Community Highlights

Mark Mullinix, first vice president, and Jeanne Milliken Bonds, senior manager, regional community development, traveled to the region for a day trip to engage in a conversation with the community about economic strategies, resiliency and Opportunity Zones.

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.

The Self-Help Credit Union and the Richmond Fed’s Community Development department presented a program in Wilmington, North Carolina, with a focus on building regional food systems.

The N.C. Business Resource Alliance, a statewide collaboration of more than 30 technical assistance, funding, research and policy organizations, meets monthly on topics of interest to the members.

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.

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.

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.