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Conference on October 3, 2008 sponsored by Syracuse University:

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. 

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.

For more information, speaker biographies, and to register, please go to http://www.law.syr.edu/academics/clinicaleducation/cdlc_conference.aspx.