Advantage Tallahassee Conference 2022

555 West Pensacola Street,Tallahassee FL 32306

20 September, 2022

Description

The Annual Advantage Tallahassee Conference: The Annual Capital City Chamber Conference is focused on harnessing the talents, tools and opportunities of an inclusive business community for everyone’s ADVANTAGE! Join our 2 day event to ignite TLH as a place where EVERY BUSINESS (micro, small, minority, women-owned, and institutions) connects, evolves, and gets every Advantage! BankOn Tallahassee is part of the national Bank On movement of local coalitions across the country working together to improve the financial stability of unbanked and underbanked residents and to connect them to the safe, affordable bank and credit union accounts. A BankOn Tallahassee program can serve as a framework to implement multiple strategies to foster increased financial security for residents. Featured Speaker: April Atkins works in the Community Affairs Program for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) covering the North and Central Florida markets. In her role, she is responsible for educating insured financial institution representatives, municipal entities and community-based organizations on community reinvestment opportunities as well as facilitating partnerships between financial institutions and community-based organizations to promote community and economic development in communities of low wealth. While at the FDIC, she has worked on detailed assignments with Minority Depository Institutions and in fair lending and served as a Workforce Development Initiative Ambassador. In 2019, she was the recipient of the FDIC’s Individual Mission Achievement Award.