Fed Listens: Exploring Challenges Facing the Childcare Industry, Working Parents, and Employers

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois

Please join the Chicago Fed on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm CT for a half-day conference bringing together sector leaders and local providers to share insights from their work addressing challenges faced by the childcare industry, working parents, and employers.

Free

Economic Impact Beyond Tribal Economies

Virtual Event

A conversation on how Native involvement in gaming and federal contracting contributes to local economic development.

Free

FedTalk: Childcare and Our Economy: Understanding Constraints and Possible Solutions

Virtual Event

The childcare sector has long faced workforce challenges that affect working parents and the broader economy. With high turnover and constraints on the supply fueled by how the industry is financed, providers often struggle to offer care parents can access. Engaging employers is gaining momentum as a strategy for addressing constraints on the childcare market. Join us at our next FedTalk where we will learn from experts about supply constraints along with motivations and opportunities for employers to engage in ways that could improve workforce stability and productivity.

Free

Advance Together: Celebrating the achievements of Texas community partnerships

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2200 N Pearl St, Dallas, Texas, United States

This public event marks the conclusion of the pilot round of Advance Together. The program will showcase progress made by the participating partnerships and highlight opportunities for the second round, launching in 2025.

Free

Regional Economic Conditions: Professional Services

Virtual Event

The Minneapolis Fed Regional Outreach team, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), recently surveyed professional services firms across the Ninth District to better understand how they are faring in the current economy and what they see in the immediate future.

Regional Economic Conditions: General Business

Virtual Event

Join Regional Outreach Director Ron Wirtz for a free webinar discussing the latest results from a July survey of firms, and to learn about how businesses are dealing with very challenging conditions.

Free

Payments Inclusion Forum: Innovating for Inclusion

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 1000 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Don’t miss the fireside chat with Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Sunayna Tuteja, chief innovation officer for the Federal Reserve System. These key Fed leaders will discuss how to advance a payment system that works for all and their views on how to incorporate inclusion principles into financial services.

Free

FedTalk: Enabling Instant Payments for All

Virtual Event

Please join the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Ken Isaacson, senior vice president and payments advisor, as he moderates a panel of Federal Reserve payments professionals for a conversation about connecting to instant payments, the role of core banking and other service providers, and the benefits this new payments rail offers to financial institutions and their business and consumer customers.

Free

GenAI for Economic Opportunity: Early Learnings from Philanthropy and Nonprofits

Virtual Event

Please join us on August 27 for a series of panel discussions from our EmergingTech Economic Research Network (EERN) on how philanthropy and nonprofit organizations throughout our District’s Bay Area are navigating the emergence of generative artificial intelligence in the communities they serve. 

Free

Pathways to Progress: Strengthening West Tennessee’s Young Adult Workforce

Southwest Tennessee Community College Macon Campus, Farris Building 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

At this event, you’ll hear from business and industry leaders, community organizations and educational partners from across West Tennessee who have deployed successful programs and strategies for working together to expand workforce opportunities for vulnerable populations.

Free

Pathways to Progress: Strengthening the Young Adult Workforce in the Delta

Leflore Legacy Academy 500 W. Washington Street, Greenwood, Mississippi, United States

At this event, you’ll hear from business and industry leaders, community organizations and educational partners from across the Mississippi Delta who have deployed successful approaches for working together to expand workforce opportunities for vulnerable populations.

Free

Exploring Healthy Longevity Cities

Federal Reserve Bank of New York 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY, United States

On Monday, September 16, 2024, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with the New York Academy of Medicine, will host a hybrid event focused on how cities can foster long and healthy lives for their residents.

Free

Promising Approaches to Financing Child Care Facilities

Housatonic Community College 900 Lafayette Blvd., Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States

On Thursday, September 19, 2024, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, will host an in-person event at Connecticut’s Housatonic Community College on innovative financing in the child care sector.

Free