FDIC South Dakota Workforce Webinar: Who It's For and How to Register
The FDIC is hosting a South Dakota workforce development webinar covering partnership models, financing tools and potential CRA-qualifying activities, with online registration and email confirmation.
The FDIC is hosting a webinar aimed at strengthening workforce development programs across South Dakota. The session brings together partners to share practical strategies, partnership models and financing tools that support workforce development initiatives.
Registration is handled online: you click Register and fill out the needed information, and you receive a confirmation email once the process is completed. The FDIC page that describes the event does not list a fee or a cost for attending.
Who the session is built for
The stated audience is broad: financial institutions, community-based organizations, schools, government organizations and other stakeholders interested in workforce development. If your organization sits in more than one of those categories — a bank with a community lending function, a school district working with local employers, a nonprofit coordinating training — the program is explicitly addressed to you.
That breadth matters for how you read the agenda. A session spanning banks, schools and community groups is unlikely to be a single-track compliance briefing; the described focus is on collaboration and practical models rather than on one institution's program.
What the presenters are expected to cover
According to the event description, presenters will highlight ways financial institutions, schools and community organizations can collaborate through potential Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)-qualifying activities to broaden workforce development opportunities statewide. The word potential is doing real work here: the description does not state that any specific activity qualifies, nor does it name a program that has been approved as CRA credit.
The panel combines workforce, education and community affairs perspectives:
- Brittany Hanson, Program Director, Forward Sioux Falls
- Jeanne McKenna, Education and Workforce Development Director, Black Hills Special Services Cooperative
- Kendra Ringstmeyer, Workforce Development Director, South Dakota Department of Labor & Regulation
- Andrew Barbes, Community Affairs Specialist, FDIC
For a reader weighing whether to attend, the speaker mix suggests three distinct lenses on the same problem: an economic development organization, an education-and-workforce intermediary, a state labor agency and the federal insurer's community affairs function. If your question is how a bank's community activity connects to a school or state training pipeline, that is the intersection the panel appears designed to address.
How to think about the CRA angle
Community Reinvestment Act considerations often drive how financial institutions structure community partnerships, and the event description frames CRA-qualifying activities as one channel for collaboration. The description does not, however, give criteria, thresholds, dollar amounts or examples of activities the FDIC considers qualifying.
A reasonable approach for a prospective attendee is to arrive with a specific partnership in mind — a training program, a lending arrangement, a school-employer pipeline — and treat the session as a place to learn how others have structured similar efforts. Whether any particular arrangement would receive CRA consideration is a question for your institution's compliance function and the relevant regulator, not something this event description resolves.
Registration mechanics and what to expect
The registration path described is straightforward and entirely online. The page instructs users to click Register and fill out the needed information, and states that a confirmation email arrives once the process is completed. Beyond that, the description does not specify the platform, the session length, the agenda order or the format for audience questions.
Because confirmation arrives by email, it is worth checking the address you enter carefully; the description does not mention a separate confirmation step or an alternative registration channel. It also does not state a registration deadline or a capacity limit.
What the source does not say
Several details a consumer or organizational reader might want are not established by the event description:
- No date or time for the webinar itself appears in the provided description, apart from the page's publication context.
- No cost or fee is stated, in either direction; the description is silent rather than confirming the event is free.
- No recording or replay is mentioned for those who cannot attend live.
- No continuing education credit is mentioned for any profession.
- No specific CRA qualification criteria are given, and no activity is confirmed as qualifying.
- No session length, agenda or speaker time allocation is provided.
- No registration deadline or capacity limit is listed.
Readers should treat the event as announced and open for registration, not as a completed or recorded program. Nothing in the description indicates that materials, slides or a follow-up summary will be distributed afterward.
Is it worth your time?
For an organization already working on workforce pipelines in South Dakota, the appeal is the cross-sector lineup and the explicit link between partnership models, financing tools and potential CRA-qualifying activity. For a reader looking for consumer-facing banking information, the session is not aimed at individual account holders; it is a practitioner event for institutions and organizations.
If your interest is in how banks, schools and community groups divide responsibilities and finance joint training efforts, the described content maps directly to that question. If you need confirmed CRA treatment for a specific plan, the description offers framing rather than an answer, and the practical next step is internal review alongside attendance.
Sources
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