Developing Your Case for Support

The Community Action Partnership, Community Economic Development project and the California/Nevada Community Action Partnership (Cal/Neva) have formed a joint venture to bring you an exciting, educational webinar series on “Sustaining ARRA Programs”.

The Community Economic Development (CED) program area of the Partnership serves as clearinghouse for information and action that advances the field of community economic development. The California/Nevada Community Action Partnership (Cal/Neva) is the member association of California and Nevada Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and other non-profit organizations that together serve over 4 million low income individuals each year. Together we will deliver an educational series that will enhance your knowledge funding sources, development plans and sustainability.

“Developing your Case for Support” is the first session in a series of 6 webinars to be hosted by Cal/Neva and the Partnership. Whether your organization is embarking on a capital campaign, preparing grant proposals or developing your annual fund materials, the Case for Support is the first critical element in your fundraising program. In this interactive workshop, we will learn the importance of the case and how it is used, list the key elements in a case for support, evaluate case statements and prepare an outline for your case statement.

Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE will lead the first webinar in the series of Sustaining ARRA Programs for Cal/Neva and the Partnership. Linda is one of fewer than one hundred professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation. In her seventeen years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns; helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and has trained more than 16,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt and most of the fifty United States, in all aspects of development.

To register click on the following link: http://cap.peachnewmedia.com.

Peach New Media will email all necessary information upon registration.

Call or email Stacy Flowers at 202-449-9784 with any questions.

REES Webinar: Tools to Get Started for Community Action Agencies Working With Racial Equity Outcomes

Racism persists because it is built into our institutions and it determines who gets a good education, who gets a job opportunity, and who has access to capital, health care and childcare. It continues to hurt and disadvantage Americans. Community Action can play a role in ending it. The seven projects in the Racial Equity and Economic Security (REES) initiative are using a racial equity lens to address the issues of race in new ways in their communities. In these webinars, they will be sharing their experiences and presenting how Community Action Agencies can work to dismantle racism. Major funding for the Partnership’s Racial Equity and Economic Security project is from The Ford Foundation.

• John Edwards, Jr., CCAP, is Chair of the Community Action Partnership Board and Executive Director of Northeast Florida Community Action Agency. The REES project at this agency uses the ROMA tools and ARRA funding to address African American male joblessness in a comprehensive way.

• Mary Virtue is the National Project Director for REES. She has recently written Advancing Racial Equity: Lessons for Philanthropy. This report is being disseminated by the Ford Foundation and through the Council on Foundation’s social justice project.

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REGISTER TODAY for the second REES webinar with John Edwards and Mary Virtue: Community Action Agencies Working With Racial Equity Outcomes

August 5, at 3-4 pm EDT https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/733749763

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Call or email Lil Dupree at 202-449-9775 with any questions.

 

The Partnership's Certified Community Action Professional (CCAP) is a self-paced learning program, developed and managed by our CCAP Commission on Community Action leaders, under the direction of Dr. Jim Lopresti. Becoming a CCAP is an excellent way to enhance a person's professional skills and knowledge base. Last year, 35 of our colleagues earned their CCAPs and more than 50 enrolled in this year's class. To learn more, sign up for this no-cost webinar scheduled for August 12th. THANKS TO DENISE HARLOW, CCAP, NYSCAA'S CEO for sponsoring this webinar.

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CCAP Overview

Join us for a Webinar on August 12

REGISTER NOW!

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/933538808

This webinar will provide attendees the opportunity to learn more about the Partnership's CCAP Program-Certified Community Action Professional. The presenter will be Jim Lopresti, the Director of the CCAP Program. He will walk folks through the enrollment process and the steps that lead to certification. In addition, Jim will take questions and we will have a CCAP on the phone to describe the process from the participant side.

Title: CCAP Overview

Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

 

 

Excellence Webinar: What are the Community Action Standards of Excellence?

The Standards of Excellence describe thirty-four of the very best practices of the very best Community Action Agencies. Developed and updated bi-annually with broad input from the Community Action network and partners, these Standards help answer the question: What does an excellent Community Action Agency look like? The bar is set exceedingly high, as excellence represents the very highest operational objectives for Community Action agencies. It is about striving for and seeking to stretch the limits of performance. It must be emphasized that compliance is not excellence: do not confuse these Standards with traditional compliance requirements, which generally represent operational minimums.

This webinar will go over the seven categories of the Standards, the process by which the Community Action Network participates in their updates, and how they were developed. Presenters include James Boyd, Excellence Consultant to the Partnership, and Lil Dupree, the Director of Training and Technical Assistance.

REGISTER TODAY for the first Excellence webinar with James Boyd and Lil Dupree
August 16, at 3-4pm EDT https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/830863531

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Call or email Lil Dupree at 202-449-9775 with any questions.

 

CED Webinar: Getting Great Grants

Are you tired of your board, your staff and your volunteers all telling you that getting grants is easy and what you need to do to raise money for your programs? Do you work hard and send that really good grant repeatedly to several foundations and wonder why you get refusals? Have you heard about the Foundation Center and GuideStar and researching 990s, but really don’t know where to start? If so, this webinar is for you. In this 90 minute session, we will talk about your agency’s needs that are fundable with grants; we will talk about researching potential grant funders; and finally, we will review an outline to write a great grant that gets funded.

Judith Snyder MPS, LSW
Judith has been in a fundraising capacity of some sort since 1983. She has worked at four colleges and universities — University of Louisville, Defiance College, University of Toledo, and Kent State University — and one nonprofit, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Kentuckiana. Her experience at those five nonprofits include: recruiting and working with volunteers to assist in fundraising efforts; stewardship and donor relations; annual fund phonathons with selected volunteers; annual fund mailings; development of a foundation and corporate relations office requiring substantial donor acquisition and extensive grant writing/proposal development of all types. She has worked on a limited basis with special events — the foundation of the fundraising pyramid — and with planned giving donors, the peak of the donor pyramid. Finally, she has extensive experience in the field of databases, including Raiser's Choice and Banner.

To register click on the following link: http://cap.peachnewmedia.com. Peach New Media will email all necessary information upon registration.

Call or email Stacy Flowers at 202-449-9784 with any questions.

Branding Webinar: The Community Action Brand and The Community Action Promise

The Community Action brand is the Promise and each day we must call the Promise into action. Every one of us should ask ourselves "What are we doing today to deliver the Community Action Promise?" Every document, each story that we tell should be an example of how Community Action delivers the Promise.

The Promise Makes Us Different
This is what makes us different. It is the Promise that brings us together and makes us a genuine brand. We are a national network like no other in the country. Even though our Community Action Partnerships may administer 50 or more different programs and services - all unique, all tailored to the specific needs of the community - we have this in common - the Community Action Promise! Our mission statement is what we DO. Our Promise is how we FEEL about what we do. The Promise helps to define us as a Community Action brand more than our CSBG funds and our tri-partite board system.

This webinar will offer tips, guidance and advice on how you can use Community Action branding to help tell your story and meet your mission. Avril Weisman, Executive VP at the Partnership will lead this exciting session.

REGISTER TODAY for the first Community Action Branding webinar with Avril Weisman
September 14, at 3-4pm EDT https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/429412186

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Call or email Lil Dupree at 202-449-9775 with any questions.

 

Excellence Webinar: Community Action Pathways to Excellence

Is your agency ready to move to the next level of excellence? Is your state interested in a capacity building strategy focused on excellence rather than mere compliance? If your organization is willing to undertake a rigorous, comprehensive, and diagnostic self-study and subsequent peer-expert review, you may want to enroll in the Pathways to Excellence. The Community Action Partnership’s Pathways to Excellence program is a process in which CAAs undertake a team-based and very detailed self-assessment of their policies and practices and compares them to the thirty-four Standards of Excellence, which emphasize the systemization of these best practices. Modeled closely after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Process, the Pathways initiative uses powerful and proven quality tools and resources to help CAAs become even stronger!

This webinar will go over the Pathways to Excellence program, how it works and how to get involved. Presenters include James Boyd, Excellence Consultant to the Partnership, and Lil Dupree, the Director of Training and Technical Assistance.

REGISTER TODAY for the second Excellence webinar with James Boyd and Lil Dupree https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/392162298

September 23, at 3-4pm EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Call or email Lil Dupree at 202-449-9775 with any questions.

 

CED Webinar - Mission Driven Earned Income

Mission-driven earned income can be a part of every nonprofit's revenue generation strategy. Earned income activities offer opportunities to expand the nonprofit's work in the community, secure unrestricted funds and reduce dependency on fickle funding sources. This workshop will help nonprofit leaders and consultants examine typical earned income opportunities, identify resources that will help test the feasibility of a concept and gain a better understanding of how an earned income strategy can change and improve the nonprofit organization.

Catherine Marshall
Catherine Marshall is a consultant to organizations that build the capacity of the nonprofit sector. Since 1982, Ms. Marshall has served nonprofits first as a volunteer and board member, then as a founder and executive director of her own nonprofit. For nearly ten years, she was the CEO of CAMEO, an association of nonprofits providing microenterprise development in California. Ms. Marshall has extensive entrepreneurial experience, operating her own businesses including a landscape business, consulting business and her nonprofit. She has over 8 years experience as an entrepreneur trainer and consultant helping hundreds of people in the San Francisco Bay Area achieve their American dream of entrepreneurship. This business experience has guided her work with nonprofits who seek to generate earned income. Ms. Marshall has been recognized for her innovative approach to nonprofit capacity building with the “peer learning cluster” method and recently facilitated a learning cluster of 10 Reno nonprofits developing earned income strategies. She also employs the One Page Business Plan® to help agencies craft their strategic plans or business plans. Catherine Marshall holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Organizational Psychology.

To register click on the following link: http://cap.peachnewmedia.com

Peach New Media will email all necessary information upon registration.

Call or email Stacy Flowers at 202-449-9784 with any questions.

A FOR-REAL OPPORTUNITY FOR FAME, NATIONAL RECOGNITION, CA$H & OTHER PRIZES!

TELL US ABOUT YOUR SUCCESSFUL WORK IN
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

YOUR 3 PAGE DESCRIPTION DUE ON JULY 30TH

Entrepreneurship! Innovation! Recognition!

Announcing the Inaugural Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award provided by the Community Action Partnership Community Economic Development Project! The award will honor Community Action Agencies for their outstanding leadership and innovative operations to create change in urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Imagine, a national award! Your hard work in community economic development will be recognized, honored and a role model for others. The Partnership’s Community Economic Development Exemplary Practice initiative has created an awards program to recognize novice (1-3 years) and veteran (3+ years) outstanding community economic development initiatives by Community Action Agencies in the eight (8) following categories:

1. Community Revitalization
2. Affordable Housing – Development and/or Rehabilitation
3. Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
4. Community Investment
5. Entrepreneurship Encouragement
6. Community Wealth Building
7. Job Creation Projects, Programs and Strategies
8. Green Jobs

THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS JULY 30!

Each recipient of the 2010 Entrepreneurship and Innovation award will receive:

1. An incentive will be offered to capture best practice data and success stories. The contract will be for the amount of $1500.

2. Airfare to Boston, MA, and accommodations for the Community Action Partnership Annual Convention, Aug. 31 – Sept. 2, 2010

3. Registration Fees for the Annual Convention

4. The agency and community economic development work will be honored at the Awards Gala Event in Boston, MA, Sept 2, 2010.

5. Feature story in The Promise magazine for the fall 2010 edition.

6. Feature and primary coverage on the new Community Economic Development website

7. Press release to your local media announcing the award.

How to submit award entries

1. Download the CAP Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award Packet or go to PartnershipCED.org

2. Review the award category descriptions and consider one or more entries from your CAA

3. Submit your application to Stacy Flowers via email at sflowers@communityactionpartnership.com by the July 30th deadline.

 

Roll Call is a politically-focused newspaper that's widely read and respected on Capital Hill. The Partnership is proud to be included in this ad which appeared in today's issue.

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128 endorsing organizations:

9to5, National Association of Working Women
A World Fit For Kids!
Action for Healthy Kids
Advocates for Better Children's Diets
Afterschool Alliance
Alliance to End Hunger
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
American College of Cardiology
American College of Sports Medicine
American Commodity Distribution Association
American Diabetes Association
American Dietetic Association
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
American Federation of Teachers
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
American Humane Association
American School Health Association
American Society of Bariatric Physicians
Association of State & Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors
Bread for the World
C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.
Camp Fire USA
Campaign to End Obesity
Catholic Charities USA
Center for Communications, Health & the Environment
Center for Law and Social Policy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Child and Family Policy Center
Child Nutrition Initiative
Child Welfare League of America
Children's Defense Fund
Children's HealthWatch
Church of the Brethren
Church Women United
Cities for Progress, Institute for Policy Studies
Coalition on Human Needs
Communications Workers of America

National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of La Raza
National Education Association
National Farm to School Network
National Farmers Union
National Indian Health Board
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
National Network for Youth
National Parent Teacher Association
National Recreation and Park Association
National Research Center for Women & Families
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
National WIC Association
National Women’s Law Center
Nemours
Obesity Action Coalition
Oral Health America
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association
Produce Marketing Association
ProMedica Health System
RESULTS
Revolution Foods
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
School Nutrition Association
Service Employees International Union
Shape Up America!
Share Our Strength
Society for Nutrition Education
Society for Public Health Education
Sodexo Foundation
The Episcopal Church
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
The United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Union for Reform Judaism
United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
United Fresh Produce Association
United Way Worldwide
USAction
Voices for America's Children
WhyHunger
Wider Opportunities for Women
Women of Reform Judaism
Zero to Three

 

Thanks to Carol Wayman and our great colleagues at CFED for their leadership on promoting child savings accounts. Visit the CFED website www.cfed.org and consider joining the Children's Savings Account Coalition.

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Senators Dodd (D-CT) and Schumer (D-NY) introduced the ASPIRE Act (S. 3577) in the Senate yesterday!

The bill authorizes savings accounts at birth for every child for education, homeownership or retirement. Click here for a summary. CFED congratulates the New America Foundation for its efforts to get the bill introduced.

We thank those of you have added your organization to the Children’s Savings Account Coalition.

To those who have not signed up to be a part of the coalition, we ask that you join.

The CSA Coalition seeks to ensure that all children are equipped with the infrastructure and incentives to acquire, increase and retain assets.

For more information, email Inemesit Imoh at iimoh@cfed.org, or call 202-207-0135.

 

 

Pay tribute to Community Action with an ad in the 2010 Annual Convention program book!

Celebrate your role in America’s poverty fighting network and
Community Action: The Power of Partnerships by sending special greetings to
your colleagues, honoring your CAA's partners, and highlighting the unique history of your CAA.

Ad deadline is July 23! Click here for the ad registration form and prices.

2010 Exhibitors Announced.Click here.

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To view or download the 2010 Annual Convention Brochure or the Registration form, click here.
To see a preliminary list of workshops, click here.

Hotel rooms are sold out at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. Rooms are available at the adjacent Westin Copley Place at the convention rate of $189.00 single or double.
To reserve, call 1(888) 627-7216.