32nd Annual Ohio CDC Association Conference
Welcome to Athens and the surrounding region! Join us in Athens for the 32nd annual Ohio CDC Association conference as we explore Appalachia and Southeast Ohio. In 32 years, we’ve never held the conference in Athens, but with a growing number of members, innovative strategies in local and healthy foods, impressive impact towards bolstering low-to-moderate income entrepreneurs, and focus on zero waste, it is clearly time to showcase the revitalization occurring throughout the region.
Tentative Schedule for the 32nd Annual Ohio CDC Association Conference:
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
5:30pm – 8:30pm: Pre-Conference Networking Event at Jackie O’s Pub & Brewery
Thursday, October 13, 2016
8:00am – 10:00am: Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:45am – 11:00am: Workshop Session I
The Cultural Design Blueprint: Amplify Your Local Culture in Your Neighborhood – sponsored by WesBanco
Innovative Tactics for Financial Empowerment – sponsored by Citizens Bank
The Neighborhood Grocer: The Intersection of Food Security & Community Development – sponsored by Finance Fund
11:15am – 11:45am: Ohio CDC Association Annual Business Meeting
Noon – 1:45pm: Opening Lunch & Keynote
2:00pm – 5:00pm: Local Tours I
Arts and Incubation – sponsored by Third Federal Savings & Loan
Exploring the Little Cities of Black Diamonds Micro-Region
Local Libations
Local Food Production and Access Innovations
5:30pm – 7:30pm: Awards Reception – The Dairy Barn Arts Center
Friday, October 14, 2016
7:00am – 8:30am: Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45: Workshop Session II
Reimagining Affordable Homeownership – sponsored by Fifth Third Bank
How to Comprehensively Improve the Health of Your Community
Why Localism Matters – sponsored by Regionomics
10:00 – 12: Local Tours II & Workshop Session III
Tour: Upgrading Energy: What Works
Tour: Comprehensive Community Approaches to Achieve Zero Waste
Tour: A Place to Make Music
Workshop: Social Impact Investing
Noon: Lunch Exploration – Maps of Local Dining Establishments Provided
32nd Annual Ohio CDC Association Conference Keynote Speaker – Dan Pallotta
Dan invented the multi- day charitable event industry. He created the Breast Cancer 3-Day walks and 
the multi-day AIDS Rides, which raised in excess of half a billion dollars in nine years and were the subject of one of the first Harvard Business School case studies on social enterprise. The model and methods he created are now employed by dozens of charities and have raised in excess of $1.5 billion more for important causes from pediatric leukemia to AIDS to suicide prevention and many others. Dan’s iconic TED 2013 Talk has been viewed more than 3.9 million times. It is one of the 100 most viewed TED Talks of all time. It generated tremendous conversation, and is one of the twenty most-commented TED Talks of all time. It is one of the featured talks in the book, “TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking,” by Chris Anderson, Head of TED.
Dan is the author of “Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential,” the best-selling title in the history of Tufts University Press. The Stanford Social Innovation Review said that the book “deserves to become the nonprofit sector’s new manifesto.” His newest book is, “Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has described it as “An Apollo program for American philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.” Dan is a featured regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review online.
