Convention Presentations
Please be patient with us as we work to update this page with a comprehensive list of presentations from our previous trainings. In the meantime, if you are looking for resources related to our trainings, we encourage you to consult our webinar video library and our toolkit library.
2021 Convention Highlights and Presentations
2021 Annual Convention Program Book
2021 Annual Convention Sessions in Alphabetical Order
- A leader’s Guide to Communicating Change
- Aligning Systems to Advance Family and Community Well-Being
- American Rescue Plan Act Benefits: An Overview
- Are You Ready for Trouble? Strategies for Predictable Crises
- Assessing Readiness for a Change
- Asset-Based Community Engagement
- Better Than Ever: Using a Self-Assessment to Build Resilience and Evolve Capabilities | HANDOUT
- Broke in America
- Centering Board Leadership in Equity
- Collaborative Leadership in Collective Impact | HANDOUT
- Community Action Advocacy: Effective Strategies for Public Policy Engagement
- Community Action & American Rescue Plan Funds: Opportunities for Community Investment
- Community Conversations on Race
- CSBG Organizational Standards 101
- Defining Solar with Justice
- Defining Your Public CAA
- Disparate Energy Insecurity Impacts: The Need For Racial Justice in Utility Billing, Credit and Collections
- Dollars and Sense: Uses of CSBG Funds
- Effective Board Meeting Minutes and Resolutions | HANDOUT ONE | HANDOUT TWO
- Energy Equity Project
- Examples of Impact of CARES Support
- Exploring Partnerships & Opportunities to Engage Native American Communities
- Fines and Fees Reform
- From Silos to Systems: Strengthening Impact with Tools & Processes for Data Integration & Utilization
- Growing Your Data Capacity in Uncertain Times
- Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
- How We Found Our Community Voice During the Pandemic
- Increasing Economic Mobility for Families in America: Current Landscape & Strategic Solutions to Addressing Poverty
- Innovative Initiative Showcase: Health
- Innovative Initiative Showcase: Housing
- Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
- Knowledge Nuggets to Make Your Board the Gold Standard
- Lessons Learned: Successes & Challenges in State/Local Collaboration in Pandemic & Disaster Response
- Moving from Proclamation to Implementation
- Nonprofit Insurance Crisis FAQs Brochure
- Pathways: A Tiered Approach to Achieving Agency-Wide Excellence
- Planning for Hybrid Staffing
- Preparing a CAA’s Bylaws for Emergencies
- Redistricting Overview
- Risk Lessons and Insights from COVID-19: What Next? What Now? (Part 1) | HANDOUT
- Risk Lessons and Insights from COVID-19: What Next? What Now? (Part 2) | HANDOUT
- Setting Professional Boundaries in a Changing Work Environment
- Sharing & Adapting Innovative Initiatives
- SNAP E&T Conversation with Central Kentucky Community Action Council and Kentucky’s Department for Community Based Services
- So, You’re Still the Best Kept Secret?
- Social Enterprise as a Fundraising Strategy
- Supporting a Program-Wide Culture of Mental Health and Well-Being
- The Community Action Brand
- The Economics of Perpetual Poverty: Policy Solutions
- The National Community Action Partnership Public Policy Platform: An Overview
- Thrive Rural Framework Assessment Table: Community-Level Building Blocks
- Thrive Rural Framework Assessment Table: Systems-Level Building Blocks
- Understanding Data Systems and Processes in a New Reality
- We Can Tell You What You Want to Know
- What Does the Board of Directors Need to Know about ROMA?
- Where Software Implementations Can Go Wrong
- You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to be in the Fight for Racial Justice
- Your Communication Style: How it Affects Your Interactions with Staff, Clients and the Community | What Is Your Communication Style?
2020 Convention Highlights and Presentations
2020 Virtual Annual Convention Program Book
2020 Virtual Annual Convention Sessions in Alphabetical Order
- 2020 Market Volatility Update
- Adobe CC Basics: Using Adobe to Customize the Impact Report Toolkit
- Advancing Race Equity
- Affordable Housing — Financial Management Challenges for CAAs
- Agency-Wide Budgeting & Dashboarding
- An Update from the CDC
- Bridging from Community Work to Collective Impact
- Building an Effective Base Compensation Plan: Internal Equity Analysis
- Building Capacity to Better Serve the Community Through Strong University Partnerships
- Coaching: A Cornerstone to a Whole Family Approach
- Common Mistakes in Financial Statements
- Community Action 101: Community Action History & Overview
- Community Action Responds: Fundraising in a COVID-19 Environment
- Community Action Responds: Innovating to Meet Increased Needs
- Community Economic Development as a Fundraising Strategy
- Community Well-Being: A Data Framework for Addressing Social Determinants
- Conducting a Community Needs Assessment for Public CAAs
- Connecting the Community Needs Assessment to the Strategic Plan
- Cost Allocation and Indirect Costs
- Creating a Social Enterprise for Your CAA
- Crises as a Catalyst for Advancing Race Equity in Your Organization
- Data for Strategy & Innovation
- Developing a Statewide Report on Poverty
- Early Childhood Adversity, Trauma, & Healthy Equity
- Effective Governance in Times of Crisis
- Ensuring an Equitable Energy Transition
- Fiscal Director Roundtable
- Fiscal Risk Management
- Healing is the Revolution
- How to Transition from American Fact-Finder to Data.Census.Gov
- Instructional Design for Online Learning
- Leveraging Health Care System Funds with Retrofits and Energy Assistance
- Moving Through the ROMA Cycle: Before You Measure Your Data, Consider How You Are Measuring Outcomes
- Narrative Shift Part One: Reframing the Human Services 101
- National Partners Panel
- Orientation to CCAP
- Redistricting: Advocacy Methods to Help States Draw Lines for Congressional and Many Other Election Districts
- Strategies for Improving Board Recruitment and Retention
- The Trifecta of Community Action Leadership
- Water Access and Affordability, Particularly in the Time of COVID-19
2020 Annual Convention Awards Ceremony
Watch the 2020 Virtual Annual Convention Awards Ceremony and Celebration which took place on Friday, August 27.
2019 Convention Highlights and Presentations
2019 Annual Convention Program Book
2019 Annual Convention Videos
Click here for videos from the 2019 Annual Convention.
2019 Annual Convention Sessions in Alphabetical Order
- Affordable Housing Advocacy
- Aligning Our Tools for Community Impact
- Applying Racial Equity Lens to Creating Trauma-Informed and Resiliency-Promoting
Organizations - Beyond Fundraising Galas: Integrated Individual Donor Programs
- Building Belonging in a Time of Othering
- Building a High-Performing Team: Keep Calm and Play to Your Strengths
- Building a High-Performing Team: Keep Calm and Play to Your Strengths (worksheet)
- Building a Movement: Changing the Narrative for Human Services
- Building the Next Generation of CAP Leaders
- Community Action Partners: Building Financial Inclusion With Money Smart
- Community Initiatives in Region 3
- Data Task Force
- Demystifying Data Analysis
- Effectively Navigating the State Monitoring Process
- From Insights to Innovation: Using Human Insights to Improve Racial Equity in Financial Empowerment Program Design
- How to Shape and Deploy a Scorecard to Measure the Impact of your Community Action Programs
- Introduce or Re-Introduce Yourself to Your Community from the Perspective of the Whole Family (2Generation Model)
- Leading the Campaign for Affordable, Accessible Energy for All
- Leveraging the Connection Between Head Start and Community Action
- Marketing for Nonprofits: Unifying, Branding, Storytelling, and Online Media
- Mission Fatigue: Why it Happens and What We Can Do About It
- Our Model Energy Affordability Model: Percentage of Income Payment Plans (PIPP)
- Oppotunity Zones Briefing
- Paradigm Shift: Partnering With Health Systems to Improve Client Outcomes and Increase Resources
- Planning for Social Change: Customizing Strategic Planning to Fit Your Agency
- Planning for Social Change: Customizing Strategic Planning to Fit Your Agency (handout)
- Planning for Social Change: Customizing Strategic Planning to Fit Your Agency (worksheet)
- Practice Transformation Through The Learning Community
- Putting the Strategy into your Strategic Plan
- Roles and Responsibilities of the CAP Finance Department
- Stories from Local CAAs about Implementing ROMA
- Talking About Poverty & Economic Opportunity Today
- The Community Action Board’s Role in Resource Development
- Universal Intake – Measuring Outcomes for the Whole Family Utilizing a Centralized Database System
- Updates from the US Department of Energy
- USDA Handouts for Rural Housing Session
- Using Your Annual Report Data
- VITA Volunteer: Recruitment, Training, Retention, and Inspiration
- Volunteerism: The Impact and Value to the Agency, Community, and Individual
- What’s a Moodle? A Panel Discussion on Building an LMS for Members
2018 Convention Highlights and Presentations
2018 Annual Convention At A Glance & Program Book
2018 Annual Convention Keynote Presentation: $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
2018 Annual Convention Sessions in Alphabetical Order
- Advancing Racial Equity: An Organizational Perspective by Luisa Boyarski
- Advancing Racial Equity: Practical Steps for CAAs by Luisa Boyarski
- All Eyes on You: How to be a Spokesperson for Your CAA by Murray & Conway
- Becoming a Trauma-Informed Organization by Anna Schoon & Melissa Bohacek
- Board Members Need to Know
- Building a Cooperatively Owned Grocery Store in a Food Desert by Lela Klein
- Building Relationships with Policy Makers by Leslie Barnes
- Coaching Your Team from Great to Awesome by Carolyn Sullivan
- Conducting a Community Needs Assessment by Courtney Kohler
- Constructing a Whole Family Approach by Tiffney Marley & Jeannie Chaffin
- Constructing a Whole Family Approach Organizational Culture by Kristen Holzinger
- Creating Agents of Change: Building Resident Capacity Through Leadership Academies by Maggie Ramsberger
- Developing an Agency Theory of Change by Courtney Kohler
- Developing CAA Leaders Through an Effective Statewide Training Strategy by Joe Diamond
- Driving the Data
- Dynamic Annual Reports by Jennifer Baker
- Engaging During Elections by Leslie Barnes
- Equity, Growth, & Community in a Changing America by Manuel Pastor
- Getting Ahead When the Justice System Puts You Behind by Cherish Cronmiller
- Impact of Bias by Myka Piatt
- Integral Models of Care by Rand Clark
- Integrating Head Start and CAA Governance, Leadership & Finance by Courtney Kohler
- Launching a Fundraising Program from A to Z by Kate Atkins
- Launching a Fundraising Program from A to Z Packet
- Leadership Qualities in the Next Generation by Seth Fine
- Making Your Message Marketable by Holly Hicks (part 1)
- Making Your Message Marketable by Holly Hicks (part 2)
- Move Program Participants from Crisis Intervention to Prevention by Bob Swanson
- Moving Up the S-Curve by Bryan Phipps, Janet Shrader, & Angie Groseclose
- Neighborhood Place 2018
- No Wrong Door: A Community Data Sharing Response by Michael McKenna, Sheldon Kepiro, & Vanessa Philbert
- Organizational Standards Roundtable by Jarle Crocker
- Our Lost Cousins: Partnering with Community Health Centers to Address Client Health Needs
- Performance Management, Advocacy and Continuous Improvement at UPO by Dana Jones
- Place and Belonging: Essential Ingredients of Effective Anti-Poverty Strategies by Anna Schoon & Melissa Bohacek
- Preparing to Lead: What New EDs/Board Members Need to Know by Eleanor Evans & Jerralyn Ness
- Presenting Financials to the Board by Denes Tobie & Denise Harlow
- Securing Our Future: Increasing Economic Mobility & Reducing Poverty in Palm Beach County
- Strategic Planning Best Practices by Brian Gaumont
- Strengths Based Communication by Myka Piatt
- The ABCs of Effective Community Partnerships by Lena
- The Opioid Crisis and Community Action’s Response by Community Action Akron Summit
- The Opioid Crisis and Community Action’s Response by Ross County Community Action, Inc.
- The Opioid Crisis and Community Action’s Response by Westmoreland Drug Overdose Task Force
- The Power of Employee Engagement by Carolyn Sullivan
- The Reality of Re-Entry by Laura Saintey, Marie Francis, & Karen Keith
- Tips on Working with Your Board by Eleanor Evans
- Today, Tomorrow, & the Day After: Developing Your Leadership Pipeline by Renee Bruce, Nicole Burbank, & Larry Hermens
- Unlimited Impact Training by Catrena Bowman-Thomas
- We Are Building Our Own Workforce — You Can Too by Melissa Tibbs and Sharon Price
- Work Requirements for Medicaid & Snap
2017 Convention Highlights and Presentations
2017 Annual Convention Keynote Presentation: Beyond the Racial Stalemate
2017 Annual Convention Sessions in Alphabetical Order
- Boards Behaving Beautifully
- Shared Governance – Board and Head Start Policy Council Roles and Responsibilities
- 2-Gen Approach in Rural Settings
- Adult Education . . . A Vehicle Out of Poverty
- Becoming a Successful CCAP Candidate
- CCAP Orientation Handouts
- Conquering Complex Cost Allowability Issues
- Demographics to Data – CAP2017
- Developing an Energy Education Program
- DIGITAL MARKETING DEMYSTIFIED
- Documenting Fiscal Workflow
- Don’t Let Other Define Who You Are
- Economic Analysis Toolkit Stansbury
- Ending Family Homelessness
- Ending Homelessness CAP2017
- Finance Department Roles and Responsibilities
- Financial Analysis Use Your Data Effectively
- Finding People Jobs Challenges and Best Practices for Fee-Based Employment Services
- Finding People Jobs LOGIC-MODEL
- Floods! Tornadoes! Earthquakes!
- Housing Centered Anti Povety Pgrms Housing Stabilization Strategy
- Housing Centered Anti-Poverty Programs Lessons from Philadelphia and New York
- Housing Centered AntiPoverty Creative Affordable Solutions for the Working Low-Income Family
- Housing Centered AntiPoverty Pgrm Farrell Presentation August 2017
- How to Use Data, Information and Knowledge to Advocate for the New Faces of Poverty
- Integrating Financial Capability Services
- Lessons Learned Bundling Services
- Part 1 Practice Transformation slides AC17
- Part 2 Practice Transformation slides AC17
- Supporting Person Centered Approaches For People with Disabilities Experiencing
- Transforming Communities_
- Trauma-Informed Case Management
- UNLOCK THE CHANGE
- What is Accreditation and Why Get Accredited
- What is to be Done 2018 Trump Budget blueprint
- What is to be Done ABetterWay-Poverty-PolicyPaper
- What is to be done Partnership 2017 Conference Stansbury
- What’s Behind the Bundle
- Why Leadership Development
- Your Money Your Goals New Tools for the Front Line
- American Architectural Salvage
- CAA’s and Micro-Business Lending
- Collecting & Analyzing Comprehensive Community Needs Assessment Data
- The Self-Sufficiency Standard
- Designing Bundled Energy Affordability
- Designing Effective Utility Weatherization Leveraged Partnerships Project
- Ready, Set, Go– Tools and Tips on Leading a Learning Community
- How Associations of CAA or WAP Organizations Organize to Win BIG for Low-Income Energy Consumers
- Lake County – Focus Your Vision- Capacity Building Social Enterprise Projects
- Little Dixie: Successful Rural Community Economic Development Initiatives
- NCAP Access+ Capital
- Protecting Utility Consumers in Fast-Changing Markets: Community Action’s Role
- Science of Equality
- Social Enterprises as a Means to Expand Services and Increase Revenue
- TD Bank Presentations – Effective Bank Partnerships that Serve the Community
- Transforming Communities: Advocating for Family Success– A 2-Gen Approach in Rural Settings
- Economic Development in a Rural Community Action Agency- WSOS Presentation
2017 Community Service Day with the Molina Foundation
The Partnership often collaborates with other organizations during our Annual Conventions to volunteer in communities where the events are held. In 2017, convention attendees took part in a book-sorting event in Philadelphia.
Please check out the video to your right of our volunteers. You can also view this Book Sorting Video from August 29, 2017 which aired on Fox 29 News in Philly.