Events Calendar
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) will host a webinar focusing on strategies to connect low- and moderate-income families with asset building opportunities. The webinar will highlight the $aveNYC initiative—a program that matches savings of low-income tax filers in New York City —and findings from the first two years of implementation. The webinar will be held from 2-3:30 p.m.
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) will host a discussion with Joan Blades, co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org; Jody Heymann, founding director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University and the Project on Global Working Families at Harvard University; and Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at Hastings College of the Law, University of California. They will discuss employer strategies developed to provide workplace flexibility to all workers—and increase profits. The call will be held from 12:30-1:30 p.m. (EDT).
Catholic Charities USA will celebrate its centennial this year by hosting 10 regional summits around the country. The Centennial Leadership Summits will recognize and promote innovative programs that are making a significant impact in the fight against poverty. The summits are an opportunity for civic leaders, elected officials, philanthropists, service providers, and interested citizens to discuss strategies to cut poverty in half by 2020. Leadership summits have been or will be held in Portland (OR), San Antonio , San Jose , Atlanta , Albany , Nashville , St. Paul , Cleveland , and Chicago . The regional summits will culminate with a three-day summit in Washington , D.C from September 25 – 28.
This October, the Opportunity Collaboration will gather 300 non-profit leaders, social entrepreneurs, and funders for a four-day strategic and problem-solving retreat focused on effective poverty reduction efforts. The retreat will include two and a half hour work sessions, called Collaboration Challenges, in which participants explore various poverty alleviation strategies. Each session follows a common format designed to elicit collaborative solutions and inspire cross-sector partnerships. Among the topics discussed will be asset-building, social change marketing, funder relations and effective methods to assess the anti-poverty efforts of advocates, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and governments. The Opportunity Collaboration retreat will be held from October 15 to October 20 in Ixtapa , Mexico . Registration is required, with a discount applied before June 30.