Minority small-business owners and community lenders share their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel will discuss where they are now, what small businesses need going forward, and what’s at stake when small businesses in underserved areas—and the community development financial institutions and minority depository institutions that support them—struggle.
Differences in health outcomes exist across many factors, including economic status, education, race and ethnicity, and geography. In this Connecting Communities webinar, speakers will focus on the impact of COVID-19, historical and structural barriers to health equity, the relationship between health and economic equity, and practices to encourage equitable health.
When COVID-19 hit the US, it became clear that millions of Americans and small businesses were disconnected from the banking system. This Connecting Communities webinar session will cover partnerships and programs created to help fill the capital void for the small businesses struggling most.
This session will highlight data from the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS) that help to more deeply examine how the pandemic impacted a diverse range of small businesses, including nonemployer firms (businesses with no employees other than the owner), and firms owned by people of color.
This Connecting Communities webinar celebrates the unique assets in rural communities, while making the case for continued investment—specifically in low-income or otherwise under-resourced rural communities.
Join us on December 2 for a Connecting Communities® webinar discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities and the entities serving them in 2021.
This session will include insights from research on the cost of providing high-quality early care and education (ECE), the challenges low- to moderate-income families face in paying for it, and racial and ethnic equity for families and ECE providers. Findings from focus group discussions with parents of young children and ECE providers will also be discussed.
On May 5, the Federal Reserve Board, OCC, and FDIC jointly released an NPR that would reform the CRA regulations. This webinar will provide an overview of the proposal and its objectives. Topics will include assessment areas, qualified activities, evaluation framework, ratings, and data collection and reporting. The session will be presented jointly by CRA policy experts from the Board, OCC, and FDIC.
During this session, experts will discuss the results from the most recent report on the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) findings. The webinar will cover the ways families fared across a range of dimensions including how parents fared through the pandemic, employment outcomes, retirement decisions, and broader family finances.
Join us for a discussion with community-based organizations and bankers who have successfully worked together by developing CRA-eligible project proposals through the Federal Reserve’s Investment Connection program.
Join us to discuss findings from the National COVID-19 Community Impact Survey administered by the Federal Reserve System.
Small businesses are on the road to recovery, although hiring, supply chain disruptions, and rising costs remain persistent challenges.
