Community Development Events

Entrepreneurship in the Changing Economy: From Survival to Sustainability

October 14, 2009
Dallas Office, Houston Branch, San Antonio Branch

• Online videos of presentations
  

This forum examined the importance of entrepreneurship to the economy, challenges that small businesses face in the current recession and strategies and tools that organizations are using to support and grow entrepreneurship.

Financial institutions, community development lenders and microenterprise service providers presented national and local insights on:

• How economic trends are affecting entrepreneurs
• Resources available for urban and rural entrepreneurs
• Public policies that can support entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurs and the Recovery: Challenges and Opportunities
  Robert E. Litan
  Vice President of Research and Policy
  Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Microenterprise in the Changing Economy
  Encouraging Entrepreneurship: A Microenterprise Development Policy Agenda
  Elaine Edgcomb
  Director of FIELD
  Aspen Institute
• Economic Recovery and Beyond
  Penny K. Pickett
  Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development
  U. S. Small Business Administration
• UT System Competitiveness Initiative Supports Entrepreneurial Businesses
  Cathy Swain
  Assistant Vice Chancellor for Commercial Development, Office of Research and Technology Transfer
  The University of Texas System

• Bank of the West
  Cynthia L. Blankenship
  Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
  Bank of the West
• Texas Mezzanine Fund, Inc.
  Theresa Acosta Lee
  Chief Lending Officer and Vice President
  Texas Mezzanine Fund, Inc.
• ACCION: Lending. Supporting. Inspiring
  Gary L. Lindner
  Chief Operating Officer
  ACCION Texas
• Moderator: Karl Zavitkovsky
  Director of Economic Development
  City of Dallas

• ACCION: Lending. Supporting. Inspiring
  Bridget Ross
  Loan Officer
  ACCION Texas
• Amegy Bank
  Winston Labbé
  Vice President
  Amegy Bank
• Houston Business Development, Inc.
  Marlon D. Mitchell
  Executive Director
  Houston Business Development, Inc.
• Start Smart! Grow Smart! Turning Business Dreams into Reality
  Jacqueline Taylor
  Associate Region Director
  University of Houston Small Business Development Center Network
• Moderator: Richard A. Huebner
  President
  National Minority Supplier Development Council, Houston Affiliate

• Annie Uribe Turner
  Vice President and Business Banking Manager
  Wells Fargo Bank
  
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship
  Margo Weisz
  Executive Director
  PeopleFund
• ACCION: Lending. Supporting. Inspiring
  Sandra Zayas
  Corporate Trainer/Loan Officer
  ACCION Texas
• Moderator: Blake Hastings
  Vice President in Charge
  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio Branch

Recommended Readings

Banking and Community Perspectives

• Issue 1, 2009
  "The CRA and Subprime Lending: Discerning the Difference"
  
• Issue 2, 2008
  "RAISE Texas: Moving Texans Toward Financial Success"
  "A National Perspective on Asset Building"
  
• Issue 1, 2008
  "Banks Building Markets by Building Communities"
  
• Issue 3, 2006
  "Asset Building and the Wealth Gap"
  
• Issue 2, 2005
  "Microenterprise: Growing Businesses, Assets and Markets"
  

ePerspectives

• Issue 2, 2009
  "Bank on Houston Effort Sees Big Returns as Residents Open Thousands of Accounts"
  "Inaugural Money Week Houston Campaign Promotes Financial Education Across City"
  
• Issue 3, 2008
  "The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case Studies from Communities Across the U.S."
  

Other Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Publications

• "Building Wealth: A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future"
  
• "The Financial Crisis: Connecting the Dots," 2008 Annual Report,
  
• 2008 Annual Report, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of
  Dallas
• Southwest Economy, Third Quarter 2009
  
• "TALF: Jump-Starting the Securitization Markets," Economic Letter, Vol. 4, No. 6,
  

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Publication

• "The Economic Crisis and Community Development Finance: An Industry Assessment,"
  Community Development Investment Center, Working Paper 2009-05, June 2009,