Connect with peers over breakfast and stay for the economic development panel discussion.
Community developers are urgently filling local job creation and economic development needs from coast to coast. Come hear how those efforts are critical to advancing equity at the local level. The session will highlight two NACEDA members who received 2022 Community Navigator grants from the Small Business Administration.
Speakers:
Roberto Barragán, California Community Economic Development Association
Chantelle Broughton, South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development
Deveney Perry, BLDG Memphis
Suganthi Simon, JPMorgan & Chase Co.
Bill Taft, LISC
Connect with state and local policy advocates from community development associations across the country. Session leaders will host table conversations on policy topics ranging from equitable homeownership to rental affordability to small business support, economic development, and financial inclusion. The conversations will identify emerging strategic and topical trends for advocates to use in 2024 and beyond.
Session leaders:
Andrew Bradley, Prosperity Indiana
Ed Stockhausen, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress
Table leaders:
Homeownership — Patience Malaba, HDC Seattle King County
Affordable Rental — Chris Martin, Housing California
Small Business & Economic Development — Torey Hollingsworth, Ohio Community Development Corporation Association
Financial Inclusion — Jessica AcMoody, Community Economic Development Association of Michigan
Community development associations play a crucial role in fostering economic development and job creation within communities. Learn how NACEDA members are cultivating economic development ecosystems through strategic partnerships among neighborhood organizations, intermediaries, anchor institutions, and public partners. Dig into different models for cultivating ecosystems and ways that associations can leverage their unique role to strengthen collaboration among organizations and enhance the well-being of communities.
Speakers:
Evette Banfield, Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development
Mereb Hagos (moderator), Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development
Kate Pratt, South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development
Joanna Winchester, Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations
Engage in a facilitated discussion with two of the most adept social media pros in the NACEDA network. Find out how the Non-Profit Housing of Northern California connects with new audiences, tests ad strategies, and partners to amplify their message. Their @AffordableBurbs TikTok campaign racked up over 700,000 views in a month. Housing Oregon’s ingenious combination of social media platforms engages new messengers, mobilizes advocates, and drives targeted messages to key policymakers. Learn how they’ve used social media to exponentially expand their phone-banking capacity and produce an advocacy email list with a 60% open rate. Get ready for this interactive session.
Speakers:
Kevin Cronin, Housing Oregon
Londre Holmes, Non-Profit Housing of Northern California
Linda Nguyen (moderator), Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis
Real estate investments serve tenants. Organizational investments serve a community. Discover how strategic capacity-building investments — tailored to meet the evolving needs of community economic development organizations — can enhance impact and equitable outcomes in communities. Explore new collaborative approaches among organizational stakeholders, experts, and funders that are building capacity over the long term.
Speakers:
Leatrice Moore, Black Community Developers Group
Eartha Cruz, National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders
Kelley Lou, National Coalition for Asian Pacific Community Development
Jennifer Gabriel (moderator), TD Charitable Foundation
Come hear from NACEDA’s national partners on the latest federal policy opportunities coming in 2024 and beyond.
Speakers:
Anju Chopra, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
Clarinda Landeros, National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders
Lou Tisler, National NeighborWorks Association
Claudia Wilson Randall, Community Development Network of Maryland
Join a room full of people who plan housing and community development conferences. Together, we will generate ideas about how to engage our target audiences and structure sessions that stimulate interaction among conference participants. Try out different techniques for boosting interaction during this session.
Speaker / facilitators:
Robyn Murphy, Texas Association of Community Development Corporations
Jocelyn Smith, Georgia Advancing Communities Together
Sylvia Waynick, Arizona Housing Coalition
Connect with peers over lunch and stay for the keynote remarks.
Speakers:
Nathaniel Smith, Partnership for Southern Equity
Paige Carlson-Heim, TD Bank
Bambie Hayes-Brown, Georgia Advancing Communities Together
Quest focuses exclusively on housing residents at the lowest income levels to advance social equity and economic inclusion. Learn how this comprehensive community developer helps residents achieve their personal goals through affordable and supportive housing, case management, and money management services. We’ll tour the neighborhood and a Quest supportive housing property, then meet with the COO at the Quest Westside Impact Center, a central hub for transformation on Atlanta’s Westside.
Tour Guide:
Melanie Faison, Quest Community Development Corporation
RICE has built tremendous momentum, creating jobs, increasing wealth, and advancing pathways in Atlanta’s Black business community. RICE supports Black entrepreneurs from ideation through acceleration, connecting them to a dynamic co-working community and facilitating relationships for Black-owned businesses to access critical financial capital. At their vibrant center, we’ll see how this economic mobility engine cultivates stronger business leaders, better communities, and more profitable businesses within the city.
Tour Guide:
TBA
HDDC was founded by Coretta Scott King, Christine King Farris, and John Cox in 1980 to restore the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic District to the proud, economically diverse, and viable neighborhood it once was. HDDC passionately sets the standard for strengthening, revitalizing, and preserving the identity and history of communities through equitable and inclusive development. Learn about their affordable housing, arts and culture, economic development, and urban agriculture programs as you tour the neighborhood.
Tour Guides:
Ron Kirkpatrick, Historic District Development Corporation
Shawn Roman, Historic District Development Corporation
Enjoy traditional Southern fare at our Annual Meeting Dinner. You’ll have plenty of time to mix and mingle with your peers from around the country.
Speakers:
Steve Glaude, Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development
Heidi Schoonover, Truist
Rita Gibson, Georgia Advancing Communities Together
Paige Carlson-Heim, TD Bank
Kate Pratt, South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development
John Fitterer, Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation
Donté Clark, Poet/Griot