2025 Small Business Anti-Displacement Network Conference: Fostering Resilience
Willow S. Lung
The 2025 Small Business Anti-Displacement Network Conference: Fostering Resilience is convening November 12-14 at The Hotel at the University of Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Come strategize with us about how to foster resilient small businesses and remain resilient in our anti-displacement work. Early-bird registration closes October 15!
You’ll hear how organizations and cities are supporting diverse communities and small businesses in this new economic and political landscape. Our keynotes, panels, and workshops will offer practical tools and timely approaches to supporting BIPOC and immigrant communities and entrepreneurs. Informal networking opportunities will help us reenergize.
What’s on the agenda?
Sources of funding in the wake of federal cuts
Strategic messaging for small business anti-displacement work
How to work with policymakers and other partners to get things done at the state and local level
What nonprofits need to know in the current political climate
How strategies such as commercial tenant protections and community ownership help keep small businesses in place, particularly BIPOC- and immigrant-owned businesses
Using data to address displacement risk and impact
PLUS: Local community-based organizations will host mobile workshops in neighborhoods around the Washington, D.C. metro area!
The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network (SBAN) is a network of more than 175 organizations across the United States and abroad that work to prevent displacement of BIPOC- and immigrant-owned small businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods.
Register now: https://go.umd.edu/sban25registration
Keynotes: https://antidisplacement.org/2025-sban-conference/keynotes/
Full agenda: https://antidisplacement.org/2025-sban-conference/agenda/