Live Online Events Archive
All of our online events are recorded. Recordings, copies of the slides, and other associated documents for each webinar can be found in the Enterprise Resource Database by clicking on the event name.2011 Archives
12/15/11 - Policy Update: the U.S. Congress and Housing in 2011
Overview of HUD 2012 appropriations, discussion of potential tax reform as it relates to debt reduction, an update on housing finance reform, and updates on other housing and community development-related activity in Washington. The policy team will also discuss top housing and community development agenda items for 2013.
11/17/11 - Year 15: Transition Strategies for Exipiring LIHTC Properties
In this session, we discuss disposition strategies for the nonprofit sponsor, and review partnership provisions including rights of first refusal, purchase options, exit taxes, and preservation of affordability.
11/08/11 - Enterprise Green Communities: Planning and Implementing ENERGY STAR Version 3
Breaking down the components of ENERGY STAR Version 3 into manageable chunks and highlighting technical implementation tips and techniques.
10/31/11 - Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) 101
Designed for those with little or no experience using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, this popular short course provides a basic overview of tax credit financing and how the credit works. Participants are guided through a case study that highlights aspects of the decision-making processes involved with, and the utility of, the LITHC.
10/26/11 - Green Communities Best Practices Series: Carbon Emissions Reduction
Discussion on the opportunities for affordable housing in the U.S. Offset Market. It includes an overview of the Voluntary Carbon Market, how carbon is quantified, and features case studies from various residential offset projects and programs across the country.
10/12/11 - Green Refinance (and Acquisition) Plus Opportunities
HUD and Fannie Mae recently announced Green Refinance Plus, an enhancement to the standard FHA Risk Sharing execution that helps fund green improvements in affordable properties. This Live Online Event discusses the particulars of the product and how to take advantage of this new enhanced financing opportunity.
10/5/11 - HUD's Proposed Safe and Healthy Housing Investment Partnerships (SHHIP)
The National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC) is sponsoring a webinar to present and discuss HUD’s recent notice of its new plan to encourage communities to formalize relationships among health, energy, and housing programs. HUD’s Safe and Healthy Housing Investment Partnerships (SHHIP) certification program will provide bonus points to eligible applicants for HUD competitive grant assistance beginning in FY 2013.
Affordable and innovative building techniques pioneered in high performance buildings are becoming increasingly mainstream and necessary to meet resource-reduction targets established by federal, state and local governments. This live online event discusses how high performance building programs can assist affordable housing developers and owners in achieving their targets, strategies and technologies around implementation, and lessons learned from project examples.
07/27/11 - Enterprise Green Communities Best Practices Series: Access to Fresh, Local Foods
Access to healthy food is a critical component of community development, public health and education. In fact, research shows that increasing access to locally grown foods can result in greater consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and lower diet-related diseases like heart disease and diabetes in children and adults. Proximity to fresh food is an important consideration when selecting an affordable housing project location and planning for on-site amenities. Community gardens and urban farms can also create opportunities for environmental and health education, spur economic development and reclaim vacant and abandoned property. This Live Online Event will explore how to bring fresh, local food into low-income communities with experts in urban agriculture and affordable housing.
06/28/11 - Enterprise Green Communities Best Practices Series: Health Impact Assessments
Health Impact Assessments are a practical tool that can provide a structured process to determine a policy or project’s impact on health, and ensure that policy and project dollars are used efficiently to provide the greatest benefits to residents. This session features a discussion of Health Impact Assessments, and a presentation by a city official who used the assessments for their transportation plan. It also includes a detailed overview of the Healthy Development Measurement Tool , a comprehensive evaluation metric to consider health needs in urban development plans and projects.
06/23/11 - Overview of the 2012 Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship
The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship creates partnerships between emerging architects and community-based organizations to direct the skills and passions of the architects in the service of low and moderate-income communities. The Rose Fellows spend three years working with their partner organization helping plan and execute projects in the community. There will be five new fellowship opportunties in 2012. This webinar discusses the opportunities available, reviews the specifics of the application process, and provides a Q&A session for participants. This session was also presented on June 6, 2011.
06/16/2011 - Building Sustainable Organizations: Getting the Most out of Your Financial Statements
Are you getting all the information that you need from your internal financial statements and audits? Do stakeholders often contact you with questions about your audit? In this session, learn about best practices in presenting information on financial statements so that you can best understand your organization's financial position, and how to use good audits and financial reporting to increase your credibility with stakeholders and preempt their questions.
05/20/2011 - Application Q&A for 2011 MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing
In partnership with the MetLife Foundation, Enterprise offers the MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing. For 15 years, the awards have recognized organizations that demonstrate leadership, innovation, effectiveness and quality operations and services delivery in affordable housing. Since 1996, the program has awarded 89 affordable housing properties more than $1.7 million in funding. This year’s awards will focus on the best in green senior housing and services. This second of two Live Online Events covers award eligibility and criteria, application elements and requirements, and the online application submission process.
05/11/2011 - Building Sustainable Organizations: Early Warning Indicator Tools for Properties -- From Predevelopment to Operations
This session is designed for board members and executive staff of housing development organizations. The tools provided will help organizations to develop their own guidelines for when to make major decisions on projects. For example, what criteria should an organization look at to determine if a project in predevelopment should move forward? What kind of construction problems should trigger review by the board? How much deficit from an operating project should trigger an examination by senior leadership for possible transfer of the property?
05/04/2011 - Enterprise Community Impact Note: Investing in the Future
Now Enterprise supporters and partners can earn a financial return while supporting community revitalization. Learn more about Enterprise's Community Impact Note and how easy it is to make money make an impact. The Note allows investors to support affordable housing and community development across the country with their investment portfolios.
04/26/2011 - Application Q&A for 2011 MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing
In partnership with the MetLife Foundation, Enterprise offers the MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing. For 15 years, the awards have recognized organizations that demonstrate leadership, innovation, effectiveness and quality operations and services delivery in affordable housing. Since 1996, the program has awarded 89 affordable housing properties more than $1.7 million in funding. This year’s awards will focus on the best in green senior housing and services. This first of two Live Online Events covers award eligibility and criteria, application elements and requirements, and the online application submission process.
04/20/2011 - Introducing New Resident Engagement Tools for Affordable Housing Developers and Owners
Resident education is crucial to maximize the health, economic, and environmental benefits of green development throughout a project’s life cycle. Enterprise is pleased to announce the rollout of Resident Education Cards and a Resident “Training in a Box.” During this training, our presenters will introduce these tools and describe best practices for implementation. This package of tools is a comprehensive set of educational cards and training modules to empower residents in maintaining their green building. The Resident Education Cards can be customized by property managers and resident coordinators to provide green tips and information specific to the development. The Resident ‘Training in a Box’ contains educational modules for trainers to incorporate that covers a variety of green and healthy living practices. Additionally, Enterprise continues to offer a Sustainability Training Grant to support project teams in developing and delivering customized educational materials and trainings for residents.
04/06/2011 - Innovative Models for Charrettes and New Tools that Support Integrative Design
In the first of an Enterprise Green Communities series on best practices in green affordable housing, industry experts discuss a unique approach to a recent integrative design charrette facilitated by Green Building Services that resulted in an ambitious plan for Central City Concern's portfolio in Portland, Oregon. This session provides an overview of best practices for visioning, goal setting and green strategy sessions, using Central City Concern’s charrette as a case study. The instructors share insights and highlight successes from the charrette that are broadly applicable to any green development planning session focused on providing healthier and more resource efficient housing for low-income individuals and families.
04/05/2011 - Our Partners in Action: The 100,000 Homes Campaign
Join us for an introduction to the innovative work of the 100,000 Homes Campaign, a national initiative to house 100,000 of the nation’s most vulnerable homeless by July 2013. In order to achieve this courageous goal, the campaign works with communities across America to bring together a wide variety of local stakeholders, put a face on homelessness, break down barriers across disciplines, and immediately begin moving vulnerable individuals into quality permanent housing. The conversation will also include information from one of Enterprise’s local offices on their work surrounding homelessness, and a personal story from one of the 100,000 Homes Campaign’s local community participants about their experience with the program.
03/30/2011 - LIHTC 101
Designed for those with little or no experience using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, this 3-hour course provides a basic overview of tax credit financing and how the credit works. Participants will be guided through a case study that will highlight aspects of the decision-making processes involved with, and the utility of, the LITHC.
03/24/11 - Overview of Enterprise Green Multifamily Rehabilitation Specifications
This webinar provides participants with a brief orientation to a new Enterprise tool, the Green Multifamily Rehabilitation Specifications. These model Specifications were created for multifamily projects of more than three stories undergoing moderate rehabilitation, and they are aligned with the 2011 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria. The session covers the basic content and structure of the Specifications, as well as helpful hints to consider when customizing the Specifications for your climate, housing stock, and targeted Enterprise Green Communities Criteria. This presentation is sponsored by Bank of America.
03/14/11 - Behavior Change Toward Green Living and Emissions Reduction
Our personal behavior can make a difference in cutting harmful green house gas emissions. We can make changes that cost very little to nothing but have a big impact on the environment and our health. For example, if American adopted a series of simple, inexpensive emissions-reducing measures in the areas of transportation, household energy consumption, diet and waste over the next ten years, the US could avoid 1 billion tons of emissions and saved money. During this session presenters share their experience engaging residents and property managers in green living and operations and maintenance.
03/02/11 - Overview of EPA's Multifamily High Rise Program
EPA is expanding ENERGY STAR Qualified Homes to mid- and high-rise multifamily buildings. This session outlines program protocols and support provided by EPA, including an overview of modeling and testing and verification procedures specific to the multifamily building sector. Understanding the MFHR program requirements will be important for affordable housing developers using the 2011 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria, as the Criteria's whole-building energy performance pathway for mid- and high-rise buildings will be tied to meeting the requirements of the MFHR program.
02/23/11 - Building Sustainable Organizations: Lessons and Recommendations from the Field
After taking a hard look at ten organizations that faced financial crisis in the past several years, some common themes emerged around what brought them to that juncture. Based on those themes, we will be sharing the findings from a report that highlights some lessons learned and recommendations to housing organizations and their funders about building sustainable organizations. This presentation was sponsored by Bank of America.
02/17/2011 - LIHTC 101
Designed for those with little or no experience using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, this 3-hour course provides a basic overview of tax credit financing and how the credit works. Participants will be guided through a case study that will highlight aspects of the decision-making processes involved with, and the utility of, the LITHC.
02/10/2011 - Using Local Market Data to Support Neighborhood Stabilization
Sponsored by E*Trade Financial and presented by Enterprise’s Foreclosure Response Initiative, this event is the final presentation in a 4-part series focusing on comprehensive neighborhood stabilization. Using data on real estate transactions, code enforcement activity, property conditions and other factors provides a clearer picture of what is happening in a neighborhood and allows for limited funds to be used more effectively to stabilize the targeted community.
02/01/2011 - Overview of the 2011 Green Communities Criteria
This session provides an overview of the 2011 updates to the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria, a set of green building criteria developed for all affordable housing developments across the country. This training provides an introduction to the Green Communities Criteria, including examples of green building methods and materials referenced in the Criteria. The session will also provide a brief overview of the online Enterprise Green Communities Certification process.
01/20/2011 - How States Use Qualified Allocation Plans as Incentive for Preservation, Transit Oriented Development and Green Design & Building Practices
With the low income housing tax credit market (LIHTC) coming back to life, how states prioritize this valuable resource will, once again, increase in importance. Enterprise and the National Housing Trust have inventoried each state's Qualified Allocation Plan and how those plans provide incentive for preservation, transit oriented development, and green design and building practices. This webinar will outline those findings as well as address how states have actually allocated their tax credits over the last several years.