News & Events
12/13/18 2PM ET – Functional Expense Reporting Webinar
Join Strength Matters for a one-hour webinar on the new Functional Expense Reporting requirements. Scott Seamands of Lindquist, von Husen & Joycewill cover the new requirement to present expenses in both natural and functional formats for 2018 financial statements.
- Discuss the new requirement to present expenses in both natural and functional formats for 2018 financial statements.
11/29/18 2PM ET – New Liquidity Footnote Webinar
Join Strength Matters for a one-hour webinar on the new liquidity footnote disclosure requirements. Scott Seamands of Lindquist, von Husen & Joyce and Karen Kent, of Kevin P. Martin & Associates will lead this webinar and provide guidance on how to begin drafting your organization’s 2018 financial statements. CPE credit available.
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December Boot Camp in Pittsburgh, PA
The next Strength Matters Boot Camp will be in Pittsburgh, PA, on December 3-4, 2018 during NeighborWorks National Training Institute.
Event Overview and Registration
Email [email protected] with questions.
Strength Matters Boot Camp is designed to provide an overview of the accounting and financial reporting issues faced by a nonprofit housing enterprise. Accounting professionals working in this field require industry-specific information. The course also offers CPE credit. Examples of topics covered in this course:
- The accounting differences unique to each entity type, such as limited partnerships.
- Funding sources unique to the industry, such as HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits and other programs. Funding requests from these and commercial sources are examined both in lecture format and through case study.
- Project surplus cash calculations and the loan and regulatory agreements to be considered.
- Using materials published by Strength Matters, participants also focus on financial reporting issues that arise throughout the life cycle of an affordable housing property, from predevelopment through year-15 buyouts and beyond.
2018 Financial Management Conference Agenda
The Financial Management Conference, formerly the NeighborWorks CFO Convening, is open to all community developers – real estate developers, CDFIs, and CDCs. The conference agenda is outlined below.
Registration for the 2018 Financial Management Conference is now closed. Please contact Omayra Colon at [email protected] for additional information.
STRENGTH MATTERS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE | ||
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 | ||
12:00PM – 12:45PM | OPENING CONFERENCE LUNCHEON |
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12:45PM – 1:45PM | OPENING PLENARY – CAPITAL FOR SCALE TO IMPACT CHANGE David Erickson, director of Community Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, will provide keynote remarks and seed a discussion on community development investment and social impact capital from a number of perspectives to kick-off the broader financial management conference. For the discussion that follows, David will be joined by Chrystal Kornegay, executive director of MassHousing, and other key leaders in the Strength Matters network. |
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1:45PM – 2:00PM | BREAK | |
2:00PM – 4:00PM |
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6:00PM – 7:00PM | COCKTAIL RECEPTION AT THE WESTIN DALLAS | |
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 | ||
8:30AM – 12:00PM | CFO/FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS Five tracks of workshops will be provided. Sessions will be led by your peers and others by experts in their field. You are free to participate in workshops in different tracks throughout the day. Final schedule of workshops will be made available shortly before the meeting. Sample topics are provided below. . |
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12:00PM – 1:00PM | CFO Café Enjoy a working lunch and meet with experts and/or consult with your peers on the following topics (and other topics that emerge): • Cash Forecasting – meet with consultants who can help you with your cash forecast |
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1:00PM – 4:30PM |
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6:00PM – 7:30PM | RECEPTION AT THE DALLAS FEDERAL RESERVE BANK | |
Thursday, October 18th, 2018 | ||
8:30AM – 9:15AM |
PLENARY – LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: NAVIGATING CHANGE MANAGEMENT Sheila Maith, a leading industry consultant and executive coach and an expert in organizational change management, will reflect on her experience in the field and provide context for the morning discussions. |
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9:15AM – 9:30AM | BREAK | |
9:30AM – 11:30AM | CONCURRENT CHANGE MANAGEMENT SESSIONS | |
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11:30AM | CONFERENCE ADJOURNS |
2018 Strength Matters Financial Management Conference
Registration for the 2018 Financial Management Conference is now closed. Please contact Omayra Colon at [email protected] for additional information.
The Strength Matters Financial Management Conference will convene more than 200 of the nation’s top nonprofit community development leaders, as well as leading mission-focused for-profit colleagues and our key investment and accounting partners.
For the first time in our 11-year history, we will link the Strength Matters Annual Meeting for CEOs and financial leaders from large affordable rental developers/owners with NeighborWorks’ CFO Convening, the only professional development event of its kind serving financial managers across the community development sector.
Strength Matters Annual Meeting (Invite only)
(Monday, Oct. 15, at 1:00 p.m – Tuesday, Oct. 16)
This invitational event bringing together CEOs and CFOs in an intimate, senior level forum where industry CEOs and financial leaders will discuss current market conditions, marketplace dynamics, and critical strategies for efficient real estate financial operations.
For more information, please see the agenda.
Financial Management Conference (Open to all attendees)
(Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 12:00 p.m. – Thursday, Oct. 18 at 12:00 p.m.)
Two days designed to connect CFOs and other senior financial staff from across the country for peer networking and hands-on workshops. This year’s topics will focus on helping to strengthen organizational capacity in rental development and ownership, lending, home building, financial reporting, and business management.
For more information, please see the agenda.
A special conference rate of $204 per night plus taxes is available now via the Westin Dallas Downtown.
Super Circular Resources
Strength Matters library of resources on Uniform Guidance issues aka the Super Circular, includes:
- Uniform Guidance Issues paper
- Webinar slides and recording from Scott Seamands of Lindquist, von Husen & Joyce and Kelly Perlman of Plante Moran is available here.
- Samples of procurement policies to comply with new federal requirements (Sample 1 & 2)
- Template used by a Strength Matters member to track federal grants
Have a sample to share with the Strength Matters community? Email it to Chelsea at [email protected]