FPP Fifth Annual Online Conference: “Together Again, In Harmony”

FPP Fifth Annual Online Conference:
“Together Again, In Harmony”

Thursday, February 11, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Eastern

Convening in the FPP Zoom Room
and Simulcast on Spondulics

Featuring the talented, rising performers representing HAPCO Music*Youth*Arts and the HAPCO Music Foundation!

FPP Online Conference Featured Learning Topics  

“Fast Track Your Calling”
Gerren Sprauve
Entrepreneur/Author
Founder, CEO and President,
Clean Slate Janitorial Services 

“The Cost of Prosperity in Florida:  Data and Opportunities from the Prosperity Now Scorecard”
Holden Weisman
Associate Director, Policy
Prosperity NOW

“How HAPCO is Changing the Lives of Young Performers”
Joseph Patrick Hap McMullen
Founder/President and CEO
HAPCO Music Foundation 

“Building an Equitable Economy for ALL, with Change Machine”
Megan Kursik
Director of Business Development
Change Machine 

“CPFinCap:  Leading-Edge Professional Certification in the 21st Century”
Featuring a Panel of CPFinCap Fall 2020 Candidates/Soon-To-Be Certificants
Certified Practitioner in Financial Capability
The Institute for Financial Capability, Powered by FPP 

“COVID-19 Impacts on SNAP Households”
Jen Corbridge and Darren Liddell
Propel 

FPP Online Conference Featured Learning Session Descriptions 

“Fast Track Your Calling”
Gerren Sprauve
Entrepreneur/Author

In this inspiring welcome session, Florida-based entrepreneur and author Gerren Sprauve will help you find fulfillment where you are right now, so you are able to confidently take your next steps to where you were meant to be.  Gerren’s insights will help FPP Online Conference participants become centered and ready to more deeply engage in the day of learning!

“The Cost of Prosperity in Florida:  Data and Opportunities from the Prosperity Now Scorecard”
Holden Weisman
Associate Director, Policy
Prosperity NOW

This session will dive into what the Prosperity Now Scorecard reveals about the state of economic opportunities and disparities before the COVID crisis emerged, the cost of living in Florida, and how these factors set the stage for the ways different communities experience the fallout of financial crises and potential for recovery.  Through an interactive discussion, we will also explore the ways states around the country are addressing these challenges through policies, how these policies could look in Florida, and what might be possible in the 2021 legislative session or beyond.

“How HAPCO is Changing the Lives of Young Performers”
Joseph Patrick Hap McMullen
Founder/President and CEO
HAPCO Music Foundation 

In this brief interview, Founder and Chairman of HAPCO Music Foundation, Joseph Patrick “Hap” McMullen, will share the history, accomplishments and the future for the HAPCO movement, now in its 21st year of serving youth in the arts.  You may be inspired to engage HAPCO‘s performers in a future event, or further support the HAPCO movement!

“Building an Equitable Economy for ALL, with Change Machine”
Megan Kursik
Director of Business Development
Change Machine 

The vision of Change Machine as an organization reflects the future we see us building together.  Financial technology and public policies have the potential to accelerate financial security and help close the gender and racial wealth gap.  To harness this power, tech and policy solutions must be inclusive and equitable to low-income communities.  In this session, we will explore how to lift up voices across the country, to exemplify what togetherness can mean, and to break barriers through education, empathy and radical policy change. 

“CPFinCap:  Leading-Edge Professional Certification in the 21st Century”
Featuring a Panel of CPFinCap Fall 2020 Candidates/Soon-To-Be Certificants
Certified Practitioner in Financial Capability
The Institute for Financial Capability, Powered by FPP 

In a conversation facilitated by Barry Altland, Chief Credentialing Officer for The Institute for Financial Capability, powered by FPP, CPFinCap Candidates and soon-to-be Certificants Barb Allen, Carlene Ulacia, Alyssa Delgado, Karie Arch, Jera Horton and Lafe Thomas will offer their first-hand insights on why the pursuit of the CPFinCap professional certification is on the leading edge of innovative professional growth for Financial Capability practitioners!

“COVID-19 Impacts on SNAP Households”
Jen Corbridge and Darren Liddell
Propel

Undeniably, the COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating impact on low-income households.  Since the onset of the pandemic, Propel has surveyed SNAP households using Fresh EBT every month, in every state, to understand how circumstances in their lives are changing: tracking everything from food insecurity and housing to receipt of economic impact payments and unemployment insurance.  This session will explore the January survey data.

FPP Online Conference Guest Expert Bios

Gerren Sprauve
Entrepreneur/Author
Founder, CEO and President,
Clean Slate Janitorial Services 

Gerren Sprauve is the founder, CEO and President of Clean Slate Janitorial Services, an entrepreneurship formed in 2006 dedicated to creating clean, fresh and inviting environments.  Gerren’s business, writing and speaking endeavors help people restore faith in themselves, by treating each person who crosses his path as a customer, brother and friend.

Gerren is also the author of the inspirational book,
“Fast Track Your Calling:  How to Fuel Your Drive With Every Assignment.” 

Learn more about Gerren Sprauve at
https://gerren-sprauve-8lxb.squarespace.com/.

Holden Weisman
Associate Director, Policy
Prosperity NOW

Holden Weisman is an Associate Policy Director at Prosperity Now where he leads efforts to implement state and local policies focused on improving the financial security of low- and moderate-income households and communities of color across the country.  He also helps manage Prosperity Now’s annual Scorecard, analyzing state and local progress on a range of policies focused on building pathways to wealth and prosperity.  Holden holds a Master of Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Joseph Patrick “Hap” McMullen
Founder/President and CEO
HAPCO Music Foundation 

HAPCO Founder and Chairman Joseph McMullen works with community partners and educators to help disadvantaged young people in Florida, Georgia and Texas use their musical, culinary and artistic talents to fund their college education or to pursue professional careers.  He has been a Commissioner for the Town of Oakland, Florida, since 2006.  He is a member of the Florida League of Cities Growth Management and Economic Develop Committee; President for the Tri-County League of Cities (2021); and a board member of Matthew’s Hope Homeless Outreach Ministries.  As a pharmacist at Centene HMO, he works as a Sr. Clinical Account Manager

For more information, see www.hapcopromo.org.

Megan Kursik
Director of Business Development
Change Machine

Megan joined Change Machine in 2017 as the Assistant Director of Partnership Management and now serves as the Director of Business Development. In this role, she grows Change Machine’s partnerships across the country and supports practitioners on Change Machine’s platform, a comprehensive online tool for embedding financial coaching with non-profit services.

Megan holds a Bachelor of Arts from James Madison College at Michigan State University.  Her favorite professional accomplishment was leading an initiative to provide all kindergartners in Lansing (Michigan) college savings accounts, a program that continues to enroll new kindergartners every year. She supported municipal financial empowerment models across Michigan while employed at the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan prior to joining Change Machine.

Jen Corbridge
Public Partnerships Manager
Propel

Jen has worked with communities on benefit access issues for over a decade at the local and state level. She manages state government and non-profit partnerships at Propel (www.joinpropel.com).

Darren Liddell
Role Title TBD
Propel

Darren is a seasoned Financial Capability practitioner with over ten years of experience in financial empowerment.  At Propel, you’ll find him working with non-profit and government partners, educating clients about COVID policy changes, and conducting user research.  He’s passionate about financial interventions at tax time, racial wealth equity, and helping low- to moderate-income families to achieve their financial goals.

HAPCO Talent Performing During the FPP Online Conference

 Andrew Kennedy – http://hapcopromo.org/our_team/andrew-kennedy/

Justin Mendez – http://hapcopromo.org/our_team/justin-mendez-3/

About HAPCO Music Foundation and HAPCO Music*Youth*Arts

Celebrating 20 Years . . . Our students show through their work the beauty of the spirit of unity and the power of music and the arts.

HAPCO’s educational programs help disadvantaged young people in Florida, Georgia and Texas build their better futures. They use their musical, culinary and artistic talents to fund their college education or to pursue professional careers.

Programs are conducted in locations central to disadvantaged neighborhoods, connecting young people with industry professionals and giving them inroads into community networks. They encourage artistic expression, technique, business best practices and practical application. Our events are tailored to unite the communities we serve through the universal languages of music, food and art.

HAPCO programs are offered typically free of charge and are designed to empower growth and development in creative fields. Through our Kenneth R. Tolbert Scholarship Fund, we award scholarships to disadvantaged young people for fee-based programs including private lessons and summer jazz band camp.

HAPCO emphasizes paying it forward – we give students real-world experience and mentoring from university-level educators and industry professionals who they can relate to and learn from. The majority of our instructors have overcome economic and social challenges to forge a path of personal success. They come from a full range of generations, including first generation Florida Highwaymen, and share their stories of how they creatively persevered through socially-turbulent times. Many young people who benefited from our programs in middle and high school have graduated college and now serve as educators and mentors.

HAPCO Event Entertainment

HAPCO works with professional musicians and university educators to help young people build their better futures through their artistic, musical and culinary talents. Jeff Rupert, director of jazz studies at University of Central Florida, and Scott Wilson, director of jazz studies at University of Florida, are both long-time HAPCO program educators. Today, their programs’ faculty and students will entertain us with live jazz performances,

HAPCO MUSIC FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR PARTNERS

Jeff Rupert is a Trustee Chair, Pegasus Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at UCF. He is a saxophonist, composer, record producer and recording artist. He is a YAMAHA performing artist and founder of Flying Horse Records. Under his direction, The Flying Horse Big Band hit the 2020 Year End (Top 200 Chart) with Florida Rays at #6. He hosts Jazz and the American Spirit, a weekly radio show on WUCF FM/wucf.org, Mondays at 7 pm.

Scott Wilson is the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Florida. Wilson has served as Musical Director for Universal Studios Japan, principal staff composer for Grand Link World in Qingdao, China and has been a featured jazz trumpet soloist for Tokyo Disney Sea. He has authored jazz textbooks and developed online jazz education platforms.