Events
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Racism and Health Equity in Community Action
This webinar will explore the intersections of poverty, health and racism in America. The webinar will also introduce the Community Action Network to the American Public Health Association's six-part webinar series, Advancing Racial Equity, which explores racism as driving force for the social determinants of health.
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Utilizing Property-Tax Aide to Improve the Lives of Seniors
Learn from AARP Foundation Property Tax-Aide about how you can expand your services and partner to utilize their innovative technology and volunteer training. This webinar series with the AARP Foundation will provide a presentation and demonstration on their best in class digital tool to support eligible homeowners and renters, in select states, apply for property tax relief.
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NCAP Community Action Agency Leaders Webinar on OCS CSBG CARES Act Rapid-Cycle Impact Projects
This new FOA will support the CSBG CARES Act Rapid-Cycle Impact Projects goal of adapting current service models to effectively respond to immediate community needs while also testing innovative community approaches and strategies developed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the effects of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Grantees will be responsible for implementing […]
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Ready to Serve: How to Build and Equip a Crisis-Ready Response Team
This webinar explores three critical stages to create and support a crisis response team: 1. Reflect, 2. Plan, and 3. Practice. You’ll learn how and when planning and response teams differ (in composition as well as emphasis), how to ‘bake in’ lessons from previous crisis events into your planning and response strategies, and why and how the substance and style of your planning activities matter. The webinar also explores approaches to ‘practicing’ what you’ve built before your next crisis is at hand, rules of thumb for your crisis team, and takeaways you can apply to create a crisis-ready response team.
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Preventing Homelessness: Finding Families at Highest Risk
Wednesday, July 21 at 2 p.m. EST, the Partnership will hold the second webinar in a series examining strategies to prevent homelessness for those who are at the highest risk. This webinar will feature innovative service providers who are working to identify and support families before they become homeless. Speakers will describe how they are working with […]
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The State of Women and Poverty Centering in Intersectional Narratives and Implications for the Future
The alarming number of American women living in poverty is a recurring trend. With more women than men living in poverty in the US, the COVID-19 pandemic has not only endangered the economic security of women but has put families at increased risk of falling into poverty and remaining there. During this webinar, an intersectional analysis of women in poverty will consider the implications and opportunities for families and their health and well-being and imagine a new economy using an equity lens.
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Utilizing Property-Tax Aide to Improve the lives of Seniors
Are you from one of the below states? If so, join our upcoming webinar to learn about a free AARP Foundation Property Tax-Aide Tool to connect seniors to property-tax aide. Eligible locations: New Hampshire, New York, New York City, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington D.C., North Carolina, Florida (Miami-Dade County), Illinois (Cook County), Missouri, Minnesota, […]
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Targeting Homelessness Prevention to Those at Greatest Risk: Diversion Assistance
How are frontline providers helping people seeking shelter identify alternative housing options to prevent homelessness and shelter stays? This third webinar in a series focusing on targeting prevention assistance to […]
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Answering the $1 Billion Question: Data-Driven Strategies for Demonstrating Impact from CARES-Funded Activities
CAA's have been at the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic from Day One. This is one of the reasons Congress entrusted the Community Action Network with $1 billion to […]
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Measuring Family Centered Community Change: A Fireside Chat
This webinar features a discussion of the experiences and lessons learned in the performance measurement efforts of Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC), a community change strategy, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation from 2012 to 2019, to improve outcomes for children and parents living in high-poverty communities through two-generation approaches. Topics covered in the webinar include an overview of the performance measures selected for FCCC and how they changed over time, who was involved in deciding what to measure and how, ways that the partners balanced using performance measurement to inform practice and track collective impact, and how the data were analyzed and used to improve implementation.
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Accessing Resilience Resources from Public and Private Sources
Join Melanie Herman, CEO of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, for a fast-paced tour of resilience resources from various credible sources. This session explores federal and state government websites, law firm and CPA firm sites, educational publishers, membership associations, and specialty organizations.
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How to Become the Resilient Leader Your Mission Requires
This webinar explores the qualities, traits, and skills of resilient leaders — the very type of leaders that organizations in an uncertain world require. Learn what you can do to become a leader who helps others ‘bounce back’ from downside risks your agency couldn’t avoid and draw potent learning opportunities from failures, mistakes, and near misses.
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Fall Season Kickoff: Resources and Opportunities for Community Action
Join the National Community Action Partnership as we kick off fall with a review of the new resources and opportunities for the Community Action Network. Partnership staff will preview what is to come from major initiatives including the Learning Communities Resource Center, the relaunch of Pathways to Excellence, Covid-19 Response, the Center of Excellence, and […]
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Helping All Eligible Families Get the Child Tax Credit
NCAP is honored to have the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) join us in our 30 day push to get families enrolled in the Advanced Child Tax Credit. The 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion provides a historic opportunity to reduce child poverty in the United States by more than 40 percent! Non-filer families can […]