: Project types, competitiveness, and the “but-for” financing gap
- Structure & Capital Stacks: Roles of CDEs and investors, and how funding layers work together
- Underwriting & Readiness: Financial sustainability, timing, and project preparedness
- Challenges & Lessons Learned: Grants timing, site control, compliance, and stakeholder coordination
From eligibility to underwriting considerations, this webinar translates complex concepts into practical insights you can apply.
Perfect for nonprofits, developers, and community and Tribal stakeholders looking to understand how NMTC can support impactful projects.
Sierra leads the firm’s national work in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), QALICB consulting, CDE advisory services, and complex community finance strategy. With over 15 years of experience across academic, nonprofit, and government sectors, she brings deep experience designing and documenting capital strategies that blend grants, public funding, and private investment to drive equitable access and long-term sustainability, supporting initiatives like solar deployment, rural infrastructure, and housing for underserved communities. Sierra brings a rigorous approach to community impact analysis, funding pipeline development, program compliance, and post-award implementation support.
Nicolo works out of the Portland, Oregon, office, where he specializes in affordable housing and community development, including the low-income housing tax credit or LIHTC, NMTC, historic rehabilitation tax credit and the opportunity zones incentive. He has extensive experience in a wide range of services, including financial statement audits; tax return preparation; writing NMTC and LIHTC applications; LIHTC, NMTC, OZ and HTC transaction underwriting; consulting on LIHTC, NMTC, OZ and HTC transaction structuring; and LIHTC, NMTC and OZ compliance.
Nicolo is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and delivers several webinars every year. He has published many articles on various technical issues confronting the affordable housing and community development industries and serves as a technical editor of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Handbook, the Novogradac LIHTC Year 15 Handbook and Novogradac’s Tax Reform Resource Guide. He is licensed in California, Oregon and Washington as a certified public accountant.