Convention Presentations
2019 Convention Highlights and Presentations
2019 Annual Convention Program Book
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
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.
2017 Opening Session Keynote Presentation and Interview
2017 Annual Convention Keynote Presentation: Beyond the Racial Stalemate
2017 Annual Convention Sessions in Alphabetical Order
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
Conquering Complex Cost Allowability Issues
Demographics to Data – CAP2017
Developing an Energy Education Program
Don’t Let Other Define Who You Are
Economic Analysis Toolkit Stansbury
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
Trauma-Informed Case Management
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
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
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
Protecting Utility Consumers in Fast-Changing Markets: Community Action’s Role
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