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Upcoming Events

CFED will release the 2012 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard in a national webinar on January 31 at noon EST. The webinar, The 2012 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard: How Financially Secure are Families?, will highlight key national and state findings, including the latest asset poverty rates and other measures of financial security and opportunity. Register Now!

Recent Events

• On January 17, CFED and NeighborWorks America hosted "Innovations in Paying Down Debt: Lessons from Borrow Less Tomorrow," an interactive online discussion about best practices from the innovative BoLT program.
• On Wednesday, December 14, over 180 participants joined us for The Self-Employment Tax Strategy: Empowering Entrepreneurs at Tax Time, a webinar sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation, to learn about two creative ways to adapt the self-employment tax strategy for your own tax assistance program, microenterprise development agency or other community-based organization. Click here for more information and to download the recording or view the PowerPoint slides.
• On Thursday, December 1, CFED and its partner organizations hosted a Bank On webinar that explored the Bank On financial access initiative, reviewed the first-ever Scan of the Bank On Field and a provided a hands-on guide to the new JoinBankOn.org. Click here to download the recording from the December 1 webinar.
• On Thursday, November 17, CFED hosted an Assets & Opportunity Scorecard Webinar highlighting the latest data on the strength of state asset policies and trends in legislative changes in 2011. The webinar also introduced a number of “stroke-of-a-pen” policy changes that states can pursue during tough budget times.
  
• On Tuesday, November 15, CFED & NeighborWorks America hosted an Individual Development Accounts Update Webinar. For more information click here.

Assets Learning Conference

Every two years CFED hosts the largest national asset-building gathering, the Assets Learning Conference. The 2012 Assets Learning Conference will be held September 19-21, 2012 in Washington, DC. Save the date and stay tuned for more details!

The 2010 Assets Learning Conference was held September 22-24, 2010 in Washington, DC. Click here for a recap and to download materials from the Conference.

Past Events

CFED events tend to be accompanied by a rich collection of reports, pictures, videos and even poetry. We’ve put some links to recent events here so you can take a look.

• Webinar: Bringing it All Home: USDA Programs for Manufactured Homes and Communities
• SETI Schedule C VITA Pilot Presentations at NCTC Conference
• Bringing it All Home: Manufactured Housing and the Future of Affordable Housing Convening
• Webinar: Financial Empowerment through Employer Engagement
• Webinar: Solving Elders's Manufactured Home Problems - Tools, Resources, Legal Approaches
• Webinar: Local Innovation. National Impact
• Webinar: Single-Family Financing for Manufactured Homes
• Webinar: Partnerships that Leverage Tax Time and Empower Entrepreneurs
• Saving for College: A Policy Primer
• Webinar: Local Policy to Preserve and Promote Manufactured Housing
• Webinar: What is innovation@cfed?
• Webinar: Innovations in Asset Building - Learning from $aveNYC
• Webinar: Fundamental Freedoms in Manufactured Home Communities
• Webinar: Innovative Approaches to College Success Webinar
• Homeownership Done Right Event
• Discussion: CDFI Membership in the Federal Home Loan Banks
• Webinar: Promoting Quality, Affordability & Energy Efficiency
• 30th Anniversary Gala
• 2009 Innovation Summit
• 2009 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard Institute
• 2009 National Conference of Children and Youth Savings
• 2008 Assets Learning Conference