National CAP

NCAP Strategic Plan — Overview & Listening Session
2023-01-05 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
You spoke, we listened. Thank you to all who provided feedback for the development of NCAP’s updated strategic plan through surveys, focus groups, and listening sessions. Join us during for one of the below webinars for the unveiling of NCAP’s strategic plan. Don’t miss this opportunity for a first look at the NCAP’s roadmap over the next 3-5 years.
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NCAP Policy Platform National Listening Session
2022-12-13 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
NCAP is hosting a national listening session to receive final feedback on the 2023-2024 Public Policy Platform. Over the past five months, we have conducted listening sessions on specific policy topics. This national session will cover all policies in the current platform and allow the Network to provide feedback on the full platform.
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Learning Communities Resource Center Kick-Off
2022-12-07 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
The Learning Communities Resource Center (LCRC) is an innovation hub funded by the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) that works with Community Action Agencies to identify effective and promising practice models that combat the causes and conditions of poverty. During this webinar we will discuss upcoming events, resources, and ways to get involved with the next cycle of learning communities. Upcoming focus topics will include Achieving Equitable Outcomes for Families and Exploring Tribal Partnerships. Join us to learn more!
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Harnessing Executive Skills for Goal Achievement - Part 2
2022-11-29 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
In part 2 of “Harnessing Executive Skills for Goal Achievement”, New Moms, Inc. commits to applying an Executive Skills approach that builds the foundation of healthy brain architecture and future success for families. This webinar highlights environmental modifications needed to remove barriers to goal achievement and progression, which is essential to agencies pursuing a Whole Family Approach. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of their executive skills profile and how to use coaching sessions to define goals and monitor progress. Missed part 1 of “Harnessing Executive Skills for Goal Achievement”? Check it out here!
Our partners at New Moms, Inc. has also provided a few resources in preparation of “Harnessing Executive Skills for Goal Achievement” – Part 2. Want to know what Executive Skills you have? Take the Executive Skills Questionnaire to find of which of the 12 brain-based abilities you use every day to manage your life and achieve your goals. Now that you know your Executive Skills, Executive Skills Definitions and Activity Worksheet to explore more!
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Using 2022 Performance to Inform 2023 Goals: Moving Towards Excellence
2022-11-02 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
With 2023 just around the corner, now is the perfect time to evaluate your organization’s progress to inform agency goals and priorities for the new year. Partnership staff will review dynamic tools and processes you can use to reflect on organizational performance in 2022 to inform action in 2023, including through the Community Action Standards of Excellence and organizational assessment tools available to the Community Action network. Join this webinar to learn more about these great tools and resources, and the 2023 Pathways to Excellence cohort opportunities you can use to move your agency practices towards excellence.
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Harnessing Executive Skills for Goal Achievement
2022-10-26 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Everyone has Executive Skills, the 12 brain-based abilities that govern how we organize, react, and get things done. In this session, participants will learn what Executive Skills are, how they develop, why they matter for goal achievement, and how to integrate Executive Skills strategies into family engagement. Participants will identify their own Executive Skills, learning how to leverage those skills to improve and accelerate their own goal progression in their work, as well.
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Multifamily Weatherization: Opportunities and Challenges
2022-10-20 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
ICAST is a national 501c3 non-profit organization that specializes in retrofitting multifamily affordable housing properties. As a Weatherization Assistance Subgrantee, ICAST has helped Community Action Agencies, WAP subgrantees and State Weatherization Administrators tackle multifamily weatherization projects. ICAST was also recently awarded an Enhancement and Innovation Grant by the Department of Energy to help state administrators and WAP subgrantees target multifamily properties.
This session will cover the challenges to utilizing WAP funding on multifamily units including:

Technical and Logistical Challenges: Different modeling/audit requirements, different contractor skill sets etc.
Programmatic Challenges: Securing cost share from owners, income qualification guidelines, the split incentive and working with multiple stakeholders (property owner, property manager, low-income client etc.)
Experience Challenges: Has the state administrator been working with DOE on multifamily WAP projects, is there a streamlined reporting/project methodology? Do you know how to target and outreach to multifamily properties, as well as perform follow up education, rather than have them come to you?

The session will also cover opportunities for working with multifamily housing including:

Leveraging Additional Funding
Serving more households
Serving highly disadvantaged/underserved groups such as low income disabled individuals, seniors and people of color which disproportionately live in multifamily housing

Learning Objectives:

Learn how to target multifamily properties which will be receptive to WAP
Learn how to better talk about and secure cost share
Learn about the resources available to help work with multifamily properties

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NCAP Head Start Forum: Workforce Challenges
2022-10-20 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
Head Start and Early Head Start programs within Community Actions Agencies are facing unique workforce challenges. Join the National Community Action Partnership Head Start Task Force and CAPLAW for a forum to discuss the workforce issues facing CAA Head Start/EHS programs, potential solutions, and next steps. The forum will be focused on feedback from CAA Executive Directors and Head Start/EHS Directors and Staff, but all Community Action Network members are welcome.
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Financial Empowerment Resource Roundup
2022-10-19 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
NCAP partner, Prosperity Now, works to build a just and equitable economy where families and communities have the power to build and sustain generational wealth. Join NCAP for an overview of the tools and resources available to help families and communities thrive, and an introduction to how Community Action Agencies can utilize these tools in their work to not only equip and empower families for economic recovery, growth, and development, but also to impact policy and advocate for economic justice at the systemic level.
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Public CAA Convening
2022-10-13 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
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!
This session will focus on Community Needs Assessments (CNAs). Come prepared with your questions, ideas, and insights!
*** NOTE: This session is specifically for public Community Action Agencies (i.e. Community Action Agencies within a local government entity, in contrast to a nonprofit or private CAA).
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New Weatherization Technologies and Processes
2022-10-13 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Join the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to learn about new technologies and processes that can help grow the impact of WAP and improve implementation for staff both in the office and in the field. Building from the 2022 Continuous Improvement Workshops, this session will address topics such as new workforce development and training technology resources that are available to the weatherization network, digital tools to facilitate work in the field, and software and tools for program administration. This is also an opportunity to share how your agency is innovating and finding success in these areas with DOE and the weatherization network more broadly.
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System Transformation through Community Leadership: Moving Upstream Together
2022-10-12 14:00 - 15:15 UTC
Our webinar, Systems Transformation for Community Leadership: Moving Upstream Together, in partnership with Chapin Hall will provide an opportunity for Community Action Agency leaders to hear about the demand and need for systems to more fully collaborate with community partners.
Chapin Hall’s Equity Bulletins coincide with the nation’s growing recognition that continuing to build and resource existing system infrastructure is not likely to result in better outcomes for families. Redesigning these systems and the family user experience is possible only if communities can carefully and thoughtfully engage systems differently.
During the webinar, we will hold up what Chapin Hall learned about prior efforts to engage community partners in systems change, and then have an open and authentic conversation about what’s possible and how we can get there.
Panel:

Denise Harlow, CEO, National Community Action Partnership
Bryan Samuels, Executive Director, Chapin Hall
Sue Gallagher, Chief Innovation Officer, Children’s Services Council of Broward County
Liz Kuoppala, Executive Director, MAHUBE-OTWA Community Action Partnership, Inc.
Tiffney Marley, Senior Vice President, National Community Action Partnership
Mark McDaniel, Policy Fellow, Chapin Hall
James Green, Director, Palm Beach County Community Services

For more information on Chapin Hall’s Equity Bulletins and strategies for building effective partnerships with Black and Brown communities, check out Chapin Hall’s Systems Transformation page.
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Community Action Conversations: Water Accessibility & Affordability
2022-10-06 15:30 - 17:00 UTC
In June, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to release a comprehensive new Water Affordability Advocacy Toolkit, designed to help local groups advocate to legislators, policymakers, and utilities for more affordable drinking water and/or wastewater systems. The National Coalition for Legislation and Education on Affordable Water recently released a new documentary film — Whose Water? The People’s Movement for Safe, Affordable Water and Sanitation in the United States — that tells the stories of community members organizing for access to safe and affordable water and sanitation. In this session, panelists will preview the film and the toolkit, share their experiences developing these materials, and discuss the future of water advocacy around the country.
Panelists

Oliva Wein, National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)
Larry Levine, Sierra Club
Cynthia Zwick, Wildfire AZ
Briana Parker, Elevate Energy

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Community Action Conversation: LIHEAP & Community Solar Case Study
2022-09-28 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
The Illinois Solar For All program offers low-income community solar subscriptions with guaranteed bill savings and robust consumer protections. A pilot partnership between one state-approved vendor and three community action agencies is delivering bill savings to LIHEAP clients and paying the CAA’s for their time. The agencies are pleased with the outcomes so far, and the vendor hopes to expand the model to other states. Representatives will discuss the development of this program, their work with utilities and regulators, lessons learned and potential next steps.
Panelists:

Kathy Walk, CCAP, CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation
Mindy Browning, CCAP, Embarras River Basin Agency
Breann Titus, Community Action Partnership of Central Illinois
Lauren Barchi, Nexamp, Inc.

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DOE WAP Reporting Updates
2022-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Federal programs must receive OMB approval of data collection tools on a three year cycle. Reporting forms for the WAP formula program must be renewed by May 2023 (OMB Control No: 1910-5127). In previous webinars, DOE solicited feedback on potential new metrics stemming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Weatherization Readiness funding. In this webinar, co-hosted by NCAP and NASCSP for the entire WAP network, DOE staff will detail the latest developments in this arena.
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Advanced Weatherization Leveraging Skills Training With U.S. DOE
2022-09-14 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Weatherization Program Notice (WPN) 22-9 provides new detailed guidance on using leveraging funds under different circumstances. In this webinar, Lead Policy Advisor for Technical Operations, Derek Schroeder, will explain the mechanics of traditional braiding, and explain options for co-funding individual measures. Participants will learn when to include or exclude supplemental measures in the DOE energy audit, and how to deliver measures with an individual SIR of less than 1.0. Presenters will also explain how states can un-restrict LIHEAP WAP funds, modify landlord contribution requirements, and access a percentage of DOE WAP funds for building leveraging capacity.
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Expanding Diversion: Using Problem-Solving to Reduce Homelessness
2022-09-13 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, AT 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
Shelter diversion and problem-solving interventions play a critical role in reducing homelessness. Shelter diversion helps people experiencing a housing crisis to identify safe and appropriate alternatives to entering shelter or unsheltered homelessness. This intervention plays a critical role in reducing homelessness by lessening shelter demand, allowing scarce shelter resources to be preserved for those without safe alternatives. Problem-solving can also be used to help people exit homelessness or to preserve their housing, helping them avoid further housing instability and the trauma of homelessness. This webinar will dive deep into problem-solving and how it can be used for shelter diversion, assist people already experiencing homelessness, or those facing housing loss. Prior to joining the webinar, participants are encouraged to watch a recording of Targeting Homelessness Prevention to Those at Greatest Risk of Homelessness: Diversion Practice as this discussion will build on many of the tenets discussed there.
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National Partners Webinar on CARES Spending
2022-08-25 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Join the National Partners to Learn More About the Mortgage Assistance Information Memorandum and the Dear Colleague Letter for Expending CSBG CARES Funds.
This webinar will focus on the details of the CSBG-IM-2022-163 Mortgage Assistance and the CSBG – DCL- 2022-43 Expending CSBG CARES Funds FY 2022. Staff from OCS, CAPLAW, NASCSP, and NCAP will be available to provide guidance and respond to questions to equip CAA staff with the knowledge to successfully spend these valuable funds to help individuals, families, and communities respond to ongoing needs caused by the pandemic.
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Introduction to Sovereignty Training for Non-Native CAAs
2022-08-17 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Led by the Alliance for a Just Society (AJS) and the Native Organizers Alliance (NAO), this training will help lay the foundation for an understanding of Native Sovereignty. Join us as we recognize and acknowledge the land, history, and culture of Native Nations, work to address the inequities that continue to exist, and strengthen the relationship between Native and Non-Native Community Action leaders.
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Weatherization Workforce Development Spotlight: Using the Green Buildings Career Map to Attract Ambitious Candidates
2022-08-10 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
TIME: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
The Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s free Green Buildings Career Map is an interactive web-based tool that illustrates how today’s green jobs boom can create long-term career growth for workers entering this exciting field. The Map shows 55 different jobs in the green buildings and energy efficiency industry. The section on Residential & Multifamily Construction & Retrofitting includes Weatherization-related positions such as energy auditors, quality control inspectors, technicians and installers. Colorful graphics and photographs show users how an entry-level installer with a high school education can progress over time to become a commercial building maintenance worker or building performance diagnostician. Presenters will demonstrate how to navigate the Career Map and put it to use in your recruitment & retention efforts.
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Can I Use CSBG CARES Funds for Gift Cards?
2022-08-10 12:30 - 13:30 UTC
Attend this national webinar to learn the dos and don’ts of helping individuals and families recover from the pandemic by providing gift cards. NCAP, NASCSP, and CAPLAW staff will offer insights on how the program can be done properly and a local Community Action Agency will share how they have established a successful process for distributing gift cards throughout the pandemic.
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Increasing Seniors' Digital Literacy With Live AARP Classes
2022-08-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
TIME: 12 PM ET | 11 AM CT | 10 AM MT | 9 AM PT

**NOTE: Because this project is available in a select few states – IL, PA, NC, SC, GA, LA, TX, and AZ – only agencies from those states should attend this webinar. We hope to offer many more AARP webinars for everyone in the future!
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way we communicate and increased our reliance on technology to get things done. Naturally, it has also underscored the critical importance of digital literacy for older Americans, who may not be as comfortable accessing information and services online.
In this webinar presented in partnership with the AARP, we’ll discuss the AARP’s array of live online classes for seniors on topics including computers and technology, finance, wellness, fitness, and more. We’ll also give you and your agency insight into how best to weave these tools into your existing array of services.
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Salary CAP: Exploring Compensation and COLA for the Head Start Workforce in Community Action Programs
2022-08-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
The average salary of Community Action Agency jobs varies according to location, department, and job description as well as experience, skills, and education. All CAAs across the country work to foster pay equity and manage compensation costs, but how does this impact Head Start and Early Head Start staff–especially when they receive an administrative Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) or substantial increases in pay and other CAA staff do not? Join us to explore CAA compensation and benefits structure, current and future workforce needs, and what CAA and Head Start and Early Head Start leadership can do to attract and retain the most qualified employees.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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