Community Investing Conference Series –
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
***Early bird registration discount ends at 5:30pm EST on Friday, January 7, 2011***
When: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 7:00am – 4:30pm
Where: Hilton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Register now: https://www.socialinvest.org/events/public_event_display.cfm?Event_ID=174.
Join us in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a unique, one-day community investing event on Tuesday, February 8, 2011. The third in a series of community investing conferences the Social Investment Forum (SIF) has co-hosted around the country, this event will focus on the role community investing is playing in our nation’s economic recovery with a special regional focus on examples from the southeastern United States. Attendees will learn how organizations are incorporating community investing, leveraging federal programs and meeting challenges in the marketplace to build stronger and more resilient communities.
Speakers will include:
· Phil Baldwin from Southern Bancorp,
· Patricia Jennings Braynon from the Housing Finance Authority of Miami-Dade County,
· William Bynum from ECD/HOPE,
· Ignacio Esteban, Florida Community Loan Fund,
· Taryn Goodman from RSF Social Finance,
· Lisa Hagerman from More for Mission,
· Donna Katzin from Shared Interest,
· Leslie Lilly from Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties,
· Saurabh Narain from the National Community Investment Fund,
· Luther Ragin from the FB Heron Foundation
· Cliff Rosenthal from the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions,
· Art Stevens from Calvert Foundation and
· Barbara VanScoy from Community Capital Management.
More information on the event and a full agenda can be found here: http://www.socialinvest.org/events/ci_conference_2011.cfm