Eighteen national nonprofits have joined forces to raise up local community development solutions. Learn what’s working to strengthen places and advance racial equity from the people making it happen. We’ll inspire each other, strengthen our skills, and unite our networks. Together, we will go to Capitol Hill to meet with Members of Congress about issues facing low-income people and disinvested places. You’ll bring home solutions that you can adapt and transform to serve your community.

This dynamic, peer-learning event will include approximately 100 presenters sharing successful strategies to promote equitable development, bolster small businesses, encourage asset growth, remediate blight, make places healthier, weave the arts into community development, and so much more. Watch for speaker announcements in early February.

Plan to attend April 15-17 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel — minutes from Washington, DC and Reagan National Airport. A pre-conference workshop titled Claim the Torch: Community Organizations Advancing Racial Equity will be held on April 15 from 8:30-11:30 am at no extra charge.

Learn more and register.

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Tracks
* Federal, State & Local Policy – Find out about policies impacting the community development and examine how NACEDA members advance policies that promote prosperity in lower-income communities.
* Thriving Networks – Engage in with peers from around the country in professional development sessions. Find out about how networks are increasing the capacity of place-based nonprofits and developing partnerships to advance prosperity in lower-income communities.
* Healthy Places – Learn about policies, practices, and partnerships that improve the social determinants of health in the communities we serve.
* Creative Places – Explore how arts and culture can engage communities and create more vibrant and equitable places where people live, work, and play.

Venue
The summit will be held at the Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square, located at 1800 Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Learn more and register: https://naceda.memberclicks.net/summit-2018

About the Conference

Join us for a pivotal event in the community development movement. People working to bring opportunity and prosperity to low- and moderate-income communities all over the country will converge in Washington, DC for three days of peer sharing and learning. Four national organizations have partnered to host this event at a significant time in the history of the community development movement.
As we emerge from the Great Recession, the conference will highlight how community development practitioners are adapting and transforming their communities. Practitioners will share what is working in communities around the country, strengthen their skills, inspire each other, and raise their voices on behalf of the communities they serve. In doing so, we intend for practitioners to come away with an invigorated voice and heightened national influence.

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