Watch The OZ Show On YouTube
Watch The OZ Show On YouTube
How effective has the Opportunity Zone program been at driving private investment into low income communities? What potential improvements could make the program even more effective? Catherine Lyons, Director of Policy and Coalitions at the…
The vast majority of Opportunity Zone developments are urban. But there are also rural areas taking advantage of the Opportunity Zone tax incentive to raise equity for community projects. Jennifer Whitney, founder of River Queen…
How can the Opportunity Zone incentive catalyze community impact-oriented investing? Allivate Impact Capital’s co-founders, Noelle St.Clair Lentz and Doug Schaeffer, join the show to discuss how investing for impact can catalyze positive community outcomes, and…
Impact investing is an investment strategy that strives to generate social or environmental benefits in addition to financial gains. It also spans diverse range of assets, including bonds, public equity, and private equity, such as…
Why is social impact crucial to the long-term success of the Opportunity Zone initiative? Hear from the top urban Opportunity Zone fund, as awarded by the Forbes OZ 20, and the positive story of the…
Can Catalyst Opportunity Funds serve as both a counterexample to the wave of negative OZ publicity and a model for OZ fund investing? Impact investing pioneer Jim Sorenson and tech entrepreneur Patrick McKenna are co-founders…
Should the Treasury Department impose a community impact reporting requirement on Opportunity Zone investing? And what would a reporting framework even look like? Earlier this year, the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, in partnership with Georgetown…
How do we prevent the Opportunity Zones program from becoming merely a subsidy for gentrification? How can we instead ensure that opportunity zone investments actually benefit the people who live in the designated zones so…