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Connecting Communities: Building Capacity of Community-Based Organizations
Lessons Learned from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program
February 15 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
This webinar is now available to watch on-demand.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021 the U.S. Department of Treasury deployed $46 billion to support housing stability. Without existing local and state infrastructure to quickly deploy these federal rental assistance dollars, community-based organizations (CBOs) across the country played a key role to help ensure the funding reached households that needed it most.
The infrastructure these organizations set up to deploy these funds took many different forms. In this session, experts will shed light on the innovative strategies employed by three CBOs nationwide. Gain valuable insights into guiding principles for effectively dispersing funding to underserved communities and strategies for building and strengthening the capacity of CBOs.
Speakers
Erin Barbee
Chief Strategy Officer
DreamKey Partners
Joe Horiye
Western Region Program Vice President
LISC
Elizabeth Kneebone
Assistant Vice President – Community Development
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Clare Rutz Wallace
Executive Director
South Louisville Community Ministries
Sydney Diavua
Assistant Vice President, Community Development
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
moderator
Related resources:
- Building Local Institutional Capacity: Lessons Learned from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program – Terner Center
- An Uneven Housing Safety Net: Disparities in the Disbursement of Emergency Rental Assistance and the Role of Local Institutional Capacity – Terner Center
- Sustaining Success in Deploying ERA Funds in Louisville – St. Louis Fed
- Assessing the Durability of COVID-Era Capacity Gains Among Community-Based Organizations: Lessons from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program
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Connecting Communities is a Federal Reserve-sponsored webinar series providing timely information on community and economic development issues. It complements Fed community development outreach initiatives conducted through the 12 regional Reserve Banks and Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
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