Expert in Residence Sought

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Original message from: inspirecdcu@yahoo.com

A group of local non-profit agencies*is looking to*write a grant to a local foundation to sponsor*an Expert in*Residence to come to*Battle Creek and provide in-depth training to various*sectors of our community around financial literacy/poverty issues. The goals will be*for them to share specialized knowledge,*talent and expertise, and to stimulate new ideas and foster innovative thinking. Previous Experts have included Edward James Olmos, Ruby Payne, Cliford Rosenthal of the National Federation of CDCUs, Desmond Tutu...a whole host of world-class individuals.

We are considering Michelle Singletary of the* Washington Post and NPR**but are just beginning to research options. Can anyone*suggest possible candidates for us to consider?
*Kathie Black
CEO
Inspire Proposed Community Development Federal Credit Union
Temporary address:
Kellogg Community Federal Credit Union
41 Second Street, P.O. Box 150
Battle Creek, MI 49016
269.968-9251, ext. 254
800-854-5421, ext. 254
269-760-4339 (cell)
269.441-1541 (fax)

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Original message from: rbrooks@dcs.wisc.edu

Kathy,
What a great idea! The list of previous experts is very impressive, and it's often wonderful to have a "world class" famous person come to attract a crowd. On the other hand, to quote the name of a local coalition here in Wisconsin, it can be helpful to consider that "What We Need is Here." With lots of exceptions (Rubyi Payne, for example, and Eddie Olmos), the world-class folks are often not the ones capable of providing "in-depth training" and the kind of detail work that would be most useful. Much of their time is spent on the very issues that brought them fame, then dealing with the fame. In the case of journalists and authors, they deserve national attention because they have written about people doing the work that you are interested in but they have not necessarily done it themselves.

So my suggestion would be to follow something like Appreciative Inquiry. Ask people to recall when they felt best/most effective in their work with credit unions, financial literacy and poverty. Then ask them to think about the conditions and elements that made that possible so you can learn from that. Ask them for people they know or have experienced rather than people they have only heard or read about. My guess is that you have some very inspirational people within your circles of acquaintances and colleagues. On this list, for example.

Don't be shy. Good luck. By the way, have you thought about TimeBanking as a strategy to deal with the issues you address? Here in Madison, the 11,00 members of the TimeBank are not only filling in the gaps left by inadequate government services and holes in the economy. They are generating economic opportunity by valuing the contributions of lots of people nobody paid much attention to before. Look at www.timebanks.org<http://www.timebanks.org> ('http://www.timebanks.org>') or www.danecountytimebank.org<http://www.danecountytimebank.org> ('http://www.danecountytimebank.org>')

The international conference here in late June will offer quite a few experts like the ones you seek.

Rick Brooks
Outreach Program Manager
Professional Development & Applied Studies
UW-Madison 608-265-4077

Wisconsin Partners for SustainAbility
www.wiscpsa.org
Dane Buy Local
www.danebuylocal.com<http://www.danebuylocal.com> ('http://www.danebuylocal.com>')

Dane County TimeBank www.danecountytimebank.org<http://www.danecountytimebank.org> ('http://www.danecountytimebank.org>')

Envest www.envestmicrofinance.org<http://www.envestmicrofinance.org> ('http://www.envestmicrofinance.org>')

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From: bounce-3593058-9339030@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-3593058-9339030@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kathie Black
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:45 AM
To: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@cornell.edu
Subject: Expert in Residence Sought

A group of local non-profit agencies is looking to write a grant to a local foundation to sponsor an Expert in Residence to come to Battle Creek and provide in-depth training to various sectors of our community around financial literacy/poverty issues. The goals will be for them to share specialized knowledge, talent and expertise, and to stimulate new ideas and foster innovative thinking. Previous Experts have included Edward James Olmos, Ruby Payne, Cliford Rosenthal of the National Federation of CDCUs, Desmond Tutu...a whole host of world-class individuals.

We are considering Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post and NPR but are just beginning to research options. Can anyone suggest possible candidates for us to consider?

Kathie Black
CEO
Inspire Proposed Community Development Federal Credit Union
Temporary address:
Kellogg Community Federal Credit Union
41 Second Street, P.O. Box 150
Battle Creek, MI 49016
269.968-9251, ext. 254
800-854-5421, ext. 254
269-760-4339 (cell)
269.441-1541 (fax)



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Original message from: Larry.Blanchard@cunamutual.com

Kathie,

I would recommend Steve Brobeck, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of America.

Michelle Singletary is a good choice, too.

Larry Blanchard

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From: bounce-3593058-4990546@list.cornell.edu
To: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@cornell.edu
Sent: Wed Feb 18 08:45:19 2009
Subject: Expert in Residence Sought


A group of local non-profit agencies is looking to write a grant to a local foundation to sponsor an Expert in Residence to come to Battle Creek and provide in-depth training to various sectors of our community around financial literacy/poverty issues. The goals will be for them to share specialized knowledge, talent and expertise, and to stimulate new ideas and foster innovative thinking. Previous Experts have included Edward James Olmos, Ruby Payne, Cliford Rosenthal of the National Federation of CDCUs, Desmond Tutu...a whole host of world-class individuals.

We are considering Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post and NPR but are just beginning to research options. Can anyone suggest possible candidates for us to consider?

Kathie Black
CEO
Inspire Proposed Community Development Federal Credit Union
Temporary address:
Kellogg Community Federal Credit Union
41 Second Street, P.O. Box 150
Battle Creek, MI 49016
269.968-9251, ext. 254
800-854-5421, ext. 254
269-760-4339 (cell)
269.441-1541 (fax)



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Original message from: aljonesrdo@bresnan.net

Brooks has extremely insightful points here and quite refreshing ones. It's
much easier to talk about a complex issue, i.e. as a reporter or writer, than
to work in the trenches on it and the longer you work directly with clients,
the fewer certainties, formulas, etc. that hold up to endless alternatives and
exceptions in real life (which bedevils being the ultimate expert on a topic
so you'll find experts often have shallow and quick field experience.)

Appreciative Inquiry is a very useful tool.

As Mr. Brooks points out and I saw it working directly with welfare recipients
looking at entrepreneurship through microloans (a pretty unproductive course
despite amazing applicants), helping folks build more robust and extensive
personal networks, get past self-defeating mindsets and regain realistic hope
for their futures, work out reliable transportation and solutions to financial
emergencies like car repairs or from family members lurching from crisis to
crisis (a very common factor in hurting households that gets overlooked), and
lack of skills training to get better than unskilled jobs. Tapping the front
line folks in Battle Creek and getting together to brainstorm new solutions to
fragmented problems (nobody's responsibility, everybody's burden) would be
more productive.

I'm often mistaken for an expert (speaking firmly seems to be the key
regardless of one's actual knowledge and steering the discussion to where one
can shine or be hard to dispute is the other key.) I read a lot in search of
experts, finding some to be sure but in narrow things and bound by time and
very specific experience.

Take the population of Battle Creek, multiply it by 5%, and that'll tell you
roughly how many local residents are as smart as just about any external
expert you'd hire...thousands of people with a deep stake and years in your
community. The communities that keep bringing a diverse mix of local bright
people together often (instead of the same ones entrenched in how things used
to be that worked out well for them) do remarkably better across human history
(Peter Hall's "Cities In Civilization" is a profound tour of what's actually
worked over the past 2500 years and far cheaper than the experts I've seen on
cluster development, innovation, creative communities, or community
development.)

If you're not tapping the Heartland Institute, the National Main Street
Center, the Urban Land Institute, and the National Business Incubation
Association, you are missing out on some extremely helpful networks full of
amazing practitioners.


Al Jones
(not an expert but I have played one on TV and stayed at Holiday Inn
Expresses.)
former local and state ED and SBDC
($650 million in projects completed in poor counties mostly, yeah it can be
done.)
Billings, Montana (3.7% unemployment but near the bottom of the U.S. in wages
and generally in the top 2-3 in folks with 3 jobs.)






On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:49:03 -0600
"Brooks, Richard" <rbrooks@dcs.wisc.edu> wrote:
Kathy,
What a great idea! The list of previous experts is very impressive, and
it's often wonderful to have a "world class" famous person come to attract a
crowd. On the other hand, to quote the name of a local coalition here in
Wisconsin, it can be helpful to consider that "What We Need is Here." With
lots of exceptions (Rubyi Payne, for example, and Eddie Olmos), the
world-class folks are often not the ones capable of providing "in-depth
training" and the kind of detail work that would be most useful. Much of
their time is spent on the very issues that brought them fame, then dealing
with the fame. In the case of journalists and authors, they deserve national
attention because they have written about people doing the work that you are
interested in but they have not necessarily done it themselves.

So my suggestion would be to follow something like Appreciative Inquiry.
Ask people to recall when they felt best/most effective in their work with
credit unions, financial literacy and poverty. Then ask them to think about
the conditions and elements that made that possible so you can learn from
that. Ask them for people they know or have experienced rather than people
they have only heard or read about. My guess is that you have some very
inspirational people within your circles of acquaintances and colleagues. On
this list, for example.

Don't be shy. Good luck. By the way, have you thought about TimeBanking as
a strategy to deal with the issues you address? Here in Madison, the 11,00
members of the TimeBank are not only filling in the gaps left by inadequate
government services and holes in the economy. They are generating economic
opportunity by valuing the contributions of lots of people nobody paid much
attention to before. Look at www.timebanks.org<http://www.timebanks.org> ('http://www.timebanks.org>') or
www.danecountytimebank.org<http://www.danecountytimebank.org> ('http://www.danecountytimebank.org>')

The international conference here in late June will offer quite a few
experts like the ones you seek.

Rick Brooks
Outreach Program Manager
Professional Development & Applied Studies
UW-Madison 608-265-4077

Wisconsin Partners for SustainAbility
www.wiscpsa.org
Dane Buy Local
www.danebuylocal.com<http://www.danebuylocal.com> ('http://www.danebuylocal.com>')

Dane County TimeBank
www.danecountytimebank.org<http://www.danecountytimebank.org> ('http://www.danecountytimebank.org>')

Envest www.envestmicrofinance.org<http://www.envestmicrofinance.org> ('http://www.envestmicrofinance.org>')

________________________________
From: bounce-3593058-9339030@list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-3593058-9339030@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kathie Black
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:45 AM
To: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@cornell.edu
Subject: Expert in Residence Sought

A group of local non-profit agencies is looking to write a grant to a local
foundation to sponsor an Expert in Residence to come to Battle Creek and
provide in-depth training to various sectors of our community around
financial literacy/poverty issues. The goals will be for them to share
specialized knowledge, talent and expertise, and to stimulate new ideas and
foster innovative thinking. Previous Experts have included Edward James
Olmos, Ruby Payne, Cliford Rosenthal of the National Federation of CDCUs,
Desmond Tutu...a whole host of world-class individuals.

We are considering Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post and NPR but
are just beginning to research options. Can anyone suggest possible
candidates for us to consider?

Kathie Black
CEO
Inspire Proposed Community Development Federal Credit Union
Temporary address:
Kellogg Community Federal Credit Union
41 Second Street, P.O. Box 150
Battle Creek, MI 49016
269.968-9251, ext. 254
800-854-5421, ext. 254
269-760-4339 (cell)
269.441-1541 (fax)



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Original message from: Prabal.Chakrabarti@bos.frb.org

Dear Colleagues:

The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and San Francisco are pleased to
announce the release of a new publication Revisiting the CRA: Perspectives
on the Future of the Community Reinvestment Act . This timely publication
offers a range of perspectives on the past and future of the CRA, provides
facts, and highlights possible reforms in an effort to foster a healthy
debate. The authors include academic researchers, current and former
regulators, community development practitioners, and financial services
representatives.
The publication is now available for download from both the Boston and San
Francisco websites:
Boston weblink: http://www.bos.frb.org/commdev/cra/index.htm ('http://www.bos.frb.org/commdev/cra/index.htm')
San Francisco weblink:
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Sincerely,
Community Affairs at the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and San Francisco

(CRA Volume Editors: Prabal Chakrabarti, Ren Essene, David Erickson, Ian
Galloway, and John Olson. CAOs: Scott Turner and Richard Walker)

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Original message from: tpreston-koenig@virchowkrause.com

You could try Conrad Egan at National Housing Conference, or Mark Pinsky at Opportunity Finance Network - both would be excellent choices - with deep national networks and understanding of the community and financial literacy concerns you are considering - you can check out their websites for more information -

Terri Preston-Koenig
Valued Advisor Fund, Executive Director
Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP, Partner
608 240-2546 Direct
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608 249-8532 Fax



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From: bounce-3593661-9416202@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-3593661-9416202@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Blanchard, Larry H.
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:53 AM
To: inspirecdcu@yahoo.com; communitydevelopmentbanking-l@cornell.edu
Subject: Re: Expert in Residence Sought


Kathie,

I would recommend Steve Brobeck, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of America.

Michelle Singletary is a good choice, too.

Larry Blanchard

________________________________
From: bounce-3593058-4990546@list.cornell.edu
To: communitydevelopmentbanking-l@cornell.edu
Sent: Wed Feb 18 08:45:19 2009
Subject: Expert in Residence Sought

A group of local non-profit agencies is looking to write a grant to a local foundation to sponsor an Expert in Residence to come to Battle Creek and provide in-depth training to various sectors of our community around financial literacy/poverty issues. The goals will be for them to share specialized knowledge, talent and expertise, and to stimulate new ideas and foster innovative thinking. Previous Experts have included Edward James Olmos, Ruby Payne, Cliford Rosenthal of the National Federation of CDCUs, Desmond Tutu...a whole host of world-class individuals.

We are considering Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post and NPR but are just beginning to research options. Can anyone suggest possible candidates for us to consider?

Kathie Black
CEO
Inspire Proposed Community Development Federal Credit Union
Temporary address:
Kellogg Community Federal Credit Union
41 Second Street, P.O. Box 150
Battle Creek, MI 49016
269.968-9251, ext. 254
800-854-5421, ext. 254
269-760-4339 (cell)
269.441-1541 (fax)



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Original message from: theresa@homeowncenter.com

Our non-profit organization would like to develop relationships with banks
for support of our housing and foreclosure program. Does anyone on the list
have suggestions on how to directly reach and network with the CEOs of small
or medium sized banks or have any personal contacts they can recommend for
me.

Thanks in advance,

Theresa Kennedy
The Good Neighbor Foundation
Franklin, TN