We’re excited to announce the 2023 Strength Matters Financial Management Conference will be held in Minneapolis this October.
Join us Tue. Oct. 24 through Fri. Oct. 27 at the Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown. Group rate of $189 per night is available for 10/24-1027.
Conference registration will open in the summer. Please check back.
Want to share? We want to learn.
Do you have experience, best and promising practices and tools, or innovative ideas to share with your colleagues who lead and manage the financial capacities of affordable housing organizations? Planning is underway for the Strength Matters Financial Management Conference, September 7-9, 2022 in New Orleans and we invite interested speakers to contribute to the content.
Target Audience
Our goal is to meet the financial management and peer exchange needs of professionals in the nonprofit affordable housing and community development industry. We specifically provide programs targeting financial leadership, predominantly CFOs, and also attract a significant number of CEOs and COOs, as well as investors, syndicators, and financial professionals from tax and accounting firms involved in affordable housing.
Session Topics of Interest
The 2022 Financial Management Conference will cover business practice & continuity, capital, financial talent and teams, and resiliency & change. Strength Matters is accepting session ideas for 60-minute and 90-minute sessions for these topics:
| Business Practice & Continuity + Data Management + Cybersecurity + Speed of Business Change and The Finance Function + Enterprise Risk Management Best Practices + The CFO, Development Staff and Asset Management Staff: The Golden Triangle for Effective and Efficient Rental Development and Ownership + The Dashboard: The Perennial Tool for Financial Storytelling + Cash Forecasting: Always and Forever |
Capital + Negotiating Operating Agreements with Syndicators + Comparing and Analyzing Investor Offers + Strategic Disposition: Pulling Equity from Portfolio to Support Growth + Non-traditional Capital Partners: Building the Partnerships + Capital Structuring Decisions: Today’s Capital Stack to Meet Mission and Margin + State and Local Recovery Funds: Effective Relationships with Government Partners to Access Project Capital |
| Financial Talent and Teams + The CFO as Strategist: The Evolving Role in the C-Suite + The CFO and CEO partnership + Building the Finance Team for Organizational Growth + Amplifying Financial Talent + Recruiting Financial Talent + Developing the Next Generation of CFOs + Succession Planning for the CFO Role + The Comptroller’s Currency: Managing From the Middle |
Resiliency & Change + Best Practices for Managing a Remote Audit + Transformative Technology + Organizational Culture in the Hybrid Space + Outsourcing Accounting Talent + Returning to the Office: Space Planning and Employee Collaboration + Employee Retention in a Hybrid Workforce: New Game, New Rules + What COVID Taught You About the Role of CFO |
Selection Process
Session ideas will be selected based on their relevance to the target audience and the field and how well they meet the following criteria:
Call for Sessions Timeline
Submission deadline: Friday, June 24, 2022 8PM ET
We’re excited to announce the 2022 Strength Matters Financial Management Conference will be held in New Orleans this September.
Join us Wed. Sept. 7 through Fri. Sept. 9 at The Westin New Orleans. Group rate of $189 per night is available for 9/6-9/9.
Conference registration will open mid-June. Please check back.
Interested in presenting? Call for Sessions is now open.
Register | 2021 Virtual Boot Camp
Strength Matters will host its first virtual Boot Camp over the course of 11 weeks from June 9 to August 18. Each Wednesday starting at 1PM ET/10AM PT attendees will join our CPA and CFO instructors for 90 or 120 minutes session on one part of the life cycle of an affordable housing deal.
The course will be will be delivered via lecture, group questions, individual reflection exercises, reading and case studies. The virtual Boot Camp is $700 per person. Up to 19.5 CPE credits will be available.
Email Lindsay (consult.lwells@gmail.com) with questions on the course content or CPE credits. For other questions, email info@strengthmatters.net.
We are registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
Learning Objectives:Be able to evaluate coordination between development teams and finance teams and identify procedures to enhance coordination.
Instructional Delivery Method: Group internet
CPE Credits: 1 CPE (50 minutes of instructional time = 1 CPE)
Field of Study: Finance
Program Level: Overview
Who Should Attend:Development and finance staff
Prerequisite: Nonprofit housing development organization management or related financial management experience
Advanced Preparation Required: None required
Registration: Participants should register in advance using the button above.
Participation Requirements: To receive a certificate of completion for a webinar, participants must be logged into the webinar and dialed into the audio portion (if joining audio by computer, no separate dial-in required) by 10 minutes after the stated start time, complete all engagement activities (including polls) and participate in the full webinar.
Please email consult.lwells@gmail.com after the event to request a certificate.
Contact: For more information regarding policies, or to issue a complaint, please email Lindsay Wells at consult.lwells@gmail.com or Angela Gravely-Smith at AGravelySmith@nw.org.
In addition to covering these areas, we plan to have time to address your questions on other topics you’re dealing with.
Presenters:
Andrew Prather, Shareholder, Clark Nuber PS
Catherine Syslo, Director Quality Control, CohnReznick LLP
Jeff Zeleji, Assurance Senior Manager, Plante Moran PLLC
We are registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
Learning Objectives: Understanding and implementing recent accounting changes affecting 2020 and 2021.
Instructional Delivery Method: Group internet
CPE Credits: 1 CPE (50 minutes of instructional time = 1 CPE)
Field of Study: Accounting
Program Level: Intermediate
Who Should Attend: CFOs, controllers, other senior finance staff
Prerequisite: Nonprofit housing development organization management or related financial management experience
Advanced Preparation Required: None required
Registration: Participants should register in advance using the button above.
Participation Requirements: To receive a certificate of completion for a webinar, participants must be logged into the webinar and dialed into the audio portion (if joining audio by computer, no separate dial-in required) by 10 minutes after the stated start time, complete all engagement activities (including polls) and participate in the full webinar.
Please email consult.lwells@gmail.com after the event to request a certificate.
Contact: For more information regarding policies, or to issue a complaint, please email Lindsay Wells at consult.lwells@gmail.com or Angela Gravely-Smith at AGravelySmith@nw.org.
