Come learn about The Reinvestment Fund! TRF is a Philadelphia-headquartered Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that manages $787 million in capital and has made over $1.5 billion in 2,945 community investments since inception in 1985. The institution finances community businesses using loan, equity and other financing tools. To learn more about The Reinvestment Fund: http://www.trfund.com/

Sara Vernon Sterman currently serves as VP, Strategic Investments. In this position Ms. Sterman is expanding TRF's work in Healthy Communities by focusing on investment models that integrate the organization's lending and policy work in health care, childcare, food, education, social services, and affordable housing. Previously Ms. Sterman served as Chief Lending Officer, responsible for leading business development, originations and relationship management within TRF's lending operation. Prior to joining
TRF in 1999, Ms. Sterman taught elementary school in New York City and Washington, D.C., with the Teach For America program, and was a program director for Teach For America in eastern North Carolina. Ms. Sterman holds an MSW from the School of Social Work and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.