NFG Conference - Building Community, Building Assets: Race, Place & Equity

Conference At-A-Glance

Saturday, September 9
12:00 noon		Overnight Learning Tour: Organizing Workers in North Carolina’s Agriculture and Meat-Packing Industries (Departs from Millennium Hotel)
Sunday, September 10
10:00am - 6:00pm		Registration and Marketplace
2:00pm - 9:00pm		Rural Funders Fall Forum
5:00pm		Overnight Learning Tour returns
Monday, September 11
8:00am - 5:00pm		Registration and Marketplace
9:00am - 11:00am		Preconference Sessions Predatory Lending: The Result of Dual Financial Services Systems Program-Related Investments (PRI): A Tool for Achieving Impact Supporting the Next Wave: Leadership Expansion within the Social Justice Movement Men and Communities: The Impact of Men of Color on Their Children, Families and Neighborhoods Prisoner Re-Entry Programs: Common Sense Approaches
11:30am - 2:00pm		Opening Plenary Luncheon
2:30pm - 4:30pm		Concurrent Workshops Evaluating Advocacy Grants The Racial Economic Divide: A Taxing Problem Raising the Minimum Wage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy Shades of Brown: Multiracial Movement Building Post-Katrina The American Dream: Building Assets through Manufactured Housing
2:30pm - 4:30pm		NFG Institute Part I
4:30pm - 5:30pm		Open Space
5:30pm - 7:00pm		Networking Reception
7:00pm - 9:00pm		Dine-Arounds at Local Restaurants (dinner on your own)
Tuesday, September 12
8:00am - 11:00am		Registration and Marketplace
8:00am - 8:45am		Breakfast and Annual NFG Meeting
9:00am - 11:00am		Concurrent Workshops Financial Services Strategies for Low-Income Households and Communities Faith, Race, and Place: Churches and Community Change Stories from the South Untapped Community Philanthropists: Shared Risk and Shared Investment Raising the Minimum Wage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy Shades of Brown: Multiracial Movement Building Post-Katrina
9:00am - 11:00am		NFG Institute Part II
11:30am - 4:00pm		Local Learning Tours Banking the Unbanked Duke-Neighborhood Partnerships: Bridging Power and Wealth Towards Neighborhood Renewal Civil Rights and Community Healing: Greensboro, N.C. A community Economic Development Movement: Success and a Dialogue on Future Direction Change in Rural America: New Neighbors, Better Work Partnerships for Innovation in Affordable Housing
4:30pm - 5:30pm		Open Space
5:30pm - 6:00pm		Buses Depart for Host Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm		Host Event: American Tobacco Historic District
		Dinner on Your Own
Wednesday, September 13
8:00am - 11:00am		Registration and Marketplace
8:30am - 9:00am		Breakfast
9:00am - 11:30am		Closing Plenary
11:30am		Conference Adjourned
Post-Conference Activities
11:30am - 2:00pm		Community Reinvestment Fund Luncheon (open to all)

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