2010 Annual Meeting
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| What:: | FAHE's 2010 Annual Meeting |
| Where: | Hotel Roanoke Roanoke, VA |
| When: | September 8-9, 2010 |
| Why: | To celebrate FAHE's 30th Anniversary |
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All registrations for the meeting will be handled through this event website. You can start a new registration or modify an existing registration. Hotel reservations can be made by calling 540-985-5900 and mentioning the keyword “FAHE,” or by clicking here. The deadline for registering is August 31, 2010. Only payment by credit card will be accepted. For assistance in registering, contact |
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Yes, you can make reservations either by calling 540-985-5900 and mentioning the keyword “FAHE,” or by clicking here.
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You can modify your agenda for this event through FAHE's event registration website. You will need the email address used to make your reservation and your confirmation number. If you have forgotten your confirmation number, you can request a reminder after selecting "modify registration" on the first page of FAHE's event registration website.
What is the cancellation policy for this event?
FAHE's Annual Meeting registration fees are refundable up to August 31, 2010, minus a $25 processing fee. Cancellations received after August 31 are not eligible for a refund. Registration fees may be transferred from the registrant to a substitute attendee with no processing charge. Refunds will not be available for registrants who do not attend the event without notice. Cancellations will be accepted by phone, fax, or email, and must be received by the stated cancellation deadline. All registration refunds will be processed at the conclusion of the event.
INFO Part 1: Basic Training
INFO is FAHE’s multi-module reporting platform designed for Members to submit quarterly data on a variety of lines of business. This session is designed for the users of INFO and will cover the basics of submitting your quarterly reports to FAHE using this platform. Please bring with you one or two loan files for some hands-on practice and troubleshooting. Pre-registration is required for this session if you are unable to bring your own laptop to this training. Only 10 computer stations will be made available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
INFO Part 2: Advanced Training and Feedback
INFO is FAHE’s multi-module reporting platform designed for Members to submit quarterly data on a variety of lines of business. The second installment of hands-on training will cover best practices as well as detailed functionality of the software. Please bring with you one or two loan files to practice with. Pre-registration is required for this session if you are unable to bring your own laptop to this training. Only 10 computer stations will be made available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
FAHE Members: Leaders in Community Development
The community development field is under great pressure to simultaneously achieve significantly greater impact and to reach higher levels of financial self-sufficiency. While the rationale for a network approach to increase impact and self-sufficiency is compelling (economies of scale, shared resources and infrastructure, and functional specialization), there are few examples of organizations successfully raising impact and financial performance on a group level. FAHE is one of a small number of member-driven networks in the community development field which has been able to add value to its Members and increase their impact. In this session, we will present theories on how and why the "FAHE Model" works.
Moderator: Alan Okagaki
Risk and Fraud Prevention Strategies
Even nonprofits are at-risk when it comes to fraud, theft, and embezzlement, especially those managing financial transactions. They range from employees fudging an expense report to “borrowing” supplies and even pocketing cash payments. Session leaders will tackle this tough subject by offering personal experiences in dealing with and preventing fraud. Participants will also learn policies and procedures on how to minimize their organization's exposure to fraud, and how to prevent fraud on an ongoing basis.
Organizational Structure as a Road Map for Development
Total Action Against Poverty (TAP) is a non-profit community action agency founded in 1965 with the aim of helping the impoverished and disenfranchised residents of Southwest Virginia escape poverty and become self-sufficient. Over the last four decades, TAP has grown into an organization with 360 staff members and a service area that includes six counties and five cities. While maintaining is core services that include over 30 programs, over the last five years the agency has strategically expanded in the areas of real estate development and financial services. TAP has established organizational teams that focus on the areas of programs, administration and development; these teams are the catalyst for implementation of ideas and projects. This session will provide insight on how to establish these organizational teams as well as how these teams operate. Participants will be provided with detailed examples of how this approach has solved problems, created new ideas and positioned the agency for future development opportunities.
Members in Action
TAP’s housing activities cover a wide spectrum, from program delivery to physical renovation of properties and management. TAP is the owner and landlord of five residential properties, which total 261 rental units. TAP acquired the Terrace Apartments in June 2005 for roughly $3.8 million and an extensive $27 million renovation to the complex has been completed. Participants will be provided with a tour of the Terrace Apartments, as well as single family homes developed in the Hurt Park Community in collaboration with the City of Roanoke and the Roanoke Neighborhood Revitalization Partnership.
502 Demonstration Program Update
Get the latest underwriting guidelines and program information for FAHE’s 502 Direct Lending Demonstration in partnership with USDA Rural Development. Our mortgage professionals will provide best practices and lessons learned to increase the efficiency and approval rates on your 502 applications. This session is designed for current users of the 502 program but will also provide insights to originators that are new to the 502 Demo.
We Are Good Builders, How Do We Become Great?
This session will be conducted in an open forum format driven by member discussion. First we will define what is required of a great builder, then we will discuss methods of achieving these goals. Consider this: If you had the attention of an industry expert, what would you ask?
Moderator: Brian Stehle, Housing Equity Funds
Compensation Issues for Nonprofits
For more than 30 years, Appalachian Communities have depended on FAHE’s member agencies for housing and community development assistance. Today, during times of high foreclosure rates, spiraling unemployment, and cuts in government spending, agency leaders must look for new ways to motivate employees to serve and support communities in distress. This presentation will highlight both the free- and fee-based resources agency leaders can use to benchmark employee compensation against prevailing local wages, as well as address recent changes in the law that pertain to compensation. Participants will also explore how to develop and communicate a positive compensation philosophy to agency staff, and learn about the most common practices and procedures that might land an organization in trouble.
30th Anniversary Looking Back, Looking Forward
This year marks FAHE’s 30th Anniversary. We’ll start the celebration by hosting a panel of speakers to field questions about FAHE’s history and what the next 30 years will look like for our network.
Green Innovators Showcase
“Go Green” – Learn from the best as forward-thinking FAHE Member organizations present their creative environmentally-friendly ideas and projects. The Showcase will include a 10-minute visual presentation from each winner as well as time for questions.
Susan F. Dewey
Susan F. Dewey is the Executive Director of the Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA). The Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Housing Development Authority appointed her to this position, effective June 15, 1999. Prior to this, Dewey served for three years as a VHDA Commissioner.
She directs all operations of VHDA, a $9.3 billion independent, self-supporting authority that is responsible for addressing the statewide housing affordability needs of low- and moderate-income Virginians. VHDA provides a variety of rental and homeownership lending programs, and free homeownership education. VHDA also administers the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program and a statewide Housing Choice Voucher Program.
Dewey currently serves on the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) Board of Directors (President); the National Association of Realtors Housing Opportunity Advisory Board; the Board of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development; the Virginia Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Local Advisory Committee (Vice President); the Board of Housing Virginia; the Virginia Commonwealth University Real Estate Circle of Excellence (Vice President – Financial Development); and the Executive Committee of the Virginia Council on Economic Education (Chair-Elect).
Her awards include the 2000 Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises (FAHE) Friend of Housing Award; the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Richmond’s Top 20 Women in 2010; the 2010 Daniel M. Stone Humanitarian Award of the Virginia Beach, Virginia Human Rights Commission, and one of the ten 2010 Richmond YWCA Outstanding Women Award.
Dewey is a C.P.A. and received a B.B.A and M.B.A. from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg,Virginia.
Silas House
Silas House is a prominent author, editor, and playwright. A Kentucky native who grew up in the eastern community of Lily, House earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Eastern Kentucky University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University.
House recently accepted the position of National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College in Berea, KY. He also serves as Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University, where he directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, in addition to serving on the fiction faculty at Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. House is a former contributing editor for No Depression magazine, and he is one of Nashville’s most in-demand press kit writers.
House is a two-time finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize, a two-time winner of the Kentucky Novel of the Year, the Appalachian Writer of the Year, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Chaffin Prize for Literature, the Award for Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and many other honors. In 2009 the Silas House Literary Seminar was given at Emory and Henry College. For his environmental activism House received the Helen Lewis Community Lewis Award in 2008 from the Appalachian Studies Association.
House’s work has been published in Newsday, Oxford American, Bayou, The Southeast Review, The Louisville Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Wind, Night Train, and others, as well as in several anthologies.
Ted Edlich
Dr. Theodore J. Edlich, III is a graduate of UNC, and holds Masters Degrees from NYU, Union Theological Seminary and Yale University. He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Washington and Lee University. Dr. Edlich has been the president of Total Action Against Poverty since 1975. Dr. Edlich received the Humanitarian Award by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Patrick Henry Award for contributions to “just and sound government of our commonwealth,” and the Citizen’s Award for Business from the Roanoke Chapter of the NAACP. He served on Governor Wilder’s Commission on Poverty. In 2001, Dr. Edlich was listed as one of the fifty most influential people in Roanoke by the Roanoker Magazine.
Alan Okagaki
Alan Okagaki is a community economic development consultant based in Missoula, Montana, with 25 years experience in the field. Most of his consulting assignments involve either the planning and launch of new community economic development initiatives or the evaluation of development organizations and programs. He has done work in 26 states; in urban and rural areas; and in white, African-American, Latino, Native American, and Asian communities.
Between 2003 and 2006, Okagaki was employed by ShoreBank Corporation, first as Vice President for Enterprise Group Initiatives and then as President of ShoreBank Neighborhood Institute. He was also affiliated with ShoreBank Advisory Services (ShoreBank’s consulting arm) between 1990 and 1995, where he led the design of numerous development projects ranging from comprehensive community building initiatives to workforce development programs to community development banks. In the late 1980s, Okagaki was a project director with the Corporation for Enterprise Development where he researched best practices in community development. Prior to his entry into the community development field, Okagaki was executive director of a state-wide citizen organization in Montana and spent three years in state government in California as an energy and environmental policy analyst.
He holds a B.A. in English from Pomona College and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Members: $150
Non-Members: $350
FAHE will only accept payment by credit card.
Hotel and meals Hotel Cost: Meals:
$109 + tax per night
Breakfast refreshments and banquet-style lunches will be provided, along with snacks and refreshments during scheduled breaks (A full breakfast is available in the hotel restaurant for an additional charge). A special reception will be held at the nearby Taubman Art Museum on Wednesday night, but dinner will be on your own. The Hotel Roanoke is within walking distance of many restaurants, and we encourage you to take this time to explore the town and get to know your fellow attendees better.
