Tuesday, September 26
Wednesday, September 27
- Affordable Housing Lending in a New Market
- Agents of Fortune: CDFIs as Community Catalysts
- An Unexpected Partnership: Southern Lessons for Today’s Times
- Applying Behavioral Interventions to Structural Challenges
- Beyond Grants: Cultivating Place-based Foundations as Impact Investors
- CDFIs and Resilience: Creating Strong, Inclusive, Prepared Cities with Community Development Finance
- The CDFI Fund’s Review of CDFI Certification Policy
- Discussion of New Accounting Rules that Affect Non-Profits
- Evidence-Based Impact Evaluation
- How CDFIs Can Take Away Payday Lenders’ Customers
- Meeting Mission: Crafting Workouts and Modifications that Serve You and Your Borrower
- Portfolio Management: The Ins and Outs of Loan Loss Reserve
- Real Assets Financial Performance Research Roundtable
- Reframing “Impact:” Understanding the Value of Small Business Lending
- State and Local Innovations to Finance Child Care Facility Development: Four Community Examples
- Strategies for Driving Scale and Impact in Micro and Small Business Lending
- The Evolving Need for Housing Counseling
- Unique Challenges and Considerations in Financing Adaptive Reuse Projects
Thursday, September 28
- A CDFI, the CRA, and the RS Fiber Optic Cooperative
- A Multi-CDFI and CDC Collaboration to Increase Entrepreneurship in Communities of Color
- Anchor Institutions and CDFIs Joining Forces: Innovative Partnerships for Healthy Communities
- Breakfast with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Bridging the Wealth Divide: Expanding Homeownership in Communities of Color and Rural America
- The CDFI Industry’s “New Market:” People with Disabilities
- Challenges and Strategies for Financing Arts and Culture Projects
- Communicating Your Value: Tactics to Engage and Influence Elected Officials and Policymakers
- Connecting the Dots and the Dollars to Create Thriving Communities
- Cooperative Conversions: Timely Strategy for Preserving Legacy Businesses in Vulnerable Communities
- Dipping Your Toe in the Water: What to Consider Before Diving into the Credit Union Pool
- Federal Resources for Disaster Response and Recovery
- From the Four C’s of Credit to the Four P’s of Pay For Success: Underwriting PFS Transactions
- How to Kick-start Your CDFI Investment Program
- How to Use Guarantees to Mitigate Risk and Reach your Financing and Impact Goals
- Increase Your Board’s Effectiveness: Voices of Experience
- Investing in Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing: The Good, Bad, and Unknown
- Lending for Health: Product Development, Measurement, and Evaluation
- Leveraging Technology in Technical Assistance
- Native CDFIs: Growing with Debt Capital
- Navigating Community Development: Harnessing Comparative Advantages to Create Strategic Partnerships
- Rationalizing Risks: New Capital Tools for Small Business Lending
- Turn up the Volume: A Social Media Workshop
- Who’s Up to Bat? Planning for Your Organization’s Leadership Lineup
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