*Off-Site* Social Venturing and the Future of Community Development

Explore how social ventures serve community development strategies and vice versa. Attendees will explore the core challenges in community development work from leaders working across both constituencies. Community development participants will learn how social and business enterprise can work together for the common good. Panelists include Father Justin Matthews, Reconciliation Services Kansas City; Heather Bryant, previously Chief Development Officer at Mental Health Association Oklahoma; Kurt Rietema, Senior Director of Youthfront Neighborhood, Argentine; and Darryl Answer, assets-based community development consultant and founder of Verge Solutions LLC, Kansas City.