2013
Upcoming Events
Working Effectively with Tribal Governments
The goal of this workshop is to foster a better relationship between state/Federal agencies and Idaho Indian tribes through gaining a better understanding of the government-to-government relationship so that the agencies can work more effectively with Indian tribes. Participants will learn about tribal treaties, government structures, protocols, and tribal court systems.
Boise Community Listening Roundtable
This is an invitation-only meeting for representatives of local nonprofit organizations and government agencies to share their views on community development needs and performance of financial institutions under the Community Reinvestment Act. Participants are asked to express their opinions on how local financial institutions are meeting credit needs, as well as their involvement in other community development activities.
Oregon CRA Roundtable
This is an invitation-only meeting for representatives from financial institutions.
Leveraging Community Benefits for Greater Impact
This is an invitation-only meeting.
Representatives from government agencies, financial institutions and healthcare providers are invited to this special meeting to explore how they can collaborate to improve their communities.
Hawaii CDFI Roundtable
This is an invitation-only Roundtable for representatives of Hawaii-based community development financial institutions (CDFIs). This Roundtable is being held to allow local CDFIs the opportunity to network with other CDFIs, share best practices, and brainstorm ideas for future collaborative activities.
Strengthening Hawaii’s Housing Market Meeting
The purpose of this meeting is to provide an opportunity for the participants to share their perspectives on the current housing situation and discuss how we can assist distressed borrowers, communities impacted by foreclosures, and first-time homebuyers.
Connecting Resources to Your Small Business Clients: A Workshop for Financial Institutions and Small Business Service Providers
At this Community Forum, designed for business bankers, SBA lenders, chamber leaders and government agencies who serve the needs of small businesses, we will provide information on the resources and alternative credit opportunities available to small businesses in Nevada.
Past Events
Prosperity Business Roundtable
This is an invitation-only meeting.
The Oregon Prosperity Initiative is a bold approach to creating a robust, thriving economy by removing barriers to overcoming poverty and empowering citizens to maximize their potential.
9th Biennial Farmworker Housing Conference
Join a discussion on how we can develop more farmworker housing, learn about advances in farmworker housing construction and operation, hear the latest on immigration reform, and increase your knowledge of financing resources.
5th Annual Guam Affordable Housing Symposium
Join us at this year’s Guam Affordable Housing Symposium. This symposium is recognized for its productive dialogue between housing experts, both participants and presenters. Now in its 5th year, this symposium will take a look back at its accomplishments while ensuring the current strategy meets the affordable housing needs of today and in the future.
Northern Mariana Islands Economic Development Forum
This is an invitation-only meeting.
You are invited, on behalf of the people of the Northern Mariana Islands, to participate in a Federal forum on June 4, 2013, being hosted by the Office of the Governor in conjunction with Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan and sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Arizona Banker CRA Roundtable
This Interagency Banker CRA Roundtable will focus on banker and community-based initiatives that are aimed at asset building and saving growth strategies for low- and moderate-income populations.
Faith Institutions Fostering Economic Stability
This half-day forum is intended for pastors or director level participants of faith institutions, community based organizations, banks and financial intermediaries who are serving economically disadvantaged communities or who are interested in learning how they can do more to foster economic stability for their communities and members.
Where Do We Go From Here? Affordable Housing in an Era of Scarcity
In conjunction with the release of our newest issue of Community Investments, this policy briefing will explore the present and future of affordable housing policy, with a focus on new approaches to current affordable housing finance and development challenges. We will hear from experts on federal and state housing policy issues, who will discuss how the field is evolving to address resource constraints.
Washington CRA Roundtable
This is an invitation-only meeting for CRA officers.
Regional Leadership in Corporate Philanthropy and Social Investing
Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in partnership with East Bay Community Foundation and City of San Jose.
Philanthropy has a long tradition in the United States as an honorable practice that provides mutually beneficial advantages for the donor and recipient.
Bank On Summit
This is an invitation-only meeting for coordinators and financial institution partners involved with Bank On programs. Bank On programs are locally-led coalitions of government agencies, financial institutions and community organizations designed to help improve the financial futures of unbanked and under-banked individuals and families.
Impact Investing in the Bay Area
Join a lively discussion on impact investing in the Bay Area.
Transforming Mortgage Servicing: Developments in California Law
April 2013 marks one year from the signing of the National Mortgage Settlement (NMS) and six months from the effective date of critical NMS mortgage servicing standard reforms. The Homeowner Bill of Rights (HBOR) was enacted in July 2012 but its provisions became effective on January 1, 2013.
Spring 2013 San Diego Banker CRA Roundtable
CRA and Workforce Development: Strategies and Opportunities
Since the recession of 2007-09 national employment has been unfamiliar relative to historical trends; high unemployment remains pervasive despite the incidence of increasing job vacancy rates. The objective of this roundtable is to better understand the complex nature of unemployment in LMI communities and to identify promising workforce strategies.
Transforming Mortgage Servicing: Developments in California Law
April 2013 marks one year from the signing of the National Mortgage Settlement (NMS) and six months from the effective date of critical NMS mortgage servicing standard reforms. The Homeowner Bill of Rights (HBOR) was enacted in July 2012 but its provisions became effective on January 1, 2013.
Oregon CRA Roundtable
This is an invitation-only meeting for CRA officers.
Interagency Working Group for Indian Affairs
This is an invitation-only meeting to discuss challenges and successes of government programs designed to help promote community and economic development in Indian Country. Many government agencies have “tribal liaisons” at both the national and local level.
Resilience and Rebuilding for Low-Income Communities: Research to Inform Policy and Practice
The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System are proud to sponsor the eighth biennial Community Development Research Conference. The goal of this event is to highlight new action-oriented and academically rigorous research on resiliency and rebuilding initiatives that can directly inform community development policy and practice.
Nevada CRA Bankers Roundtable
You are cordially invited to attend a Bankers CRA Roundtable to learn more about and engage in a conversation regarding what is going on in the hardest hit and under-served communities in Southern Nevada and how the recession has impacted the organizations that serve these communities. We have invited representatives from local government and the non-profit sector to address these issues.
Transforming Mortgage Servicing: Developments in California Law
April 2013 marks one year from the signing of the National Mortgage Settlement (NMS) and six months from the effective date of critical NMS mortgage servicing standard reforms. The Homeowner Bill of Rights (HBOR) was enacted in July 2012 but its provisions became effective on January 1, 2013.
What Works: Los Angeles
The objective of this convening was to invite authors of the book “Investing in What Works in America’s Communities” and other local and national experts to a dialogue on community economic development conditions and issues at work in Los Angeles. The two panel approach to the agenda allowed for demonstration of successful program and project models that reflect the book’s themes of combining people and place in collaborative and integrated ways, breaking down silos, and promoting entrepreneurship.
Oregon Financial Education Summit
The third biennial Financial Education Summit brings together a variety of individuals and organizations dedicated to enhancing the financial literacy of Oregonians. At the summit Oregon Jump$tart features multiple ways for organizations to highlight and market their financial literacy programs.
Economic Development Forum
Tackling high and persistent unemployment, especially in rural areas and regions with limited industry sector diversity, is a goal that may be best served through entrepreneurship. In these geographies that often have the added challenge of isolation, individuals must rely on their own ingenuity, skills and in some cases, a local competitive advantage.
Nevada Assets and Opportunity Summit
Join us as we explore best practices and policies shaping the future of asset building. Speakers are well-known practitioners, experts, policy makers, and industry leaders in the asset development field.
Community Development Venture Capital Briefing
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the necessary funding and other resources necessary to establish a new community development venture capital fund. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns as well as the creation of good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity.
State Small Business Credit Initiative Roundtable
This roundtable to be held in Hawaii is intended to educate participants about the benefits of the State Small Business Credit Initiative program. On September 27, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (the “Act”).
SSBCI Program Officials Roundtable
This roundtable to be held in Guam is intended to educate participants about the benefits of the State Small Business Credit Initiative program. On September 27, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (the “Act”).
Strengthening Hawaii’s Housing Market Meeting
The purpose of this meeting is to provide an opportunity for the participants to share their perspectives on the current housing situation and discuss how we can assist distressed borrowers, communities impacted by foreclosures, and first-time homebuyers.
State Small Business Credit Initiative: Guam Banker Roundtable
This roundtable to be held in Guam is intended to educate participants about the benefits of the State Small Business Credit Initiative program. On September 27, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (the “Act”).
Stabilizing Homeownership and Communities in a Post Foreclosure World
Since the beginning of the mortgage meltdown, almost a million Californians lost their homes to foreclosure. While the housing market is starting to stabilize, its recovery may be different from previous crises and is being shaped by new market conditions and shifting trends.
Uniform Commercial Codes: Bringing Business to Indian Country
The legal infrastructure for many aspects of commerce is a given in most places. The code provides uniformity among state laws, enabling efficient cross-border business to take place.
CRA Bankers Roundtable (Northern California)
Speakers will discuss the changes they have made to their programs, the shifts in their organizational focus, as well as future opportunities they see on the horizon that are necessary to respond to the changing landscape. Following the presentations and Q&A, the speakers will depart the meeting, giving the bankers an opportunity to privately discuss what they heard.
Southwest Alaska: 25 Years of Regional Connections
Please join Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference members, Southwest Alaskan elected officials, businesses and residents, agencies, and other regional stakeholders for the 25th Southwest Alaska Economic Summit and Annual SWAMC Membership Meeting, which will take place February 20-22, 2013 at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage. This annual event gives attendees a chance to network, learn about and discuss important development topics, and reach consensus on policy issues that affect Southwest Alaska.
Meeting in the Middle: Responding to Community Needs
RENDERING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ONE NEIGHBORHOOD AT A TIME – How are nonprofit hospitals answering the call to improve population health by building capacity in low-income neighborhoods of Los Angeles? How do financial institutions affect public health in these catchment areas?
Small Business Fair
This Small Business Fair will allow small business owners the opportunity to meet with resource providers from a variety of government agencies and nonprofit organizations, and learn how to improve their businesses.
A variety of workshops will be held during the Small Business Fair, including:
Forming and Registering Your BusinessSecrets to More ProfitsSpecialty Loans and Tax BreaksFinancing Options for Small BusinessesBrand ImagingQuickBook BasicsHow to “Sell” Yourself & Your ProductSocial Media Marketing Made SimpleLocation!
Tribal Courts and Secured Transactions Law Workshops
Additional Dates: March 21, 2013 – March 22, 2013 and May 8, 2013 – May 9, 2013
This comprehensive two-day workshop will focus primarily on the provisions of the Model Tribal Secured Transactions Act, which has been enacted by many tribes. The workshop will offer instruction on the basics of secured transactions law, including the use of such personal property as inventory, equipment, receivables, and consumer goods as collateral for extensions of credit.
Earn It! Keep It! $ave It!
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites provide one of the best opportunities to connect financially vulnerable families with not just free tax preparation but a range of asset building services and programs that they may not be aware of.
Washington CRA Roundtable
This is an invitation-only meeting for CRA officers.
Interagency Working Group for Indian Affairs
This is an invitation-only meeting to discuss challenges and successes of government programs designed to help promote community and economic development in Indian Country. Many government agencies have “tribal liaisons” at both the national and local level.
Oregon CRA Roundtable
This is an invitation-only meeting for CRA officers.
2012
Policy Briefing: New Paths to Housing and Transportation Affordability in Transit Served Communities
The Community Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco hosted a policy briefing and engaging discussion on promoting housing and transportation affordability. Panelists illustrated challenges in developing affordable transit-oriented housing developments, including requirements for excessive parking, community opposition, and financing hurdles.
Capital Markets for Scale
This event, hosted alongside SOCAP12, showcased content on “institutional” impact/community investing and the effort to mainstream social capital markets.
Uniform Commercial Codes: Bringing Business to Indian Country
The legal infrastructure for many aspects of commerce is a given in most places. The code provides uniformity among state laws, enabling efficient cross-border business to take place.
Future of Economic Development and Revitalization Post Redevelopment
The video clips available in the program are snapshots of the various perspectives about how the recent elimination of redevelopment in California might affect efforts to attract private capital and finance projects that in particular have benefited economically disadvantaged neighborhoods and where alternative financing solutions may be found.
As a local tool designed to respond to local needs, redevelopment was considered one of the most effective resources of local governments to address the conditions that inhibit private investment.
Community Development Policy Briefing: Community Development and Schools
This event brought together experts in education, affordable housing, regional planning, community development finance, and policy to discuss how the community development and education sectors can better collaborate to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for low- and moderate-income students.
Neighborhood Indicators and Community Initiatives
Hosted by the Asset Building Coalition of Greater Los Angeles “Four First Fridays”.
Upwards of a hundred private, public and nonprofit leaders convened at the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles on the feasibility of building a reliable neighborhood based data warehouse for measuring and improving Los Angeles communities.
Community Development Forum
The agenda for this interagency-sponsored forum included an economic overview and panel presentations by community-based organizations whose areas of focus include housing, financial education, small business/micro-lending, self-sufficiency initiatives and building sustainable communities. The presentations were followed with in-depth group discussions to further explore the issues and potentially identify opportunities for collaboration.
Affordable Housing Symposium
Guam has made significant strides on its five-year strategy to increase the availability of affordable housing, partially due to the feedback officials received during the three previous symposiums. This symposium will continue its tradition of including an interactive format to help ensure participants have an opportunity to voice their concerns and submit recommendations in connection with the current 5 year affordable housing strategy.
Building Sustainable Organizations for Affordable Housing and Community Impact
This interagency-sponsored workshop and two panel discussions on the importance of an early warning system for assessing affordable housing project risk in the first 15 years.
Targeted at staff, management and directors of private and public funding organizations and institutions, this event presented findings from two research papers along with a set of risk management guidelines and a dashboard for measuring portfolio progress, and an introduction to the concept of nonprofits generating excess cash assets for investment purposes.
Arizona Workforce Development Forum
The recovery from the Great Recession has been distinguished by record high long term unemployment. Data shows that a significant number of job cuts are impacting employment on a permanent basis and are particularly hard hitting in lower-income communities, revealing a need to redesign workforce development programs for this challenging environment.
Community Development Policy Briefing: The Suburbanization of Poverty
This briefing focused on rising suburban poverty and the phenomenon’s implications for public policy and community development. The event highlighted the latest research on the topic and offered a chance to hear how local organizations are responding to suburban poverty here in the Bay Area.
The 2012 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference
From March 25-28, 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, in partnership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, hosted the 2012 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference in Seattle, WA.
Vision During Crisis: Reinventing Neighborhood Revitalization
Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the University of Southern California.
There is a historic convergence of funding threats to federal, state and local jurisdictions at a time when communities have the greatest need. A strategic response is required. This meeting is a call to action for principal stakeholders to create new approaches to neighborhood revitalization based on stabilizing the single-family foreclosure crisis.
Investing in Innovations for Thriving Communities and Healthy People
This forum brings together professionals from academia, public health, and community development to shed light on the social determinants of health and explore community based models and strategies that are addressing both the social and physical conditions of at-risk populations.
Healthy Communities: Las Vegas
2011
Economic Development in the Kodiak Archipelago
This summit provided information on resources available to help Kodiak villagers create an economic development plan, start or expand a business, and understand various funding sources. Economic development can enhance a village’s access to basic needs and bring other types of opportunities including tax revenues, improved goods and services, and new technologies.
Healthy Communities: Building Systems to Integrate Community Development and Health
CRA Resource Exchange
On October 12, 2011 at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch, leaders from local community-based organizations met with area bankers at a meeting of the CRA Resource Exchange to discuss the feasibility of funding CRA eligible loans, investments and financial services and to discuss future project ideas. The CRA Resource Exchange, a new speed dating exercise from the Asset Building Coalition of Greater Los Angeles is a joint effort of financial institutions and community groups interested in increasing the frequency and velocity of investments in low-wealth neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Healthy Communities: Houston
Foreclosed Property as Community Housing Assets
The “First Look” option offered by most servicers presents a chance for nonprofit housing organizations to acquire foreclosed properties that can be used as affordable rental housing, while the current abundance of foreclosed properties offers a tremendous opportunity for communities to secure these local assets. At the same time, many jurisdictions have managed to use their NSP grants to acquire and rehab foreclosed properties, but face the challenge of selling them in a timely manner.
Making the Case – The Real Economic Benefit of Immigrant Integration to the Los Angeles Economy
On August 5, 2011 the Asset Building Coalition of Greater Los Angeles hosted the Four First Fridays forum on the positive effect of immigrant communities on local and state economies, debunking common myths and honing in on the realities of the economic benefits.
Foreclosure Recovery Progress and Partners (Central Coast)
Health and Prosperity through Community Investments
As a follow-up to the Healthy Communities Conference held in September 2010 at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Los Angeles branch, more than 40 local community based leaders, health educators and practitioners, lenders, foundations and local government came together to demonstrate and discuss ways in which professionals from the public health sector and the field of community development can work together to achieve measureable results. The session showcased the essential common elements of three health-focused community organizations in Los Angeles that demonstrate the possibilities of public/private community development investments.
Ventura-Santa Barbara CBO Listening Session
Local community-based organizations came together with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the FDIC on July 26, 2011 in the city of Ventura to participate in a listening session where local leaders expressed their views of unmet needs of low-income residents in Ventura County. The discussion surrounded affordable housing, economic development, and wealth building initiatives and ways that federally regulated depository financial institutions can assist in meeting those needs.
Low Income Housing Tax Credits Simplified
Over the past 20 years, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has addressed the nation’s affordable housing needs by financing nearly two million low-income units.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco are pleased to sponsor a half-day seminar on Low Income Housing Tax Credits.
Understanding Workforce Development
High unemployment remains as a nagging indicator of the worst economic downturn in recent history. Available jobs are either very low paying with limited hours or highly technical and advanced, leaving many workers under- or unemployed.
West Oakland Community Investment Forum
West Oakland is a unique neighborhood situated just across the Bay from downtown San Francisco. It is currently undergoing an exciting renaissance that is bolstered by its strategic proximity to BART, downtown Oakland and Emeryville.
Healthy Communities: New York City Exploring the Intersection of Community Development and Health
Healthy Communities: New York City will explore how the health and community development sectors can collaborate to promote better health outcomes for low-income people and communities by addressing issues concerning the social determinants on health.
Affordable Housing Symposium
Guam needs more affordable housing, and the upcoming military buildup makes this issue even more critical. While Guam escaped the foreclosure crises sweeping other parts of the country, it faces the potential for immense housing shortages, strained infrastructure, and energy shortages.
Capital Solutions for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
The purpose of this conference was to examine the practical realities of financing equitable transit-oriented development (TOD) projects and presenting best practices for equitable TOD financing to the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) sector.
2011 Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference
The Changing Landscape of Community Development: Linking Research with Policy and Practice in Low-Income Communities
The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System hosted the seventh Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference on April 28-29, 2011. The goal of the 2011 conference was to highlight new research that can inform community development policy and practice.
Healthy Communities: Boston
Resources for Recovery after Foreclosure
This workshop is designed for nonprofit housing counselors, social service providers, local government staff working with homeowners, financial institution representatives, and other professionals working with homeowners facing foreclosure. (It is not intended for consumers or individuals seeking assistance for foreclosure mediation.
Advancing Social Impact Investments through Measurement
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco held a conference on Advancing Social Impact Investments through Measurement: New Capital for Community Development on March 21, 2011 in Washington, DC.
Community Development Priorities for a New Decade
What a difference a decade makes?! The second decade of the new millennium is different in so many ways than the first.
2010
Healthy Communities: Los Angeles
Healthy Communities: Exploring the Intersection of Community Development and Health
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation co-hosted this conference to explore how the health and community development sectors can collaborate to promote better health outcomes for low-income people and communities by addressing issues concerning the social determinants on health.
The 2010 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference
Over 730 representatives from financial institutions, regulatory agencies, government agencies and nonprofits gathered in New Orleans from March 14 – 18 for the 2010 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference. Participants had with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the regulations underpinning the Community Reinvestment Act, as well as to share emerging challenges and best practices in community development with colleagues from across the country.
2008
2008 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference
Over 700 representatives from financial institutions, regulatory agencies, government agencies and nonprofits gathered in San Francisco from March 30 – April 2 for the 2008 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference. The conference provided participants with the unique opportunity to learn about the regulations underpinning the Community Reinvestment Act, as well as to share emerging challenges and best practices in community development with colleagues from across the country.