Opportunity Zones Learning Session

Are you interested in learning more about the Opportunity Zones which were created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to spur investment in distressed communities throughout the country?

If so, please join us for an

Opportunity Zones Open Learning Session

featuring Will Lambe, Senior CED Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Hosted by Knight Foundation in partnership with Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Historic Macon Foundation, NewTown Macon, and Urban Development Authority

Thursday, August 2nd

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Georgia Sports Hall of Fame

Registration required by Friday, July 27th. Seating is limited to the first 200.

Knight Foundation is committed to informed and engaged communities. This new federal tax investment tool has the potential to significantly impact development in Macon – including areas within the Macon Action Plan. Knight is committed to leveraging our relationships with experts in this field and ensuring Macon project leaders + potential local investors are well educated on this unique opportunity.

Additional learning resources on Opportunity Zones:

About Opportunity Zones

Announcement of First Round Of Opportunity Zones

View Macon’s designated zones:

Macon’s Federal Opportunity Zones

About Will Lambe

Will Lambe is the senior community and economic development adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He specializes in community development finance and has written and spoken on topics ranging from rural development finance, public-private partnerships, tax credit finance, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), and the EB-5 immigrant investor program. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, Lambe was director of CED programming at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government, where he carried out research and advised local governments on public-private partnership structures to attract private investment into distressed real estate. He has published numerous articles and a book, Small Towns, Big Ideas: Case Studies in Small Town Community Economic Development. In 2015, Lambe was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship to travel and study public-private finance in China. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Atlanta Center for Leadership class of 2016. He holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a master of public policy from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.