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December 3, 2007
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Working Together to Build Wealth in Lower-Income Communities
A Forum on Strategies for financial institutions, community-based organizations and public programs to expand access to financial services,
financial education and asset development. Held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on December 3, 2007.
Co-sponsored by: the Boston Alliance for Economic Inclusion, Boston EITC Coalition, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University, Massachusetts Association for Community Action, Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, Massachusetts Bankers Association, Massachusetts Community & Banking Council, Massachusetts Credit Union League, Massachusetts Fair Lending Coordinating Committee, and the Midas Collaborative.
Past
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2007
March 29-30, 2007
Financing
Community Development:
Learning from the Past, Looking
to the Future 
The Community Affairs officers of the Federal Reserve System jointly sponsored the fifth biennial research conference March 29-30, 2007 to encourage objective research into the factors governing the availability of credit and capital to individuals and businesses within this changing financial services environment.
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2006
December 6, 2006
Regional Roundtable: Public Pension Funds and Targeted Investing
This conference was sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Massachusetts State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, and the Pension Funds & Urban Revitalization Initiative of the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. New England pension fund leaders and other stakeholders from across the region came together to discuss whether investing in the emerging domestic markets can work in smaller cities in New England.
December 5, 2006
Covering the Uninsured: Costs, Benefits, and Policy Alternatives for New England
The conference convened a select group of key stakeholders
including policymakers, insurers, hospital administrators,
employers, public health advocates, and health policy
researchers from across all six New England states and
the nation.
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2005
December 15, 2005
Trends
In Small Business Financing: Best Theory and
Practice
Discussion covered successful state-of-the-art
financing models, best practices, and state
policy actions to broaden access to capital
for small companies. More specifically, participants
focused on the following topics:
- Latest changes in financing
systems and trends in small enterprise financing
- Best practice and innovative
ideas in attracting private capital into
high-risk small business financing
- Factors hindering availability
of capital to entrepreneurs, especially
in low and moderate-income areas, as well
as ways to mitigate the problem
November 3 and 4, 2005
Achieving
Sustainability, Scale, and Impact in Community
Development Finance:
SRI and Community Investing
Conference
Proceedings are available
This
conference was cosponsored by the Federal Reserve
System and the Aspen Institute’s Economic
Opportunities Program, and was the second in a
series of seven to be held at various Reserve
Banks and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
over the next two years.
The basis of the conference series is a paper
by the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities
Program published by the Chicago Fed’s
Consumer and Community Affairs division in December
2004 in its periodical, Profitwise News and
Views. “New Pathways to Scale for Community
Development Finance” summarizes ten case
studies, primarily private sector examples,
of successful attempts to broaden the impact
and market reach of an assortment of products,
services, and organizations.
April 7-8, 2005
Promises
& Pitfalls: As Consumer Finances Multiply,
Who Is Being Served and at What Cost?
This
conference presented current research on trends
and innovations in consumer financial markets,
with particular emphasis on low- and moderate-income
consumers and on underserved populations.
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2003
June 27, 2003
Structuring
New Market Tax Credit Deals in New England
Breakfast Seminar
The
goal of the seminar was to highlight how New Market
Tax Credit deals can be structured, and the role
of the key parties that will be involved in the
deals. This seminar was held on June 27, 2003.
May 1, 2003
Orientation
to the Capital Markets
This conference, held on May 1, 2003, was sponsored by partners of Wall Street Without Walls, an initiative connecting the capital markets with nonprofit community-based development organizations.
March 25, 2003
Getting Credit
for Business
A forum on strategies to increase access to credit
for small businesses, this conference was held
on March 25, 2003.
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2002
November 20, 2002
Building Partnerships
through Financial Education
Financial
education practitioners and bankers discussed
their collaborative efforts in financial education
and described how their programs have benefitted
people in their communities. This conference was
held on November 20, 2002.
October 17, 2002
Strengthening Partnerships
for Inner-City Entrepreneurship: A Forum for
Community-Based Organizations and Funders
This
conference offered community-based business assistance
providers and their funders an opportunity to
share experiences and perspectives on the best
ways to promote business creation and growth in
low-income urban areas. This conference was held
October 17, 2002.
October 8, 2002
Banking
on the Community- Untapped Markets: Embracing
Potential for Economic Opportunities
This conference was held on October 8, 2002.
May 8, 2002.
New
Markets Tax Credit Program Conference
A
conference about the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC)
program, which has the potential to be an important
tool for spurring economic development in low-income
communities. This conference was held on May 8,
2002.
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2001
June 6, 2001.
Sunshine Provision Training Seminar on Disclosure
and Reporting of CRA-Related Agreements
The
final rule to implement the CRA sunshine provision
became effective on April 1, 2001. This provision
requires nongovernmental entities of persons and
insured depository institutions and their affiliates
that are parties to certain CRA agreements to
make those agreements available to the public
and to appropriate agencies. The training provided
an overview of the provision and its potential
impact on individual organizations. The training
was held on June 6 in Boston, June 19 in Rhode
Island, and on July 18 in White River Junction,
Vermont.
April 5-6, 2001
Federal
Reserve System Conference: Changing
Financial Markets & Community Development
The
Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve
System held its second research conference. The
conference focused on recent academic research
on the effects of recent changes in financial
markets on low- and moderate-income communities.
The conference was held on April 5-6, 2001 in
Washington, D.C. To download conference papers,
visit the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago's web site.
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1999
June 14, 1999
New England University-Community Partnership Conference
A
conference on university, college, and community
partnerships was held on June 14, 1999 at Babson
College. The New England University-Community
Partnership Conference was cosponsored by the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Massachusetts
University-Community Partnerships (MUCP), and
the New England Board of Higher Education.
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1998
June 15, 1998
New England Rural Development Conference
A conference on lending, housing, and economic development policy issues that affect rural New England was held on June 15, 1998. The conference was co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Granite State CRA, Massachusetts Rural Development Council, New England Regulatory Compliance Council and the Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).
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1996
1996
Boston Home Purchase Process Initiative
In 1996 the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston sponsored
the Greater Boston Home Purchase Process Initiative.
This project partnered the Reserve Bank with home
purchase industry professionals, such as realtors,
mortgage lenders, home appraisers, and insurance
company representatives to identify barriers to
homeownership faced by lower-income and minority
home buyers.
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