National CAP

CCAP Exam Guidance
2022-03-16 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Easter)
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
EVENT DESCRIPTION: After successful completion of the CDF and ESP, candidates are qualified to take the CCAP exam. This session will focus on best strategies for preparing for the examination, noting what distinguishes the CCAP exam from other kinds of tests, with particular focus on the Study Guide and practice questions. Presented by Jim Lopresti.
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Women and Retirement 2022 Webinar
2022-03-22 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Easter)
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
EVENT DESCRIPTION: More than ever, women are taking charge of their financial futures. At the same time, when it comes to retirement planning, they face particular challenges. For example, on average, women live longer than men, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the CDC. Living longer could mean spending more years in retirement, and, therefore, more years having to live on retirement savings.
On Tuesday March 22nd at 2pm, Mutual of America Financial Group will present a 30-minute webinar titled Women and Retirement: Preparing Now for a More Financially Secure Future, which will provide valuable insights into the factors impacting women’s retirement planning. The webinar will also highlight ways women can successfully plan for the future, including how to potentially maximize saving and investing opportunities and retirement income. This includes taking full advantage of your employer’s retirement plan after enrolling in it and better understanding Social Security benefits.
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Child Tax Credit (CTC) Office Hours
2022-03-29 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-05 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Easter)
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
EVENT DESCRIPTION: Do you have questions about the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit or VITA sites? Do you have customers who need information about how to get their refunds? Are you working with a family who has a very specific issue filing their taxes and you need some help finding a solution? If so, here is your chance to get answers! NCAP is hosting “office hours” where you can join our staff and the experts from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) to get the answers you and your customers need.
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Organizational Self-Assessment: A Strategy to Build Capacity
2022-03-30 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Easter)
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
EVENT DESCRIPTION: Is your organization looking to move to the next level, but unsure where to start? The National Community Action Partnership is excited to launch a new Organizational Self-Assessment tool that is designed in partnership with the Nonprofit Risk Management Center specifically for Community Action Agencies to gain critical insight into key areas of organizational operation and strategy. This insight can help inform and focus agency action to strengthen practice and build capacity. This webinar will discuss the new tool, its use, and how to utilize the results to plan operational improvements to move your CAA towards excellence.
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NCAP Launches New Partnership with Wipfli
2022-03-31 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
DESCRIPTION: NCAP will be hosting a webinar with Wipfli on Thursday, March 31, at 2 ET / 1 CT / 12 MT / 11 PT to introduce our new partnership and provide an overview of the benefits available to NCAP members through Wipfli. Please consider joining us!
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Community Action Month Toolkit Release Webinar
2022-04-12 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Please join us for the release of the 2022 Community Action Month Toolkit! We’ll walk through the contents of the toolkit, how to use it, and highlight what’s new this year.
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Forging a Pathway to Excellence for your Community Action Agency
2022-04-13 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Easter)
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
EVENT DESCRIPTION: The last two years have reminded us why every community needs and deserves an excellent Community Action Agency. But how do you get there? How do you move beyond compliance and towards excellence? This webinar will discuss steps your agency can take to begin planning your excellence journey, including how to prepare your agency for the next Pathways to Excellence cohort enrollment scheduled for early summer 2022.
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Achieving Generative Leadership through the Human Services Value Curve
2022-04-14 12:30 - 13:30, 2022-04-28 12:30 - 13:30 UTC
TIME: 12:30 PM ET | 11:30 AM CT | 10:30 AM MT | 9:30 AM PT
DESCRIPTION: Join us for this deep dive to learn how the Human Services Value Curve inspires and equips leaders and policymakers of health and human services organizations, systems, and communities to envision and create a path for achieving better and more equitable outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, as well as improve and accelerate human services social and economic value for society.
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CSBG CARES Spending Network Conversation with OCS, NCAP, NASCSP, CAPLAW, AND NCAF
2022-04-14 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
DESCRIPTION: CARES Act Supplemental CSBG funds have been critical to supporting family and community needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In most communities, these funds will need to be fully expended within the next 6 months. With the impacts of the pandemic still very present and uncertainty about additional funding, it is critical that the Community Action Network use any remaining CARES Act Supplemental funds as effectively as possible. Join Community Action’s National Partners – NCAP, NASCSP, CAPLAW and NCAF – as well as representatives from the federal Office of Community Services (OCS) to learn about a variety of effective strategies that CAAs have used and can continue to implement to protect vulnerable families.
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CARES CSBG Spending Office Hours
2022-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
MONDAY, APRIL 18, at 2 ET | 1 CT | 12 MT | 11 PT
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Housing Expansion Opportunities and Homeless Prevention: Rapid Re-Housing — Onboarding for New Providers
2022-04-20 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, at 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
This introductory webinar will provide an overview of Rapid Re-housing and its role in developing an effective community-wide response to homelessness. Participants will explore the role that Community Action Agencies can play in leading, supporting, and/or augmenting Rapid Re-housing in the jurisdictions they serve. Participants will also explore strategies to increase housing placements while rental markets continue to tighten.
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CARES CSBG Spending Office Hours
2022-04-25 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
MONDAY, APRIL 25, at 3 ET | 2 ET | 1 CT | 12 MT
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The Rising Tide of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing
2022-05-03 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Easter)
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
EVENT DESCRIPTION: Mutual of America Financial Group, a Partnership endorsed member and longtime supporter of Community Action, is pleased to present a 30-minute webinar on Tuesday May 3rd at 2:00 p.m. ET, titled The Rising Tide of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing, which will provide valuable insights into the recent growth of ESG investing and considerations for retirement plan sponsors. Today, more investors than ever want to see their investment portfolios guided by their philosophical views. You may have heard about ESG investing, as well as socially responsible, or green, investing. These descriptors are used to mean the same thing: investing money in funds that align with one or more recognized ESG factors. ESG investing also considers an investment’s potential environmental and social impact as part of the selection process. To learn more, please be sure to register here for this webinar.

Advocates Assist With Utility Weatherization Funding Overhaul
2022-05-11 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
DESCRIPTION: Duke Energy Indiana is the state’s largest electric utility, serving 69 of 92 counties. Until recently, Indiana WAP spent less than a quarter of the $2 million available for Duke’s Low Income Weatherization Program. Christin Willman of Indiana Community Action Association (INCAA) is joined by partners at Duke and Citizens Action Coalition to describe how they collaborated to increase administrative and health and safety funding, increase rebate price points, serve rental dwellings, offer key measures such as mini-split systems and establish a designated Duke contact person.
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Delivering Low-Income Solar: Barriers and Opportunities
2022-06-01 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Curious about how solar interacts with weatherization? With increased interest in leveraging weatherization programs to support low-income access to solar, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is conducting research and analysis to understand the pathways, barriers, and opportunities for incorporating solar into the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Join Jeff Cook and Juliana Williams from NREL to hear about their research and preliminary findings, and share your perspective.

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Organizational Standards 101
2022-06-08 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
CSBG Organizational Standards represent important minimum thresholds to ensure Community Action Agencies have the needed capacity to serve America’s communities. The full implementation of the principles and practices articulated in the Organizational Standards assures a consistent and strong CSBG network. This session will provide an overview of the Organizational Standards, their requirements, available resources, and how-to tips and tricks for meeting standards (and documenting them!).
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Organizational Standards 101
2022-06-08 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
CSBG Organizational Standards represent important minimum thresholds to ensure Community Action Agencies have the needed capacity to serve America’s communities. The full implementation of the principles and practices articulated in the Organizational Standards assures a consistent and strong CSBG network. This session will provide an overview of the Organizational Standards, their requirements, available resources, and how-to tips and tricks for meeting standards (and documenting them!).
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Pediatric Vaccine Success Stories from the Field
2022-06-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Hip, hip, hooray, we are on our way to under five-year-old vaccinations!
NCAP, National Head Start Association, CDC, and ACF are excited to bring a webinar to the Network, as we prepare for approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to five years old:

CDC Vaccine Confidence and Demand Team: Learn vaccine confidence concepts and hear tips for building vaccine confidence in parents, caregivers and your community
Success Stories from the Field: Learn from sites that have been successful in promoting or partnering to provide pediatric vaccinations
Questions and Answers: Ask your burning questions! All presenters will be available to respond to questions following the presentations

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Making the Most of Low-e Storm Windows and Smart HVAC Tools
2022-06-22 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
The U.S Department of Energy has two technology campaigns that could revolutionize weatherization work: the Storm Window and Insulating Panel (SWIP) Campaign and the Smart Tools for Efficient HVAC Performance (STEP) Campaign. Modern, high-efficiency storms are a cost-effective alternative to full window replacement at a fraction of the cost – providing air sealing, thermal insulation, noise reduction, and other benefits. Smart diagnostic tools identify energy-wasting faults in residential HVAC systems by pairing a suite of digital gauges with a smart phone. Both the SWIP and STEP campaigns are national platforms to share information and recognize successes among campaign partners. In this webinar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory staff will describe how to implement these technologies in your work.
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Fuzzy Futures: Managing Uncertainty with Scenario Planning
2022-07-06 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
Events like the COVID-19 pandemic provide sobering wake-up calls to Community Action leaders, who must inspire and lead their teams through periods of unnerving uncertainty. To better prepare for surviving unpredictable, unthinkable events or futures far from today’s reality, attend this workshop to learn about the art of scenario planning. Leave the workshop with a basic understanding of 4 different scenario planning techniques and inspiration to adapt one to use in your agency. Presented by Melanie Herman, Executive Director, Nonprofit Risk Management Center.
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Building Your Data Muscles
2022-07-12 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
TIME: 1 PM ET | 12 PM CT | 11 AM MT | 10 AM PT
The COVID -19 Pandemic and many CAAs responses demonstrated CAAs use of technology and just how critical data capacity is to our work, while at the same time CARES Act funding provided a means of improving the use of technology to help with data collection and data management. In this webinar, we will review conclusions presented in a paper, “Data Informed Community Action Agencies,” including critical elements to build your agency’s ability to use data and information. We’ll also present a second short paper outline competencies for Community Action Data Professionals.
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National Partners Webinar on CSBG CARES Spending
2022-07-14 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
TIME: 3 PM ET | 2 PM CT | 1 PM MT | 12 PM PT
The Time Is Now to Spend Your Money!
Have you spent some of your CSBG CARES funds? Have you spent most or maybe even all of the CSBG CARES funding? Let’s come together and discuss what spending needs to happen during the final three months of the fiscal year. There will be no CSBG CARES funding carryover, so now is the time to spend down these dollars.
Join Denise Harlow, CEO, National Community Action Partnership, Allison Maluf, Executive Director, CAPLAW, Jeannie Chaffin, Acting Director, NASCSP, and David Bradley, Executive Director, National Community Action Foundation, in this timely discussion. We are the Community Action Network that cares about the entire community and we can improve communities using CSBG CARES funding.
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Weatherization Workforce Development
2022-07-20 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
Staff from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will present highlights from the recent Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) Continuous Improvement Workshop on Workforce Development: Recruitment and Retention. Allison Moe, Juliana Williams and Cory Chovanec will provide an overview of the Continuous Improvement process, offer resources, and highlight case studies of innovative workforce development approaches from weatherization staff across the county. This session is intended to help the broader WAP network access the practices and ideas shared by presenters and participants during the recent workshop. Topics will include exciting approaches to bringing on and training new staff and contractors, keeping staff through work benefits, and establishing supportive system and culture.
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Community Solar Subscription Platform Launch
2022-07-21 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) is partnering with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase access to community solar subscriptions for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) recipients. In this webinar, representatives from DOE, HHS, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will provide an overview of the benefits of community solar for low-income households, the pilot program to connect LIHEAP recipients with community solar, how to provide input on the pilot program, and additional information about how to connect LIHEAP recipients with local community solar.
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Public CAA Convening
2022-07-26 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
TIME: 3PM ET | 2PM CT | 1PM MT | 12PM PT
In this moment, public Community Action Agencies face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In this event, NCAP will bring together public Community Action Agencies for programmatic updates, peer learning, and resource sharing. Gather with colleagues from across the nation to learn, discuss, and share!
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Public Community Action Agency Convening
2022-07-26 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
TIME: 3 PM ET | 2 PM CT | 1 PM MT | 12 PM PT
In this moment, public Community Action Agencies face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In this event, NCAP will bring together public Community Action Agencies for programmatic updates, peer learning, and resource sharing. Gather with colleagues from across the nation to learn, discuss, and share!
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Centering Equity in Collective Impact
2022-07-27 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
In this webinar, co-authors of the recent article “Centering Equity in Collective Impact” will share an updated definition of collective impact based on lessons learned over the past 10 years, as well as specific strategies that can be used to advance collective impact efforts. Join us to learn more about how Community Action Agencies can incorporate these strategies in communities as we work towards systems-level changes that are grounded in equity in support of families achieving social and economic mobility.
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Fearless HR
2022-08-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
TIME: 2PM ET | 1PM CT | 12PM MT | 11AM PT
Scaling a Community Action Agency’s impact starts with empowering its people. CAAs rely on human resource functions with highly variable capacities—from fully formed, to fledgling, and everything in between. Attend this workshop to learn how to develop and equip proficient and fearless internal HR leaders. The presenter will dispel the idea that managing HR risk means eliminating all risk or treating all employees the same. Attendees will also learn how to access new resources and templates to transform HR gaps and stresses into strengths.Presenter: Melanie Herman, Executive Director, Nonprofit Risk Management Center
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