August, 2024 FIA Luncheon

This is for the FIA luncheon on 8/8/24 at 11:15AM. Location details are pending and we will notify you when available.

Date / Time: August 8, 2024 from 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM

Featured speaker: Brennan Crawford, Executive Director & CEO of CHWC

Location: BPU 540 Minnesota Ave KCK 66101

Luncheon Fee: $35

About CHWC
CHWC works to create a diverse and vibrant community welcoming families with housing, educational, and economic opportunities, making our neighborhoods places where people are proud to live. For over 20 years, they have been transforming vacant lots and blighted properties into thriving neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas. They have built, renovated, or repaired over 500 homes; educated and financially empowered thousands of families; and developed vital community assets that promote health, the arts, and community engagement. CHWC is a chartered member of NeighborWorks® America; a network of more than 240 organizations working in nearly 4,400 urban, suburban, and rural communities nationwide. NeighborWorks® America is the country’s preeminent leader in affordable housing and community development.

Meet Brennan Crawford:
Brennan Crawford has served as CHWC’s Executive Director & CEO since November 2016. He joined CHWC in 2014 as the Director of Housing & Economic Development and became Associate Executive Director in January 2016. Prior to his work at CHWC, Brennan worked for 15 years in housing, economic & workforce development, and social enterprise in the government, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors in the Kansas City Metro and New Orleans.

He holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Urban Administration from UMKC’s Bloch School with a certificate in Community Economic Development.

Brennan is a lifelong resident of the Kansas City metro who has lived in Kansas City, Kansas since 2017. He recently built a modern cat-dominium for the neighborhood cats on his front porch.