BY TFN STAFF
Smaller cities present distinct opportunities, including strong entrepreneurial spirit and growth potential, to advance health equity in ways that create outsize impacts for relatively small price tags. But these small and midsize cities face many challenges in attracting and sustaining community investment capital.
Join TFN’s Inclusive Economies for a June webinar that will explore the insights and lessons shared, including the challenges and promising strategies to improve community investment systems in smaller places — and the important role funders can play in supporting key partnerships and projects that advance health equity in those communities.
How Community Development Capital Can Promote Health Equity in Smaller Cities takes place on June 15 at 2:30 p.m. ET. (Register here.)
We’ll be joined by Don Hinkle-Brown, CEO of the Reinvestment Fund, a mission-driven financial institution that provides analytical tools and financing to strengthen neighborhoods, scale social enterprises, and build resilient communities. As a product of Reinvestment Fund’s Invest Health initiative, a report by Urban Institute called Making Community Development Capital Work in Small to Midsized Cities describes the challenges small and midsize cities can face in attracting and sustaining the capital needed to develop a pipeline of community development projects. From 2019 to 2020, the Reinvestment Fund convened a series of roundtables with community development investment practitioners who have financed projects that aim to improve the social determinants of health in small and mid-sized cities through community development capital.
Join us to explore the insights and lessons shared, including the challenges and promising strategies to improve community investment systems in smaller places — and the important role funders can play in supporting key partnerships and projects that advance health equity in those communities.
This webinar will also include real-world models to illustrate lessons learned in implementing strategies to improve community investment systems in smaller places with a health equity-promoting lens.
Speakers
Don Hinkle-Brown, CEO, Reinvestment Fund
Raquel Favela, Senior Director, National Development Council
Brian Payne, Executive Director, CDFI Friendly Bloomington
Registration
How Community Development Capital Can Promote Health Equity in Smaller Cities
June 15 | 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET
Register here.
Please register for this funder-only webinar by June 11 to receive log-in information.
About TFN’s Inclusive Economies
TFN’s Inclusive Economies working group brings place-based funders and related partners from across the sector together to build working relationships, advancing understanding of practices and policies that lead to inclusive prosperity and taking joint action that drives the field forward. We apply a three-part focus — race, place and prosperity — to economic growth and development.
A particular goal is connecting people and neighborhoods of color to employment and wealth-building opportunities through investment, systems change, and policy reform.
For more information, please contact Hazel Paguaga at hazel@fundersnetwork.org.
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