Community Development

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is hosting a movie premiere for its Share the Wealth: A Financial Literacy Video contest to present awards to the winning financial education videos.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, along with several South Carolina partners, is holding a forum on small business credit issues on Nov. 16, 2010, at Midlands Technical College's Northeast Campus at the Center of Excellence for Technology in Columbia, S.C.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the National Consumer Law Center, with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, are hosting a national forum on cars and working families on October 29, 2010, at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's Community Affairs department is holding a forum on community land trusts on October 26, 2010. Community Land Trust: A Shared Equity Model will feature consultants from Burlington Associates, discussing how to effectively use the land trusts to preserve long-term affordable homeownership and stabilize neighborhoods impacted by foreclosure.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's Community Affairs Department has released an online compilation of maps using public data compiled for the Fifth Federal Reserve District – Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, the District of Columbia and most of West Virginia.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the Opportunity Finance Network will host the 2010 Opportunity Finance Network Southeast Regional Meeting on July 19 and 20 in Richmond.

The Community Affairs Department of the Richmond Fed is launching an online data repository designed to streamline local community development data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

As part of the Federal Reserve System’s ongoing series Addressing the Financing Needs of Small Business, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is hosting a small business roundtable on June 14, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at its Baltimore branch. This roundtable is one in a series of forums on small business access to credit and support services being held across the country.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Capital Area Foreclosure Network and Fannie Mae are hosting the Washington Metro Area Tenants Conference to help educate mortgage servicers, realtors, local government representatives, housing counselors and attorneys on new federal and state laws for tenants facing foreclosure.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is teaming with Civil Justice Inc., a Maryland nonprofit public interest law firm, to host the second free basic training for attorneys on how to review home purchase contracts and mortgage loan documents.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is holding a forum on small business credit issues on April 20 from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond joins Housing Opportunities Made Equal and the city of Richmond to help co-sponsor a home preservation clinic to help Virginia homeowners who may be at risk of foreclosure. Free foreclosure counseling sessions and fraud prevention counseling will be offered on April 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Blackwell Community Center at 300 E. 15th Street in Richmond.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and Civil Justice Inc., a Maryland nonprofit public interest law firm, will sponsor pro bono attorney training as part of the Maryland Mortgage Fraud Prevention Project.