Practitioner's Showcase...
2009 Practitioner’s Showcase: Best Tax Credit Financed Project
Call for Entries
The 2009 Practitioner’s Showcase will recognize outstanding development finance programs and success stories from the tax credit finance industry.
The 2009 Showcase highlights the nation’s finest and most successful tax credit financed projects. CDFA is looking for excellence, creativity and innovative execution of tax credits for a transformational economic development project.
Projects that have helped to raise the awareness of this important economic development finance tool are of particular interest for this year’s competition. Tax credits are one of the staples of a successful economic development finance effort and the use of these programs has grown throughout the country over the past decade. Today, some of the most creative and complex economic development projects are driven by the use of tax credits as a major source of financing.
For 2009 CDFA is looking for the Best Tax Credit Financed Project in the country.
How the Showcase Works:
CDFA will accept entries for the Practitioner’s Showcase through March 20, 2009. Entries must be submitted according to the official submission requirements listed in this announcement. A select panel of CDFA members will judge entries to determine the three best projects in the country. The three finalists will be invited to present their entries during the Annual Luncheon session of the 2009 Annual Development Finance Summit in Pittsburgh, PA on May 6, 2009. Following the presentations, Summit attendees will cast a live audience vote to select the 2009 Practitioner’s Showcase: Best Tax Credit Financed Project.
The showcase will be the featured session of the 2009 Annual Summit and will be a hands-on demonstration of the very best from the tax credit finance industry.
Finance agencies, development departments and issuers of all sizes may submit entries to the Practitioner’s Showcase. The private sector is encouraged to collaborate with their public sector partners to submit projects that have made a major impact locally and are an example of innovation and effectiveness in using tax credits.
The three finalists will be announced on April 3, 2009. The winner will be selected on May 6, 2009 at the Annual Summit. The winner will receive a commemorative plaque, two complimentary registrations for a future Annual Summit and one complimentary registration for CDFA’s Tax Credit Finance Course. The thee finalists and showcase winner will also be announced in CDFA’s Development Finance Review Weekly and via an official press release from CDFA.
Three finalists…one winner! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be recognized as one the best in the tax credit finance industry. Join CDFA in celebrating the best practices in development finance!
Call for Entries:
CDFA will accept entries to this competition through 5:00 pm EST on March 20, 2009. Late entries will not be accepted. In the continued spirit of CDFA’s dedication to going green, the Council will accept submissions via email only. All submissions should be prepared electronically. Hard copy submissions will not be accepted.
Entries should specifically address the agency’s tax credit financed project and success story. CDFA is specifically interested in projects that have generated innovative outcomes, partnerships, made significant community improvements, or have used cutting edge financing structures. Projects of all sizes are encouraged to apply. The selection panel will weigh all submissions equally and base selections on effectiveness and impact. Small projects can make a large impact and large projects can fill a special niche. Private tax credit entities are encouraged to submit in partnership with local development finance agencies.
Entries must include the following:
- Executive summary of the project
- Detailed description of the project with history, success stories and financing structure
- Rational for project success
- Marketing materials and internet links of note (if available)
- Explanations of any relationships, partnerships or collaborative efforts that make the project special
- Description of how you would present your project at the showcase at the Annual Summit (i.e. powerpoint, team presentation, single presenter, etc.)
Creative and innovative submissions are encouraged.
Applicants should submit electronic submissions to Toby Rittner at trittner@cdfa.net.
No Application Fee:
There is no application fee for submissions to the Practitioner’s Showcase. However, the three selected finalists will be required to register and attend the Annual Summit in Pittsburgh, PA. Travel and hotel expenses for the Annual Summit will not be covered by CDFA.
For questions or comments please contact Toby Rittner via email at trittner@cdfa.net.
Past Showcase Winners:
2008 Practitioner's Showcase: Best RLF Program
Downtown Development Corporation, Louisville, KY
2007 Practitioner’s Showcase: Best TIF Program
City of Gahanna, OH
2006 Practitioner’s Showcase: Best IDB Program
Arkansas Development Finance Authority, Little Rock, AR |