Download or read book The Guide to Making Opportunity Zones Work written by Cohnreznick Llp and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the role each stakeholder plays in the Opportunity Zone ecosystem - one that can drive new investment, development, and job creation in left-behind communities across America.The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) brought to life the first new community development tax incentive in decades. Opportunity Zones (OZs) were created to spur economic development and job creation in distressed communities by offering tax incentives to those who provide new capital investments in these areas.As a growing marketplace takes shape around OZs, there's far more unknown than known about how they can and should be implemented. The rules released by the IRS over the course of 2018 and 2019 are complex and number in the hundreds of pages."The Guide to Making Opportunity Zones Work," co-edited by leading Opportunity Zone advisors Ira Weinstein, who oversees advisory, assurance and tax for stakeholders across the OZ landscape, and Steve Glickman, who helped architect the legislation behind the initiative.Inside you'll find: - Plain-English breakdowns of the various terms, tests, and other rules specific to the world of OZs (with graphics and examples)- Individual chapters offering insights for specific OZ stakeholderso Investorso Fund managerso Real estate developerso Entrepreneurs and business ownerso OZ community leaders- Plus, insights on how these groups fit together, and how they can collaborate to best drive new economic activity in struggling communities across America.Think of this guide as a tutorial that covers the nuts and bolts of OZ investing - one that provides advice and information for each of the key participant groups needed to create and support a healthy OZ ecosystem.
Download or read book The New Localism written by Bruce Katz and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work. In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges. Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation. This new locus of power—this new localism—is emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a mechanism to address them head on. New localism is not a replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the ideal complement to an effective federal government, and, currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction. In The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders. Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land sales. Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance, and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban institutions finance the future through smart investments in innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to other cities with speed and precision. As Katz and Nowak show us in The New Localism, “Power now belongs to the problem solvers.”
Download or read book High Growth Handbook written by Elad Gil and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.
Download or read book Powering Prosperity written by Indranil Ghosh and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Global Financial Crisis, we have been approaching a crossroad in modern human history. The top 1 percent of people own more than half of the world’s wealth, while hundreds of millions suffer in extreme poverty. Governments quarrel over the politics of environmental policy, even as climate change poses an existential threat to life on the planet. And communities “hollowed out” by the forces of globalization still struggle to stand on their feet. How can we even begin to contemplate solutions to such immense and persistent problems? In Powering Prosperity: A Citizen’s Guide to Shaping the 21st Century, Dr. Indranil Ghosh brings together his decades of experience as a sustainable economic development investor, an entrepreneur, and an MIT-trained scientist, to provide a new framework for understanding the world’s challenges and the choices societies must make to address them. Central to Dr. Ghosh’s roadmap for positive change is a more inclusive form of governance, a collaborative model of long-term investment between public and private capital, and the empowerment of local communities to unleash their innovative and entrepreneurial energy.
Download or read book A Beginner s Guide for Business Proposal Management written by Gaurav Sinha and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Proposals play an extremely vital role in today's competitive Business-2-Business (B2B) sales, as it represents the supplier's offer and the value that they can provide to the buyer. Many sales organizations spend a lot of money on building strong Proposal Management practices. For individuals, it is a field that offers an extremely rewarding career. In the real world of Request for Proposals (RFPs) and their responses, one can see a lot of variations (based on Industry, organization type and other relevant factors). A one-size-fits-all scenario or format is never seen to exist. However, if fundamentals are understood well, then, addressing any variation of the RFP is not difficult. This book is a beginner's guide to understand Business Proposal Management, written in a simple way to help aspiring individuals. If YOU are new to the World of Proposals, and want to understand it, then this book is JUST RIGHT FOR YOU!
Download or read book Opportunity Investing written by Jim White and published by Jl White International. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 8,800 US areas suffer from serious economic plights. How can they be resolved? By investing Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs) in Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs), we can improve communities and profit on capital gains savings. Opportunity Investing is a heartfelt rallying cry on how to revitalize QOZs and create a win-win for everyone.
Download or read book Novogradac Introduction to Opportunity Zones written by Kevin Wilson and published by Novogradac & Company LLP. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novogradac Introduction to Opportunity Zones, Second Edition booklet serves as an introduction to the opportunity zones (OZ) incentive that aims to release capital locked in highly appreciated assets into distressed communities. The booklet describes the history of the idea, how the incentive became law, tax benefits, how OZs and opportunity funds work, important details about OZ property and how the incentive works with other federal and state tax incentives. It includes key updates from the first two tranches of Treasury guidance on the OZ incentive. The Novogradac Introduction to Opportunity Zones, Second Edition booklet includes: - A brief history of OZs - The history of OZ legislation - Tax benefits of OZs - Taxpayers eligible for the OZ incentive - Gains eligible for the OZ incentive - The five-, seven- and 10-year benefits of OZs - Eligibility requirements for OZs - Demographics of OZs - Statutory requirements for qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) - Definitions of key QOF terms - Types of qualified OZ property - Standards for different types of qualified OZ property - Regulations concerning qualified OZ businesses - How OZs interact with other incentives
Download or read book Opportunity Knocks written by Senator Tim Scott and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir about overcoming adversity in America, the U. S. Senator responsible for creating "opportunity zones" explains how hard work and community growth can drive businesses and end poverty. Senator Tim Scott knows adversity. As the son of a single mother from North Charleston, South Carolina, he struggled to get through school and had his dreams of a college football career shattered by a car wreck. But thanks to his mother and a few mentors along the way, he learned that "failure isn't failure unless you quit." He also learned that it's hard work and perseverance, not a government handout, that will get you ahead in life. Today, Senator Scott is the only black Republican in the Senate, and he believes that investment and commerce are the best ways to rebuild our most impoverished communities. This is the idea behind his signature piece of legislation, the "opportunity zones" program, which President Trump has strongly endorsed. The program provides tax incentives for businesses that invest in low-income urban areas, seeking to replace things like welfare and government assistance. In Opportunity Knocks, Senator Scott will tell his life story with a focus on adversity and opportunity. He will teach readers about the principles of hard work and hope while addressing the dangers of veering too far toward socialist policies. The book will also not shy away from discussions of racism and racial inequality in the United States and will recount some of Senator Scott's own brushes with racism as well as the many discussions he's had with people who want to help, including President Trump.
Download or read book Estates written by Lynsey Hanley and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from Homes Fit for Heroes to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks, to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.
Download or read book Only the Rich Can Play How a Billionaire Sold Washington a Bonanza for the Wealthy as a Way to Help the Poor written by David Wessel and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Winners Take All meets This Town narrative, a New York Times bestselling author tells the story of the creation of a massive tax break, in which political and economic elites attend to the care and feeding of the super-rich, and inequality compounds. David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur concocts an idea that will save money on his taxes and spins it as a way to ostensibly help poor people. He organizes and pays for an effective lobbying effort that pushes his idea into law with little scrutiny or fine-tuning by congressional or Treasury tax experts-and few safeguards against abuse. With an unbeatable pair of high-profile sponsors, bumper-sticker simplicity and deft political marketing, the Opportunity Zone became an unnoticed part of the 2017 Trump tax bill. The gold rush followed immediately thereafter. David Wessel follows the money to see who profited from this plan that was supposed to spur development of blighted areas and help people out of poverty: the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, the Portland (Oregon) Ritz-Carlton, the Mall of America, and self-storage facilities-lucrative areas where the one percent can park money profitably and avoid capital gains taxes. And the best part: unlike other provisions for eliminating capital gains taxes (inheritance, for example) you don't have to die to take advantage of this one. Wessel provides vivid portraits of the proselytizers, political influencers, motivational speakers, consultants, real estate dealmakers, and individual money-seekers looking to take advantage of this twenty-first century bonanza. He looks at places for which Opportunity Zones were supposedly designed (Baltimore, for example) and how little money they've drawn. And he finds a couple of places (Erie, PA) where zones are actually doing what they were supposed to, a lesson on how a better designed program might have helped more left-behind places. Readers will feel outraged as Wessel gives us the gritty reality, the dark underbelly of a system tilted in favor of the few, with the many left out in the cold.
Download or read book 222 Secrets of Hiring Managing and Retaining Great Employees in Healthcare Practices written by Robert P. Levoy and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based On The Research Findings From A Wide Variety Of Healthcare Providers, Clinic Administrators And Practice Managers, this resource Provides Simple, Easy-To-Use Advice And Techniques For Successfully Recruiting, Interviewing, Compensating, Managing, Motivating, Training, Evaluating, And Retaining Great Employees In The Clinical Practice Setting.
Download or read book Angel written by Jason Calacanis and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in startups. There are two ways to make money in startups: create something valuable—or invest in the people that are creating valuable things. Over the past twenty-five years, Jason Calacanis has made a fortune investing in creators, spotting and helping build and fund a number of successful technology startups—investments that have earned him tens of millions of dollars. Now, in this enlightening guide that is sure to become the bible for twenty-first century investors, Calacanis takes potential angels step-by-step through his proven method of creating massive wealth: startups. As Calacanis makes clear, you can get rich—even if you came from humble beginnings (his dad was a bartender, his mom a nurse), didn’t go to the right schools, and weren’t a top student. The trick is learning how angel investors think. Calacanis takes you inside the minds of these successful moneymen, helping you understand how they prioritize and make the decisions that have resulted in phenomenal profits. He guides you step by step through the process, revealing how leading investors evaluate new ventures, calculating the risks and rewards, and explains how the best startups leverage relationships with angel investors for the best results. Whether you’re an aspiring investor or a budding entrepreneur, Angel will inspire and educate you on all the ins of outs. Buckle up for a wild ride into the world of angel investing!
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Professional Wedding Photography written by Damien Lovegrove and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-class wedding photographer shares his simple yet powerful recipe for creating a strong style and a profitable business.
Download or read book Careers and Jobs in Travel and Tourism written by Verité Reily Collins and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise and Reviews `The Tourism Society is delighted to be associated with this publication.` - Adrian Clark, Director, The Tourism Society Travel and tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the United Kingdom. Budget airlines, the Internet and the growth of specialist holidays have all helped create new opportunities for anyone wanting to work in the travel and tourism industry. Whether it's to work as a holiday rep, a specialist tour guide or with an online travel company, Careers and Jobs in Travel and Tourism provides practical advice on how to gain entry, what qualifications are required and the numerous career possibilities on offer. Illustrated by real life case studies, this book provides: job descriptions and entry routes; training and qualifications; examples of recruitment tests regularly used by the industry; where to look for further information. Complete with listings of useful addresses and helpful Web sites, this book is an ideal starting point for anyone considering a career in travel and tourism.
Download or read book Marketing Your Services written by Anthony O. Putman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1990-05-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketing Your Services You may be one of the best doctors, consultants, accountants, caterers, or investment advisors around, but when it comes to marketing your service, you may also be the first one to admit, "I don’t know what to do." Now, here’s a book that shows you, step by step, how to market your services—painlessly, confidently, profitably. Marketing Your Services shows you: How to define and promote your services to the right market How to differentiate your business from other similar businesses How to price and package your services How to turn qualified prospects into customers and build long-term relationships with clients "This is the best book I have seen about Marketing—making your mark in a way that hits the mark. You will be provoked, persuaded, and pleased by this guidebook for painless marketing mastery." —Chip R. Bell Author, Service Wisdom "Simply put, this is the most useful book on marketing for service firms I know of. It is also the best written. Read it." —Clay Carr Author, Front-Line Customer Service "An excellent guide to the marketing maze for any small business that wants to get a firm handle on just what service they provide, and learn how to enjoy making money doing it." —Martin T. Cannon Director, Paper Product Development The Procter & Gamble Company
Download or read book Value Creation written by Gautam Mahajan and published by SAGE Publishing India. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about giving the CEO what he wants to know about Value creation and success.
Download or read book Know Your Price written by Andre M. Perry and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. “That's just how they are” or “there's really no excuse”: we've all heard those not so subtle digs. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. We haven't known how much the country will gain by properly valuing homes and businesses, family structures, voters, and school districts in Black neighborhoods. And we need to know. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued. Perry begins in his hometown of Wilkinsburg, a small city east of Pittsburgh that, unlike its much larger neighbor, is struggling and failing to attract new jobs and industry. Bringing his own personal story of growing up in Black-majority Wilkinsburg, Perry also spotlights five others where he has deep connections: Detroit, Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. He provides an intimate look at the assets that should be of greater value to residents—and that can be if they demand it. Perry provides a new means of determining the value of Black communities. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives of the past and present, it gives fresh insights on the historical effects of racism and provides a new value paradigm to limit them in the future. Know Your Price demonstrates the worth of Black people's intrinsic personal strengths, real property, and traditional institutions. These assets are a means of empowerment and, as Perry argues in this provocative and very personal book, are what we need to know and understand to build Black prosperity.
