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Microenterprise:
Building Assets in a Growing Market
A Community Development Lending
Conference
November 4, 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Sponsored by the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas and the World Affairs Council of Greater
Dallas in cooperation
with Lucy Billingsley and The Chiapas Project
Agenda
| 7:30 a.m. |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome
Opening Remarks
Helen Holcomb
First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Pat Patterson
Chairman, World Affairs Council of Greater Dallas
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| 8:45 a.m. |
Why
Microfinance Is Significant to Our Economy
James Carr
Senior Vice President of Financial Innovation,
Planning and Research, Fannie Mae Foundation,
Washington, D.C.
The Importance of Microfinance
to the U.S. Economy [PDF]
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| 9:15 a.m. |
Microenterprise
Development: Past, Present and Future
Elaine Edgcomb
Director, Microenterprise Fund for Innovation,
Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination (FIELD),
Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.
Opening Opportunities,
Building Ownership: Policy Options to Support
Entrepreneurship Aamond Low-Income Americans [PDF]
Lisa J. Servon
Associate Director, Community Development
Research Center, Milano, The New School For Management
and Urban Policy, New School University, New York
Microenterprise
Development in the US: Current Challenges and
New Directions [PDF]
Policy
Options to Support Entrepreneurship Among Low-Income
Americans [PDF]
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| 10 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:15 a.m. |
Panel
Discussion: Insights from the Field
Agnes Noonan
Executive Director, WESST Corp., Albuquerque,
N.M.
WESST Corp.: Helping
people start or grow businesses since 1989 [PDF]
Krysia Boinis
Owner, Plenish Skin Care, Taos, N.M.
Janie Barrera
President and CEO, ACCION Texas, San
Antonio
The Economic and
Community Impact of ACCION Texas Lending [PDF]
Janie Martínez González
President and CEO, Web Head Group, San
Antonio
Microlenders …
Fuel for Economic Engines [PDF]
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| 11:15 a.m. |
Panel
Discussion: Innovative Financial Products and
Services that Expand Markets and Build Assets
Daniel Weiss
Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy
Officer, Microfinance International Corp., Washington,
D.C.
Innovative Financial
Products and Services [PDF]
Margaret Henningsen
Cofounder and Vice President, Legacy
Bancorp Inc., Milwaukee
Michael Nathans
Chairman and CEO, Pay Rent, Build Credit
(PRBC), Annapolis, Md.
PRBC® Overview
[PDF]
Moderator/Presenter
Jennifer Tescher
Director, Center for Financial Services
Innovation, ShoreBank Advisory Services, Chicago
Innovative Financial
Products and Services that Expand Markets and
Build Assets [PDF]
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| 12:15 p.m. |
Luncheon
Speaker
Alex Counts
President, Grameen Foundation USA, Washington, D.C.
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| 1:30 p.m. |
Panel
Discussion: Options for Investors in Microfinance
Shari Berenbach
Executive Director, Calvert Foundation,
Bethesda, Md.
Calvert Foundation
and the Microenterprise Opportunity [PDF]
Arthur Hollingsworth
Managing Partner, Lone Star New Markets
LP, Dallas
Microenterprise:
Building Assets in a Growing Market [PDF]
Moderator/Presenter
Michael Stegman
Director, Center for Community Capitalism
at Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Options for Investors
in Microenterprise: The Role of Community Capitalism
[PDF]
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| 2:30 p.m. |
Betsy Zeidman
Director, Center for Emerging Domestic
Markets, Milken Institute, Santa Monica, Calif.
Tapping
into Undercapitalized Markets: The Business and
Economic Advantage [PDF]
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| 3:00 p.m. |
Closing Remarks
Alfreda B. Norman
Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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| 3:15 p.m. |
Adjourn |
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