Conference Sessions and Selected Presentations
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DAY ONE – MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS ( 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.)
- FDIC’s Money Smart Curriculum
Speaker: John Meeks, Community Affairs Specialist, FDIC
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- Asset-Building in NC Native Communities: Innovations in Partnerships, Practice, and Research
Speakers: Christina Theodorou, Program Manager, NC Indian Economic Development Initiative; John Parker, Executive Director, Goodwork; Amy Locklear Hertel, Project Manager, Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University
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- The Benefit Bank
Sponsored by The Benefit Bank of NC, an initiative of MDC.
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- Credit Matters
Speaker: Patricia Scott, Kanawha Institute for Social Research and Action, Inc.
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CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS – SERIES 1 (1:20 p.m -2:50 p.m.)
- Keeping Money in Consumers’ Pockets! Innovative Savings Programs and Practical Applications
Speakers: Leigh Brady, SVP, Education Services, State Employee’s Credit Union; Joanna Smith-Ramani, Director of Strategy, Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund; Lauren Whaley, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for the NC Credit Union League (NCCUL)
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- Financial Capability & Financial Inclusion
Speakers: Louisa Quittman, Director of Community Programs, Office of Financial Education and Financial Access, U.S. Department of Treasury; Daniel Dodd, Executive Director, Step-Up Savannah
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- Assets and Human Capital: Can Matched Savings Accounts Impact Education Outcomes?
Speakers: Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Associate Professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work; Barb Gosse, Director of Saving and Asset-Building Initiatives, Social and Enterprise Development Initiatives (SEDI); Youngmi Kim of the Center for Social Development
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- Family Self Sufficiency – America’s Best Kept Secret
Speakers: Tia Gilliam-Wilson, former BHA resident and FSS participant; Dina Lehamann-Kim, Program Manager ROSS and PH FSS, HUD; Nikki Ratliff, Program Service Administrator (ROSS, FSS, CSWP, HPRP and SHP), Burlington Housing Authority/Burlington Development Corporation
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CONCURRENT WORKSHOP – SERIES 2 (3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
- Accessible Assets: Asset-Building in the Disability Community
Speakers: Joyanne Cobb, Analyst and Project Officer for the Office of Program Development and Research (OPDR), Social Security Administration (SSA); William Gorman, Executive Director of the Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC) of Illinois; Karen Harris, Director of Asset Opportunity Unit at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
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- Organizing Community-based Microenterprise Development and Peer Lending Programs for Under-resourced Entrepreneurs in Rural and Urban Virginia Markets
Speaker: Robert Martin, Managing Director, United Virginia
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- Asset Building for Children: Strategies for developing a successful children’s savings account or IDA program for youth
Speakers: Barb Bradley, President & CEO, Action for Children; Deborah Brooks, Project Lead/YFE, NYC Administration for Children’s Services; Stephanie Halligan, Program Manager, CFED
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CONCURRENT ROUNDTABLES – (4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
- The Next Frontier in Public Benefits: Electronic Benefit Cards
Speakers: Moderator: Karen Harris, Director, Asset Opportunity Unit, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Margot Freeman Saunders, National Consumer Law Center
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DAY TWO – TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2011
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS –SERIES 3 (8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.)
- Integrating Asset-Building Into Affordable Housing
Speaker: Theresa Gibbons, Associate Director, Asset Building, Heartland Human Care Services, Inc.
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- New Municipal Strategies in Asset-Building and Financial Empowerment
Speakers: Lisa Buckley, Program Associate, Assets & Opportunities Programs, CFED; Dan Kornelis, Housing Director, Forsyth County (NC)Carl Rist, VP, Assets & Opportunities Programs, CFED
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CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS –SERIES 4 (10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
- Racial Wealth Gap: Confronting Barriers to Minority Wealth Accumulation
Speakers: Karen Harris, Director of Asset Opportunity Unit, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Anne Rice, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, Insight Center for Community Economic Development; Thomas Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University
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- Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, and the Protection of Assets in North Carolina and Beyond
Speakers: Melissa Jacoby, George R. Ward Professor of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill; Mark Lindblad, Research Director, Center for Community Capital, UNC-Chapel Hill; Kevin Park, Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Community Capital and Doctoral Student, Department of City & Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill; Ling Wang, Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Community Capital and Doctoral Student, Department of Statistics, UNC-Chapel Hill.
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CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS –SERIES 5 (1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.)
- Creating a Multi-State Savings Collaboration
Speakers: Donna Gallagher, Executive Director, The Collaborative; Michelle Foster, President and CEO, Kanawha Institute for Social Research and Action, Inc.(KISRA); Kate Pratt, Program Director, South Carolina Association of Community Development Corporations(SCCDC); Teresa Walker, Savings Manager, Virginia Community Capital
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- Asset-Building Initiatives and Wealth in Low-Income Communities: Evidence from Recent Research
Speakers: Richard Fry, Senior Research Associate, Pew Research Center; Michal Grinstein-Weiss, UNC- Chapel Hill, School of Social Work; Krista Holub, Research Assistant, UNC School of Social Work; Clinton Key, Research Associate, Assets Building Research Group, UNC- Chapel Hill, School of Social Work
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- North Carolina Housing Finance Agency Programs and Your Housing IDA Clients
Speaker: Keir Morton-Manley, Program Development Officer, NC Housing Finance Agency
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- 112th Congress and Asset-Building: What to Expect, Hope for and Fear
Speaker: Carol Wayman, Director of Federal Policy, CFED
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CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS –SERIES 6 (3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
- Why Buying a Car is Trickier Than You Think
Speakers: Chris Kukla, Senior Counsel for Government Affairs and Susan Lupton, Senior Policy Associate, Center for Responsible Lending
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- Economic Development Strategy: Rural Asset-Building
Speakers: N. Yolanda Burwell, Senior Fellow, NC Rural Economic Development Center; Phyliss Chavis, Director, Regeneration Development Group.
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- Update on the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau
Speaker: Peter Skillern, Executive Director, Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina (CRA-NC)
- Assets & Opportunity in NC: A look at Household Wealth in NC and the Strength of NC Policies Focused on Family Financial Security
Speaker: Carl Rist, VP of Assets & Opportunities Programs, CFED; Chris Estes, Executive Director, North Carolina Housing Coalition
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