Delores A. Brown

Delores A. Brown has over 35 years of experience in the private and non-profit sector in banking/financial administration, community and economic development specializing in organizational development, fund development, financing, project management, planning for housing, childcare and youth facilities. Ms. Brown attended the University of California, Northridge and majored in business administration. She also attended the Institute of Financial Education for banking operations and finance.

Ms Brown has served as Vice President in the Banking field as a lender and a specialist in acquisition of new branch facilities. She has also served as Executive Director and Director of Development for several non-profit agencies and President of a successful community development-consulting firm working with jurisdictions such as North Las Vegas and New Orleans. Ms. Brown has maintained long-term client relationships with several prominent non-profit organizations. Ms. Brown was also one of the first graduates of the USC Lusk Minority Real Estate Development Program. Ms. Brown has raised over $80 million dollars for community based organizations.

Ms. Brown currently serves as a 21-year board member of the Clearinghouse CDFI New Markets Tax Credit Committee representing Los Angeles County, advisory board member of the Money 360 and board member of Resources for Infant Educators.

As a collaborative partner with Clearinghouse CDFI, Ms. Brown is at the forefront of building capacity of both Jurisdictions, Private investment, Corporations and community-based organizations where she highlights the benefits of the Opportunity Zones on a local and national basis. This knowledge includes deal structure of housing and community development in addition to aligning the communities’ vision with investment capital.

Ms. Brown also directs The Center for Social Enterprise, a division of the non-profit 501c3 Community Economic Development Corporation (CEDC). CEDC is an intermediary providing capacity building technical assistance to non-profit and government agencies fostering housing, economic development and social services in underserved communities within Counties of Los Angeles and Fresno, California and the Cities of Atlanta Georgia and New Orleans Louisiana. Working in partnership with scholars, economists, political representatives, business executives and non-profit industry leaders, the center offers its services through a series of symposiums and workshops designed to provide capacity development at every organizational level.