A Conference on Community Development

Innovation in Changing Times

April 22-24, 2009

Chase Park Plaza Hotel
St. Louis, Mo.

Thanks to the many participants and presenters
who made this conference a success.

Concurrent session summaries and
presentations are now available.

Look on the Agenda and Concurrent Sessions
pages for more information.


The Innovation Café is still open.

Curious about what your peers had to say during
the conference? Read more than 150 comments
from the Thursday Plenary Table Talk session.


Watch this site

for updates, including video and audio clips
and information on the 10,000-hour challenge.

Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
in partnership with:

Corporation for Enterprise Development   Social Compact    Enterprise Community Partners
NeighborWorks America    Opportunity Finance Network

Scholarship support has been generously provided by:

Community Development Council of Memphis     Facilitate.comPNC Bank

Enterprise Community Partners    ACHANGE    Old National Bank

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." —Charles Darwin