Community Development Events
- Upcoming
- Past
- September 1-2, 2010
- REOs and Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization
- The summit will be held at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland.
- September 15, 2010
- Call for Papers - Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference
- The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System invite paper submissions for the 7th annual Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, to be held April 28-29, 2011, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. Topics include: understanding community change, the future of consumer credit, bridging the divide between people and place, measuring the impact of community development, and community development finance.
- September 16, 2010
- Interagency Community Development Conference
- Community bankers will convene at the Cleveland Fed for a daylong discussion of the outlook for residential and small business lending and the business opportunities afforded by community development credit enhancements. Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS).
- October 13-15, 2010
- Reclaiming Vacant Properties
- The National Vacant Properties Campaign brings their annual conference to Cleveland this Fall. Join hundreds from across the country to learn about policies, tools, and strategies to catalyze long-term sustainable revitalization. The Cleveland Fed is a co-sponsor and member of the host committee.
- July 15, August 5, September 16 and 24
- Board to hold four public hearings on Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
- The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced that it will hold four public hearings, beginning in July, on potential revisions to Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. All hearings will include panel discussions by invited speakers. Other interested parties may deliver oral statements of five minutes or less during an "open-mike" period. Written statements of any length may be submitted for the record.
- July 12, 2010
- Addressing the Financing Needs of Small Businesses
- This forum, organized, by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will be held at the Board's Martin Building at 20th and C Streets, N.W. in Washington, D.C.. The event will provide a platform for gathering information and perspectives to help the Federal Reserve, and other small business stakeholders, address the immediate and longer-term credit needs of small businesses. It will gather a national audience of key decisionmakers, including leaders from community development financial institutions, banks, small businesses and trade groups, and government agencies as panelists and participants.
- June 9-10, 2010
- 2010 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Summit
With the foreclosure crisis still playing out in communities across the country, the time has never been more critical for discussions of our nation's housing policy, including how and whether homeownership and rental housing should be subsidized. This year's policy summit convenes top administrators from HUD and other regulatory agencies, researchers from universities and think tanks, and experts in the field of community development for dynamic presentations of current research, reform proposals, and avid discourse on these timely topics.
Join us for this engaging one-and-a-half-day event that annually draws hundreds of bankers, elected officials, practitioners, academics, and policymakers from the Great Lakes region and beyond.
- May 12, 2010
- Interagency CRA Training Workshops (in Indianapolis, IN; Cleveland, OH; and Omaha, NE)
- The purpose of each workshop is to provide CRA officers of small or intermediate small banks/thrifts with up-to-date information about developing a CRA Plan; forming meaningful partnerships; determining qualified community development lending, services, and investments; assessing community needs; and creating the bank's individual CRA Performance Context.
- May 12-14, 2010
- Philadelphia Fed’s biennial "Reinventing Older Communities" conference
- The fourth Reinventing Older Communities conference will focus on reinventing older communities in the wake of the foreclosure crisis and the federal government's economic stimulus programs. The conference brings together some of the nation's leading policymakers, community developers, bankers, researchers, funders, planners, and government representatives.
- April 8, 2010
- Green Recovery
- The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is interested in helping evaluate policies that can achieve green goals while also providing a lift to the economy, or at least making it no worse off. Toward that end, the Bank hosted a seminar on Green Recovery as part of its Applied Research Seminar Series. Some of the nation's leading researchers joined with on-the-ground practitioners to discuss the role of the environment in urban economic development.
- October 23, 2009
- Low Income Housing Tax Credits Simplified
- Over the past two decades, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has addressed the nation's affordable housing needs by financing nearly two million low-income units.
- October 13-16, 2009 (multiple locations)
- Appalachia Forums
- Speakers at each event will vary, but may include an expert on tax credits, bankers, bank examiners,community development financial institutions, developers, other community development funders and practitioners, and representatives of government agencies.
- October 8, 2009
- Reconsidering the American Dream
- Part of the "Building Our Future Beyond Foreclosure" series held at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. Ruth Clevenger, Vice President & Community Affairs Officer at the Cleveland Fed, will be a member of the panel.
- October 1, 2009
- Poverty in Appalachia
- Part of the 2009 Applied Research Seminar series, the event brought academics and on-the-ground practioners together to discuss this pressing topic. Their goal: to find effective ways to reduce poverty and raise the standards of living for millions of Americans.
- June 10, 2009
- The 2009 Community Development Policy Summit
- The 7th annual policy summit sparked lively debates on the topics of homeownership, GSEs, and the Community Reinvestment Act. Check out the video interviews, presentations, and more.
- May 20, 2009
- Addressing the Credit Card Crisis
- The housing crisis isn't the only issue facing consumers. This interagency forum brought together bankers, policy makers, and non-profits to the Pittsburgh Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
- May 20, 2009
- CRA Workshop for New Officers
- Sponsored in part by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland this workshop prepared CRA officers at small or intermediate banks for the CRA regulation exam and to develop a CRA compliance strategy.
- May 15, 2009
- Neighborhood Indicators for Recovery
- Limited resources and the ongoing foreclosure crisis make strategic planning for recovery crucial. At this stage of the game, data and tools aimed at helping community leaders make informed decisions are enormously valuable. In this seminar, experts in the field presented several composite indicators based on public and private data, and discussed the methodological issues to consider in their application.
- May 12, 2009
- CRA Interagency Training Workshop
- Sponsored in part by the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and St. Louis, the training workshop explained to CRA officers at smaller and intermediate banks how to develop their own CRA plan.
- April 23, 2009
- Building our Future Beyond Foreclosure
- This Cleveland State University sponsored event is part of a series that examines new strategies, tactics, and projects that are, creative, environmentally sustainable, and invigorating to the marketplace.
- April 16-17, 2009
- Community Affairs Research Conference: Innovative Financial Services for the Underserved
- The Federal Reserve System's 6th Biennial Community Affairs Research Conference: To encourage objective research into financial services issues affecting low- and moderate-income individuals, families, and communities.
- February 06, 2009
- 2009 Community Reinvestment Act Conference
- This conference facilitated an exchange of research-informed perspectives on the role of the Community Reinvestment Act in delivering financial services to individuals in low- and moderate-income communities.
- November 21, 2008
- Social Interactions and Social Capital
- Research in social interactions is shedding light on a growing range of development issues; from the value of mixed-income housing developments to the way individuals decide whether to declare bankruptcy. The social scientists who gathered at the Cleveland Fed represent the cutting edge of social interactions research.
- August 28, 2008
- Ohio Vacant Properties Forum II: Highlighting Best Practices in Foreclosure Prevention and Redevelopment Strategies
- This forum focused on best practices, policy recommendations, and legislative updates. Additional discussion topics included land banking, foreclosure prevention approaches, and addressing vacancy and abandonment.
- August 27, 2008
- Moving Toward Solutions: Research and Policy on Vacancy and Abandonment
- As part of the Federal Reserve Foreclosure Series: Recovery/Renewal/Rebuilding, this seminar highlighted the contributions of recent research to the policy discussion about the causes and impacts of foreclosure and vacancy, with a particular emphasis on implications and solutions for weak market cities.
- June 11, 2008
- The 2008 Community Development Policy Summit
- The 6th annual Community Development Policy Summit explored a confluence of consumer finance issues, including: subprime borrowing, unfair and deceptive lending practices, financial education, credit scores and their impact on the cost of credit and, reaching the unbanked.
- April 25, 2008
- Research Seminar on Financial Education
- Financial literacy levels are alarmingly low across many segments of the U.S. population, with knowledge deficits evident in groups ranging from individuals with little formal education to high school seniors and teachers. In all, the event provided an eye-opening perspective on American’s financial savvy and on the effectiveness of financial education programs in general.
- June 21, 2007
- The 2007 Community Development Policy Summit
- The 5th annual Community Development Policy Summit gave attendees the opportunity to examine key issues facing communities, among them foreclosures, vacant and abandoned properties, and finding new sources to fund community development.
