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Nowak Memorial Lecture

Co-sponsored by the Reinvestment Fund, the Nowak Memorial Lecture series celebrates Jeremy Nowak’s enduring work to create equitable communities. This lecture series provides a platform for experts to discuss how public, private, and non-profit expertise integrate to promote collective urban prosperity, offering valuable insights for students and professionals into the connections between both academic and applied aspects of urban development. 

Nowak, a former Penn IUR Board member and 2016 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize awardee, was head of the Reinvestment Fund from 1985 to 2011. 

Seventh Annual Nowak Memorial Lecture

7th Annual Nowak Memorial Lecture
Nowak Memorial Lecture Hybrid
April 11, 2025
Seventh Annual Nowak Memorial Lecture | Founding Visions: A Journey of Collaboration and Impact

How can mission-driven finance drive social change? The Penn Institute for Urban Research and Reinvestment Fund invite you to the Seventh Annual Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture, reflecting on the mission and impact of community development financial institutions and the leadership role played by the Reinvestment Fund in these efforts. 

Patricia L. Smith Eva Gladstein Joyce Wilkerson Dr. Katherine O’Regan
Urban Development
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Nowak Memorial Lecture March 30, 2023 Access to Capital: Promoting a More Equitable Future The Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture will center on historic & contemporary issues impacting the flow of capital into & out of neighborhoods. Urban Development Housing Nowak Memorial Lecture October 3, 2018 Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture, The Citizen and the City: Creative Urban Solutions for All Urban Development

Past Events

Apr 11 2025 Past Event Seventh Annual Nowak Memorial Lecture | Founding Visions: A Journey of Collaboration and Impact Speakers:  Patricia L. Smith Eva Gladstein Joyce Wilkerson Dr. Katherine O’Regan Urban Development
Apr 12 2024 Past Event Economic Opportunity for Everyone: The Role of CDFIs in Advancing and Building Opportunity Urban Development
Mar 30 2023 Past Event Access to Capital: Promoting a More Equitable Future Urban Development Housing
Apr 26 2022 Past Event Investing in Arts & Culture to Build Community Urban Development Anchor Institutions
Apr 20 2021 Past Event Third Annual Jeremy Nowak Lecture: Equitable Recovery and CDFIs Urban Development State & Local Finance
Jan 31 2020 Past Event Second Annual Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture: Can the New Localism Advance Shared Prosperity? Urban Development
Oct 03 2018 Past Event Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture, The Citizen and the City: Creative Urban Solutions for All Urban Development

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