New Funding Strategies to Fuel Smart Growth Successes - Oakland Workshop

Join us in our upcoming workshop, "New Funding Strategies to Fuel Smart Growth Successes." Access to capital is often the top barrier to realizing a community's vision. This workshop will focus on effective and innovative strategies for getting good projects in the ground.

Agenda

8:30am - Check-in and Coffee

9:00am – Welcome
Abel Guillén, Councilmember, City of Oakland
Josh Meyer, Program Director, Local Government Commission

9:10am – Funding Strategies: Where are We Now?
Menka Sethi, Director, Lisa Wise Consulting, Inc

9:45am – Tools and Strategies for Innovative Approaches

• Darin Dinsmore, Founder and CEO, Crowdbrite
• Libby Seifel, Founder and President, Seifel Consulting
• Jim Becker, CEO and President, Richmond Community Foundation and Joshua Genser, Board Chair, Richmond Community Foundation

11:00am – Roundtable Topic Discussion

11:40am - New Directions for Innovative Financing in the Region
Leilani Barnett, Regional Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

12:00pm - Adjourn

This workshop is being funded by The California Endowment.