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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
SWC is a leading Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) consulting firm for banks. Our clients are community banks that serve historically underserved and economically distressed communities with a variety of unmet financial needs. In order to meet these challenges, we help our clients access and leverage funding programs designed to incentivize financing and development activities in these communities.
We have made it our business to master the complicated world of CDFI grant funding. To facilitate access to these programs, we have created scalable processes for our clients, while also providing targeted tools that enable our clients to tell their unique stories. We have a long history of proven success in equipping the banks we work with to reach out to those areas within their communities that need it most.