Proposed Changes to the Community Reinvestment Act
2020-01-23 14:00 - 15:30 UTC
Two of the three federal regulators (OCC and FDIC) have issued proposed changes to the Community Reinvestment Act, and many are of great concern to advocates for low and moderate income people. Learn the details of these proposed changes, what they could mean to your communities and how your organization can submit a public comment opposing these changes.
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration
2020-01-22 14:00 - 15:30
Join us as we give tribute to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of Community Action with the National Community Action Partnership CEO, Denise Harlow and Vice President of Practice Transformation, Tiffney Marley.
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Management and Leadership Training Conference 2020
2020-01-08 - 2020-01-10
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Partnership Policy Platform Webinar
2019-12-19 14:00 - 15:30
The Partnership is in the final stages of establishing its Public Policy Platform and is eager to share the current draft of the platform with the Network. During this webinar, Partnership staff will walk through the policy areas in the platform, answer questions, and give the Network the opportunity to provide feedback before the platform is finalized.
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*POSTPONED* Food as Medicine – Partnering to improve Food Security and Health Outcomes among Vulnerable Populations
2019-12-18 14:00 - 15:30
A county without poverty – thriving, resilient, and prosperous communities for ALL. This is what ALL IN envisions in its efforts to eradicate poverty in Alameda County, California. Through collaboration across a variety of partnerships and innovation, ALL IN seeks to ensure that all families are able to:

Meet their basic needs for food, shelter, healthcare, and safety
Earn an income that allows for self-sufficiency and asset building
Obtain a quality education that positions the next generation for academic and economic success

Since 2014, ALL IN has launched strategies addressing school readiness and food security (food recovery and food as medicine), zeroing in on implementing these strategies at the neighborhood level to ensure that they are reflective and responsive of the community’s needs.
Through their Food as Medicine initiative, ALL IN is scaling a clinically integrated model at local federally qualified health centers that features building up modular and scalable health infrastructure: 1) Food farmacies featuring produces grown through regenerative agricultural approaches by a social enterprise of the County Sherriff’s Office and 2) behavioral pharmacy group medical visits through a partnership with a community based organization. ALL IN is working with a public health plan to help provide seed funding to support this effort. This webinar will feature presenters from ALL IN and its partners: Alameda Alliance, Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Open Source Wellness and Dig Deep Farms – highlighting the implementation of this model and where opportunities lie to engage community and human service partners to not only address food security and health outcomes but also other social and structural determinants of health.
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CCAP - Executive Skills Portfolio (ESP)
2019-12-17 12:00 - 13:30
Submitting the Executive Skills Portfolio (ESP) is the second step in the process of becoming a Certified Community Action Professional (CCAP). The ESP is your chance to showcase your skills in doing the work of Community Action. It gives you a vehicle to show that you are a leader who understands Community Action’s vision and values. In this webinar, you will get a comprehensive look at what is expected of candidates in this step toward CCAP. And you will gain insight into what the ESP evaluators address when they examine candidates’ ESP submissions.
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Community Action History 101
2019-12-12 14:00 - 15:30
For more than 50 years, Community Action has served as a dynamic and community-based force in addressing the causes and conditions of poverty throughout the USA. Hear from the Partnership’s CEO, Denise Harlow, as she takes us back to 1964 to explain the beginnings of the Promise of Community Action.
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Bridging to Equity: Developing a Community Approach to Racial Equity with the Santa Cruz Community Action Board
2019-12-11 14:00 - 15:30
The Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc. (CAB) will share their Community Action Plan process fueled by their agency values, highlighting both needs and assets of the community while creating their local poverty snapshot. This board-led process, based on a commitment to engage with those who normally “don’t come to the microphone” as part of town hall meetings, allowed for the agency to learn and listen deeper through Listening Circles and Pop Up Poverty Conversations.
CAB will share how they engaged with community, how they prepared for the process, what was highlighted in their Community Action Plan and what they did with what they learned, thus far.
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Evaluating Whole Family Approach Pilots: Metropolitan Action Commission 2Gen Evaluation Report
2019-12-04 14:00 - 15:30
The Metropolitan Action Commission is partnering with families to achieve their goals of getting out of poverty through a Two-Generation/Whole Family approach. MAC’s initiative provides short-term and high-yield job trainings aimed to help Head Start/ Early Head Start parents move toward attaining living-wage jobs. This type of opportunity creates a pathway out of poverty for many families. The results are also correlated to child outcomes for those children whose parents participate in our 2 GEN initiatives.
Dr. Cynthia Croom, Executive Director of Metro Action, will present the results of MAC’s three-year 2Gen/Whole Family pilot, which includes participant and stakeholder experiences and outcomes as well as lessons learned by the agency. In addition to the presentation, three Head Start/Early Head Start parents from the last cohort, who are currently working in full-time internship positions, and leaders from two of the partnering agencies will be present to discuss their experience.
The Metropolitan Action Commission 2 Gen/Whole Family Initiative Evaluation Report-2019, which was conducted by a third-party evaluator, Thomas P. Miller and Associates, will be available to all registered participants at the conclusion.
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Resource Partnerships Matter: Funding A Whole Family Approach
2019-11-20 14:00 - 15:30
Because Money Matters, CAP agencies are seeking information and ideas to secure funding for their whole family programs. This webinar is designed to provide information on how to identify and successfully secure those resources.
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CSBG Annual Report: OMB Clearance
2019-11-15 13:00 - 14:30
Please join the National Community Action Partnership for this important webinar on the OMB Clearance for the CSBG Annual Report. The Partnership has been gathering input from the CSBG Network regarding the changes noted in Module 1 that OCS is requesting feedback on. This webinar will cover the proposed changes, the Partnership’s perspective, and the letter being drafted for sign-on prior to the December 1st comment deadline.
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Pathways to Excellence: The Community Action Journey to Organizational Excellence
2019-11-13 14:00 - 15:30
Join this webinar to learn about Pathways to Excellence, the Partnership’s organizational capacity building initiative. This session will provide an overview of the Standards of Excellence and the Pathways self-study process as well as introduce new components and upcoming opportunities. The Standards of Excellence are a set of thirty-five best-in-class CAA practices with the Pathways self-study offering the opportunity to assess where your agency is compared to each Standard. A peer review and comprehensive feedback report is provided to each agency completing the self-study.
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CCAP - Candidate Data Form (CDF)
2019-11-06 14:00 - 15:30
Completing the Candidate Data Form (CDF) is the first step in the process of becoming a Certified Community Action Professional (CCAP). It is in a formatted for you to document your learning and experiences in the field of Community Action. In this webinar you can explore the parts of the CDF in great detail. You will gain valuable insights on how you can complete your own first step toward national recognition as a CCAP.
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Racial Equity and the Whole Family Approach
2019-10-30 14:00 - 15:30
We know from a growing body of research that engaging clients in a whole family approach creates better outcomes for parents and their children. Yet despite increased efforts in this work, families of color continue to face particular structural and institutional barriers to opportunity and well-being. Join us on October 30 to engage in a conversation on the impacts of a whole family approach and how this approach can serve as a promising practice for moving our communities of color closer to well-being.
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Solar Power as a Social Enterprise: An Opportunity to Attract Investment to Your Community
2019-10-24 13:00 - 14:30
For those who were unable to attend a similar workshop at the Partnership’s Annual Convention, this webinar will explore the value that Cap Solar, a subsidiary of Greater Bergen Community Action, has brought to their solar clients through innovative financing and corporate structures driven by their mission to bring affordable energy to those who need it the most. Through their success, Cap Solar has been given access to several closed funds to build non-profit solar, especially in Qualified Opportunity Zones. Attendees will learn how to gain access to this funding and have Cap Solar assist them through every stage of the process to build local solar projects to enhance their community mission.

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Upcoming Webinar on WAP Subgrantee Customer Service Survey
2019-10-23 13:00 - 14:30
The 2019 American Customer Service Index survey results are in! Join the Department of Energy for this webinar as they provide an overview of the results. You may recall this survey asked Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) subgrantees to provide their opinions on multiple dimensions of how their respective State grantee is conducting the WAP. All responses remained anonymous, and the CFI Group provided DOE WAP with aggregated data. Going forward, discussion will focus on changes in scores compared to the 2017 survey and updating Grantee Action Plans for 2020 and beyond.

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Certified Community Action Professional (CCAP) Orientation
2019-10-16 14:00 - 15:30
In this webinar, you can learn about the basics of the national Certified Community Action Professional program (CCAP), who it is for, how it is organized and the steps in the process of becoming a CCAP. When you finish the webinar you will better understand how CCAP can fit into your professional future as a leader in Community Action.
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The Belly Button Rule of Good Process Management
2019-10-16 14:00 - 15:30
This webinar provides information on how good process management practices fit into the ROMA performance management methodology. A ROMA Implementer from CAP of Central Illinois will discuss where process is introduced as part of service/activity development and how process effectively incorporates accountability principles into the daily operations of performance driven organizations.
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Implementing ROMA Curriculum Showcase
2019-09-30 14:00 - 15:30
Join the Association of Nationally Certified ROMA Trainers and the Organizational Standards Center of Excellence on Monday, September 30, for the launch of the Implementing ROMA curriculum to complement the ROMA Next Generation Training Series. This webinar will share:

Curriculum contents;
Training components; and
Options for utilization.

Presenters: Barbara Mooney (ANCRT), Courtney Kohler (NCAP), Jarle Crocker (NCAP)
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Implementing ROMA Curriculum Showcase
2019-09-30 14:00 - 15:30
Join the Association of Nationally Certified ROMA Trainers and the Organizational Standards Center of Excellence on Monday, September 30th for the launch of the Implementing ROMA curriculum to complement the ROMA Next Generation Training Series. Curriculum contents, components, and options for utilization will be shared.
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Empowering Your Board to Lead: Resources for Board Training and Orientation
2019-09-26 14:00 - 15:30
Board members, whether seasoned or recently elected to the board, need tools equipping them to take on the responsibilities of overseeing a Community Action Agency (CAA)’s operations and programs. This webinar will spotlight the following resources, developed by CAPLAW in collaboration with the Community Action Partnership: (1) two annotated presentations on tripartite board roles and responsibilities—one for public CAAs and the other for nonprofit CAAs—that state CSBG offices, state associations, and CAAs can use to train and orient their boards and staff; and (2) a series of four guides that help boards of CAAs with Head Start programs implement specific governance requirements that overlap between the CSBG Organizational Standards and the Head Start Performance Standards (board composition, written democratic selection procedures, conflict of interest policies, and board required actions). The webinar will discuss the intended audience of each resource, its role within an overall board training strategy, and how to use the resource effectively.
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Fundamentals of Financial Capability, Human-Centered Design & Racial Economic Inequality
2019-09-25 14:00 - 15:30
Please join us on for a discussion with Prosperity Now’s Jennifer Medina and Brick by Brick Consulting’s Shenell Thompson on the fundamentals of financial capability, human-centered design and racial economic inequality. During this webinar, you will:

Review the core components of financial capability and reflect on how your organization is supporting families in becoming more financially secure.
Become familiar with the human-centered design process and reflect on how it compares to your organization’s current approach to serving clients.
Learn about racial economic inequality in the United States and reflect on how current and historical policies and practices create disparities for households of color.

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Community Level Work Service: Performance Management and Community Level Performance - Traumatic Stress and CED as Case Studies
2019-09-19 14:00 - 15:30
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Google Nest – Discounts on Thermostats for Low Income Households
2019-09-19 14:00 - 15:30
Google Nest is working to address the high energy burdens that affect so many in the communities we serve. Through the Power Project, they are committed to making one million of the Nest Thermostat E available at reduced pricing to low-income home energy programs. That discount is available to any organization that addresses the energy needs of low- and moderate-income households – including those of you administering the Weatherization Assistance Program, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and/or affordable housing programs. Serj Berelson, Manager for Energy Regulatory Affairs, Google Home/Nest Products, will be sharing more details about how you can take advantage of this opportunity, so don’t miss out!
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Building Credit for Your Renters: How to Report Rent Payments to the National Credit Bureaus
2019-09-18 14:00 - 15:30
Reporting rental payments is a proven strategy that offers low-income renters an opportunity to build credit as a financial asset without taking on additional debt. This webinar will feature, Talia Kahn-Kravis, from the Credit Builders Association, who will discuss the CBA-Esusu Rent Reporter platform, a tool CAAs that own and manage rental housing property can use to help their renters build their credit scores by reporting their rent payments to the three national credit bureaus
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Social Media Webinar
2019-09-16 14:00 - 15:30
Join us for an overview of the many resources available to support your CAA’s social media presence. Find out how to use Facebook and Twitter to promote your events and programs. Staff from West Virginia Community Action Partnership will share their tips for social media engagement and ways the network could benefit from using social media.
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Community Level Work Service: Housing Construction Job Training
2019-09-11 15:00 - 16:30
Learn how the Community Action Program of Lancaster, Pennsylvania is meeting the housing needs of their community by training a construction crew of formerly incarcerated individuals.
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Demystifying Data Analysis
2019-09-11 14:00 - 15:30
Simple analysis techniques and stories from local CAAs will be shared to help agencies get started with a plan for undertaking the evaluation phase of the ROMA Cycle. Elements of a data-centric agency will be reviewed along with ideas about what is needed to have good data. Key items to be included in data collection, aggregation and analysis policies and procedures will be discussed. Examples of putting analysis of data to work during decision making will demonstrate how to USE data for program improvement.
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2019 Annual Convention
2019-08-28 - 2019-08-30
The Annual Convention is designed to provide Community Action professionals and board members with the latest in policy and programmatic updates, as well as management and governance tools.
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Census 2020 and Community Action
2019-08-21 14:00 - 15:30
The Census is a critical process that affects us all. Census data is used to apportion representation among states, draw congressional and state legislative districts, school districts and voting precincts, enforce voting rights and civil rights legislation, and distribute federal dollars to states (including CSBG, Head Start, Weatherization and many more!). Community Action is playing a key role in making sure that every person is counted! This session will showcase Community Action’s role in ensuring that Hard-To-Count people and communities are included in the Census, and offer concrete tools and training to help front-line staff maximize Census participation.
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