Online Event Archive Recorded February 23, 2023 Banks have the capital to be a catalyst for change in your neighborhood and can be critical community partners. This presentation will cover how NCRC uses the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to secure community benefits agreements with banks and explore how CRA can be used to increase reinvestment …
Online Event Archive Recorded November 15, 2022 Persistent racial and gender wealth gaps remain a major obstacle to building financial security for low- and moderate-income (LMI) households in the United States. How can we ensure that the financial system, and opportunities to build wealth, are developed to meet the needs of LMI people? Income alone …
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Online Event Archive Recorded November 10, 2022 Nearly 1 in 3 Americans have a criminal record. Each year over 600,000 Americans are released from state or federal prisons and re-enter society. Re-entry into society poses barriers to everyone but disproportionately affects African Americans and other minorities as African Americans and Hispanics make up 56% of …
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Online Event Archive Recorded November 3, 2022 NCRC has launched a new grant and technical assistance opportunity, the MicroBiz Capital Accelerator Program (MCAP), exclusively for nonprofit, small business capital providers. This pilot program is being offered to NCRC members seeking to grow and scale the impact of their capital and other small-dollar loan programs supporting …
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Online Event Archive Recorded October 26, 2022 NCRC released a new report documenting a groundbreaking study using mystery shoppers in Baltimore, MD, which showed that real estate appraisers are providing better service to White homeowners than Black homeowners, and assigning higher values to homes that they believe to be White-owned. Black/White interracial couples who own …
What do you know about Web3? Is it going to change the way we bank by the year 2030? Some policymakers believe that Web3, a blockchain-based option for the Worldwide Web, will replace fintech as the next “new thing” in financial services. Web3 has the potential to enhance consumer privacy and counter the power of …
Online Event Archive Recorded August 11, 2022 Do you need a refresher on the benefits and resources your NCRC membership offers? Do you want your team to learn more about how to access the resources available through NCRC? Listen to this conversation about the resources, services, content and networking your membership includes. Most importantly, how …
Recorded August 2, 2022 Listen to our conversation with key financial regulators on proposed Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) reform. We dig into the potential areas for reform, and how these impact your communities. For more information and sample comment letters, visit our #TreasureCRA page. Speakers: Eric Belsky, Director, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, Board of Governors of …
Recorded July 15, 2022 A review the Field Empowerment Fund application process and proposal guidelines. Attendees receive a guided look at NCRC’s grant portal and participate in Q&A led by the Community Impact team.
Over the last 50 years, there has been little bridging of the Black/White homeownership divide. During this time of higher interest rates and a higher cost of housing, what can be done to significantly advance Black homeownership and access to affordable housing? We heard from a panel of experts on the type of radical changes needed and practical ways to move us in that direction.
This panel discussed the ways in which the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law ushers forward an era of promise for advancing equity through infrastructure programs to reconnect communities divided by transportation infrastructure, ensure clean drinking water and create employment pipelines to further economic prosperity in historically marginalized communities of color.
Bank executive Mike Keegan reflects on the importance of community benefits agreements.
Just Economy Conference 2022 attendees heard from bank executives and NCRC members on the process that goes into striking community benefits agreements.
In this session, we addressed the need to go back to the civil rights roots of CDFIs to address the persistent racial wealth gap.
Nearly 200 members from 36 state delegations, including DC, took our Just Economy message to Capitol Hill for more than 120 virtual meetings with Members of Congress, two of the three federal CRA regulators, and the CFPB. Leading up to Advocacy Week, NCRC had dozens of meetings with state leads and their delegations, two Advocacy Week prep calls with participants, …
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