2025 SBAN Conference on Fostering Resilience

Join the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network November 12-14 in College Park, Maryland, for the 2025 SBAN Conference! We’ll strategize together about how to foster resilient small businesses and remain resilient in our anti-displacement work. Registration opens in July.

Come hear how organizations are supporting communities and small businesses in this new economic and political landscape. We’ll discuss the most promising sources of funding in the wake of federal cuts, how to work with policymakers and other partners to get things done at the state and local level, and how to talk about small business anti-displacement work in communications and grants.

Conference sessions, new SBAN research, and visits to local neighborhoods will explore how strategies such as commercial tenant protections help keep BIPOC- and immigrant-owned small businesses in place. We’ll also discuss what anti-displacement tools are effective during different stages of neighborhood change.

Call for Proposals, Due May 23!
There is no SBAN conference without you. We want to hear about your anti-displacement work and ideas and how you are fostering resilience in these times. We invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, and workshops on strategies and topics related to our conference theme, Fostering Resilience.

Interested in submitting a proposal? Click here.

Learn more about the conference at antidisplacement.org/2025-sban-conference

About SBAN: The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network is a network of 175 organizations across the United States and internationally that work to prevent displacement of BIPOC- and immigrant-owned small businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods. Housed at the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth, SBAN includes policymakers, nonprofit advocates, technical assistance providers, real estate developers, financial institutions, scholars, and small business owners, who share knowledge and collaborate to advance innovative policies and practices that keep small businesses in place.