Register Now! The 2009 Opportunity Finance Network Conference, October 27 - 30
Improve Your Risk Management Skills!

Strong risk management policies, procedures, and practices are essential to every CDFIs' success.

The 2009 OFN Conference offers 10 training sessions on risk management issues. Taught by CDFI practitioners, CARS™ analysts, and other experts, these courses teach critical skills and allow for peer learning on many topics.

Get an overview of organization-wide risk management in Stabilization Essentials: Comprehensive Risk Management in Light of the Financial Crisis. Find out why your CDFI needs a very special type of PAC in Managing Problem Assets: Forming and Using a Problem Asset Committee. Learn or get a needed refresher on portfolio management basics in Portfolio Management in The New Normal. Get help with portfolio problems in three sessions on Managing Delinquency in Affordable Housing, Microenterprise and Small Business, and Commercial and Facilities portfolios. Finally, for those more difficult portfolio challenges, learn strategies for dealing with Workouts in three sessions on the topic.

You're sure to leave the Conference with more and better tools for keeping your portfolio healthy.

Register today at www.opportunityfinance.net/conference.

Who Are the Future CDFI Industry Leaders?
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2008 Opportunity Finance Network Conference
PLATINUM SPONSOR
Bank of America

GOLD SPONSORS
Capital One, Citi Foundation, Home Depot Foundation, Wachovia
SILVER SPONSOR
HSBC

BRONZE SPONSORS
Federal Home Loan BanksJPMorgan ChaseMorgan Stanley

COMMUNITY LEADER
PNC Bank

COMMUNITY SPONSORS
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing SunTrust Bank
LOCAL CO-HOSTS
Latino Community Credit Union Mountain BizWorks North Carolina Community Development Initiative Self-Help SJF Ventures

REGIONAL CO-HOSTS
Appalachian Community Enterprises Community Redevelopment Loan and Investment Fund The Housing Fund Piedmont Housing Alliance Richmond Economic Development Corporation Southeast Community Capital Virginia Community Capital Virginia Community Development Fund

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