A New Era in Affordable Housing: Investing for Impact
in Sustainable Communities
Philadelphia, PA • Wednesday, August 18, 2010
8:30am – 4:00pm
Preston D. Pinkett III
Director, Global Impact Investing Network
Vice President , Social Investment Program, Prudential Financial, Inc.
Preston D. Pinkett III is Vice President and head of Prudential's Social Investment Program, which has a willingness to take informed risks in socially responsible investments that help create healthy, sustainable communities.
Prior to joining Prudential in 2007, Mr. Pinkett was the senior vice president for the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, where he managed funding and development programs to spur economic development in New Jersey. He also served as senior vice president with PNC Bank, where he founded and managed the PNC Development Bank and community development investment and lending activities.
Mr. Pinkett has a BS in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
 Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, founded PolicyLink in 1999 and continues to drive its mission of advancing economic and social equity. Under Blackwell’s leadership, PolicyLink has become a leading voice in the movement to use public policy to improve access and opportunity for all low-income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.
Prior to founding PolicyLink, Blackwell served as Senior Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she oversaw the foundation's Domestic and Cultural divisions. A lawyer by training, she gained national recognition as founder of the Oakland (CA) Urban Strategies Council, where she pioneered new approaches to neighborhood revitalization. From 1977 to 1987, Blackwell was a partner at Public Advocates, a nationally known public interest law firm.
As a leading voice in the movement for equity in America, Blackwell is a frequent commentator for some of the nation's top news publications, including The Washington Post, Salon and the Huffington Post, and has appeared regularly on such shows as public radio's "Marketplace," "The Tavis Smiley Show" and "Nightline," and PBS's "Now."
Blackwell is the co-author of the forthcoming Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010), and contributed to Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream (The New Press, 2007) and The Covenant with Black America (Third World Press, 2006). Blackwell earned a bachelor degree from Howard University, and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She serves on numerous boards and served as co-chair of the task force on poverty for the Center for American Progress.
Presented by NeighborWorks America.
Symposium cost: $235 (includes materials, plenary session, workshops, keynote luncheon and networking reception)
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