Butler Snow congratulates several clients on their recent awards from Novogradac’s Community Development QLICIs Awards. The Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits Community Development QLICI Awards go to community development entities that made exceptional qualified low-income community investments (QLICIs) in the past year.
Custom Foods of America in Knoxville, Tennessee, won the Metro category. Whitman-Walker Max Robinson Center at St. Elizabeths in Washington, D.C., won the Real Estate category. Circle Seafoods, Inc., located in Aberdeen, Washington, won the Non-Metro category. Neighborhood Health in Fort Wayne, Indiana, won the Operating Business category. Butler Snow represented either a lender or the borrower in each transaction.
Butler Snow also congratulates Robert Jenkins, Jr., senior managing director and CEO of Renaissance Equity Partners. Jenkins was awarded the inaugural 2024 Robert E. Ibanez Award for Outstanding Achievement in Community Development. The Robert E. Ibanez Award for Outstanding Achievement in Community Development reflects the recipient’s vision, leadership, innovation and impact in advancing the mission of community development. The honor’s namesake is the late Robert “Bob” Ibanez, who passed away in April 2023. Ibanez spent his final five years with Novogradac as a senior manager in the company’s public policy group.