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Confronting the Debt Culture

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Confronting the Debt Culture
A National Conference

MEDIA: For access to the full report and interviews, please contact:
Mitchell S. Muncy
Chief Operating Officer
muncy@americanvalues.org
212-246-3942

May 12-13, 2008
Washington Marriott
1221 22nd Street N.W.
Washington, D.C.

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AGENDA
Monday, May 12

5:00 p.m.	Meet speakers, conferees, and special guests. View the exhibit, Thrift: In Search of the Art of Living Well

Tuesday, May 13

8:30 a.m.	Registration

	Book signings throughout the day by David Blankenhorn (Thrift), Andrew Yarrow (Forgive Us Our Debts), and Tamara Draut (Up to Our Eyeballs)

9:00 a.m.	Report Release: For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture Remarks by Jim Cooper, U.S. House of Representatives, Tennessee
9:20 a.m.	Panel 1. Can We Change the Debt Culture? Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, National Marriage Project Ray Boshara, New America Foundation Andrew Yarrow, Public Agenda Questions & Open Discussion

10:45 a.m.	Panel 2. What’s the Solution to Payday Lending? Christopher Peterson, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law David Clarke, Virginians Against Payday Loans Robert L. Jackson, Mississippi Senate Kenneth W. Eiden, Prospera Credit Union (Appleton, Wisconsin) Questions & Open Discussion

12:15	Luncheon. What’s the Solution to Payday Lending? New Thrift award to the family of Roy F. Bergengren, to be received by his grandson, Dr. Jon Bergengren New Thrift award to credit union innovator Rita Haynes of the Faith Community United Credit Union (Cleveland, Ohio) Keynote remarks, “Thrift and Generosity” by Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. of the John Templeton Foundation
2:00 p.m.	Panel 3. What Can We Learn from Other Countries? Sheldon Garon, Princeton University Anne-Françoise Lefèvre, World Savings Bank Institute (Brussels) Thorsten Wehber, National Association of German Savings Banks (Sparkassen) (Bonn) Questions & Open Discussion

3:15 p.m.	Panel 4. What Are Our Next Steps? Mark C. Berner, Businessman Tamara Draut, Demos Kenneth L. Gladish, Austin Community Foundation, Johnson Center for Philanthropy, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Phillip Longman, New America Foundation Questions & Open Discussion

4:30 p.m.	Conference Adjourns

	*invited

Last updated: May 5, 2008

For A New Thrift

Confronting the Debt Culture A National Conference

AGENDA

Confronting the Debt Culture
A National Conference