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2010 Webinars |
July 14, 2010 |
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| The CDLC is planning a nonprofit as lenders webinar series to take place in 2010.
The next webinar, Fair Housing/ADA/Building Codes/ANSI/etc...How The Connect - or Not! explores various issues surrounding the Fair Housing Act. Attendance is limited, please contact Maureen by email at maureen.russell@lasoregon.org, or by phone at (503) 471-1173 to reserve your spot.
Privacy and Security: Corporate Compliance for Your Lending Program is an issue spotting webinar identifying corporate compliance issues (Fair Credit Reporting, G/L/B, Identity Theft, Red Flag Rules, etc...) for your lending program. Attendance is limited, please contact Maureen by phone at (503) 471-1173 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (503) 471-1173 end_of_the_skype_highlighting for more information or to reserve your spot.
The first webinar, Nonprofits as Lenders: What Rules Do You Need To Know, was an issue spotting webinar on Truth In Lending, HOEPA and RESPA updates. The webinar took place March 18, 2010.
Other planned 2010 webinars include topics such as:
The SAFE ACT, State requirements, bonding and insurance.
Regulation B, FACTA, Red Flag Rules and Equal Access to Credit.
Governance Best Practices (GLB, SOX...)
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Staff News |
February 25, 2010 |
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| Ann Glynn, the Executive Director of the CDLC, has been appointed to the Board of Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation - which had its 2010 retreat in Hillsboro.
Martha Taylor has been appointed to the Rose Community Development Corporation board of directors. Rose is a CDC whose mission is to serve outer southeast Portland. Rose provides affordable rental and homeownership opportunities as well as economic development support for child care providers and outreach to the communities in the southeast.
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SkillSpace Project |
November 24, 2009 |
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| The CDLC is planning a new project in 2010 called SkillSpace to bring legal technical assistance nonprofit organizations. SkillSpace will offer senior partner level attorney representation in building the low income housing and community loan program capacity of nonprofit organizations.
SkillSpace immerses recipients in a review with the objective of creating or improving their corporate governance and operational plans, policies and procedures. SkillSpace also develops specific capacity to create processes to manage a community loan program – including statutes, lending policies, loan and security documents and auditing protocols. These efforts, coupled with ongoing education of board and staff, will allow the local resource to be available to the community.
More information to come!”
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CDLC assists in Affordable Housing Project |
July 30, 2009 |
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The latest newsletter from The Rural Collaborative, called Notes from the Field: Partnerships in the West has been released. The current issue features Rogue Valley CDC's Siskiyou Subdivision affordable housing in Ashland, Oregon and is now reaching the mailboxes of many of YOU: our friends, donors, and partners. It is posted on their website (link above) as well as attached.
We are grateful that we had the opportunity to thank all those involved in the Siskiyou Subdivision development, our first Mutual Self Help Housing project. We could not do this work without the commitment of the families building their homes and great partners like those mentioned in the newsletter, including the City of Ashland, USDA Rural Development, US Dept of Housing and Urban Development, Rural Community Assistance Corporation, The Rural Collaborative, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, Umpqua Bank, Community Frameworks, Rogue Valley Youthbuild, and the Community Development Law Center.
Rogue Valley CDC has been providing affordable homeownership opportunities to lower-income households in Jackson County, Oregon for 17 years. In recent years it has combined its affordable housing program with its Mutual Self Help Housing sweat equity building program, the Rogue Valley Youthbuild collaborative, a Community Land Trust model, and now its Dreamsavers IDA matched savings program.
The Rural Collaborative educates and advocates for the advancement of sustainable, life cycle housing in the west. It is a nonprofit network supporting local and regional solutions to affordable housing in rural western communities in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah. Read the newsletter.
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Plaza Los Robles |
July 30, 2009 |
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CDLC provided over 3 years of legal assistance on the development and funding of Plaza Los Robles. Additionally, one of our practicum Lewis and Clark law students, Catherine Kes, went on to become the Director of Housing Development for Hacienda! Read more here
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2009 is a transition year for the CDLC |
July 28, 2009 |
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As many of you know, Ann Glynn was hired in March 2009 as the new Director of the CDLC. Ann has a background in housing and commercial ventures – health care and economic development - for underserved groups, and has practiced in Washington State and Philadelphia. Nancy Murray has left the CDLC as a result of a position being eliminated, and we all wish her well. Kristin Ford was promoted to Office Manager and continues to do a great job – our new brochure was her design (with a new logo design donated). This year we are doubling the number of students from Lewis and Clark Law School, and we were pleased to have summer law students and undergraduate volunteers to assist CDLC.
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ARRA Requirements for NonProfits |
July 28, 2009 |
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ARRA REQUIREMENTS FOR NONPROFITS GETTING STIMULUS MONEY
Did you know that when President Obama signed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act ("the Stimulus Bill") earlier this year, there were new requirements for agencies getting ARRA funding and even new rules for nonprofits not getting ARRA funds? While not for profit organizations (or government agencies) seek to put stimulus dollars to work for their clients, getting the funding to provide those services comes with processes that may be new to some nonprofits. Here are two that are worth noting:
Whistleblower
For those nonprofits expecting ARRA funded contracts, there are new whistleblower provisions for your employees. The ARRA will protect an employee reporting of evidence of safety, security and fraud or abuse internally to management staff or externally to government authorities. These whistleblower provisions are in addition to any other Federal False Claims Act or State laws, and it would be wise to have a "whistleblower" process in place as part of your corporate compliance program to manage employee concerns regarding fraud and abuse.
HIPAA
If you are a health care entity or a business associate of a health care entity, you will need to look at your business associate agreements this year. Before ARRA, HIPAA required only that business associates enter business associate agreements with the health care entity (or health plan). Now, business associates will need to comply with the bulk of the HIPAA regulations - and contracts will need to be amended accordingly, ideally before September 19, 2009.
See www.recovery.gov or call us for more information.
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Free Books |
July 28, 2009 |
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If you fancy yourself a critic, you can ask for free nonprofit management books from The Ford Family Foundation. Your written review of the book submitted back to the Foundation lets you request another free book to review. See www.tfff.org for more information. A big THANK YOU to the folks at the Foundation for supporting nonprofits in Oregon
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Red Flag Rules and NonProfit Compliance |
July 28, 2009 |
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You have until November 1, 2009 to comply with new 'Red Flag Rules'. This law may apply to your nonprofit if you:
- If you do not require payment when services are rendered (you bill a person later).
These rules come from a federal law that governs fair and accurate credit transactions. Guidelines were adopted to manage identity theft – a good business practice!
If you think that your organization conducts business this way, you will need to maintain a written identity theft prevention program to prevent, detect and mitigate identity theft in your organization. This program includes having internal processes that meet the federal requirements. See www.fdic.gov for more information or give us a call..
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