2026 Collective Interest

Thursday, June 25, 2026 | 6:00 PM | CentroVilla25 (3140 W 25th St)

HFLA of Northeast Ohio is excited to bring its annual fundraising event back to CentroVilla25! Join us to celebrate HFLA’s lending community!

The Details:

• CentroVilla (CV25) is located on Cleveland’s west side in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood. CV25 celebrates Latino heritage while fostering economic growth and catalyzing neighborhood change. In partnership with the Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center on Economic Development, HFLA has worked with the CV25 vendors to secure the loans they need to start these businesses. 
• HFLA’s annual event at CV25 is a fun, festive, relaxed evening. Guests are encouraged to come hungry! The eight food vendors located at the mercado will all provide samplings of their offerings. In addition, HFLA will offer a taste of several of our other food vendors from across Northeast Ohio.  
• In addition to your appetite, bring a friend! This is a great opportunity to learn about a newer venue in Cleveland and a great organization serving Northeast Ohio!

In 2025, HFLA debuted Collective Interest, a new angle to our annual event that invited our borrowers and supporters to interact and celebrate our amazing lending community!

Collective Interest | September 10, 2025

HFLA of Northeast Ohio is excited to bring its annual fundraising event to CentroVilla25! Join us on September 10, 2025, as we celebrate HFLA’s community lending. We are excited to host our celebration in the new Mercado at CV25, located in the heart of the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

In 2020, HFLA shifted our annual events to focus on telling the story of our borrowers and highlighting the financial barriers they face. Check out all of our past conversations below:

Annual Luncheon featuring: Mehrsa Baradaran | October 23, 2024

Mehrsa Baradaran is a law professor at the University of California-Irvine Law. She has written extensively on banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. Her writing includes the books How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. The book The Color of Money examines the financial structures and policies that have helped create and maintain racial inequities in the United States.

She brings back the “…clear line from past discrimination to present poverty.”

Know Your Price | October 25, 2023

Dr. Andre M. Perry is a Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, a scholar-in-residence at American University, and a professor of the practice of economics at Washington University. Perry is the author of the book Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities. “There is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can’t solve.” The deliberate devaluation of Black people and Black communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. Dr. Perry takes readers on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are systemically undervalued.

“The Cost Burden” with Jonathan Morduch | October 22, 2022

Is having a job enough? For many in our nation and region, working a full-time job (or two) is still not enough to make ends meet. Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, and Executive Director of the Financial Access Initiative at NYU spoke about his book, The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty.

$avvy Panel Discussion | October 11, 2021

$avvy investigates the historical, cultural, and societal norms around women and money. Join us for a virtual screening of this groundbreaking documentary film followed by a panel discussion of Cleveland-area experts discussing actionable steps towards women’s financial empowerment.

Fostering Economic Equity: Fixing the Racial Imbalance in Consumer Finance | October 21, 2020

In this moment of social, racial, and economic shifting, HFLA of Northeast Ohio is hosting a virtual community conversation on systemic financial inequity, moderated by Dan Moulthrop, Chief Executive Officer, The City Club Cleveland.

Prior to the panel discussion, Michael Taylor, Senior Vice President, West Territory Executive, PNC Bank, will be awarded HFLA’s 2020 Planting Seeds Award. As honoree, Michael will share PNC’s vision of and efforts toward Corporate Social Responsibility in our New Environment.