Exploring Solutions to Poverty:
A Global Perspective Through the Local Community Lens

Friday, October 3, 2008
8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Genesee Grande Hotel
Syracuse, New York
Registration fee is $20.00 (includes lunch)

The field of community economic development and its ability to alleviate poverty world-wide through sustainable economic and social change has grown astronomically in the last twenty to thirty years. This conference explores the theoretical framework of community economic development, its growth, and its practical application in alleviating poverty both globally and locally. Practitioners, scholars, lawyers, economists, and businesspeople will come together in active dialogue, discussing community economic development, microenterprise development and lending, neighborhood revitalization, social entrepreneurism, land reform, and food justice. Speakers are activists, academics, and attorneys from several countries, including Brazil, Ethiopia, South Africa, and the United States. They have experience working in undeserved communities in innumerable countries throughout the world. Our goal is for attendees to take away practical applications for alleviating poverty and creating sustainable economic change in their own communities. Participants should gain a better understanding of what each of us can do professionally and personally to approach the problems of poverty and their solutions on a global level.

For a full list of speakers and their biographies, please click here.

This conference is being held in celebration of the College of Law Community Development Law Clinic’s 20th anniversary and is being sponsored by Community Development Law Clinic alumni, the College of Law, the University’s South Side Initiative, the Enitiative program, and the Center on Property, Citizenship and Social Entrepenuerism.

CLE credit is available.

There is a Community Development Law Clinic 20th Anniversary Dinner Friday Evening, October 3rd.

For more information, please contact Sue Davie, Clinic Administrator, at sedavie@law.syr.edu or call 315-443-4582.


Space is limited so register early!

For a detailed program of the Conference, please click here.