MEDIA ADVISORY: USC Price School of Public Policy Hosts Conference to Address Poverty

The USC Price Center for Social Innovation’s annual conference brings together corporate, nonprofit, public sector and foundation leaders focused on improving opportunities for children and families in marginalized urban communities.

This year’s conference will be held Thurs., April 14, and Fri. April 15, at the Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Midtown.

*RSVP by contacting Emily Gersema, (213) 740-0252 or gersema@usc.edu

WHAT: Experts and leaders will delve into innovative strategies for leveraging capital sufficient in scale to significantly reduce concentrated poverty and improve social mobility in marginalized communities.

Topics include:

• Tax approaches to ensure equitable sharing of resources.
• Social Impact Bonds a.k.a. “pay-for-success contracts” to finance public programs.
• Publicly-funded improvements and investments to boost public revenues.
• Public-private partnerships and strategies to help low-income urban communities.
• Support for job training and job creation.
• Federal “Promise Zones” initiative to invest in job creation, spur private investment, increase educational opportunities and reduce crime.
• “Social entrepreneurship” to invest in innnovation and communities.

REGISTER OR LEARN MORE HERE.

WHO: The panelists and speakers are:

Rick Aubry, New Foundry Ventures
Jay Banfield, Year Up
Alison Becker, LA Promise Zone
Robert Cervero, University of California at Berkeley
Conway Collis, GRACE
Ernesto Cortes, Southwest IAF
David Edwards, Purpose Built Communities
Denise Fairchild, Emerald Cities Collaborative
Chris Fox, Manchester Metropolitan University
Salin Geevarghese, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
Greta Hansen, County of Santa Clara
Anthony Iton, The California Endowment
Carla Javitz, REDF
Jack Knott, USC Price School of Public Policy
Simon Levy Dabbah, ProCDMX
Terri Ludwig, Enterprise Community Partners
Thomas Lyons, Baruch College/CUNY
Michael McAfee, PolicyLink
Mary McBride, assistant deputy secretary, HUD Office of Field Policy and Management
Myron Orfield, Metropolitan Opportunity
Gary Painter, USC Price School of Public Policy
Manuel Pastor, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Michael Peck, 1worker1vote.org
Robert Price, Price Philanthropies
Michael Quick, USC Provost
Jeff Shumway, Social Finance
Fred Silva, California Forward
Dixon Slingerland, Youth Policy Institute
Martim Smolka, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Esther Wee, Cathay Bank
Erich Yost, Los Angeles Promise Zone

A full list of their biographies is here.

WHEN: Thurs., April 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., April 15, 8 a.m.- noon

WHERE: Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Midtown, 3540 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089.