CDFI Fund Releases "Financing Community Health Centers" Webinar Schedule

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) released the schedule of the five free webinars that will be provided as part of the Capacity Building Initiative's "Financing Community Health Centers" series. The technical assistance webinars, held between May 2015 and July 2015, will provide Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) with best practices on successful financing from leading experts in the field.

The CDFI Fund launched the "Financing Community Health Centers" series in February 2013 to build the capacity of CDFIs to successfully finance and provide services to community health centers in underserved communities. The free webinars are designed to maximize the reach of this important capacity building for the CDFI industry. The webinars will cover topical content developed by community health center financing experts.

The five upcoming webinars are:

• Identifying the Risks of Health Center Lending (Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 2 p.m. EDT): This webinar examines the differences between failed or failing health centers and their more successful counterparts, shedding light on the factors that may contribute to health center failure. This analysis seeks to provide lenders with the insight necessary to determine the potential early warning signs of future financial distress when underwriting health center loan requests-whether for capital project financing, working capital, or growth capital.

• Leveraging HRSA Capital Grants through a NMTC Structure (Monday, June 8, 2015, 2 p.m. EDT): This webinar will present the "Dos and Don'ts" of Leveraging Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA) Capital Grants through a New Markets Tax Credit Structure. The session will review HRSA approval requirements that health centers must obtain when using HRSA capital grants. It will also discuss how to structure HRSA grants with bridge loans and align the HRSA approval process with a typical NMTC closing process.

• Navigating Online Community Health Center (CHC) Data Resources for Market Needs Assessments (Thursday, June 18, 2015, 2 p.m. EDT): This webinar will help CDFIs navigate the online resources available to assess market needs for CHC services. We will look at sources detailing local conditions and needs, as well as sources for individual, state-wide and national CHC data, enabling comparisons to broader norms as well as local competition.

• Changing Revenue Landscapes for CHCs (Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 2 p.m. EDT): This webinar will cover topics related to the changing revenue landscape for community health centers. What's happening with grants to care for uninsured patients? What's happening with Medicaid expansion? What is the potential impact of ongoing health care reform initiatives? Join us to have these and other questions answered related to revenue changes for CHCs.

• Updated Financial and Operating Metrics and Trends (Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 2 p.m. EDT): This webinar will cover health center financial and operating metrics and trends from 2010 2013, for use in loan underwriting. The session will allow CDFIs to gain a greater understanding of the sector's key benchmarks and trends during this critical period of health system transformation.

Register

The "Financing Community Health Centers" webinars are free and open to the general public, but advanced registration is required to access the presentation. Registration may be completed up until the start time listed for each individual session. Click here to register.

Resource Bank

Completed webinars will be archived and added to the "Financing Community Health Centers" Resource Bank available on the CDFI Fund's website. Additional training and reference materials are also available in the Resource Bank. Visit the Resource Bank here.

Reasonable Accommodations

Requests for reasonable accommodations under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act should be directed to Michael Jones at the CDFI Fund via (202) 653-0300 or IThelpdesk@cdfi.treas.gov no later than 72 hours in advance of the event.

To learn more about the "Financing Community Health Centers" series and the other training series available under the Capacity Building Initiative, please visit www.cdfifund.gov/cbi.