Community Development Conferences and Events

October 31-November 2, 2012	Responsible Banks, Strong Communities National Community Investment Fund Annual Development Banking Conference, Chicago
September 24, 2012	Strengthening New England's Small Cities Community Development Advisory Council's 2012 Regional Convening
September 19-20, 2012	Inner City Economic Summit 2012 Cities across the country are creating innovative models and collaborative partnerships to lay the groundwork for sustainable economic development.
June 20, 2012	Exploring Low-Income Neighborhoods in the Regional Context
June 8, 2012	Business Opportunities in Community Development Lending — Vermont
May 9-11, 2012	Reinventing Older Communities: Building Resilient Cities Consideration for building resilient cities, with a particular focus on smaller cities that were once manufacturing centers
April 25, 2012	Meet the Lenders for Maine Small Businesses For small business owners, managers and entrepreneurs who want to start or grow a business. Sign up today for one-on-one meetings.
March 30, 2012	Business Opportunities in Community Development Lending—New Hampshire For community bankers, community development experts, nonprofit lenders and municipal government representatives.
February 6, 2012	Self-Financed Communities: Exploring Innovative Models for Building Assets and Social Capita l

November 18, 2011	Business Opportunities in Community Development Lending Learn about business opportunities in community development lending. Bankers, development experts and nonprofit leaders will discuss the challenges and successes of community development lending from their different perspectives.
September 20, 2011	Growing Economies in Indian Country: Taking Stock of Progress and Partnerships
July 18, 2011	The Community Development Triad: The Intersection of Workforce, Economic, and Housing Development Community Development Advisory Council's (CDAC) Regional Forum
July 13, 2011	Collaboration and Leadership in Smaller Industrial Cities A forum on the economic, fiscal and political challenges and opportunities facing New England's smaller industrial cities
June 9-10, 2011	Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality: Cleveland Fed's 2011 Policy Summit Join elected officials, researchers, practitioners, bankers, funders, and policymakers from across the Midwest, to discuss the latest research on and best practices in housing mobility, education policies, and stable, sustainable communities.
May 17, 2011	The Future of Homeownership: Creating Sustainable Opportunities in a Changing Environment The 2011 Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) conference will put forth a practical vision for sustainable homeownership policies and practices for the next five years. What has changed in the past few years? What have we learned and what strategies should be implemented to adjust to the changing market?
May 4-5, 2011	2nd Summit for the Northern Forest This event will convene an invited group of practitioners from the public, private and non-profit sectors and four New England states to advance collaboration to implement the recommendations of the Northern Forest Sustainable Economy Initiative.
April 28-29, 2011	The Changing Landscape of Community Development The conference will highlight new research in community development, and will include keynote remarks by Chairman Ben Bernanke and Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty.
April 20, 2011	Healthy Communities: Exploring the Intersection of Community Development and Health The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and The Boston Foundation invite you to explore how the health and community development sectors can collaborate to promote better health outcomes for low-income people and communities by addressing the social determinants of health.

November 18-19, 2010
December 2-3, 2010
February 4, 2011

Community Development Listening Tours
The objectives of these meetings are to identify barriers experienced in developing "sustainable communities and equitable economies" in the Northern Tier of the District. Through this and future events the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and others will work towards "bridging the gap" between the New England District's rural and urban communities and their respective community development challenges.

September 1-2, 2010

REO and Vacant Property Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization
A summit examining the community impacts of foreclosed and vacant properties

June 24, 2009

CHAPA Statewide Foreclosure Conference

February 24, 2009

Revisiting the CRA: A Policy Discussion
With the current financial crisis providing strong impetus for regulatory reform, a re-examination of the CRA seems both appropriate and likely. A joint publication of the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and San Francisco, Revisiting the CRA: Perspectives on the Future of the Community Reinvestment Act is a timely publication intended to help frame and inform the current debate about the future of the CRA. In concert with the release of the publication, a lively discussion was held where many authors and discussants shared their views at this event on February 24, 2009 in Washington, DC.

May 16, 2008

Investing in Community Development and Other Emerging Domestic Markets
Institutional investors and investment management professionals engaged in nuts and bolts discussions about how to identify appropriate community development investments, evaluate risk, undergo the process of due diligence, engage other trustees in discussion, and build a portfolio incrementally. This workshop was sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University, and AltruShare Securities.

December 3, 2007	Working Together to Build Wealth in Lower-Income Communities A Forum on Strategies for financial institutions, community-based organizations and public programs to expand access to financial services, financial education and asset development.
May 2-4, 2007	Exploring Innovation: A Conference on Community Development Finance A culture of innovation provides the foundation so that people can turn ideas into results and improve communities. Innovation can be found in all industries, fields, locations and communities—not just in business, technology, engineering or the physical sciences. This conference will explore the relationship between creativity, learning and innovation in organizations and how that relationship improves performance, increases access to capital and achieves scale and sustainability.
March 29-30, 2007	Financing Community Development: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future The Community Affairs officers of the Federal Reserve System jointly sponsored the fifth biennial research conference March 29-30, 2007 to encourage objective research into the factors governing the availability of credit and capital to individuals and businesses within this changing financial services environment.