Join Community Development leaders from across New York State for our first in-person conference since 2019.
The conference is New York's premier statewide community development event, and this year the panels and workshops will tackle issues that can strengthen our institutions and communities, such as:
Creating and preserving affordable housing and community facilities;
Strengthening small businesses and nonprofits post-pandemic;
Helping your clients manage and build credit;
Finding, developing, and retaining staff in a tight market; and
Sourcing capital in a high interest rate environment.
The conference will feature the very latest developments on CDFI Certification and Federal and New York State funding for CDFIs.
We are also excited to invite you to join us as we welcome Professor Matthew Desmond to Albany to discuss one of the most anticipated books of the year, “Poverty, by America” (Crown, March 21, 2023). Desmond is the author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.
The Keynote event is included with your conference registration, but additional Keynote-Only tickets will be made available to advocates, allies and special guests.
NYS CDFI Coalition Members are eligible for discounted tickets - scroll down to join or renew!
Economic Development 101 - Self Guided - Starts March 1
Create jobs and generate investment in your community!
Thanks to generous support from New York State and Empire State Development, in partnership with the New York State CDFI Coalition, NDC is offering our members a number of scholarships in their Spring Cohort for ED 101: Economic Development Finance - Remote and Self-Guided. The training starts March 1, and participants have 6 months to complete.
Participants in ED 101, the first course in NDC’s nationally recognized Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP) Certification Program, gain a solid understanding of both the basic tools and newest techniques used by successful economic development finance practitioners to assist small businesses and create jobs. The live, remote course explores economic development activities as part of a community’s overall economic development finance strategy and investigates the financing resources available for job creation projects. Participants analyze and structure economic development projects for small and medium-sized businesses as well as commercial real estate developments utilizing incentive financing packages. Specific topics include:
On Wednesday, February 1, NY DFS Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris adopted updated regulation for disclosure requirements for commercial financing. The NYS CDFI Coalition helped lead the charge for this effort, the NYS Small Business Truth in Lending Act. Read more here - and we'll have more info in the next edition of New Developments.
Watch your inbox for an invitation to renew your membership, or to join the NYS CDFI Coalition!
Coalition members receive discounted tickets to the conference, and we're hoping that's just one of the many reasons that inspire you to support our work!
The NYS CDFI Coalition is also accepting membership applications and renewals on our website for your convenience. Please consider lending your support to the NYS CDFI Coalition as a Certified CDFI, Emerging CDFI, or Non-Profit Associate Member (Advocate, Community Organization, University.)
Remember - we invite Coalition members to submit updates you would like to share with our statewide audience. These include job postings, Events, Success Stories or Guest Posts for consideration. Thank you for all you do!
Colleen M. Ryan
Consulting Executive Director
NYS CDFI Coalition
PS: Do you need to pay from an invoice? Let me know and I'll send one.
Review previous issues of "New Developments" in the Archive.
Our Mission
Our mission is to position CDFIs as the most effective strategy and policy tool to address issues of financial inclusion, housing access and economic opportunity in New York State. Please visit our website to learn more.
Thanks to generous support from New York State and Empire State Development, in partnership with the New York State CDFI Coalition, NDC is offering our members a number of scholarships in their Spring Cohort for ED 101: Economic Development Finance - Remote and Self-Guided. The training starts March 1, and participants have 6 months to complete. 
