RSVP By February 6th

*This is a private event for the Presidio Student/Alumni Community

Join Robert (Bob) Friedman founder of Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and at a special brown bag event on Febuary 7th at the Presidio Graduate School. All students and alumni are welcome. Space is limited so be sure to RSVP!

Topic: “Investing in the Common Genius of the American People”

Robert (Bob) Friedman founded CFED in 1979 and continues as CFED’s Chair of the Board and General Counsel. Bob’s most recent initiatives are launching the 1:1 Fund, the Initiative to Balance America’s Asset Budget and the New Entrepreneur Tax Credit Initiative. In the recent past, Bob was an instrumental leader in the Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment (SEED) program, an initiative to create an inclusive system of children’s saving accounts in the United States. He continues to contribute to numerous efforts to develop the IDA and asset‐building movements, as well as advising on new strategies to bring excluded communities into the economic mainstream as entrepreneurs, savers, investors, and skilled employees.

A recognized leader in economic development innovation, Bob has contributed to the development of the U.S. microenterprise field, flexible business networks, state and federal entrepreneurial policy, innovative benchmarking tools, like CFED’s Assets and Opportunity Scorecard and asset building. He helped found the Association of Economic Opportunity (AEO).

Based in San Francisco, Mr. Friedman also serves on the Boards of D2D Fund, the Rosenberg Foundation, the Friedman Family Foundation, the Koshland Committee of the San Francisco Foundation and CFED’s CDFI subsidiary, the National Fund for Enterprise Development (NFED) and is a former board member of Levi Strauss & Co. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He is author of The Safety Net as Ladder: Transfer Payments and Economic Development and a contributor to numerous CFED and outside publications.

Presidio Brown Bag Lunch Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Bring Your Own Lunch

Location
Presidio Graduate School - Upstairs Executive Conference Room
Graham St. & Lincoln Blvd.
Building 36, Suite 210
San Francisco, CA 94129

Contact the Events and Special Programs Manager, Annie Sexton, at 415.655.8918 or annie.sexton@presidioedu.org if you have questions regarding this event.