Southside Community Optimal Redevelopment Enterprise (SCORE) is pleased to announce it has been awarded $65 million in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund during the 2015/2016 round of funding distribution. SCORE is a Community Development Entity (CDE), controlled by McCaffery Interests, that provides capital to qualifying businesses and projects in highly distressed low-income areas marked by industrial flight in Illinois and Indiana. First funded in 2012, SCORE has received $105 million in NMTCs to date over three awards, this award being the largest.