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NCSC26 Facilities Fieldhouse

  • Jun 16
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jun 18



Plan Your Next Facilities Play

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Room 211 · New Orleans Convention Center 

Wednesday, June 24 · 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Thursday, June 25 · 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM



Facilities are one of the biggest challenges charter school leaders and partners face, and one of the most important to get right. Facilities Fieldhouse at NCSC26 brings finance, legal, development, and operations experts together in one room so you don't have to get it right alone. 


WHAT YOU'LL GET

  • The Right Tools — proven templates, calculators, and frameworks 

  • Expert Guidance — across financing, legal structuring, development, and operations

  • Real Examples — what works, what doesn't, from schools who've done it

  • Working Sessions — to make real progress towards your own projects


Pull Up A Chair. Leave With A Clear Next Play.


Like speed-dating, but for charter school financing. Share your needs, learn about different lender approaches, and walk away with a short list of right-fit financing partners.


Led By: Sybil St. Hilaire (LISC)

Learn about the key roles of a real estate project team, where partnerships can break down, and the right questions to ask. Walk away with a clearer way to build and manage your own team. 


Led By: Diane Flynn (PSWrx)



Bring Your Toughest Questions.

Sit Down With Industry Leaders For Real 1:1 Conversations.


PARTNER

ASK ABOUT

  • TDP lease-to-own program

  • Design Principles

  • Short and long-term financing options

  • Mastering the Blueprint CSP dissemination grant

  • Facility financing options

  • Loan products

  • Credit enhancement

  • The full facility development process

  • How LISC and SchoolBuild support charter schools

  • Bond financing

  • Facilities strategy

  • Mission-aligned capital

  • Facility planning

  • Early-stage real estate strategy

  • Real estate development

  • The Developer in Residence program

  • Strategic financing support

  • Real estate financing

  • Our Learning Finance program


Wherever You Walk In, Walk Out With a Clear Next Step to Act On. 


Schools often have more agency than they realize to access low-cost capital that meets their facilities needs, but it's not one size fits all. 


After walking through product options across the financing lifecycle, the session will move into a guided case study: in small groups, you'll review realistic school profiles and make a call on whether a school is ready for financing, which products, and on what terms. 


You'll analyze the same inputs lenders and investors scrutinize, compare structures and tradeoffs, and surface the questions to bring to your board. Leave with a clear roadmap and a sharp lens for assessing bond readiness.


Led by: Eugene Clark-Herra (Orrick) and Mike McGregor (Children First Capital)


This hands-on interactive session explores the routines that keep buildings running, drawing on real examples from schools doing it well today and the Mastering the Blueprint hub. 


Dig into preventative maintenance, vendor management, and internal accountability, then pressure-test your own setup: who owns what, how you manage vendors, where the gaps are.


By the end, you'll have frameworks to move from reactive fixes to preventative maintenance to cut costs and protect your building, plus the resources to keep it going long after NCSC.


Led by: Jeannemarie Hendershot (PSWrx), Sybil St. Hilaire (LISC), and Andrew Group (22Beacon) 



 
 
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