April 2012

  • 28th

    Home of Her Own: Women’s Housing Initiative

    New Jersey Institute of Technology

    New Jersey Citizen Action’s free, first-time homebuyer seminar is sponsored by the New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Capital One Bank, Citi, RSI Bank, Sovereign Bank, TD Bank, and Wells Fargo.

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  • 24th

    Online Discussion: Enterprise’s Faith-Based Development Initiative

    Online

    Launched in 2006, the Faith-Based Development Initiative serves to support the growing interest of those in the faith community to bring affordable housing to where it is most needed. The Initiative provides critical legal, capital and training resources to help faith-based organizations develop underutilized real estate assets into affordable homes and other community facilities. Focused in the Washington, D.C. region, the initiative is led by Enterprise in collaboration with East of the River Clergy-Police-Community Partnership, Wesley Theological Seminary and Georgetown University. Please join us to hear how this exciting approach leverages vital partnerships between the government, private and nonprofit sectors to increase and preserve affordable housing throughout the national capital region.

    Presented By:

    • David Bowers—VP & Market Leader, Enterprise Community Partners
    • Deborah Stevenson—Sr. Program Director, Enterprise Community Partners
    • Jessica Rafferty—Program Analyst, Enterprise Community Partners

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  • 23rd

    2012 LeadingAge PEAK Leadership Summit

    Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

    Aging services advocates working on such causes as Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, health care reform and affordable housing must have a deep understanding of not only the issues, but the forces of influence surrounding them. This summit is designed for executives in aging services to help LeadingAge members to meet the challenges of today’s world and anticipate tomorrow’s opportunities.

    The Future of Aging Services Conference and the Leadership Summit have been combined to create a high-level, in-depth meeting where leaders in our field meet with strategic innovators to expand the world of possibilities for aging.

    Speakers include Jim VandeHei, co-founder and executive editor of POLITICO, the political website and newspaper. VandeHei, who started his career in political journalism, has written for Roll Call, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is a regular political analyst for MSNBC’s Morning Joe, as well as a frequent guest on several cable and network television programs.

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  • 18th

    NCRC 2012 Annual Conference

    Washington Court Hotel

    The theme of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s annual conference is “Not Just An Economy, A Just Economy” and will include topic-based workshops and plenary sessions, interactive sessions, guest speakers, and networking opportunities that allow participants to obtain valuable information and resources, and to learn from other people’s successes.

    Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and former Ohio state Attorney General, will give the opening keynote speech.
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  • 17th

    2012 Southeast CLT Conference

    Durham Convention Center

    The National Community Land Trust Network’s Southeast CLT Conference will feature keynote speaker Shirley Sherrod and will examine post-purchase stewardship, state and local government support for CLTs, and alternative ways to accomplish CLT work.

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  • 4th

    Create a Place: Arts Build Communities

    Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers Newark

    Create A Place: Arts Build Communities is the second annual Creative Placemaking Conference aimed at building, advancing and sustaining creative communities and art centered economies. It is the only major event in New Jersey that brings together urban planners and public affairs professionals along with artists, cultural leaders, elected and appointed officials, as well as community and economic development experts to share ideas and best practices in the emerging field of creative placemaking.

    Create A Place focuses on six key issues in creative placemaking:

    • Developing leadership for action
    • Measuring your community’s capacity for creative placemaking
    • Building strategies for action
    • Providing direct and indirect support for the arts
    • Building creative communities
    • Building creative economies

    Conference partners include ArtPride New Jersey, New Jersey Future and Sustainable Jersey.

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  • 4th

    The Ohio Properties Redevelopment Institute

    Hyatt Regency

    This two-day interactive training and policy solutions workshop will gather local leaders from municipalities, nonprofit community development organizations and the private sector from across the state and offer hands-on techniques and strategies for addressing vacant and abandoned property development challenges and generating redevelopment opportunities.

    Featuring local practitioners, financial institutions, and state and national level redevelopment experts, the sessions will include: acquisition tools, land banks, neighborhood stabilization tactics, revitalization strategies, property information systems, and urban redevelopment successes. The Institute will also provide opportunity for input into policy reforms that arm local leaders with new tools and align policies with local community development needs. With Ohio’s cities and towns at a crisis point, the Institute’s goals—training and education, coalition-building and policy advancement—are vital to productively reshape Ohio’s communities.

    Registration for this two-day event is $89.00. The agenda for the Institute will soon be available.

    To pay by credit card, please use online registration. Please indicate the number of tickets you are purchasing; the form can accept five registrants per transaction. Once the registation form is complete, you will complete payment through PayPal (you are not required to have a PayPal account). You will receive both a receipt from PayPal and a confirmation email from Greater Ohio.

    To pay by check, please fill out this form, and include the name, title, and organization of each registrant(s) and make the check payable to Greater Ohio Policy Center. Please send payment to:

    Greater Ohio Policy Center
    c/o Meg Montgomery
    399 E. Main Street
    Suite 140
    Columbus, OH 43215

    If you will need lodging for the night of the 4th, the Hyatt has offered discounted prices through March 5th. Please make your reservation online or call for a reservation (888-421-1442); please mention the Properties Institute to receive the discounted rate. The Hyatt is also offering discounted parking as well.

    For questions, sponsorship opportunities, or more information, contact Samantha Spergel, Research Associate, at sspergel@greaterohio.org or (614-224-0187 ext.307).

    Sponsors include the Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, Fifth Third Bank, PNC Bank, Neighborhood Progress Inc., Ohio Housing Finance Agency and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

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