ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY through COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCE
Our Services
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Strategic Advisory
We provide long-term strategic investment advice to organizations that are seeking to increase their reach and spend with locally-centered business owners, CDFIs, and others who are working in low income communities and with vulnerable populations.
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Project Consulting
We partner with community-based organizations on projects that address access to capital gaps in the United States. We offer research and analysis services in broad topic areas. And, we work with Community Development Entities (CDEs) to apply for New Markets Tax Credit allocation and to deploy their credits.
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Investment Structuring
We structure, source financing for, and close New Markets Tax Credit real estate and operating transactions for community development in low income communities across the United States.
Prior to starting 9th & Clinton in 2022, Gina has spent over 25 years in structured finance with a leading Wall Street firm in New York City.
As a Director in Citi Community Capital, Gina managed Citi’s $1 billion New Markets Tax Credits and its $800 million community development-focused private equity investments including pipeline origination, transaction structuring and portfolio management.
Gina began her career on the trading floor with Smith Barney. There she traded municipal bond derivatives to money market funds for 10 years, growing the platform to $43 billion- the largest in the industry.
Gina is also the co-founder of Open Access, a fully funded, national fellowship program that seeks to increase the representation of professionals in community development finance.
Following the events of 2020, Gina was tapped to deploy $200 million of private equity capital with emerging fund managers and $50 million of loan participation opportunities with minority-owned banks for affordable housing preservation and development as part of Citi’s $1 billion commitment to racial equity.
Our Partners
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Nonprofit Making of Black Angels Banks on Investor Education to Change the Face of Angel Investing
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The Intelligent Developers Podcast
Community Development Finance Lessons with Gina Nisbeth
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Bloomberg Interview: How Citi Bankers, Traders are Boosting Black-Owned Banks
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American Banker: Most Powerful Women in Banking | Top Teams: Citigroup
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Citi Establishes Affordable Housing Preservation Program with Emerging Managers
$200 million in private equity capital was awarded to 5 Black fund managers with an affordable housing preservation strategy across the United States.
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OPEN ACCESS/REAP has 23 fellowships aimed to increase diversity
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Income Inequality: It affects Minority Banks Too, So What Can the Industry Do?
American Banker hosted a virtual roundtable discussion moderated by Neeha Khurana, Global Head of Culture and Leadership at Celonis for members that included Nisbeth, Priscilla Sims Brown, CEO at Amalgamated Bank, and Malia Lazu, Founder & CEO of The Lazu Group.
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Progress Maker Stories, The Schomburg Center | Presented by Citi
NMTCs provided funding to expand access to cultural arts and education at the iconic Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY.
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MLK Hospital TV Commercial
NMTCs allowed historically significant MLK Jr. Hospital to build out their medical facility benefiting residents of South Central Los Angeles and surrounding communities.
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