Workshop: How to Prepare Testimony for the Federal Reserve Public Hearing on CRA Modernization

The Community Reinvestment Organizing Project (a project of the Monroe Foundation) and Woodstock Institute will host a workshop to discuss the modernization of the Community Reinvestment Act and help community-based organizations prepare written and oral testimony at the upcoming Federal Reserve public hearing on Thursday August 12, 2010.
 
The workshop will address the need to extend the CRA to credit unions, mortgage companies, insurance companies, and other financial institutions and expand CRA assessments area to communities, states, and rural counties where a financial institution has a significant market share.  The workshop will be held:
 
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 from 10am to 12pm
PNC Bank
8700 S. Cottage Grove
Chicago, Illinois
 
To register, contact Otis Monroe at omonroe@themonroefoundation.org.