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BUILDING MICHIGAN COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE 2016

April 25-27, 2016 Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan

RegistrationApril Brochure 27–29, 2015 • Lansing Center, Lansing, MI

HOUSING ASSETS PEOPLE PARTNERS Monday Welcome Speaker Kevin Elsenheimer EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MSHDA Kevin Elsenheimer was named executive director of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority in April 2015. Since then, the former Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Director of the Michigan Workers’ Compensation Agency has been focused on serving MSHDA’s primary mission. As MSHDA prepares to usher in its 50th anniversary, Elsenheimer said priorities include single family mortgage and multifamily development portfolio growth, as well as stepped up efforts to help the homeless, with a focus on putting a roof over every homeless veteran in 2016. Prior to his work at MSHDA and LARA, Elsenheimer served as Minority Leader in the Michigan House of Representatives. He retired in 2010 as State Representative for the 105th District as a result of term limits. An attorney, Elsenheimer is a former assistant prosecutor and owner of a law firm that represented municipalities throughout Michigan. He attended Michigan State University and Northwestern Michigan College, receiving a law degree from Wayne State University Law School. Consistent with his training as an Eagle Scout, Elsenheimer said his goal is to “leave MSHDA better than he found it.”

Monday Luncheon Speaker Jimmy Wayne COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER/SONGWRITER Jimmy Wayne is a former foster kid turned country music singer/songwriter whose songs, story, and walk halfway across America in 2010 continue to help bring awareness to kids who age out of the foster system and become homeless. He earned the prestigious “Millionaire Award” for receiving one million radio spins of his song “Do You Believe Me Now.” He is the author of Walk to Beautiful, his (three time) New York Times best-selling memoir, and the author of the novel and made-for-TV movie Paper Angels. Jimmy lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tuesday Awards Luncheon Emcee Tahirih Ziegler EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DETROIT LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION (LISC) Tahirih Ziegler is the Executive Director of the Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), where she directs LISC’s investments and implements the Building Sustainable Communities placed-based model to revitalize Detroit’s neighborhoods. Since 2010, Ziegler has facilitated LISC’s investment in excess of $53.8 million in grants, loans, and national resources into Detroit. Her innovative leadership has resulted in the support and investment of hundreds of affordable housing units and commercial space development. With over 20 years of diverse community development experience, Ziegler honed her skills by rising through the ranks of the LISC organization. Prior to joining the Detroit LISC office, Ziegler worked as the Executive Director of the Michigan LISC office for four years and was responsible for neighborhood investment in Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Flint. Ziegler is the Chair of the Detroit CDFI Coalition, a member of the PNC Community Advisory Committee, serves on the Urban Partnership Bank Advisory Board and is a board member of Metro Matters, a regional policy organization. Ziegler earned a Masters of Public Administration in Nonprofit Leadership at Western Michigan University as well as a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Michigan State University. She has two children, an adult daughter and a teenage son.

2 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI TUESDAY DUVERNAY AWARD AWARDS Presented at Tuesday’s Awards Luncheon In memory of Terrence R. LUNCHEON Duvernay, former MSHDA executive director, the 11:45am - 1:15pm conference planning committee established an A conference awards luncheon annual leadership award honoring individuals who have commemorating Terry’s gone beyond the call of duty in lifelong commitment to supporting affordable housing, affordable housing. The community development and award goes to the person who best reflects the ideals quality service to individuals and personal qualities with low and moderate incomes. exhibited by Duvernay. The The coveted Duvernay Award awardee will also receive will be presented, along with a cash award, which will the following special industry be given to the nonprofit recognition awards: housing or community development organization for which the awardee • CEDAM’s CED Advocate of the works or designates as the Year Award recipient.

• CEDAM’s CED Leader of the PAST DUVERNAY AWARD WINNERS: Year Award • 2015-Marvin D. Veltkamp, Medallion Management • Michigan Foreclosure • 2014-Thomas Goddeeris, Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp. Prevention Corps Host Site of • 2013-Mark McDaniel, Great Lakes Capital Fund the Year Award • 2012-Evelyn Brown, Local Initiatives Support Corporation • 2011-Karl L. Gotting, Loomis Law Firm • The Corrie Bair Building • 2010-Dennis Sturtevant, CEO of Dwelling Place Inclusive Communities Award • 2009-Mary L. Trucks, Executive Director of FiveCAP, Inc. • 2008-Melvin Washington, President Phoenix Communities and President Castle • Corporation for Supportive Construction Housing (CSH), Julie Sandorf • 2007-Ron Calery, Executive Director of the Chippewa-Luce- Award Mackinac Community Action Agency • 2006-Gene Kuthy, Board Chairman of the Michigan Interfaith Loan • The Michigan Disability Rights Fund Coalition, Building Inclusive • 2005-Noreen Keating, Lighthouse of Oakland County Communities Award • 2004-Linda Smith, U-SNAP-BAC, Inc./ U-SNAP-BAC Non-Profit Housing Corporation • The Federal Home Loan Bank of • 2003-Jonathan Bradford Inner City Christian Federation Indianapolis, Community Spirit Award

• MSHDA’s Homeownership Division Housing Counselor and Housing Agency of the Year Awards

• Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Affiliate of the Year Award

Housing • Assets • People • Partners | BuildingMICommunities.org | 3 We have great things planned for you this year!

MONDAY AT-A-GLANCE Monday • April 25 7:30am - 6:30pm Registration Open 8:00am - 6:30pm Cyber Café Open 8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast 8:00am - 6:30pm Exhibit Hall Open 8:30am - 10:00am - SESSION HOME 101 - Program Overview 9:15am - 10:00am Welcome Speaker - Kevin Elsenheimer 10:15am - 11:45am - SESSIONS Branding and Marketing Neighborhoods Building Blue Places - Connecting to Water for Economic Development Dream Neighborhoods and Land Banks Economic Benefits of Deconstruction and Demolition Educate & Advocate: Improving Outcomes for Low Income Clients Hot Topics - HUD’s Office of Community Planning & Development Implementing HOME Final Rule changes: Update on Changes to Rental Compliance The Business Case for Energy Efficiency Housing The Language of Appreciation in the Workplace Woe is Me, My Volunteer Retention is Low 11:45am Networking Break 12:00pm - 1:15pm Lunch - Speaker — Jimmy Wayne 1:30pm - 3:00pm - SESSIONS Affordable High Performance Housing Closing Gaps for Clients: Using HandUp to Meet Unmet Needs Connecting Entrepreneurs of All Ages to Resources Gap Funding for Affordable Housing HOME Compliance 201 - Beyond the Basics - HOME Funded Layered Projects (Combining HOME with Tax Credits, and/or Section 8 or HCV) Mind Mapping: A Whole Brain Thinking Tool Poverty Simulation Part 1 of 2 Respect Is Not Rocket Science: Working toward Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Youth Housing Programs The Development Process The Role of Anchor Institutions in Community Placemaking 3:00pm - 3:30pm Networking Break 3:30pm - 5:00pm - SESSIONS Advanced HOME Rental Compliance: Tenant Selection Requirements, Maintaining the Unit Mix and Dealing with Over-Income Tenants C3: Businesses Moving from Competition to Collaboration to Community! Current Debt Options Enhancing the Downtown Through Waterfront Revitalization FHLBI’s Cycle of Homeownership Assistance Growing Michigan’s Good Food Future Nonprofit Advocacy Planning and Paying for Services in Supportive Housing Poverty Simulation Part 2 of 2 Welcoming Immigrants and Refugees to Michigan: What’s the Real Story 5:00pm - 7:00pm Reception with Sponsors and Exhibitors

4 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI Amazing Sessions • Fantastic Exhibitors We have great things planned for you this year! JOIN US — Reserve yourMonday seat • April now! 25

TUESDAY AT-A-GLANCE Tuesday • April 26 7:30am - 4:30pm Registration Open 7:30am - 5:00pm Cyber Café Open 7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast 7:30am - 5:00pm Exhibit Hall Open 8:30am - 10:00am - SESSIONS Bridges Out of Poverty - The Customer Lifecycle Creative Financing of Creative Places Dynamic Dashboards Historic Preservation and the Arts Work Together: The Repurposing of Dearborn’s 1922 City Hall and Ludington’s 1889 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall HMIS and Central Intake/Coordinated Assessment – In It For The Long Haul Housing First for Shelters: Using Collaboration as a Pathway to Housing LIHTC Program Compliance 201 - Beyond the Basics Part 1 of 2 Maximizing Your Board’s Full Potential Placemaking in the Neighborhoods - CDAD Placemaking Grants Rebuilding Northern Michigan’s Historic Walloon Village Special Assessment Districts and Improving Neighborhood Safety & Quality of Life Transitioning Leadership - Planning for Successful Succession 10:00am Networking Break 10:15am - 11:45am - SESSIONS A Strategic Approach to Grant Application Development Breaking Through the Clouds: Sunshine for the KI Sawyer Airforce Base Community Exploring True Colors: Building and Bridging ALL Communities Through the Advancement of Social Justice Housing Tax Credit Syndicator Panel How to Become the Recognized Leader in Your Community Using LinkedIn and YouTube How You Can End Veteran Homelessness HUD Transformation, Risk Management and Preservation MSHDA’s Homeownership Programs The Role of Tax Foreclosure Auctions and Land Banks Tried, True and New Fundraising Techniques Updates from the IRS, HUD and MSHDA and Qualifying Households - Beyond the Basics Part 2 of 2 Using HMIS Data to Make Reallocation Decisions in CoC Funded Programs 12:00pm - 1:15pm Awards Luncheon —Emcee Tahirih Ziegler 1:30pm - 3:00pm - SESSIONS

A Collaborative Model to Build Community Capacity for Neighborhood-Led Change: A Detroit Case Study Advanced Credit Scoring Advanced Program Compliance Strategies for Layered Projects Part 1 of 2 Developing a Culture to Embrace the Challenges of Building Michigan Communities Fair Housing in the Homeownership Process Foreclosure Prevention in the New Frontier Homelessness: Personal Stories and Journeys toward Success MSHDA’s Key to Own Homeownership Program Planning a “Must See” Event! Strengthening our Communities: Strategies for Improving Civic Health in Michigan Tactical Placemaking: Collaborate, Test, Improve and Have Fun Troubled Assets Part 1 of 2

Housing • Assets • People • Partners | BuildingMICommunities.org | 5 TUESDAY AT-A-GLANCE Tuesday • April 26

3:00pm - 3:30pm Networking Break 3:30pm - 5:00pm - SESSIONS Advanced Program Compliance Strategies for Layered Projects Part 2 of 2 Capturing Place One Street at a Time Engaging Immigrants in Neighborhood Planning: Learn from Organizations and Individuals That Are Envisioning a New Future for Banglatown Go Brand Yourself! Grow your Financial Capability Program Michigan’s Toolbox for Creating Active Communities Opportunities in Green Residential Communities in Detroit Partnerships for Sustainable & Creative Community Initiatives - Young Nation & Detroit Collaborative Design Center Strategies for Eliminating Blight and Vacancy: A Detroit Case Study Troubled Assets Part 2 of 2 Unlikely Relationships and Collaboration Resulting in Innovative Reuse Year 16 Options and Opportunities

WEDNESDAY AT-A-GLANCE Wednesday • April 27 7:30am - 11:00am Registration Open 7:30am - 12:00pm Cyber Café Open 7:30am - 8:00am Breakfast 8:30am - 10:00am - SESSIONS Can I Interest You in a 0% Interest Home Repair Loan CRA Dollars: What are they and how can I get some? Festivals, Events, Youth, Arts = Community Development How to Get Your Board to Implement Priorities MSHDA/Housing Choice Voucher Program Permanent Financing for Multifamily Properties Restoring Dignity Though Home Furnishings Senior Housing: What We Have; What We Need The Future of Housing Counseling Programs The Where, Why and How of Missing Middle Housing Development 10:00am - 10:15am Networking Break 10:15am - 11:45am - SESSIONS Energy Efficiency Programs and Services That Address Housing Issues, Low-Income Assistance Programs and Public Building Operations Financing a Home for Purchase or Repair Financing Placemaking Projects -- How to Make it Work Flexible Financial Assistance in Rapid Rehousing High Cost of Disparities High Performance Multifamily Buildings: You Can Make it Happen MHRI: Exploring Medicaid and New Ways to Support People Who are Chronically Homeless Mutual Benefit, Partnership and Fun - Building Corporate-, Grant- and Event-Based Underwriting Promoting Domestic Violence Survivor’s Well-Being: Impact on Change and Survivor Defined Success Shaping Your Message, Telling Your Story Using HMIS to Support Coordinated Entry System Redesign and Housing Prioritization: Serving the Most in Need 11:45am - Networking Break 12:00pm 12:00pm - 1:15pm Lunch

6 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI MSHDA is turning 50!

APRIL 25, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

You are invited to help MSHDA celebrate 50 years of investing in Michigan’s people and places. Please join MSHDA partners, friends and current and former staff at a Monday evening reception to celebrate MSHDA’s 50th birthday. You might hear some stories for the first time or catch a couple that you’ve heard a hundred times. There will be strolling snack stations, live entertainment and sweet treats. We look forward to seeing you there! YEARS EXHIBITS Stroll through the exhibit space, Monday 8:00am - 7:00pm and Tuesday 7:30am - 5:00pm.

Located in Exhibit Hall A, conference attendees can observe a number of companies featuring products available on the market today, as well as many other creative displays supporting Michigan communities.

MONDAY RECEPTION 5:00pm - 7:00pm • EXHIBIT HALL A Unwind from the first day of sessions and visit with the sponsors and exhibitors. There will be activities to participate in, music, food and a cash bar.

Housing • Assets • People • Partners | BuildingMICommunities.org | 7 CEDAM/CDAD ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP CELEBRATION

Please join the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM) and the Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) as they celebrate many years of representing the CED industry in Michigan at their Annual Membership Celebration! This special event will take place on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, at the Christman Building, located a short distance from the Lansing Center. The Christman Building – world headquarters of the Christman Company – is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was recipient of the world’s first double-platinum LEED® designation. The Christman Company itself has graciously allowed use of its top-floor event space and rooftop patio for our guests’ enjoyment.

This entertaining event will feature an excellent array of heavy appetizers and desserts by one of Lansing’s top caterers, a complimentary bar, door prizes, and other fun surprises. You won’t want to miss out on the spectacular view ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP CELEBRATION of the State Capitol Building from the Day: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 rooftop terrace of the Christman Building. Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm The mix of company, environment and energy will make for an evening beyond Location: Christman Building 208 N. Capitol Avenue your expectations. Lansing, MI 48933 Who: All are welcome – please pre-register Please pre-register for this event ($50 for CEDAM/CDAD members; $65 for non- Cost: $50 CEDAM/CDAD Members members) as part of your conference $65 Non-Members registration, or call Liv Hagerman at 517-485-3588 for more information.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Registration is located in the main concourse. Please stop by at the following hours to pick up your registration packet or to register on-site:

• Monday, April 25, 7:30am – 6:30pm • Tuesday, April 26, 7:30am – 4:30pm • Wednesday, April 27, 7:30am – 11:00am

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8 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Monday • April 25 DREAM NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOT TOPICS - HUD’S OFFICE OF LAND BANKS COMMUNITY PLANNING AND Monday Immigrants have a long history of buying DEVELOPMENT and renovating distressed property in HUD will provide a brief overview of program 8:30am - 10:00am declining neighborhoods and opening ethnic changes and updates on the latest news and HOME 101 - PROGRAM OVERVIEW stores that attract immigrant homeowners. CPD Highlights. If you have not used HOME funds before, or Great examples of this are in SW Detroit, Audience Level: All Moderator: Michelle Woolf, Michigan Department have only used them for one type of activity East Dearborn and the Detroit/Hamtramck border. Land banks are now partnering of Health and Human Services and want to hear about other potential uses, Panelist(s): Darlene E. White, US Department join us for an overview of the HOME Program. with immigrants to revitalize communities. This session will discuss Cleveland’s Dream of Housing and Urban Development, Margaret Including background on HOME and its Momon, US Department of Housing and Urban allocations to state and local governments, Neighborhood and strategies used by Development, Portia McGoy, US Department of who can use the funds, eligible uses, and the Brightmoor residents to attract immigrants Housing and Urban Development essential compliance requirements for using to NW Detroit. HOME for low-income housing. Audience Level: All Moderator: Aileen Waldron, USDA Rural IMPLEMENTING HOME FINAL RULE Audience Level: All Development Moderator: Sherri Davio, MSHDA CHANGES: UPDATE ON CHANGES TO Panelist(s): Larry Simmons, Baber Memorial Panelist(s): Monte Franke, Franke Consulting Group RENTAL COMPLIANCE A.M.E. Church, Councilman Cimperman, Cleveland Clarifications of the 2013 HOME Final Rule City Council changes continue to come from HUD. Hear 10:15am - 11:45am the latest guidance regarding implementing ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF the Final Rule changes affecting existing BRANDING AND MARKETING DECONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION HOME-assisted rental projects, including the NEIGHBORHOODS This session will focus on demolition and requirement for the PJ to review and approve This session will focus on the importance of deconstruction as tools to address vacant and rents and UA prior to implementing changes neighborhood branding and neighborhood blighted structures and help stabilize Michigan in the HOME rents, implementing the new marketing to promote a positive image of communities. Speakers will discuss the student rule and changes to the property neighborhoods. It will describe a marketing feasibility and costs of both interventions and standards. objectives, identifying target market highlight the economic impacts of their use. Audience Level: All segments, marketing messages, and Audience Level: All Moderator: Sherri Davio, MSHDA strategies that can attract home buyers Moderator: Payton Heins, Center for Community Panelist(s): Monte Franke, Franke Consulting Group and strengthen how the neighborhood is Progress perceived. This session will provide a number Panelist(s): Payton Heins, Center for Community THE BUSINESS CASE FOR ENERGY of specific examples that will illustrate the Progress, Sitou Akibode Comlanvi, Michigan State EFFICIENCY HOUSING main points. University, George Berghorn, Michigan State Audience Level: All University Property owners/managers are looking Moderator: Carol Brito, MSHDA to energy efficiency as a way to improve Panelist(s): Michael Schubert, Community payment of rent and to reduce turn over Development Strategies EDUCATE & ADVOCATE: IMPROVING among tenants. Learn about incentives and OUTCOMES FOR LOW INCOME CLIENTS business opportunities to make housing Improving outcomes for lower-income clients energy efficient and increase property value. BUILDING BLUE PLACES - CONNECTING TO is critical to breaking the cycle of poverty, Audience Level: All WATER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT but programs can only do so much when Moderator: Jessica Rick, Habitat for Humanity of Practitioners will share experience and constrained by antiquated polices or when Michigan practical lessons in leveraging communities’ predatory consumer financial products Panelist(s): Kate White, Michigan Community abundant natural water assets: coasts, create greater economic instability. Action, Peter Ruark, Michigan League for Public harbors, rivers, lakes, etc., through Audience Level: All Policy, Yvonne Lewis, CLEAResult, David Gerchak, restoration, enhancing access, and organizing Moderator: Becky Search, MSHDA First Housing Corporation, Patricia Baines-Lake, community development around them – Panelist(s): Jessica AcMoody, CEDAM, Arnitra Lansing Housing Commission water placemaking. Water placemaking can Cooksey, Wayne Metro Community Action Agency, contribute powerfully to improved quality of Troy Milton, Wayne Metro Community Action Agency, THE LANGUAGE OF APPRECIATION IN THE life and translate into tremendous economic Ross Yednock, CEDAM WORKPLACE development benefits. Based on the best-selling work of Author Dr. Audience Level: All Gary Chapman, this session offers practical Moderator: Karen Gagnon, MSHDA tips to increase harmony within the workplace. Panelist(s): John Austin, Michigan Economic Reduce time and energy formerly wasted on Center at Prima Civitas, Gerard Santoro, Macomb the frustration of misunderstanding. County Economic Development Director, Randy Audience Level: All Maiers, Community Foundation of St. Clair County, Moderator: Renee Ferguson, MSHDA Elizabeth Riggs, Huron River Watershed Council, Panelist(s): Kim Cordes, KimCordes.com Laura Ogar, Bay County

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Housing • Assets • People • Partners | BuildingMICommunities.org | 9 SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Monday • April 25 experiencing homelessness and poverty, debt leveraging to more patient capital 10:15am - 11:45am continued to meet the gaps not covered by traditional deployment for cash return on investment. funding sources. Audience Level: All WOE IS ME, MY VOLUNTEER RETENTION Audience Level: All Moderator: MaryBeth Wott, Federal Home Loan IS LOW Moderator: Debra Hendren, Community Housing Bank-Indianapolis This workshop informs participants as to why Network Panelist(s): Trish Lewis, Federal Home Loan Bank of people volunteer, provides assessment tools Panelist(s): Jenny Poma, South Oakland Shelter, Indianapolis, Celia Smoot, Local Initiatives Support so participants can evaluate the volunteer Sammie Rayner, HandUp Corporation, Tahirih Ziegler, Local Initiatives culture of their organization, attract new Support Corporation, John Hundt, MSHDA volunteers and impact their organizational CONNECTING ENTREPRENEURS OF ALL culture in a positive manner. AGES TO RESOURCES HOME COMPLIANCE 201 - BEYOND Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Our panel of experts will provide THE BASICS - HOME FUNDED LAYERED Moderator: Melodie Stacey, Opportunity Resource recommendations on how the entrepreneur PROJECTS (COMBINING HOME WITH TAX Fund of any age can tap into local resources, from CREDITS, AND/OR SECTION 8 OR HCV) Panelist(s): Tom Williams, Nonprofit Network the local library to community financial A discussion of the most challenging institutions, to start and grow a business. compliance issues when HOME units are 1:30pm - 3:00pm Audience Level: All layered with LIHTC, and/or Sec 8 (TBA or Moderator: Deb Renee Biggs, Library of Michigan PBA). Learn how to stay in compliance for all AFFORDABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE Panelist(s): Marsha Madle, CEDAM, Tom programs, even when program rules conflict. HOUSING Donaldson, Small Business Development Center Bring your compliance questions, listen to Realize the value of building affordable - Capital Region, Jessica Goodrich, Capital Area discussions topics such as HOME and LIHTC District Libraries, Cheryl Peters, Generation E housing to significantly higher levels of student rules, calculating UA, determining max Institute, Dennis West, Northern Initiatives performance, and examine how Habitat for rents, and dealing with over-income tenants. Humanity homes achieve superior health & Audience Level: All safety, durability, accessibility, and energy & GAP FUNDING FOR AFFORDABLE Moderator: Sherri Davio, MSHDA resource efficiency. HOUSING Panelist(s): Monte Franke, Franke Consulting Group Audience Level: All Affordable housing transactions are Moderator: Thom Phillips, Habitat for Humanity increasingly complicated with layered MIND MAPPING: A WHOLE BRAIN Michigan financing which demands new and innovative THINKING TOOL Panelist(s): Jess Rick, Habitat for Humanity lending tools to meet today’s capital needs. Michigan, Thom Phillips, Habitat for Humanity Brain fog? Burned out? You probably know Traditional lending products offered by Michigan that you can kill brain cells, but do you know CDFIs are being expanded from just typical that you can grow brain cell connections? Your brain is a powerful tool. Its capacity is CLOSING GAPS FOR CLIENTS: USING unmatched by any computer to date. Join HANDUP TO MEET UNMET NEEDS this fun, fast paced session. Learn about HandUp, an online direct giving Audience Level: All system that leverages resource for people Moderator: Renee Ferguson, MSHDA Panelist(s): Kim Cordes, KimCordes.com

POVERTY SIMULATION PART 1 OF 2 This interactive session will get people out of their seats (and comfort zones) by providing an opportunity to experience the day to day realities of life with a shortage of money and an abundance of stress. Audience Level: All Moderator: Ross Yednock, CEDAM Panelist(s): Rachel Diskin, CEDAM, Liv Hagerman, CEDAM

RESPECT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE: WORKING TOWARD DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND EQUITY IN YOUTH HOUSING PROGRAMS Learn about opportunities and challenges of serving youth in housing programs, including PSH, as well as the community’s coordinated response to youth homelessness. We will address issues related to serving this group in a variety of forums/capacities. Audience Level: All Moderator: John Peterson, CSH Panelist(s): Jerry Peterson, Ruth Ellis Center, Katie Doyle, Ozone House Youth and Family Services

10 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Monday • April 25 CURRENT DEBT OPTIONS Industry professionals will provide an overview of LIHTC borrower criteria needs, current pricing trends, execution challenges, CRA, and refinancing options. Audience Level: Moderate Moderator: TBD Panelist(s): TBD , Comerica, TBD Fifth Third, Jack Bernhart, JPMorgan Chase, Earl Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

ENHANCING THE DOWNTOWN THROUGH WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION Learn about resources used to complete or start projects including the development of a downtown riverfront hotel, adding residential units on the second story of an existing commercial structure, removing a blighted building to create a prime riverfront lot destined for mixed-use development, and continued placemaking efforts conducted by Alpena’s Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center. THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 3:30pm - 5:00pm Audience Level: All An entertaining workshop that provides a Moderator: Karen Gagnon, MSHDA comprehensive overview of the real estate ADVANCED HOME RENTAL COMPLIANCE: Panelist(s): Don Gilmet, City of Alpena, Jim Klarich, development process. The session outlines TENANT SELECTION REQUIREMENTS, Target Alpena, Adam Poll, City of Alpena, Jeff the sequence of activities and the roles played Gray, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary by the development team members from MAINTAINING THE UNIT MIX, AND planning to operations of the property. DEALING WITH OVER INCOME TENANTS Audience Level: All A discussion of tenant selection plan and FHLBI’S CYCLE OF HOMEOWNERSHIP Moderator: Don Klump, Cinnaire requirements, priorities and preferences, ASSISTANCE Panelist(s): Mark McDaniel, Cinnaire tenant screening, waiting lists and lease This session will describe how FHLBI’s requirements. Other compliance topics affordable housing funding promotes a THE ROLE OF ANCHOR INSTITUTIONS IN include, rent adjustments required for positive cycle of homeownership, from assisting homebuyers to acquire their first COMMUNITY PLACEMAKING tenants whose incomes on recertification home, to rehabilitation assistance for existing Anchor institutions along the Woodward exceed the applicable income limits. Learn homeowners, and accessibility modifications corridor share their approach to how to maintain the unit mix and maintain compliance with program requirements Audience Level: All placemaking. Learn how the Detroit Institute Moderator: MaryBeth Wott, Federal Home Loan of Arts, Henry Ford Health System and when tenants become over-income. Audience Level: All Bank of Indianapolis Wayne State University are engaging their Moderator: Sherri Davio, MSHDA Panelist(s): Shannon Fountain, Federal Home communities to leverage physical and Panelist(s): Monte Franke, Franke Consulting Group Loan Bank of Indianapolis, Ronna Edwards, cultural assets. Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Moderator: Esther Haugabook, MSHDA C3: BUSINESSES MOVING FROM Panelist(s): Jeri Stroupe, Wayne State University COMPETITION TO COLLABORATION TO GROWING MICHIGAN’S GOOD Office of Economic Development, Thomas COMMUNITY! FOOD FUTURE An overview of the Michigan Good Food Habitz Jr., Henry Ford Health System, Bradford “Whatever the problem, community is the Fund, a new public-private partnership loan Frost, Capital Impact Partners, Detroit Corridor answer” ~ Meg Wheatley. We invite you to Initiative, Elliott Broom, Detroit Institute of Arts and business assistance fund created to join your peers in this interactive session finance healthy food production, processing, to explore how to leverage Michigan’s distribution and retail projects that benefit small business environment. Through this underserved communities in Michigan highly participatory event, facilitated by Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate an experienced café host, we will utilize Moderator: Aileen Waldron, USDA our collective experience to tap into our Panelist(s): Richard Pirog, MSU Center for Regional wisdom and release our innovation to look Food Systems, Jean Chorazyczewski, Fair Food for profound ways to connect to each other Network in order to contribute and create a more powerful community. Audience Level: All Moderator: Brandon Ivory, LISC Panelist(s): Bernadette Johnson, CORE Consulting

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Housing • Assets • People • Partners | BuildingMICommunities.org | 11 SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Monday • April 25 -­ Tuesday • April 26 WELCOMING IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND THE ARTS TO MICHIGAN: THE REAL STORY WORK TOGETHER: THE REPURPOSING Michigan is third in the country for OF DEARBORN’S 1922 CITY HALL AND number of refugee arrivals, and is home LUDINGTON’S 1889 INDEPENDENT ORDER to ten Welcoming Cities & Counties. Learn OF ODD FELLOWS HALL about refugee resettlement, what local Very different communities – the Southeast governments and community organizations Michigan urban center of Dearborn and the are doing to create immigrant-friendly small Lake Michigan harbor town of Ludington environments, and ideas you can bring back – have created smart projects that combine to your community. historic preservation and the arts for their Audience Level: All economic and cultural benefit. Moderator: Alicia Alvarez, University of Michigan Audience Level: All Law School, Community and Economic Moderator: Nancy Finegood, MHPN Development Clinic Panelist(s): Erica Karmeisool, Makers Market of Panelist(s): Christina Suave, Welcoming Michigan, Ludington, J. Michael Kirk, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Jeralda Hattar, Catholic Charities of Southeast Neumann/Smith Architecture, Janet L. Kreger, Michigan, Pamela Lavers, Macomb County Michigan Historic Preservation Network

HMIS AND CENTRAL INTAKE/ COORDINATED ASSESSMENT – IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL Tuesday This session will look at innovative uses 3:30pm - 5:00pm continued of ServicePoint within the Central Intake/ 8:30am - 10:00am Coordinated Assessment environment within Michigan. It will focus on how system tools NONPROFIT ADVOCACY BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY - THE and features can improve coordination of Learn how to successfully and effectively CUSTOMER LIFECYCLE services for communities. advocate for your issues. Learn how to build relationships with those Audience Level: Intermediate Audience Level: Intermediate Moderator: Anita Jackson, Lincoln Behavioral Moderator: Joan Bowman, Michigan Nonprofit we are working with in the homeless service delivery system, keeping in mind how our Services Association Panelist(s): Jill Shoemaker, Michigan Coalition perspective and attitudes often impact how Panelist(s): Joan Bowman, Michigan Nonprofit Against Homelessness, Gerry Leslie, Michigan Association we work with people. Coalition Against Homelessness Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Moderator: Eric Hufnagel, Michigan Coalition PLANNING AND PAYING FOR SERVICES IN Against Homelessness HOUSING FIRST FOR SHELTERS: USING SUPPORTIVE HOUSING , Panelist(s): Katena Cain, Nonprofit Network COLLABORATION AS A PATHWAY TO Supportive housing increasingly prioritizes HOUSING those most vulnerable or challenged in our Learn how one shelter has worked to embed CREATIVE FINANCING OF CREATIVE communities. This session covers how to housing, clinic and mental health services plan and pay for the broad array of on-site PLACES through agency partners within an emergency This session will explore why financing arts and community-based services that address shelter as a one stop shop to remove barriers and cultural-related facilities as part of a tenant choices and needs. and improve guest outcomes. Audience Level: All community revitalization strategy – often Audience Level: All Moderator: Kittie Tuinstra, OCEANA’S HOME referred to as “creative placemaking” – is not Moderator: Kittie Tuinstra, OCEANA’S HOME Partnership just interesting, but also a high-impact and Partnership Panelist(s): John Peterson, CSH, Carole McCabe, high-growth sector. Panelist(s): Elizabeth Kelly, HOPE Adult Shelter and Avalon Housing Audience Level: All Recuperative Care Moderator: Victor Abla, LISC Panelist(s): Lynne McCormack, LISC, Regina Smith, POVERTY SIMULATION PART 2 OF 2 Kresge Foundation, Olga Stella, Detroit Creative LIHTC PROGRAM COMPLIANCE 201 - A continuation of the session from earlier Corridor Center BEYOND THE BASICS PART 1 OF 2 today. This interactive session will get people Join LIHTC expert and MSHDA Compliance out of their seats (and comfort zones) by for a quick overview of the most important providing an opportunity to experience the DYNAMIC DASHBOARDS LIHTC compliance rules, followed by in-depth Dashboards can take your organization day to day realities of life with a shortage of discussions and the answers to your most and your board discussion to new heights, money and an abundance of stress. challenging questions about LIHTC acq/rehab Audience Level: All helping you to see the horizon, while focusing deals. Learn the best strategies for calculating Moderator: Ross Yednock, CEDAM on your current successes and goals. Come 1st year credit, maximizing credit, and Panelist(s): Rachel Diskin, CEDAM, Liv Hagerman, learn how to use them to make progress and maintain compliance with the minimum set- CEDAM stay on the right road. aside, applicable fraction, unit transfers, etc. Audience Level: All Audience Level: All Moderator: Melodie Stacey, Opportunity Moderator: Cassandra Brown, MSHDA Resource Fund Panelist(s): Jillian Toole, Novogradac & Company LLP Panelist(s): Amy Smitter, Habitat for Humanity of Michigan

12 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Tuesday • April 26“

MAXIMIZING YOUR BOARD’S FULL POTENTIAL The Building Michigan Communities Conference This session will address the value of effective board member recruiting tools brings together professionals from around Michigan and procedures, a continued process of orientating the members to their roles and and throughout the country with a heart for accountability practices that encourage mission fulfillment. inclusively REbuilding Michigan communities. We Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Moderator: Lisa Assenmacher, CEDAM would not miss this event! Panelist(s): Tom Williams, Nonprofit Network — Jason L. Paulateer, PNC Community Development Market Manager PLACEMAKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS - CDAD PLACEMAKING GRANTS Placemaking (PM) can be an effective tool in neighborhood revitalization efforts. It isn’t just happening Downtown and Midtown. It’s “TRANSITIONING LEADERSHIP - PLANNING EXPLORING TRUE COLORS: BUILDING AND happening in Detroit neighborhoods. Learn FOR SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSION BRIDGING ALL COMMUNITIES THROUGH about neighborhood PM efforts from CDAD Succession planning in nonprofits is rare. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE staff and resident-led groups. Often, volunteer boards would rather not deal In this session we will explore key trends Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate with the demands that such planning requires. illustrating the nonprofit landscape relative Moderator: Brandon Ivory, LISC This session will build the case for and offer to diversity and inclusion, identify strategies Panelist(s): Madhavi Reddy, Community tools to support a robust planning effort. for the LGBTQ community, and interactively Development Advocates of Detroit, Naim Edwards, Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Voices for Earth Justice, Diane Reeder, Peace examine practical strategies and tools to Moderator: Marsha Madle, CEDAM advance social equity. Zones for Life, Vickie Elmer, People for Palmer Park Panelist(s): Regina Funkhouser, Nonprofit Network Audience Level: All Moderator: Chelsea Martin, Michigan NonProfit REBUILDING NORTHERN MICHIGAN’S 10:15am - 11:45am Association HISTORIC WALLOON VILLAGE Panelist(s): Katena Cain, Nonprofit Network Framed by stunning natural beauty, a A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO GRANT revitalized Walloon Village gives its 300 APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT HOUSING TAX CREDIT SYNDICATOR residents and many visitors an exciting, There is much more to grant writing than PANEL walkable town center. Planning resulted in completing an application. Gathering Tax Credit syndicators who are active in the new shops, waterfront park, incubator retailers information, researching potential funders Michigan market will give their outlook for and restaurants evocative of the past. and building a calendar are key elements for the housing tax credit market. Panelists will Audience Level: All success. This session will make the case for a discuss current trends in the market and Moderator: Janet Kreger, MHPN strategic approach to grant seeking. issues which come up when they review a Panelist(s): Robert Gibbs, Gibbs Planning Group, Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Gregory Presley, Presley Architecture development. Moderator: Brandon Ivory, LISC Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Panelist(s): Regina Funkhouser, Nonprofit Network Moderator: Tom Edmiston, Cinnaire SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS AND Panelist(s): Rachel Rhodes, National Equity Fund, IMPROVING NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY & BREAKING THROUGH THE CLOUDS: Jennifer Everhart, Cinnaire, Dan Kierce, RBC QUALITY OF LIFE SUNSHINE FOR THE KI SAWYER AIRFORCE Capital Markets, Macy Kisilinsky, PNC Real Estate Learn about GRDC’s successful effort to BASE COMMUNITY draft and pass Detroit’s Special Assessment After years of vibrancy, the KI Sawyer Airforce HOW TO BECOME THE RECOGNIZED Ordinance allowing neighborhoods to Base became a desolate track of land when LEADER IN YOUR COMMUNITY USING fund special safety and quality of life the base closed in 1993. There is now a LINKEDIN AND YOUTUBE improvements through discussion by the resurgence of energy with garden plantings How to become the recognized community coalition of community leaders who made and involvement in programs on healthy food leader by using LinkedIn and YouTube. Two it happen. Special Assessment Districts, preparation, physical activity and diabetes powerful Social Media tools that you can when implemented promises to bring many prevention. Even on an old air force base, “it use for free. Make you and your agency the benefits to neighborhoods across Detroit. takes a village” to bring prosperity to all. recognized expert in your market area. Get Audience Level: Beginner Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate found and create context with clients. Moderator: Aaron Goodman, CDAD Moderator: Aileen Waldron, USDA Audience Level: All Panelist(s): Chelse Neblett, Grandmont Rosedale Panelist(s): Erin Carter, Michigan State University Moderator: Dave Sullivan, Hammer It Out LLC Development Corp, Mitch Meisner, Honigman Extension, Tyler LaPlaunt, Sault Tribe Health Services Panelist(s): Dave Sullivan, Hammer it Out LLC Law Firm, Samira Guyot, Michigan Community Resources, Paul Mardosian, Honigman Law Firm

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Down Payment Assistance and Mortgage 10:15am - 11:45am continued Credit Certificate (federal tax credit for USING HMIS DATA TO MAKE homebuyers). REALLOCATION DECISIONS IN COC Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate FUNDED PROGRAMS HOW YOU CAN END VETERAN Moderator: Nancy Baker, MSHDA In order for communities to transform their HOMELESSNESS Panelist(s): Eric Dusenbury, MSHDA homeless system into one focused on Learn how you can work together with your ending homelessness, difficult decisions CoC, VA providers and other community THE ROLE OF TAX FORECLOSURE must be made about what types of projects partners to create a community plan to end AUCTIONS AND LAND BANKS are the most needed and effective. Existing homelessness in your area. To not perpetuate the cycle of disinvestment HMIS data is one tool that communities Audience Level: All in certain neighborhoods, the Ingham County have that can be used to help make these Moderator: Ann Mueller, MSHDA Treasurer has strategized with the Ingham decisions. This session will describe how Panelist(s): Tami Farnum, Community Action County Land Bank to place reverter clauses, the Detroit Continuum of Care used data to Agency, Robert Nelson, Volunteers of America make decisions on reallocating funding from owner occupancy requirements,and other CoC-funded Transitional Housing projects restrictions on certain properties. to new projects. This workshop will walk HUD TRANSFORMATION, RISK Audience Level: All participants through the process that was MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION Moderator: Mark Adkins, MSHDA used to determine reallocation thresholds HUD is transforming the way in which the Panelist(s): Eric Schertzing, Ingham County and the results of the reallocation process. Multifamily side does business in order to Treasurer and Ingham County Land Bank Board Audience Level: Intermediate make it more effective and efficient. The Chairman Moderator: Amanda Carlisle, Washtenaw Housing transformation includes a new organizational Alliance structure, a new emphasis on portfolio risk TRIED, TRUE AND NEW FUNDRAISING Panelist(s): Amanda Sternberg, Homeless Action management, and new work flow processes TECHNIQUES Network of Detroit, Tasha Gray, Homeless Action including workload sharing nationwide. People donate to charity when asked by Network of Detroit In addition, HUD has several initiatives to someone they know and trust. Attendees preserve affordable housing. RAD and 8bb will learn how to expand their fundraising will be discussed. universe by mixing traditional tried and true 1:30pm - 3:00pm Audience Level: All fundraising techniques with new online A COLLABORATIVE MODEL TO Moderator: David Kimball, Department of Housing fundraising tools. BUILD COMMUNITY CAPACITY FOR and Urban Development Audience Level: All Panelist(s): Barbara Chiapella, Department Moderator: Racheal Sanford, Fit Body Boot Camp NEIGHBORHOOD-LED CHANGE: A of Housing and Urban Development, Joshua Panelist(s): Rebecca Bahar-Cook, Capitol DETROIT CASE STUDY Osborne, Department of Housing and Urban Fundraising Associates, Amanda Stitt, Change Media Increasing the capacity of resident-led Development, Mark Dominick, Department Group, Elizabeth Battiste, Change Media Group groups to become strong partners in the of Housing and Urban Development, Susie development of their neighborhoods is Sapilewski, Department of Housing and Urban UPDATES FROM THE IRS, HUD AND critical to building vibrant communities. Development Session attendees will hear from participants MSHDA AND QUALIFYING HOUSEHOLDS - in this innovative program and learn about BEYOND THE BASICS PART 2 OF 2 MSHDA’S HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAMS This session will cover the latest update of the developing a model for building capacity This session will provide information HUD and IRS regulations related to qualifying among resident-led neighborhood groups about MSHDA’s Homeownership program. LIHTC households, both existing and new, and with the goal of supporting healthy and Session items will include the MI First Home how to avoid recapture. vibrant Michigan communities. and MI Next Home mortgage products, Audience Level: All Audience Level: Intermediate Moderator: Cassandra Brown, MSHDA Moderator: Aaron Goodman, CDAD Panelist(s): Jillian Toole, Novogradac & Company LLP Panelist(s): Alisha Opperman, Michigan Community Resources, LaToya Morgan, Community Development Advocates of Detroit, Denise Kennedy, Princeton Street Block Club, Tammara Howard, Belvidere Community Youth Block Club, Jay Meeks, Marygrove Community Association

ADVANCED CREDIT SCORING Credit scores are always on the forefront when making a financial transaction. Helping your customers – and yourself – improve scores allows buyers better access to credit and the ultimate “American Dream” of home ownership. Audience Level: All Moderator: Sarah Bohne, MSHDA Panelist(s): Dave Sullivan, Real Estate One

14 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Tuesday • April 26 This dynamic presentation will feature These efforts can strengthen strategic ADVANCED PROGRAM COMPLIANCE individuals who will candidly discuss journeys partnerships, align communities, reduce STRATEGIES FOR LAYERED PROJECTS from homelessness to housed. costs, and catalyze development for longer- Audience Level: All term, permanent improvements. PART 1 OF 2 Audience Level: All LIHTC program is layered with multiple Moderator: Nicole Schalow, MSHDA Panelist(s): Ricardo Calhoun, SSVF - Wayne Moderator: Karen Gagnon, MSHDA funding sources. This session will discuss Metropolitan Community Action Agency, Yshelu Panelist(s): Sarah Craft, Michigan Municipal compliance strategies for layered LIHTC Johnson, Avalon Housing, Peggy Donham, Avalon League, Jamie Schriner-Hooper, Community projects. Learn how to maintain compliance Housing, Glenn Boyer Economic Development Association of Michigan, when rules differ, which income and rent Gilbert White, Gilbert M White, Realtor limits must be used, how to determine MSHDA’S KEY TO OWN HOMEOWNERSHIP resident eligibility and which Utility TROUBLED ASSETS PART 1 OF 2 Allowance is acceptable. PROGRAM Using MSHDA’s Section 8 Housing Choice Join us for a discussion on working with Audience Level: All troubled multifamily properties. Session 1 Moderator: Cassandra Brown, MSHDA Voucher to allow voucher participants to will involve presentation and discussion of Panelist(s): Jillian Toole, Novogradac & Company LLP purchase their very own home! Learn how MSHDA has been successful in leading the actual case studies of troubled properties. nation in converting vouchers from renting to Participants will work together in teams to DEVELOPING A CULTURE TO EMBRACE homeownership! identify possible solutions and present them THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDING Audience Level: All to the class. MICHIGAN COMMUNITIES Moderator: Keri Nobach, MSHDA Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate There’s nothing traditional about this session Panelist(s): Lisa Lehman, MSHDA Moderator: Yulonda Byrd, Cinnaire at all -- get ready to participate in work group Panelist(s): Yulonda Byrd, Cinnaire, Josh Ghena, activities that challenge you to evaluate your Cinnaire PLANNING A “MUST SEE” EVENT! culture to determine what you need to do to Learn the secrets to making meetings, staff be successful in the future. 3:30pm - 5:00pm Audience Level: All retreats, community and corporate events a resounding success. Join us as we share Moderator: Racheal Sanford, Fit Body Boot Camp ADVANCED PROGRAM COMPLIANCE Panelist(s): Stan Hannah, Plante Moran LLC and discuss critical information for anyone responsible for the planning and execution STRATEGIES FOR LAYERED PROJECTS of events. PART 2 OF 2 FAIR HOUSING IN THE HOMEOWNERSHIP Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Join Jillian O’Toole and MSHDA Compliance PROCESS Moderator: Melodie Stacey, Opportunity Resource for the latest regarding MSHDA’s program Fair housing plays an integral role in the quest Fund compliance manuals, policies and procedures. to homeownership. Consistent practices Panelist(s): Lisa Grace, Grandmont Rosedale The session ends with an opportunity for you within the housing industry, both real estate Development Corporation, Becki Kenderes, to receive answers to your most challenging and lending, provides an equal opportunity for Grandmot Rosedale Development Corporation program compliance questions from Jillian all people to obtain housing of their choice. and/or MSHDA. Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate STRENGTHENING OUR COMMUNITIES: Audience Level: All Moderator: Karen Lawson, MSHDA STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING CIVIC Moderator: Cassandra Brown, MSHDA Panelist(s): Patricia Baird, Fair Housing Center of Panelist(s): Jillian Toole, Novogradac & Company LLP Eastern MI HEALTH IN MICHIGAN This session will include a discussion on the state of civic health in Michigan with a focus CAPTURING PLACE ONE STREET AT FORECLOSURE PREVENTION IN THE on recommendations to improve civic health, A TIME NEW FRONTIER and will highlight key findings from the 2015 Marquette’s planning for its striking location This session will review best practices Michigan Civic Health Index produced by on Lake Superior has been fueled by the for foreclosure prevention in Michigan Michigan Nonprofit Association. power of partnerships for years. A vibrant, without the availability of the 90 day law, Audience Level: Intermediate mixed-up corridor linking the historic Stepforward, and HAMP. Participants will Moderator: Chelsea Martin, Michigan NonProfit downtown with Northern Michigan University learn what options are still available and how Association is its recent placemaking success. to utilize those within CFPB guidelines Panelist(s): Chelsea Martin, Michigan Nonprofit Audience Level: All Audience Level: All Association Moderator: Janet Kreger, MHPN Moderator: Mark Adkins, MSHDA Panelist(s): Dennis Stachewicz, City of Marquette, Panelist(s): Lorray Brown, Michigan Poverty TACTICAL PLACEMAKING: COLLABORATE, Robert Gibbs, Gibbs Planning Group, Inc., James Law Program, Teagen Lefere, MSU Extention Clare County TEST, IMPROVE & HAVE FUN Tactical or ‘Lighter Quicker Cheaper’ approaches to placemaking encourage HOMELESSNESS: PERSONAL STORIES citizen involvement and collaboration – AND JOURNEYS TOWARD SUCCESS pillars of successful long-term planning, by Listen to personal experiences from those recognizing that the experts of creating a that experienced homelessness firsthand. place are the people who inhabit the space.

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program value. Most importantly, though, 3:30pm - 5:00pm continued we’ll provide tools you may use to track STRATEGIES FOR ELIMINATING BLIGHT Tischler, MSHDA outcomes and measure impacts – both of AND VACANCY: A DETROIT CASE ENGAGING IMMIGRANTS IN which your funders will want to see. The STUDY program includes the entire MSHDA-funded NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING: LEARN Problem properties, occupied or vacant, are Financial Capability series of learning FROM ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS found nearly everywhere. Hear about how modules. Detroit, through its land bank and building THAT ARE ENVISIONING A NEW FUTURE Audience Level: All FOR BANGLATOWN department, is combatting blight and Moderator: Sharon Evans, MSHDA vacancy, and putting properties back into “Banglatown,” home to a large Bangladeshi Panelist(s): Denise Keiser, Center for Financial community straddling Hamtramck and Health productive use. Learn how Detroit’s blight- Detroit boasts assets including a diverse fighting programs can be replicated in your population, vibrant arts community, and community. MICHIGAN’S TOOLBOX FOR CREATING Audience Level: All strong community organizations. The ACTIVE COMMUNITIES Moderator: Laura Settlemyer, Center for session will focus on strategies for culturally Activate! The streets of Lansing will be the Community Progress competent neighborhood planning, branding living lab showcasing active living programs Panelist(s): Becki Camargo, Detroit Land Bank an ethnic enclave as a destination, and and resources available to assist with Authority, Leor Barak, Detroit Land Bank convening community stakeholders to work designing places and spaces that contribute Authority, Randy Hargraves, City of Detroit towards common goals. to healthy lifestyles. Participate in a train-the- Audience Level: All Moderator: Aaron Goodman, CDAD trainer neighborhood audit of walking and TROUBLED ASSETS PART 2 OF 2 Panelist(s): Ehsan Taqbeem, Bangladeshi biking amenities and barriers. Understand Join us for a discussion on working with American Public Affairs Committee (BAPAC), Steve how to build on active living assets and why troubled multifamily properties. In Session 2, Tobocman, Global Detroit, Scott Benson, Detroit it’s essential to compete in the 21st century. participants will develop possible solutions City Council Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate and present them to the class. Presenters Moderator: Karen Gagnon, MSHDA will then share what happened to the actual GO BRAND YOURSELF! Panelist(s): Michelle Snitgen, Michigan Fitness properties. Developing a personal brand is essential for Foundation, Katie Johnson, Michigan Fitness Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate career and leadership advancement. It is not Foundation, Nancy Krupiarz, Michigan Trails and Moderator: Yulonda Byrd, Cinnaire Greenways Alliance created overnight or with minimal effort. It Panelist(s): Yulonda Byrd, Cinnaire, Josh Ghena, requires re-learning (or reminding yourself Cinnaire of) certain things and equipping yourself OPPORTUNITIES IN GREEN RESIDENTIAL with new skills necessary to set yourself COMMUNITIES IN DETROIT UNLIKELY RELATIONSHIPS AND apart. This interactive session will provide DFC will provide an overview of the COLLABORATION RESULTING IN the tools necessary to identify, unleash and neighborhoods designated as Green INNOVATIVE REUSE develop your personal brand and to create a Residential in the DFC Strategic Framework This session will provide an overview of a powerful, consistent and polished executive and introduce tools and strategies that can be creative reuse project involving the image and presence that truly stands out deployed in these communities. Community repurposing of a previously abandoned parcel from the crowd. leaders will also discuss opportunities and into a community space housing multiple Audience Level: All challenges they face in their work. community-based tenants and activities and Moderator: Melodie Stacey, Opportunity Resource Audience Level: All featuring environmental stewardship. Fund Moderator: Dara O’Byrne, Detroit Future City Audience Level: All Panelist(s): Katena Cain, Nonprofit Network Panelist(s): Dara O’Byrne, Detroit Future City, Moderator: Kathy Roberts, LISC Linda Smith, U-SNAP-BAC, Andrea Perkins, Black Panelist(s): Kelly Clarke, Kalamazoo County Land Family Development, Inc, Rodney Gasaway, Joy- Bank Authority, Ethan Alexander, Open Roads Bike GROW YOUR FINANCIAL CAPABILITY Southfield Community Development Corporation PROGRAM Group, Bill Rose, Kalamazoo Nature Center, Jamie McCarthy, Kalamazoo River Watershed Council The need for financial education is real, but the planning and program development PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE & can be a time-consuming and costly CREATIVE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES YEAR 16 OPTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES process. With your busy schedule in mind, - YOUNG NATION & DETROIT With 15-year regulatory compliance, many we have developed an outline of our highly COLLABORATIVE DESIGN CENTER LIHTC projects are starting the process of successful Money Challenge so that your This session explores how Young Nation and unwinding…and learning the hard way about agency will have everything you need to the Detroit Collaborative Design Center have what should have been considered at the plan and execute your very own successful collaborated to amplify community assets start. This session will offer a primer for those Money Challenge to help enhance your and prioritize participation in design and facing Year 15 issues, as well as for those now Financial Capability program. We’ll provide development processes, leading to impactful projects now at Year 16 decisions. tips on how to acquire new clients, market neighborhood initiatives. Audience Level: Intermediate-Advanced your program through social media, Audience Level: All Moderator: Michael Jacobs, National Equity Fund increase client engagement and added Moderator: Brandon Ivory, LISC Panelist(s): Robert Snow, National Equity Fund, Panelist(s): Erik Howard, Young Nation, Christina Wendy Carty-Saxon, Avalon Housing, Tahirih Heximer, Detroit Collaborative Design Center Ziegler, Michigan LISC, Michael Griffin, National Development Council, James White, Cinnaire

16 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Wednesday • April 27

HOW TO GET YOUR BOARD TO SENIOR HOUSING: WHAT WE HAVE; WHAT Wednesday IMPLEMENT PRIORITIES WE NEED When a Board isn’t clear on what it thinks Explore various housing models available to 8:30am - 10:00am is most important, organizations can seniors, as well as Section 811 for non-elderly drift. Learn basic facilitation techniques to disabled, and the need for more affordable CAN I INTEREST YOU IN A 0% INTEREST generate agreement on board priorities and assisted living options in Michigan. We will HOME REPAIR LOAN how to use technology to provide objective explore how the current models meet, or Learn how the first of its kind in the accountability. don’t meet, across the State. country Detroit 0% Interest Home Repair Audience Level: All Audience Level: All Loan Program that combines CDBG funds Moderator: Chelsea Martin, Michigan NonProfit Moderator: John Peterson, CSH with private capital to finance owner Association Panelist(s): David Layne, Michigan’s Medicaid occupied home repairs was conceived and Panelist(s): Alan Levy, Goaltrac Nursing Facility Transition team, Jennifer Scally, implemented. Region IV Area Agency on Aging Audience Level: All MSHDA/HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER THE FUTURE OF HOUSING COUNSELING Moderator: MaryBeth Wott, Federal Home Loan PROGRAM HOUSING- MULTIFAMILY Bank of Indianapolis PROGRAMS An overview of the HCV program, Tenant Panelist(s): Christi Coady Narayanan, Opportunity Examine our housing counseling programs and Project Based. HCV program updates Resource Fund, Tahirih Ziegler, LISC, Arthur and plan for the future as foreclosure and a review of PBV application process Jemison, City of Detroit, Linda Smith, U-SNAP- services dwindle and the Step Forward and requirements will be covered. HUD BAC, Denise Griffith, GS Group Program expires. Join our brainstorming documents: AHAP, HAP and PBV Tenancy forum while we discuss diversifying services, Addendum will be discussed as well as CRA DOLLARS: WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW collaborative partnerships and recent trends ongoing compliance (rent adjustments, HAP CAN I GET SOME? in housing counseling programs across the amendments, change in partners, etc). The In this session we will demystify CRA and country. Participants are encouraged to its pillars. We will discuss the buckets of new HUD 811 program will also be presented. Audience Level: All submit questions to the presenters prior to “CRA” funding and the requirements for the session date which will be addressed access to each. Learn what it is that bank are Moderator: Kathy French, MSHDA Panelist(s): Kelly Rose, MSHDA/RAHA, Lisa Kemmis, during the session - submit to info@ looking for in order to fund your Community MSHDA/RAHS, Katherine French, MSHDA/RAHS centerforfinancialhealth.org Development project. Audience Level: All Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate Moderator: Sharon Evans, MSHDA Moderator: Brandon Ivory, LISC PERMANENT FINANCING FOR MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES Panelist(s): Denise Keiser, Center for Financial Panelist(s): Jason Paulateer, PNC Bank, Renee Health, Keith Morris, Elder Law of Michigan Kent, PNC Bank, Lynn Henley, PNC Bank, Anne Learn about the various perm loans that Harpe, Macy Kisilinsky are available for multifamily apartment projects including: new construction, rehab, THE WHERE, WHY AND HOW OF MISSING refinance with and without rehab, short term MIDDLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FESTIVALS, EVENTS, YOUTH, ARTS = acquisition loans, taxable and tax exempt The why, how and where of housing COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT bonds, FHA and Fannie Mae. development in Michigan downtowns will Are you tapping the full potential? Vibrant Audience Level: Intermediate-Advanced be addressed by presenters on the Michigan communities require a balance of many key Moderator: Karyn Knaak, Cinnaire WalkUP study, Target Market Analysis, Missing components, including social engagement; Panelist(s):John Hundt, MSHDA, Bruce Gerhart, Middle competition, and upcoming Congress however, festivals and events are often Love Funding, Katey Forth, Capital Fund Services for New Urbanism 2016 conference in Detroit. disregarded as fluff for many professionals. Audience Level: Intermediate We will review basic event evaluation RESTORING DIGNITY THOUGH HOME Moderator: Mary Beth Graebert, Michigan State techniques, identify hidden or untapped FURNISHINGS University Land Policy Institute values of festivals, events, youth and arts and Panelist(s): Jim Tischler, MSHDA, Adam Cook, Learn about Humble Design, a Detroit based how they can play a role in creating a vibrant Seamless Collaborative, Mary Beth Graebert, non-profit organization helping families community. Michigan State University Land Policy Institute Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate transitioning out of homeless shelters by Moderator: Brittney Hoszkiw, Michigan providing furnishings and design services. Department of Talent & Economic Development - They turn empty houses into a clean, Community Development dignified and welcoming home. Panelist(s): Brittney Hoszkiw, Michigan Audience Level: All Department of Talent & Economic Development Moderator: Becky Search, MSHDA - Community Development, Sue Bila, Michigan Panelist(s): Treger Strasberg, Humble Design, Julie Festivals & Events Association Nagle, Humble Design

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10:15am - 11:45am ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT ADDRESS HOUSING ISSUES, LOW-INCOME ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND PUBLIC BUILDING OPERATIONS This session provides information about the operation of the Michigan Agency for Energy, created by Governor Snyder in 2015, and its energy efficiency and assistance programs. It also provides information about financing weatherization measures. Additionally, access to capital for single and multifamily homeowners, as well as how to better control energy usage and cost savings in public buildings are issues the panelists will also address. Audience Level: All Moderator: Thom Phillips, Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Panelist(s): Susan Corbin, State of Michigan, Robert Jackson, State of Michigan, Mary Templeton, State of Michigan, Keith Paasch, State Hooper, CEDAM linking the energy and housing sectors Of Michigan, Greg Nicholas, Great Lakes Capital FLEXIBLE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN together in order to tap the benefits of Fund, Todd O’Grady, Michigan Saves RAPID REHOUSING energy efficiency for low-income families. Clients are not all the same, so why should Audience Level: All FINANCING A HOME FOR PURCHASE OR financial assistance be? Understand why Moderator: Allison Harris, EcoWorks REPAIR rapid re-housing providers are adopting Panelist(s): Tim Skrotzki, Elevate Energy, Allison Do you want to buy a home or maybe repair flexible financial assistance models despite Harris, EcoWorks, Marty Davis, New Ecology, Scott Durrett, Michigan Energy Options the home you already own but are struggling the challenge in administering them. to find affordable financing? Well, we have a Audience Level: Beginner-Intermediate financing option you should consider. USDA Moderator: Ross Yednock, CEDAM MHRI: EXPLORING MEDICAID AND NEW Rural Development finances home purchases Panelist(s): Jeffrey King, Community Rebuilders, WAYS TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO ARE and home improvements at fixed interest Anna Diaz, Community Rebuilders CHRONICALLY HOMELESS rates with no money down. Our Single Family Learn about MHRI, a grant providing housing Housing Programs provide a diverse package HIGH COST OF DISPARITIES navigation/supportive services to individuals of loans and grants to assist families in The West Michigan Leadership Collaborative’s who are chronically homeless, and works to Rural Michigan. Join us as we discuss these report “The High Costs of Disparities” is an leverage resources at state and local levels, awesome programs! overview of the valuable work that measures including Medicaid, to meet complex needs Audience Level: All racial and ethnic inequities. The mission for of program participants. Moderator: Aileen Waldron, USDA Rural the Report is to raise awareness, identify and Audience Level: All Moderator: Debra Hendren, Community Housing Development categorize problems, and review existing Panelist(s): Amanda Griffes, USDA Rural Network data to determine the cost of disparities. This Development Panelist(s): Catherine Distelrath, Michigan is a call-to-action to break down barriers to Department of Health and Human Services, quality of life for all. Felecia Bennett-Clark, Southwest Counseling FINANCING PLACEMAKING PROJECTS -- Audience Level: All Solutions HOW TO MAKE IT WORK Moderator: Margaret Momon, HUD There is an evolution going on! As Panelist(s): Linda Thomas, Michigan Department MUTUAL BENEFIT, PARTNERSHIP AND community/economic development of Civil Rights, John Golaszewski, Michigan FUN - BUILDING CORPORATE-, GRANT- Department of Civil Rights is evolving into what we now know as AND EVENT-BASED UNDERWRITING Placemaking; financial institutions might not We will focus on philanthropy, grants and understand them and are leery of funding, HIGH PERFORMANCE MULTIFAMILY corporate business development to build developers don’t necessarily know what BUILDINGS: YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN up nonprofit agencies. Fundraising activities qualifies, and many long-term incentives no Building managers lack data about building included are: private/public grants, corporate longer exist. Featured are representatives performance needed to make decisions for mutual benefit and events. from each of these sectors who finance improvements, panelists will discuss efforts Audience Level: All placemaking style projects with success. Moderator: Brandon Ivory, LISC Audience Level: All Panelist(s): Nathaniel Warshay, Community & Moderator: Karen Gagnon, MSHDA Home Supports Panelist(s): Rob St. Mary, Patronicity, Richard Lievense, Insite Capital/Chemical Bank, Craig Patterson, The Woda Group, Jamie Schriner-

18 | Building Michigan Communities Conference | April 25-27, 2016 | Lansing Center, Lansing, MI SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Wednesday • April 27

PROMOTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHAPING YOUR MESSAGE, TELLING YOUR USING HMIS TO SUPPORT COORDINATED SURVIVOR’S WELL-BEING: IMPACT STORY ENTRY SYSTEM REDESIGN AND HOUSING ON CHANGE AND SURVIVOR DEFINED How clearly are you communicating your PRIORITIZATION: SERVING THE MOST IN SUCCESS mission, value and impact? We’ll discuss ways NEED Identify risk, protective, and promotive to drill down on your messaging, creating Learn how the Washtenaw County CoC used factors that contribute to intimate partner concrete statements and engaging stories HMIS to support changes in local policy to violence survivors’ quality of life. Explore ways that carry through all your communications redesign the Coordinated Entry system, to maximize positive and minimize negative and fundraising platforms. and develop and implement a prioritization factors. Connect ways that survivors describe Audience Level: All infrastructure. Practical strategies, success. Moderator: Melodie Stacey, Opportunity Resource challenges, and solutions will be shared. Audience Level: All Fund Audience Level: Intermediate Moderator: Becky Search, MSHDA Panelist(s): Kristin Palm, Wayne State University Moderator: John Peterson, CSH Panelist(s): Karen Porter, Michigan Domestic and Office of Economic Development/TechTown Panelist(s): Mercedes Brown, Office of Community Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board Detroit, Steve Palackdharry, Southwest Solutions, & Economic Development, Amanda Carlisle, Daphne Hughes, Hughes Creative Washtenaw Housing Alliance, Tenetia Pulliam, The Salvation Army+

= HOUSING-MULTIFAMILY = ASSETS-VIBRANT COMMUNITIES = ASSETS-ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT KEY = PEOPLE-ENDING HOMELESSNESS = HOUSING-HOMEOWNERSHIP SESSION

DIRECTIONS & PARKING For details on directions and parking for the conference, please visit the conference website at www.BuildingMICommunities.org

HOTELS COURTYARD MARRIOTT The following hotels have offered group rates to 2710 Lake Lansing Road, conference attendees. After the cutoff dates, rooms may Lansing MI 48912 not be available at the group rates. Phone: 888-284-1894 Group Rate: $102.00 When making a reservation, ask for the Building Cut-off Date: March 26, 2016 Michigan Communities Conference group rate. QUALITY INN RADISSON HOTEL 3121 East Grand River Ave. 111 N. Grand Ave., Lansing, MI 48933 Lansing, MI 48912 Phone: 517-482-0188 Phone: 517-351-1440 Group Rate: $141 single/double Group Rate: $80.00 Cut-off Date: Friday, March 26, 2016 Cut-off Date: March 26, 2016 Note: The Radisson Hotel is connected by a walkway to the Lansing Center

Housing • Assets • People • Partners | BuildingMICommunities.org | 19 BMCC 2016 CONFERENCE Scholarship Award Application The conference planning committee is offering a limited number of Application forms scholarships to organizations that otherwise could not afford to attend must be received by the conference but would benefit from the training. Scholarship awards Wednesday, March 23, 2016 are limited to one individual per agency.

AWARD SCHOLARSHIP/STIPEND AMOUNT • Complimentary conference registration fee • $300.00 (travel and hotel stipend) per organization outside a 30-mile radius from the Lansing Center. Stipend checks available at registration desk • Limited to one person per organization

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA • Less than five full-time paid staff • Annual administrative budget of less than $125,000. Administrative budget statements must accompany application. • Actively involved in producing affordable housing and/or providing housing/homeless services • The organization must submit the application on behalf of the individual • The name of the individual cannot be changed

APPLICATION PROCESS • Please complete and return the Scholarship Award Application Form (below) along with a copy of Year 2016 operating budget, verifying the financial need. Application forms must be received by Wednesday, March 23, 2016 • Applications will be processed by a scholarship steering committee, and notification letters will be mailed to the applicant at the address on the application on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 • All applications must be registered for the conference before the awards are announced. Refunds on registration fees will be processed during the scholarship award notification process. • Please note: If qualifying applications exceed the number of scholarships available, a random drawing will take place as a final selection process for award recipients.

APPLICATION FORM

Name of Organization:______

Street Address:______

City:______State: ______Zip Code:______

Phone:______Fax:______

E-mail:______

Name of Scholarship Applicant:______

Title:______

PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Applications will only be accepted when accompanied by your organization’s 1. Number of full-time paid staff: ______current operating budget.

2. Amount of year 2016 operating budget: ______(Submit year 2015-16 operating budget verifying these numbers)

3. List of housing activities:______

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Mail To: Diane Dufek, AMR, 1390 Eisenhower Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48108

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HMIS and Central Intake/Coordinated Opportunities in Green Residential Monday Assessment – In It For The Long Haul Communities in Detroit Housing First for Shelters: Using Collaboration Partnerships for Sustainable & Creative 8:30am – 10:00am as a Pathway to Housing Community Initiatives - Young Nation & Detroit HOME 101 - Program Overview LIHTC Program Compliance 201 - Beyond the Collaborative Design Center Basics Part 1 of 2 Strategies for Eliminating Blight and Vacancy: A 10:15am – 11:45am Maximizing Your Board’s Full Potential Detroit Case Study Branding and Marketing Neighborhoods Placemaking in the Neighborhoods - CDAD Troubled Assets Part 2 of 2 Building Blue Places - Connecting to Water for Placemaking Grants Unlikely Relationships and Collaboration Economic Development Rebuilding Northern Michigan’s Historic Resulting in Innovative Reuse Dream Neighborhoods and Land Banks Walloon Village Year 16 Options and Opportunities Economic Benefits of Deconstruction and Special Assessment Districts and Improving Demolition Neighborhood Safety & Quality of Life Educate & Advocate: Improving Outcomes for Transitioning Leadership - Planning for Wednesday Low Income Clients Successful Succession Hot Topics - HUD’s Office of Community 8:30am – 10:00am 10:15am – 11:45am Planning & Development Can I Interest You in a 0% Interest Home Repair Implementing HOME Final Rule changes: A Strategic Approach to Grant Application Loan? Update on Changes to Rental Compliance Development CRA Dollars: What are they and how can I get The Business Case for Energy Efficiency Breaking Through the Clouds: Sunshine for the some? Housing KI Sawyer Airforce Base Community Festivals, Events, Youth, Arts = Community The Language of Appreciation in the Workplace Exploring True Colors: Building and Bridging Development Woe is Me, My Volunteer Retention is Low ALL Communities Through the Advancement of How to Get Your Board to Implement Priorities Social Justice MSHDA/Housing Choice Voucher Program 1:30pm – 3:00pm Housing Tax Credit Syndicator Panel Permanent Financing for Multifamily Properties Affordable High Performance Housing How to Become the Recognized Leader in Your Restoring Dignity Though Home Furnishings Closing Gaps for Clients: Using HandUp to Meet Community Using LinkedIn and YouTube Senior Housing: What We Have; What We Need Unmet Needs How You Can End Veteran Homelessness The Future of Housing Counseling Programs Connecting Entrepreneurs of All Ages to HUD Transformation, Risk Management and The Where, Why and How of Missing Middle Resources Preservation Housing Development Gap Funding for Affordable Housing MSHDA’s Homeownership Programs HOME Compliance 201 - Beyond the Basics - The Role of Tax Foreclosure Auctions and Land 10:15am -11:45am Banks HOME Funded Layered Projects (Combining Energy Efficiency Programs and Services HOME with Tax Credits, and/or Section 8 or HCV Tried, True and New Fundraising Techniques Updates from the IRS, HUD and MSHDA and That Address Housing Issues, Low-Income Mind Mapping: A Whole Brain Thinking Tool Assistance Programs and Public Building Poverty Simulation Part 1 of 2 Qualifying Households - Beyond the Basics Part 2 of 2 Operations Respect Is Not Rocket Science: Working toward Financing a Home for Purchase or Repair Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Youth Housing Using HMIS Data to Make Reallocation Decisions in CoC Funded Programs Financing Placemaking Projects -- How to Make Programs it Work The Development Process Flexible Financial Assistance in Rapid 1:30pm – 3:00pm The Role of Anchor Institutions in Community Rehousing Placemaking A Collaborative Model to Build Community High Cost of Disparities Capacity for Neighborhood-Led Change: A High Performance Multifamily Buildings: You 3:30pm – 5:00pm Detroit Case Study Can Make it Happen Advanced HOME Rental Compliance: Tenant Advanced Credit Scoring MHRI: Exploring Medicaid and New Ways to Selection Requirements, Maintaining the Unit Advanced Program Compliance Strategies for Support People Who are Chronically Homeless Mix, and Dealing with Over Income Tenants Layered Projects Part 1 of 2 Mutual Benefit, Partnership and Fun - C3: Businesses Moving from Competition to Developing a Culture to Embrace the Challenges Building Corporate-, Grant- and Event-Based Collaboration to Community! of Building Michigan Communities Underwriting Current Debt Options Fair Housing in the Homeownership Process Promoting Domestic Violence Survivor’s Well- Enhancing the Downtown Through Waterfront Foreclosure Prevention in the New Frontier Being: Impact on Change and Survivor Defined Revitalization Homelessness: Personal Stories and Journeys Success FHLBI’s Cycle of Homeownership Assistance toward Success Shaping your Message, Telling Your Story Growing Michigan’s Good Food Future MSHDA’s Key to Own Homeownership Program Using HMIS to Support Coordinated Entry Nonprofit Advocacy Planning a “Must See” Event! System Redesign and Housing Prioritization: Planning and Paying for Services in Supportive Strengthening our Communities: Strategies for Serving the Most in Need Housing Improving Civic Health in Michigan Poverty Simulation Part 2 of 2 Tactical Placemaking: Collaborate, Test, Welcoming Immigrants and Refugees to Improve & Have Fun Michigan: The Real Story Troubled Assets Part 1 of 2 3:30pm – 5:00pm Advanced Program Compliance Strategies for Tuesday Layered Projects Part 2 of 2 Capturing Place One Street at a Time REGISTER ONLINE AT 8:30am -10:00am Engaging Immigrants in Neighborhood Planning: Learn from Organizations and Bridges Out of Poverty - The Customer Lifecycle Individuals That Are Envisioning a New Future BUILDINGMICOMMUNIITES.ORG Creative Financing of Creative Places for Banglatown Dynamic Dashboards Go Brand Yourself! Historic Preservation and the Arts Work Grow your Financial Capability Program Together: The Repurposing of Dearborn’s 1922 Michigan’s Toolbox for Creating Active City Hall and Ludington’s 1889 Independent Communities Order of Odd Fellows Hall

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HOUSING ASSETS PEOPLE PARTNERS Timely Registration Materials Enclosed! Printing of this brochure provided by contributions from private sponsors.

Conference Planning Committee

• Aging Services of Michigan • Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council • Community Development Advocates of Detroit • Michigan Economic Development Corporation • Community Economic Development Association of Michigan • Michigan Historic Preservation Network • Corporation for Supportive Housing • Michigan Housing Council • Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis • Michigan Nonprofit Association • Great Lakes Capital Fund • Michigan Office of Services to the Aging • Habitat for Humanity of Michigan • Michigan State Housing Development Authority • Home Builders Association of Michigan • Michigan State University Community and Economic • Local Initiatives Support Corporation Development Program • Michigan Association of Land Banks • National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials • Michigan Association of United Ways • Northwest Michigan Council of Governments • Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness • Opportunity Resource Fund • Michigan Community Action Agency Association • State Historic Preservation Office of Michigan • Michigan Community Development Association • USDA - Rural Development • Michigan Community Resources • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development • Michigan CRA Bankers Association • Urban Communities Clinic, U of MI Law School • Michigan Department of Community Health • Urban Communities Clinic, U of M Law School