Baltimore Faith-Based Development Certificate Program Graduation, June 4
June 2, 2016
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
The inaugural cohort of the University of Baltimore's Schaefer Center for Public Policy's Faith-Based Development Certificate Program will graduate on Saturday, June 4 beginning at 10 a.m. in the Wright Theater, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave.
The program's graduates are certified to work with faith-based groups in the Baltimore area on city-based real estate holdings that they plan to develop into affordable housing or community facilities. Participants in the certification program go through a series of five monthly training sessions, and receive up to five hours a month in specific technical assistance, before receiving certification from the center.
UB President Kurt L. Schmoke will deliver a keynote address to the graduates. Lisa R. Hodges, an instructor in the program and a principal with Hodges Development, LLC, will introduce the cohort and the members of a panel who will hear the cohort's capstone presentations. The response panel members who will evaluate the graduates' presentations include Linda Sorden, senior lender at Enterprise Community Partners, and Corey Powell, senior vice president at Dantes Partners, LLC.
The graduates include Pastor David Franklin, Thomas Freeman and Lewis Miles representing the Miracle City Church, Laurence Campbell and N. Scott Phillips, representing the WBC Community Development Corporation, and Benny F. Short and Ronald Epps, representing Whitestone Church.
The Rev. David Bowers, vice president and market leader of Mid-Atlantic Enterprise Community Partners (UB's partner and co-convener in the certificate initiative), and Ann Cotten, director of the Schaefer Center, will present the certificates.
Learn more about the Schaefer Center's Faith-Based Development Certificate Program.
Read about the program and the graduation ceremony in The Baltimore Sun.