All the tools you need to make your economic development a reality.
Join our platform for collaborative, place-based community and economic development.
We have a solution for everyone in the development process.
Does your organization play multiple roles?
We are a trusted source of information for community development.
The Opportunity Exchange has been featured in a number of publications for its impact-focused and community-driven approach to economic development.
Our Mission
Our platform provides tools 
and resources 
that facilitate transparent 
& collaborative 
ideation, development and execution
of impactful 
economic development projects.
Our Story
Our Network is Nationwide
Projects in 31 states and counting.
We are a proud partner of 12 communities across the nation.
Louisiana Economic Development
Minnesota Opportunity Collaborative
Opportunity Virginia
Invest Atlanta
Upstate NY Investment Opportunities
St. Louis Community Investment Connector
Opportunity Appalachia
Rural Opportunity Zone Initiative
Montana Investment Portal
Adams County
Detroit Opportunity Zones
Mo-Kan
Our Values
Build Trust Through Transparency:
We strive to build a trusting, equitable and supportive relationship between us and our partners that fosters professional and personal growth for both. We aim to be transparent in our motives so our partners can hold us accountable to our vision.
Promote Diverse Thought and Experiences:
We believe that diversity in thought, background, and experience are required to advance these goals. We strive to promote this value through how we identify new teammates, how we support each other as a team, and how we identify partners we work with.
Transform Community & Economic Development:
We believe in the need to think creatively about how to build more equitable and inclusive economies. By building technology and software that directly empowers community organizers, leaders, developers, business owners, and community residents, we increase agency around community & economic development within communities. We ultimately want our tools to strengthen and support equitable and inclusive economic growth.
Our Team
For Economic Development & Multiple Roles Organizations
Mix and match these products to meet your needs.
Use The Opportunity Exchange (T.O.E.) Introduce tool to:
- Quickly create marketable community profiles
- Manage multiple profiles for neighborhoods, cities, counties and OZs
- Update and share profiles in an easy-to-access digital format
- Deploy and analyze surveys to understand community needs
Use The Opportunity Exchange (T.O.E.) Connect tool to:
- Curate and market a portfolio of compelling projects
- Maintain a pipeline of local projects
- Connect with a national network project stakeholders
- Free integration with The Governance Project's GroundUp model to create project financial projections
- Free integration with Urban Institute’s Impact Scorecard to track impact of projects
Use The Opportunity Exchange (T.O.E.) Loan tool to:
- Easily manage intake of hundreds of loan and grant applications
- Automatically determine application eligibility
- Quick scoring of application as it aligns with organizational goals
- Dashboard for tracking distribution of funding for better internal communication
Use GroundUp to:
Built by The Governance Project and funded by MasterCard’s Center for Inclusive Growth.Integrated into The Opportunity Exchange.
- Easily generate key financial projections to present to investors
- Get guidance on creating pro formas specific to OZs
- Free for anyone to use
Use the Community Impact Assessment Tool to:
Built by the Urban Institute. Integrated into The Opportunity Exchange.
- Score projects across seven impact areas
- Align your project with community needs
- Get feedback on areas to improve on for delivering impact
- Highlight your impact when marketing a project
- Offered free as an integration into The Opportunity Exchange
For Investors
Connect nationally with projects with T.O.E. Connect
Use The Opportunity Exchange (T.O.E.) Connect tool to:
- Connect with 560 projects across the nation in minutes
- Use our Best Practice resources to refine a project profile that compels connection
- Allow community organizations to send you their projects based on your investment criteria
- Connect to projects for free since we are not a broker-dealer
For Project Sponsors
Three tools integrated into a robust platform.
Use The Opportunity Exchange (T.O.E.) Connect tool to:
- List your project in a marketplace which includes over 2460 investors
- Use our Best Practice resources to refine a project profile that compels connection
- Connect with Economic Development Organizations to better align your project to the community
- Benefit from marketing for your project from The Opportunity Exchange and our Community Partners
Use the Community Impact Assessment Tool to:
Built by the Urban Institute. Integrated into The Opportunity Exchange.
- Score projects across seven impact areas
- Align your project with community needs
- Get feedback on areas to improve on for delivering impact
- Highlight your impact when marketing a project
- Offered free as an integration into The Opportunity Exchange
Use GroundUp to:
Built by The Governance Project and funded by MasterCard’s Center for Inclusive Growth.Integrated into The Opportunity Exchange.
- Easily generate key financial projections to present to investors
- Get guidance on creating pro formas specific to OZs
- Free for anyone to use
What People Say
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting to Know Opportunity Zones
An Opportunity Zone is an economically distressed community which needs funds to revitalize its businesses and its infrastructure. Investors who invest into an Opportunity Zone are entitled to capital gains tax incentives, which means you can keep a couple more bucks in your wallet while doing some good for the community.
Opportunity Zones were added to the tax code by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on December 22, 2017.
Investors who invest in Opportunity Zones can defer capital gains taxes until 2026 by rolling their gains directly over into an Opportunity Fund. The deferred capital gains liability is reduced by up to 15% if the investment is held for 7 years. Capital gains on investments made through an Opportunity Fund accrue tax-free provided the investor stays invested in the fund for over 10 years.
Nope! The tax benefits apply even if you do not live or work in an Opportunity Zone. To take advantage of them, you simply have to invest in a Qualified Opportunity Fund and choose to defer the tax on those gains.
Getting to Know The Opportunity Exchange
The mission of the Opportunity Exchange is simple: we want to make Opportunity Zone investing as straightforward, collaborative, and impact-driven as possible. Our platform is a marketplace designed to bring together the three actors in the Opportunity Zone space: project sponsors, investors, and community/economic developers. Our extensive toolkit of Opportunity Zone resources and our devoted Opportunity Zone partners will help bring your project exposure from the right investors at a local, regional, and national level.
We believe that when opportunity knocks, you should answer it. The Opportunity Exchange helps bring the right people to your doorstep to make the Opportunity Zone investing process as smooth and stress-free as possible.
The platform is currently free for individual investors seeking to connect with Opportunity Zone projects, and for individual developers, business owners, or land owners with projects in an Opportunity Zone.
Paid licenses for community or economic developers seeking to showcase a portfolio of projects from across their community are based on the volume of projects listed.
Our community partners help identify and validate projects in their areas, so you can rest assured that listings are trustworthy and up-to-date.
We've put together a comprehensive list of Opportunity Zone resources that give you access to help when you need it. If those aren't cutting it, we have a friendly Customer Support Team available seven days a week to help answer your questions about our platform. We offer support via phone and email.