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Save
the Date!
Wednesday
April 18, 2012
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25th
Annual
Luncheon & Workshop Series
Crowne
Plaza Hotel
5700 28th Street SE
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Special
Thanks to Our 2012 Sponsors to Date: |
| UNDERWRITERS:
WORKSHOP:
- City of Grand Rapids Community Development Department
- Kent County
GOLD:
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Chase
- Fifth Third Bank
- Land & Co.
- Mercantile Bank
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SILVER:
- Michigan Association of Realtors
BRONZE:
- ChoiceOne Bank
- Comerica Bank
- Cooley Law School
- Exactgraphics
- Miller Johnson
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NON-PROFIT:
- City of Grand Rapids Community Relations Commission
- Dwelling Place of Grand Rapids
- Genesis Non-Profit Housing Corp.
- Grand Rapids Housing Commission
- Habitat for Humanity of Kent County
- Home Repair Services
- Property Management Association of West Michigan
FRIENDS
OF FAIR HOUSING:
- Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan
- Bos & Glazier
- EnviroSafe, Inc.
- Grand Rapids Community College
- Presto Print, Inc.
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2012
Featured Keynote Speaker:
James Perry
Executive Director, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
James
Perry is the Executive Director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing
Action Center (GNOFHAC). Perry is an expert in affordable housing and
housing discrimination.
Perry founded the Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center in Mississippi when he
was only 26 years old. He led the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action
Center (GNOFHAC) through two of America’s greatest disasters - Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita. Perry has testified before congress four times. He has
been quoted and/or interviewed by the New York Times, Newsweek, the Los
Angles Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Atlanta Journal Constitution,
the RadioOne News Network, National Public Radio, the McNeil-Lehrer News
Hour, the Nation, Dateline NBC, the Economist and CNN.
Perry serves on the Board of Directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance,
the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Gulf Coast Fair Housing
Center and chairs the Louisiana Housing Alliance Board of Directors. He
holds a bachelors in political science
from the University of New Orleans and a juris doctorate from the Loyola
University School of Law.
GNOFHAC is a private, non-profit civil rights organization established
in the summer of 1995 to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the
greater New Orleans area.
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THE
WORKSHOPS:
8:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Stay
tuned for more details coming in early 2012!
For
more information or to register, call (616) 451-2980.
LUNCHEON
KEYNOTE: 11:45 - 1:30 p.m.
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20
Hall Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507
Tel: (616) 451-2980, Toll Free: 1-866-389-FAIR
Fax: (616) 451-2657 email: contact-us@fhcwm.org
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