ReFrame Conference 2024
14th Annual National Conference for Home Repair Programs
ReFrame Conference will explore how we can build resilient organizations for resilient communities. We'll also spotlight the home repair work happening in Detroit through panels of local organizations and a half-day tour of the city with City Institute.
ReFrame Conference 2024: Revving Up Home Repair
ReFrame Conference is the premier conference for home repair organizations and community development leaders who work with home repair. Sessions range from repair-focused training, to working with volunteers, to managing healthy organizations and successful programs. ReFrame Conference is a fit for executives, repair program managers, grant writers and administrators, volunteer managers, and beyond.
ReFrame Conference will take place November 13th - 15th at the Westin Southfield in Detroit, Michigan and virtually. Pre-conference sessions will take place on November 12th. Group hotel rates are available and details will be included upon registration.
The Call for Speakers Form is now closed, but you can learn more about this year's tracks, workshop session format, and past highly-rated session topics here.
Calling all students! Are you a student interested in attending the conference? Reach out to Megan Goyer, megan@coalitionforhomerepair.org, for information on accessing the student conference rates. Students can attend the full conference virtually for $25, one day in-person for $50, or the full conference in-person for $125.
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Sessions & Speakers
Sessions range from repair-focused training, to working with volunteers, to managing healthy organizations and successful programs. ReFrame Conference is a fit for executives, repair program managers, grant writers and administrators, volunteer managers, and beyond.
We're excited to announce the session lineup for this year's conference! Learn more about each track:
- Tuning Up: Construction & Maintenance
- Detailing: Services & Resources
- Revving Up: Advocacy & Research
...but that's not all! Introducing two of this year's keynote speakers:
Thursday, November 14th at 9am | Dr. Chris Lambert, Life Remodeled
Dr. Chris Lambert is the founder and CEO of Life Remodeled, award-winning author of Next Level Nonprofit, and founder of the Next Level Nonprofit organizational operating system. In 2010 he launched Life Remodeled, which repurposes vacant school buildings into one-stop hubs of opportunity and helps create neighborhood revitalization that lasts.
Chris's keynote presentation will focus on nonprofit capacity building strategies for preservation and repair organizations.
Thursday, November 14th at 12pm | Carlos Martín, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Carlos Martín is Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies. He has over 25 years of scholarly and policy experience on the physical quality of homes, with a focus on housing adaptation to climate change, housing decarbonization, disaster mitigation and recovery, substandard housing, and the homebuilding and remodeling industry’s technology, workforce, materials, and regulation.
Carlos's keynote presentation will share results of national research recently conducted on home repair needs, challenges, and opportunities. Read more about this year's keynote speakers on our blog.
A sneak peek at some of the sessions already on this year's schedule:
- Leveraging VA Housing Adaptation Benefit Programs
- Leading a Volunteer Construction Project
- Raising More Online
- Manufactured Housing Repairs
Read more on our blog here!
Registration Options
Registration Options
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Price |
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Early Bird: Member
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$250.00 |
Non-Member Ticket
Registration Ends 11/10/24 at 11:59 PM EST
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$350.00 |
Virtual Non-Member Ticket
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$100.00 |
Member Ticket
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$280.00 |
Virtual Member Ticket
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$75.00 |
Day Pass Ticket
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$175.00 |
Sponsorship & Exhibiting
There are a variety of sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities available. Whether you want to network with conference-goers in our vendor hall, sponsor a keynote speaker, or fund registration scholarships for nonprofit employees, we have an opportunity that aligns with your philanthropic and marketing goals.
Hotel Information
ReFrame Conference 2024 will be held at the Westin Southfield Detroit. A group rate of $179 per night is available for conference attendees. We recommend booking accommodations as soon as possible as the blocks tend to fill up quickly. The group rate booking information will be emailed to you upon registering.
The group rate is available from November 12-15, 2024. The last day to book using the group rate is Monday, October 21, 2024.
There are additional hotel options within walking distance to the Westin Southfield Hotel:
Please note that the Coalition only has a group booking rate at the Westin.
Detroit in Context Bus Tour: Housing & Home Repair Edition
This year, we're teaming up with City Institute to offer a half-day tour of the Detroit community. Tour tickets must be purchased separately from conference tickets. Learn more on the registration page here.
We're offering two tour time slot options. Both tours will be held on the first day of the conference, on November 13th, 2024. Tour #1 will take place from 9am - 12pm, immediately after the opening keynote session, and Tour #2 will take place from 1pm - 4pm, immediately after lunch. Both groups will have the same tour stops.
Because the tour will take place on the first day of the conference, some breakout sessions will occur at the same time as each tour slot. We encourage you to review this year's session schedule before choosing your tour time slot.
2024 Highlights:
- Opportunity to participate in a half-day tour of Detroit to see the housing rehab work going on & learn about the history of the city
- Convene around home repair in a city that has been spotlighting the importance of this work
- Presentation of the 2024 Pinnacle Awards during the Cocktail Hour Reception