Asosiyasyon Fanm Ayisyen nan Boston (AFAB)
Financial Literacy and Economic Empowerment Conference
A Video Conference in Support of Haitian Community Financial Literacy Training
Saturday, April 18, 2009 (9:00 AM-3:00 PM)
Long Island University
Brooklyn Campus, 1 University Plaza, Room LLC515, Brooklyn NY
Trotter Institute - University of Massachussetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston MA 02125
Kovens Conference Center
FIU 3000 Northeast 151 Street, Room 117, North Miami, FL 33181
Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad (MHAVE)
87 Avenue Jean Paul ll, Turgeau, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Presenters tailor each presentation to provide participants with information and tools to introduce money management and asset-building strategies to our daily advocacy and communications.
9:00 AM Registration
9:30 AM Welcoming Remarks (Joseph Phillippe, CSSP)
9:40 AM Presentation:
Immigrants and Financial Access: Our Rights and Responsibilities
(Jennifer Ching, Appleseed)
10:00 AM Roundtable One:
Basic Building Blocks: Banking, Credit and Insurance
Speakers:
Credit (Leslie Vail, Center for Consumer Debtor Education)
Banking (TB, CNB New Jersey)
Insurance (Daniel Nicolas, MetLife and Oliver Barreau, AIC)
Moderator: Jennifer Ching
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM Roundtable Two:
Consumer Strategies for the Money Transfer and Credit Market
Speakers:
Money Transfer and Remittance Products (Steve Higgins, Moneygram and Katleen Felix, Fonkoze)
Prepaid and Credit Products (Randy Gutierrez, Allianza and Fordham Community Development Clinic)
Moderator: Kesner Pharel, Group Croissance
12:30 PM Lunch
1:15 PM Workshops (Choose One):
The Up in the Down: Starting Your Own Business
(Facilitator: Jackson Rockingster)
Debt Stress: Resources for Mortgage and Debt Crises
(Facilitator: TBD)
Building Assets and Wealth Management
(Facilitator: TBD)
2:15 PM Workshop Reports (Facilitators)
2:30 PM Closing Remarks (Anne Hastings, Fonkoze)
The purpose of this conference is to give the Haitian community leaders tools to address their community's basic financial issues and to face the actual financial crisis. We have been working with HABNET and with Appleseed to gather the best finance experts in NY and we will share via an interactive video conference with Miami and Boston. Please find attached program below for details.
Each site will have a facilitator and will have the capability to ask questions to the speakers. We are planning to meet from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; lunch and coffee breaks will be included.
The event is free but it is extremely important that you RSVP your space for this conference. Please plan to arrive on time.
Sponsored By:
Fonkoze, Haitian American Business Network and New York Appleseed with Support from Inter-American Development Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
No walk-ins allowed. To register, Please contact Kathleen Felix at (917) 375-6902 or via email at kfelix @ fonkoze.org. Haitian-Creole interpretation provided. There is no registration fee. Lunch and refreshments provided.