Community Highlights

How can western North Carolina, as a region, grow the talent needed by local employers, while simultaneously improving region-wide economic mobility for the people of the region?

In October, more than 150 key stakeholders participated in a robust roundtable discussion on the growing opioid epidemic in North Carolina, and more specifically on the toll it takes on the state’s economy.

In October of 2017, a multi-city group led by the Annie E Casey Foundation, the City of Richmond and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond met in Richmond for three days to think about the strategies, policies, data and best practices of economic inclusion.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the Community Development Network of Maryland hosted a full-day workshop on September 28, 2017, on potential land banks in Maryland.

Virginia healthcare experts, community development professionals, bankers, philanthropists and other leaders met at the Richmond Fed in 2017 to discuss community finance through the lens of health.

Our Community Development team led key strategic discussions around issues critical to financing workforce developmemt in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities during the Investing in America’s Workforce Conference held in Austin, Texas.

“Housing Works!” was the theme of the 2017 N.C. Affordable Housing Conference in Raleigh.

Matt Martin and Jeanne Milliken Bonds presented at conferences hosted by the National Rural Lenders Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the economic disparity between rural and metro areas.