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After High School

College enrollment is down. We’ll talk with administrators and educators at community colleges and four-year schools about keeping students engaged in education and helping them find the path to the workforce that’s best for them.

Connecting People to Jobs

Getting a degree or a certificate is one thing—getting a job is another, particularly given the uncertainty around where the labor market is headed. Educators and community and business leaders will share strategies to connect people to in-demand jobs.

Inclusive and Resilient Recovery: Household Financial Well-Being in the Southeast

What is household financial well-being? What is the relationship between income, expenses, and wealth-building? How has COVID-19 affected our ability to make ends meet? Join the Atlanta Fed to unpack what we mean by household financial well-being and how it is crucial to an inclusive and resilient recovery.

Connecting Communities: Exploring the Intersection of Health and Economic Equity

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.

Scaling Equitable Solar Finance: A Financial Innovations Roundtable Event

Solar industry stakeholders, project developers, and members of the financial sector will gather in a virtual discussion to identify how community financial institutions, such as credit unions, community banks and Community Development Financial Institutions can finance solar installations in low-income communities and communities of color.

Ask Us Anything: Labor Policy Reform for a Cohesive Workforce Development Sector

Join the Atlanta Fed for a conversation on the key components of workforce development system reform and how labor policy can be updated to meet the needs of our current economy and develop the workforce of the future. Speakers will discuss how labor policy can be evolved from a scattered set of approaches to a cohesive system that empowers workers and improves economic outcomes.

Investment Connection LIVE – Maryland & Greater Washington, D.C.

During this live virtual pitch session, organizations will present lending, investment and service opportunities available in Maryland and Greater Washington, D.C. Projects address small business and farm finance, affordable housing and racial equity.

Health-Care Workforce Pipelines, Apprenticeships, and Community Health Worker Models

This assembly will be an examination of rural workforce demand and supply, talent recruitment, a medical assistant apprenticeship model in Washington state, and community health worker models. Leaders and staff from health systems, clinics, workforce training and funding programs, and educational institutions are encouraged to register and participate in this learning and networking opportunity.

Racism and the Economy: Focus on Entrepreneurship

The sixth installment of the Racism and the Economy event series focuses on the impact of racism on entrepreneurs of color. The session will examine solutions that challenge persistent disparities and explore the potential for entrepreneurship to serve as one pathway to transform economic outcomes for communities of color and the broader economy.

Opportunity Occupations: Pathways to Success

Which jobs pay above the national median wage but don’t require a bachelor’s degree? Where can these jobs be found and how can students prepare for them? Learn more about opportunity occupations, workforce development and lessons and personal finance resources for your classroom in this ECONnections webinar.

Launch Event – Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility

Join Social Finance and the Atlanta and Philadelphia Feds for this national launch event of “Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility.” The event will explore the emergence of a new generation of cross-sectoral partnerships focused on better outcomes for workers. It will draw on examples from the recently released book (and beyond) and highlight efforts to build a better workforce system through shared accountability, aligned incentives, and a more careful and thoughtful allocation of financial risks across workers, employers, and governments.

Capital Quest: Connecting Capital to Communities

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Community Development team, in partnership with the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, is hosting this virtual focused on the expanding pool of impact investing funders, how new sources of investment can strengthen the low- and moderate-income communities hardest hit by the pandemic, and the New York Fed’s plans to connect communities with funds.

Racial Equity Strategies: How Financial Institutions Can Effectively Support Minority-Owned Small Businesses

Small businesses are crucial to the nation’s economy and are important sources of employment and wealth building, particularly for minority communities. How can the banking sector develop strategies that serve entrepreneurs of color and bolster local economies? Come gain insights into the performance of minority-owned businesses, the disparities they face, and how capital providers can better incorporate a racial equity lens to enhance lending.

Policy Summit 2021: Pathways to Economic Resilience in Our Communities

Policy Summit is a regional conference that explores solutions at the practitioner and policy levels to challenges that low- and moderate-income communities face. The biennial multi-day event offers its audience of researchers, academics, practitioners, and policymakers the latest research and best practices through presentations and real-world conversations.

Rural Community Action Assembly: Community Foundations, CDFIs, and Regional Revitalization

Speakers will present on revitalization models implemented in Kansas, Michigan, and other regions, giving attendees the opportunity to consider the implementation of these models in Pennsylvania. Leaders and staff from foundations, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), local and regional governments, economic development entities, and anchor institutions are encouraged to register and participate in this learning and networking opportunity.

Discussing Race and Inequality in the Classroom: COVID’s Impact on Economic Well-being

Industry experts and well-known researchers and economists will share their views on COVID-19’s impact on economic well-being, with a special emphasis on how the pandemic has affected minority communities. Teachers, students and professors are welcome to attend as we address income disparity, financial service inequity, generational wealth gaps, and more.

Investment Connection Application Training & Information Session

From July 5-30, the Richmond Fed’s Investment Connection application portal will be open to community-based and nonprofit organizations serving rural communities in regions served by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to attend this live application training and information session prior to applying.

Racism and the Economy: Focus on Criminal Justice

The seventh Racism and the Economy event explores how overrepresentation of people of color and Indigenous people in the criminal legal system compromises the performance of the overall economy.