WHO
Two9Three team members have backgrounds in community development finance; commercial banking; investment banking; non-profit management; non-profit financial reporting; fundraising; program design and development; grant making and reporting; and tax, business and non-profit law. This wide and deep experience helps us understand client issues quickly and allows us to connect with their goals.
WHAT
Two9Three works with non-profit organizations to develop program initiatives, analyze business strategies, and structure real estate financing transactions.
Collectively, Two9Three team members have more than fifty years of experience. Over their careers team members have structured and closed more than $1 billion in financings involving traditional bank and community development financial institution debt, tax-exempt bonds, local and state public finance agency loans, Qualified School Construction Bonds, Qualified Zone Academy Bonds, New Markets Tax Credit loans, among others. To-date, Two9Three has raised more than $500 million of New Market Tax Credit allocation for its clients.
Two9Three also guides and advises clients on business issues that may impact operations in later years – foundation and government grant terms, structuring grant proposals, grant and loan management and reporting issues, business ownership and operating structures, donor relations issues, lease terms, purchase and sale and option agreement terms, and joint venture opportunities.
HOW
Two9Three’s service model has been described by some clients as “engaged consulting”.
We don’t create power point decks of data for clients to execute on – we are embedded with our clients as part of their real estate, finance or strategy teams. We work alongside and in partnership with our clients, providing careful analysis of the issues from all angles, offering real world advice from experiences in similar situations, presenting materials at Board and Committee meetings, and developing solutions to achieve multi-layer objectives. Two9Three then works with clients to implement those solutions.
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Two9Three is a team, not one name on a door. The Two9Three team is a creative group of technicians. We are idea generators and solution drivers.
Our name is a reminder that in today’s world, business relationships are complex and multi-faceted; which means there is usually more than one way to achieve any objective.
Two9Three is known for navigating those complexities and identifying paths forward.
Two9Three’s mission is to be “servant leaders”. Our goal is to deliver the highest quality consulting services while managing our fees in way that significantly impacts our clients and ultimately the people they serve.
While Two9Three is not a non-profit organization, we work exclusively with non-profit clients whose missions we believe in – organizations whose goal is to improve lives and change the world.
Because we believe in the missions of our clients and our mission of service, we purposely structure our fees to be below market. By doing so, Two9Three has effectively donated to our clients more than $10 million in services over our 8-year history (as compared to average fees charged by consultants providing similar services).