SUMMIT SPONSORS DELAWARE DIAMOND Delaware Reinvestment Summit JUNE 16, 2015 • WILMINGTON, DELAWARE Hotel du Pont • 42 W 11th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 #ReinvestDE COMMUNITY PARTNER CO-CONVENERS: COMMUNITY MEMBER KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: NCRC’s Annual Conference is one of THE CONFERENCE WILL FEATURE: • A wide range of cutting-edge workshops on community Jack Markell Matthew Denn the nation’s largest gatherings of Governor, State of Delaware Attorney General, State of Delaware organizing and advocacy, housing, access to capital and community nonprofits, policymakers, credit, workforce and community development, fair government officials, small businesses, lending, and business development • The foremost experts and advocates sharing new banks, and academia, all coming developments, best practices, and innovative ideas for together to create a just economy. community reinvestment • Keynote addresses from prominent officials and leaders We look forward to seeing you at the Capital Hilton in the field Hotel, Washington, DC, March 16-19, 2016. • NCRC’s Hill Day and Congressional Luncheon ABOUT NCRC: The National Community Reinvestment Coalition is an association of more than 600 community-based organizations that promote access to basic banking services www.ncrc.org/conference/ • The 2016 NCRC National Achievement Awards Dinner including credit and savings, to create and sustain affordable housing, job development and vibrant communities for America’s working families. Our members include community 202-628-8866 • #justeconomy reinvestment organizations, community development corporations, local and state government agencies, faith-based institutions, community organizing and civil rights groups, minority and women-owned business associations, local and social service providers from across the nation. 202-628-8866 • www.ncrc.org SUMMIT SCHEDULE Enhancing the Economic Security of initiatives by Delaware coalitions to develop hyper-local Reinvesting in Delaware’s Latino the Fair Housing Act, HUD’s proposed new Affirmatively Restorative Practices in Schools and 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM Older Adults strategies to address these needs and the role that Community Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule and related Community: A Reinvestment Strategy Location: King Sejong funding plays in both the planning and implementation Location: Knowles regulations, and collaborate with stakeholders to create Location: Knowles Breakfast and GROWTH Older adults experience a range of impediments to economic processes. Each of these initiatives recognize that Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of Delaware’s housing opportunities and combat societal inequalities. Initiative National Launch affordable housing is a cornerstone of community This workshop is a learning opportunity for school security such as poor public transportation, inadequate population yet they often face a series of obstacles SPEAKERS: development; that the power to create lasting change personnel, parents, community leaders, and social KEYNOTE SPEAKER: healthcare services, unaffordable and poorly maintained to full civic participation and economic engagement. Maryellen Lewis, Chair, Michigan Community comes from working in coalition; and that affected services agencies staff to find ways to positively interact Governor Jack Markell housing, financial fraud and abuse, and insufficient access Participants in this workshop will discuss strategies for Reinvestment Coalition, Lansing, MI; Member, NCRC Board of community members have a unique and vital perspective with youths and their families, so that youths prosper and to good nutrition. However, many of these issues can be expanding economic opportunity for Latinos, including Directors Location: Ballroom on the challenges they face. avoid the juvenile justice system. The workshop offers addressed by older adults working in coalition with older small business development, entrepreneurship, minority Jeffrey May, Assistant Director, National Neighbors, practical and value-based alternatives to the criminal NCRC’s GROWTH initiative is a first-of-its-kind adult service providers. Come prepared to hear about some MODERATOR: contracts, workforce development and driver’s licenses for National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Washington, DC justice pipeline. It will also discuss restorative justice community reinvestment program that combines of the issues older adults face related to transportation, Ed Gorman, Chief of Community Development, National the undocumented. We will connect all of these issues to practices in the context of community reinvestment. targeted neighborhood rehabilitation with financial health, and financial services. Participants will create Community Reinvestment Coalition, Washington, DC the need for increased community investment. counseling and job training opportunities. The strategies for dealing with a specific issue in each category. 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM MODERATOR: SPEAKERS: MODERATOR: GROWTH program purchases, renovates and sells Patricia Kelleher, Executive Director, Delaware Lunch (provided by AARP) Robert Spicer, Sr., National Trainer and Speaker of neglected homes in low- and moderate-income MODERATOR: Manuel Hidalgo, Chief Operating Officer, National Restorative Justice, Restorative Strategies, Chicago, IL Dr. Robert Zdenek, Director, National Neighbors Silver, Housing Coalition, Dover, DE Community Reinvestment Coalition, Washington, DC KEYNOTE SPEAKER: communities, creating sustainable homeownership State Attorney General Matthew Denn SPEAKER: National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Washington, DC James Peffley, President and CEO, Delaware SPEAKERS: and wealth-building opportunities for local families. Community Investment Corporation, Wilmington, DE Location: Ballroom Gerald Kellman, Sr. Organizing Consultant, National SPEAKERS: Sonia Aguilar, Director of Workforce Development, Community Reinvestment Coalition, Chicago, IL SPEAKERS: Kathleen Andersen, $tand By Me 50+ Director, Kevin Smith, CEO, Habitat for Humanity of New Castle Delaware Economic Development Office, Co-Chair, Delaware John Taylor, President and CEO, National County, Wilmington, DE WORKSHOPS Wilmington Senior Center, Wilmington, DE Hispanic Commission, Dover, DE $tand By Me: A Strategy for Economic Community Reinvestment Coalition, Washington, DC Paulette Austin, Executive Director, Generations Home Karen Speakman, Deputy Director, NCALL Research, Wanda Lopez, Associate Director, $tand by Me Ed Gorman, Chief of Community Development, Care, Inc., New Castle, DE Inc., Dover, DE Hispano, United Way of Delaware, Dover, DE 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Stability and Opportunity Location: Kent / New Castle National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Susan Getman, Executive Director, Wilmington Senior Javier Torrijos, Assistant Director of Construction, Community Reinvestment Act Basics: Washington, DC Center, Wilmington, DE WORKSHOPS Delaware Department of Transportation, Co-Chair, Banks’ Affirmative Obligation Many hard-working Delawareans struggle with an array Joe Hickey, Executive Director, St. Patrick’s Center, Delaware Hispanic Commission, Dover, DE Location: Christina of financial challenges. Without access to information, Wilmington, DE 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM resources, and financial services, it can be difficult to The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is a law designed WORKSHOPS Earl Millett, Chief Operating Officer, Civic Works, Preventing Abusive Consumer Lending make the right decisions needed to build financial Reinvesting in our Workforce to foster dialogue and accountability between financial Baltimore, MD in Delaware and Beyond capability and economic stability. To address these issues, Location: Christina institutions, community based organizations, and federal 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Location: King Sejong the State of Delaware and United Way of Delaware Building a future for Delaware that overcomes a legacy regulators to increase investment in low- and moderate- Corporate Headquarters as A state law passed in 2012 limited the number of payday have launched $tand By Me, a financial empowerment Building Resilient Communities of discrimination and poverty requires ramping up income communities. Participants will start with an Community Anchors loans that can be taken out annually and established initiative centered on financial coaching and capability, to Address Violence and Increase workforce development programs in health care, overview of the law and its history, walk through the Location: Knowles a database to track payday lending. However, many the first of its kind in the nation. This workshop will Opportunity technology, education, and more. Leaders in workforce aspects of a bank’s performance that are examined under Because of a favorable tax environment and beneficial Delawareans are still getting caught in a debt trap set by explore how $tand By Me reaches thousands of Location: Christina and job training programs will speak about their CRA (lending, service and investment), and end with case corporate laws, Delaware is home to a large number of payday lenders. This is in part because there is no cap on Delawareans to help them improve their financial well- experiences. The session will highlight both Generating studies of how NCRC has facilitated that dialogue and Reducing violence and promoting equal opportunity banks, bank holding companies, and credit card banks, payday lending rates, and also because payday lenders being. Learn how $tand By Me has become embedded Real Opportunities for Work Through Housing (GROWTH), accountability. require