VIA Annual Report - use this version for the website

VIA INVEST ATLANTA

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Invest Atlanta’s quick response helped us keep our markets open and our operations flowing. It was like working with a friend who understood our mission and had our back.

— C asey Hood, Interim Executive Director, Community Farmers Markets

Created by Invest Atlanta in 2005, Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc. (AEMI) is a certified Community Development Entity that fosters economic development, job creation and neighborhood revitalization in underinvested communities. It offers flexible financing to high-impact businesses and real estate development projects using Federal New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC). In 2024 alone, AEMI provided a total of $53 million in funding to 13 social entrepreneurs.

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