AUTUMN 2006

Stored Value Cards: Opportunities, Risks

Specialized Mortgage Products: A Game of Chance?

Fed Product Helps Banks Serve Mexican Immigrants

IRS Offers Taxpayers New Refund Service

Call for Session Proposals: Exploring Innovation

New From the Federal Reserve: Kids and Money

Seminar: the Rise of Personal Bankruptcy

Have You Heard

Spanning the Region

Calendar

Resources

A Closer Look
Included with Bridges is A Closer Look, a supplement that takes topics from previous and current issues of Bridges and examines them from the perspective of a particular area or community.  This issue of A Closer Look focuses on a new law in Tennessee that is intended to curb abusive lending practices in the mortgage lending industry.

Free Subscription Via U.S. Mail

Calendar

October

11
Leading for Change: Toward the Greater Good—Louisville, Ky.
Sponsor: Center for Nonprofit Excellence (Sixth Annual Leadership & Awards Conference)
www.cnpe.org

28
Women’s Money Matters Workshop—Crystal City, Mo.
Sponsors: University of Missouri Extension, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
www.stlouisfed.org/community/conferences.html

30-Nov. 2
The Power of Opportunity—Washington, D.C.
Sponsor: The Opportunity Finance Network
www.opportunityfinance.net

November

15-17
Church-Based Community Development Training Symposium—Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Sponsors: BB&T, Freddie Mac
www.bbandttraining.com or 704-954-1108

16-17
Arkansas Venture Conference—Rogers, Ark.
Sponsor: Arkansas Venture Forum
www.arkansasventureforum.com

30
Mid-South Delta Summit—Tunica, Miss.
Sponsor: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
www.stlouisfed.org

December

7
Community Development Roundtable—Pine Bluff, Ark.
Sponsor: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
www.stlouisfed.org/community/conferences.html

11-15
NeighborWorks Training Institute—New Orleans
Sponsor: NeighborWorks
www.nw.org/network/home.asp

January

31-Feb.2
2007 Community Development Conference
Sponsor: Missouri Community Development Society
www.mocds.org

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