FAHE's 2009 Annual Meeting
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When you start your registration, you will be asked to select a category and sub-category. First you must choose whether you are registering for the USDA Section 502 training or the FAHE Annual Meeting general session. If you will be attending an RCDI training, please select the general session.
You will then be asked to select a sub-category, which is based on whether you are a Member of FAHE. If you are an RCDI-eligible Member, you must select this sub-category in order to register for an RCDI training. This sub-category is password protected. If you believe that you an RCDI-eligible organization and need the registration password, please contact Jackie Weiss at 859-228-2143 or by email: jackie@fahe.org.
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| What:: | FAHE's 2009 Annual Meeting |
| Where:: | Marriott MeadowView Kingsport, Tennessee |
| When:: | November 3-4-5, 2009 |
| Why:: | With so many new resources targeting our industry, now is the time to set the agenda to move our industry forward. |
| How:: | All registrations and hotel reservations will be handled through this event website. You can start a new registration or modify an existing registration. |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
I would like to sign up for the Developing Your Leadership RCDI Training, but do not see it on the registration website?
This session has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Can I sign up to the USDA Section 502 Training and the Annual Meeting general session?
The USDA Section 502 Training and Annual Meeting will run concurrently. All three days of the USDA Section 502 Training are required to receive your certification. Unfortunately, this means that if you attend the USDA Section 502 Training, you will be unable to attend any other sessions during this event.
How do I register for this event?
All registration and hotel accommodations must be made through FAHE's event registration website. If you are having trouble accessing the site, try copying and pasting the link below in the address bar of your internet browser.
www.eiseverywhere.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=6672
Can I make my hotel reservations directly through the hotel?
No, all hotel reservations must be made through FAHE's event registration website.
This is cost advantageous for attendees, as your hotel and meals are being sold by FAHE as a package. If you make your hotel reservations through the hotel, you will be sent an invoice for your meal package.
What if I need to change my registration or reservations?
You can modify your agenda or accommodations 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 cancelation policy for this event?
FAHE's Annual Meeting registration fees are refundable up to two weeks prior to the event minus a $25 processing fee. Cancelations received after October 29, 2009 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. Cancelations will be accepted by phone, fax, or email, and must be received by the stated cancelation deadline. All registration refunds will be processed at the conclusion of the event.
What is an RCDI-eligible Member?
To attend one of the RCDI Training courses, you must be pre-approved under a training grant secured by FAHE through USDA Rural Development's Rural Community Development Initiative. Programmatic requirements set by USDA dictate which FAHE Members are eligible.
Can I sign up to the RCDI Training course and the Annual Meeting general session?
No.
Developing Your Leadership has been canceled.
Human Resources Management & Development is a two-day session on November 4th and 5th. As this runs concurrent to the general session, you cannot sign up for this session and participate in the general session.
This year, FAHE is offering some pre-conference activities on November 3rd, before the offical conference begins on November 4th.
Community Tours of projects completed by FAHE Members will be hosted from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. Be sure to register in advance for these tours to reserve your seat, as there are only 30 spaces available. These tours are being provided free of charge.
These supplementary training courses are offered exclusively to FAHE Members pre-approved under FAHE's RCDI training grant. Before registering for one of these sessions, please verify that you are an eligible organization.* Attendees who register for RCDI training courses must also register for the general session.
CANCELED: Developing Your Leadership Potential: November 3rd
Human Resources Management & Development: November 4th & 5th
This course provides a framework for understanding and thinking strategically about employment relations and the management and development of staff. Specific topics include recruitment, interviewing and hiring, performance evaluation, compensation and benefits, promotion, job design, staff development and training, retention and turnover, and leadership succession planning. This class is a two-day session reserved for pre-approved* Members. Please note, there are only 35 seats available for this training session.
This course reviews the complete packaging process for mortgages using 502 Direct. Those new to 502 Direct will learn the process from A to Z so you can submit a complete package to your USDA office. Even if you are already using 502 Direct, attending this training will meet the requirements for the certification that USDA is expected to put in place later this year. Please note, there are only 35 seats available for this training. Attendees who register for the USDA Section 502 training do not need to register for the general session. This is a three-day course that will run from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm with breaks for lunch November 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
If you need information about whether your organization can use USDA Section 502 Direct funding in your service area, please contact your USDA local district office.
Greening Your Organization
Making smart choices for your business can reduce costs, lower employee turnover and inspire the local community. Going Green isn’t just the right thing to do, it also makes good business sense.
Comparing Green Standards
LEED, NAHB, Earthcraft, Enterprise Green Communities- which green building standard should you use? Having a tough time determining which green building standard is best for your organization? Then come hear Scott Lee from SouthFace share his take on the nationally recognized green building standards.
Taking the Hill
Influencing Capitol Hill: The Value of Constituent-Based Advocacy. Learn the basics of meeting with your members of Congress, including preparation tips, relationship-building, and most importantly, how to use your power as a constituent to educate and compel your members of Congress to action.
By the Numbers
Assessing Your Passion “By the Numbers”: How Financial Statements Can Shape Your Mission. We will explore the concept of measuring financial velocity as a determinant of success in meeting the mission, how different missions affect financial velocity, FAHE’s new Risk Rating process and other financial management concepts. Participants will actively work to identify and calculate key ratios and trends of their own company. Attendees are encouraged to bring their company’s financial statements for at least the last two years and a calculator to maximize the session's interaction.
Building Your Online Home
Does your organization need to “build” a website, or want to “rehab and repair” a website that you already have? Attend this session to learn about the online construction do’s and don’ts, how to get the most bang for your buck when you hire a website “contractor,” what qualifications make an in-house or online virtual “crew-leader” outstanding and how to lay a solid foundation for your virtual home that will serve your organization well for years to come.
Mortgage Licensing
FAHE's JustChoice Lending staff will provide valuable updates to what is occurring both nationally and in each state regarding big changes to RESPA and Truth in Lending regulations that have or will become effective in 2009 and 2010. This includes the Mortgage Disclosure Improvement Act and the SAFE Act. The SAFE Act pertains to licensing or mortgage companies and origination and processing staff which each state is free to interpret in its own way. We’ll review what FAHE members have done and need to do to stay legal in their mortgage operations.
Networking Lounge
You're likely to meet lots of new faces at FAHE's Annual Meeting. With so much to do on our agenda, the Networking Lounge is an opportunity to wrap up a conversation or get some face time with a colleague that you haven't yet connected with.
Policy Plenary
The Beltway Update: FY 2010 Rural and Housing Funding. Learn about new spending priorities for the coming year. Discuss federal support for our field, gaps in the President’s policies, and the policies needed to sustain and grow our industry.
Appalachia Plenary
Can we move our region forward in the new economy and still remember who we are and where we’ve come from? Dr. William Turner brings his unique perspective to this question and Appalachia as a region.
Mark Pinsky
Mark Pinsky is President & Chief Executive Officer of Opportunity Finance Network, the national network of high-performing community development finance institutions and other opportunity finance institutions. Opportunity Finance Network is leading the industry toward its goal of creating a high-impact, high-volume financing system providing tens of billions of dollars annually benefiting millions of low-income and low-wealth people. Mark is primarily responsible for Opportunity Finance Network’s vision and strategy. Mark joined Opportunity Finance Network in February 1995. During his tenure, the CDFI industry has grown more than ten-fold while Opportunity Finance Network has expanded membership more than 400% and assets more than 1500%. Under his leadership, the organization has introduced several innovative products including the Equity Equivalent investment (EQ2), the CDFI Assessment and Ratings System™ (CARS™), performance-based financing, and the Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance. OFN is leading the industry’s on policy, as well. Mark speaks often to diverse audiences inside and outside the industry about the past, present, and future of the opportunity finance field and its ability to transform mainstream financial systems. He writes about the industry for a wide range of publications and has published five books. Mark currently chairs the national boards of the CDFI Data Project, and CARS™. He also serves on the Boards of Net Impact, the CDFI Coalition, and New Mexico Community Capital as well as on advisory boards to the Center for Community Development Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Bank of America’s National Consumer Advisory Council, and several New Market Tax Credit community development entities. He served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2003 through 2005, including service as Chair of the Council in 2005. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Mark to the CDFI Fund Advisory Board in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he served until 2006. Mark was the founding President of Congregation Tzedek v’Shalom, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Newtown, PA. Mark and his family live in Yardley, Pennsylvania
David Brown
Mr. Brown is the Executive Director of the National NeighborWorks® Association (NNA). Working closely with a nationally represented National NeighborWorks® Association board, Mr. Brown directs the Washington, DC office of this housing and community development trade group and works to promote its legislative agenda. Mr. Brown joined NNA in 2003 and in 2005 was named its first Executive Director. Prior to NNA, Mr. Brown was a public accountant with Arthur Andersen and a financial litigation consultant with Navigant Consulting. The National NeighborWorks® Association represents the interests of over 170 NeighborWorks® organizations: community groups that offer a range of housing assistance based on individual community needs, from homeownership counseling and lending products to affordable multifamily properties that are assets to the community. National NeighborWorks® Association members promote and develop housing and community development in urban, rural and suburban communities in every state in the nation, and in Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. As an advocate of affordable housing and community development programs that revitalize the nation's distressed communities, the National NeighborWorks® Association articulates the concerns and challenges facing local communities to the Congress and the Administration. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Arizona and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California.
Dr. William Turner
A pioneer in articulating the role of African Americans in the region, Turner grew up in the company town of Lynch in eastern Kentucky where his father and grandfather were coal miners. He has combined the personal with the professional by focusing his career as a sociologist on Appalachia with an emphasis on the African American experience in the mountains. For nearly three decades he has contributed to the understanding of Appalachia and its African American minority through his teaching, publications, lectures, newspaper editorials, media consulting, mentoring, and administrative work. Through this work he has shared with others the struggle to be both black and Appalachian, and he has modeled the achievements that can come from meeting that struggle head on. Among the first to combine interests in the fields of African American and Appalachian Studies, Turner has produced a number of path-breaking texts, including the seminal Blacks in Appalachia coedited with Edward Cabbell and published by the University Press of Kentucky in 1984, “Between Berea and Birmingham: The rock and hard place for blacks in Appalachia,” and a thematic essay on black Appalachians published in the widely-respected Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Turner has also twice served as guest editor of special issues of Appalachian Heritage devoted to African Americans in the region. Throughout his career, Turner has held various administrative and teaching positions at several colleges and universities and has used these appointments to promote recognition of the Appalachian region, and of its black and white residents. Perhaps most important are his unstinting efforts to make higher education attractive and accessible to students from the region. As NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, he continues to teach classes on Appalachian history and culture, pursue research projects on Appalachia, and work with students, faculty, and staff to facilitate the integration of Appalachian Studies scholarship and materials into courses at Berea. Among the many honors Turner has received throughout his career, in 1994 the Christian Appalachian Project named him its “Person of the Year,” in part for his “untiring dedication to the people of Appalachia.” Last year, for similar reasons, he was inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame, and also recognized as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Citizen of the Year, for “advocating for the rights and expanded educational opportunities of Blacks in Appalachian Kentucky.”
General Session Registration Fees:
Members: $150
Non-Members: $250
Supplemental RCDI Training Courses (for eligible Members only):
If you register for an RCDI Training Course, you must also register for the General Session. If you would like to register for both RCDI Training Courses, you will only be charged on general session registration fee in addition to your course fees.
Human Resource Management & Development:
$250+ general session registration fee
USDA Section 502 Direct Packaging Training:
If you register for the USDA Section 502 Training, you do not need to register for the General Session.
Members: $500
Non-Members: $700
If you need information about whether your organization can use USDA Section 502 Direct funding in your service area, please contact your USDA local district office.
If you are staying at the hotel- your meals during your stay are included as part of your package. You will be entitled to dinner the evening you check-in. All meals are included during your stay, as are breakfast and lunch on the day you check-out. Hotel package prices are based on the number of people staying in your room, not the number of beds. If you elect to share your room with a guest, you should reserve a double-occupancy room and your guest’s meals will be included in your package. Pricing per night for the hotel packages is as follows:
Single-occupancy room: $100 per person
Double-occupancy room: $65 per person
If you are not staying at the hotel- the price of your meals is not included in your registration fee. You are welcome to join us for meals for an additional fee. If you choose to join the group for any of your meals, you will be charged the full meal plan fee of $65.
Meals:
All meals during this event will be held in the hotel restaurant, with the exception of the Evening Banquet on November 4th, which will be held in a private ballroom. To attend any of these meals you must either be staying at the hotel or purchase a meal package. At the meals, simply let the restaurant staff know that you are with FAHE's conference and your meal will be complimentary.
