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Advocacy Day and Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 Peer Forum Conference: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 and Thursday, June 5th, 2025 Meeting Location: National Housing Center (NHC) Auditorium at: 1201 15th St NW, 1st floor, Washington, DC 20005 Attire: Business casual for all Peer Forum activities
Hotel Information: The National Housing Center is located in downtown, Washington D.C., within walking distance of a variety of hotels offering rooms at a wide range of price points. We invite you to explore some of the options in our “Hotel Options List.” Please note that CDBA has not arranged a room block at any individual hotels for this event.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding Advocacy Day, please email Joey Zeldin at zeldinj@pcgloanfund.org.
Schedule:
June 3: Advocacy Day & Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception at 5:30 pm ET
June 4: Sessions from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET
Cocktail reception at 6:00 pm ET followed by dinner at 7:30 pm ET at Zaytinya
Carlos P. Naudon is President and CEO of Ponce Bank and its publicly traded financial holding company, Ponce Financial Group (NASDAQ: PDLB). He is also President of the Ponce de Leon Foundation, endowed by Ponce Bank to support not-for-profits that contribute to financial, racial and climate equity within the communities that the Bank serves.
As President, Naudon has reinvigorated Ponce Bank’s 62-year mission to provide financial services to the underserved but highly deserving immigrant communities and low-and-middle income stakeholders in and around New York City and other similar communities. The Bank has been recognized as a Minority Depository Institution (MDI) as well as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), one of fewer than 50 banks so designated in the U.S. Ponce Bank was recently rated the #1 Latinx Bank in the country for community investment by Mighty Deposits, an independent rating resource for mission-oriented banking.
Naudon has served as Regulatory Counsel and Advisor to many banks during almost 40 years as an Attorney and CPA focused upon banking law and he is owner and publisher of The Gold Book: The Manual of Bank Operations, long a trusted resource within the banking community. He was recently appointed to the New York Federal Reserve Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council, he is the Vice-Chairman of the Minority Institutions Council of the ICBA and serves on the board of the Independent Bankers Association of New York State. He is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Brooklyn Hospital Center and former Chairman of the Board of ModernMD, which has urgent care facilities throughout Brooklyn, NY.
