 CALLING ALL CCAPs AND CCAP CANDIDATES!!
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If you have not already done so, please click here for the CCAP Lunch reservation form. CCAPs and CCAP candidates are invited to attend the Annual CCAP Luncheon at the Partnership's Annual Convention at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis on Wednesday, August 26, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm. The cost of the luncheon is $65.00 per person.
Highlights of the luncheon include:
1. Presentation of Honorary CCAP to John Buckstead, former CEO of the Partnership, and a "Founding Father" of Community Action.
2. Annual Recertification of CCAPs.
3. Presentation of CCAPs Emeriti to CCAPs who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to Community Action and the CCAP program.
4. Updating on CCAP program, and networking with fellow CCAPs from across the country.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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 SAFELINK: A BENEFIT FOR THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AND CAAS
WEBINAR ON JULY 22
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Have you heard about SafeLink, but aren't sure how to provide it to your clients? Join the SafeLink team Wednesday, July 22nd at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT for a webinar to learn more about the SafeLink program including how you can enroll your clients and earn money for your agency at the same time.
REGISTER HERE
SafeLink provides eligible individuals the opportunity to apply for a free cell phone with free monthly minutes through the Federal Lifeline program. SafeLink is currently available in 39 states as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. Some of the benefits of SafeLink for your program participants include use in an emergency and assistance in seeking and retaining employment by having the ability to communicate with employers. Additionally, SafeLink provides you with a mechanism to reach your clients should you need. Finally, as Community Action Partnership member you are eligible for compensation for successful enrollment. SafeLink has restructured the commission payments for those approvals received through the efforts of CAAs (see below).
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1-30
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$10.00
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Join us on July 22nd to learn more about the new commission structure and how your agency can participate. Along with providing background information this webinar will be an opportunity to ask questions.
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GET TO KNOW UST: FIND OUT HOW THEY FOUND $5. MILLION IN
SAVINGS FOR NONPROFITS
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Is your organization a 501c3? Are there 10 or more full-time employees? If you answered yes to both questions, be sure to check out the Unemployment Services Trust (UST), a valued partner of the Community Action Partnership. As allowed by Federal law, UST is an alternative to paying state unemployment taxes just for nonprofits. Want to know how?
Watch their one-minute informational video to discover how UST has been helping nonprofits reduce their unemployment costs since 1983.
And be on the lookout for their upcoming mail, which will give you the chance to benchmark your organization's unemployment costs. Don't want to wait to find out if you're overpaying for unemployment taxes? You can fill out a free Savings Evaluation today. Use Priority Code 2015CAP-E to expedite your request.
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TWO ARTICLES OF INTEREST FROM NONPROFIT QUARTERLY
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Facebook Gives Users the Power to Control Their Own News Feeds
July 9, 2015; Tech Crunch
" Facebook recently announced that the network would be giving social media users the power to control and coordinate what people and organizations fill up their News Feeds. The new preference settings will allow readers to prioritize the friends and Pages that show up at the top of their News Feeds, giving Facebook users flexibility to personalize their experience on the network once again."
Click here to read the article.
USDA Study: Rural Philanthropy Still an Underfunded Afterthought
June 2015; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
"At Nonprofit Quarterly, the research staff available to an individual writer is that writer himself or herself alone. To do real investigative work, you need funding, and that is a rarity in journalism nowadays. Most nonprofit journals can't redeploy writers from their daily responsibilities and put together a team to do detailed, research-based investigative work unless they have regular backing like the philanthropic wealth of the Sandler family that supports ProPublica or the Knight Foundation, which backs a number of local nonprofit news outlets, albeit none dedicated to covering the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. For that reason, it makes us feel just a tiny bit proud to see the various articles on rural philanthropic grantmaking that NPQ has published over the years, suggesting to no one's surprise that rural was getting the short end of the stick, validated by a new research report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture."
Click here to read the article
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SHARE YOUR STORY WITH NUTRITIONAL ASSISTANCE
WIN AN ALL EXPENSES-PAID TRIP TO DC TO SHARE YOUR MESSAGE
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TalkPoverty.org has launched a campaign to educate policymakers about the important of protecting nutrition programs for struggling families. How many clients does your agency serve that utilize nutrition assistance in order to maintain their nutrition and be able to put resources towards reaching self-sufficiency?
This is an opportunity for their voice to be heard. Participant's stories will be published and distributed to Members of Congress and four participants will be invited to DC to share their message personally. Talk with those you know about sharing their story today. View the campaign rules and guidelines here.
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DOL PROPOSED OVERTIME REFORMS AND THE IMPACT ON NONPROFITS
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"The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed sweeping new regulations designed to expand overtime protections for millions of workers employed by nonprofits, for-profits, and governments. The draft regulations, which will not go into effect (if at all) until after a period of public comment and analysis, would more than double the minimum salary level that white-collar employees must be paid (from $23,660 to $50,400) to exempt them from overtime pay of time and half of wages for hours worked in excess of 40 in any week. The Labor Department is also proposing raising the minimum salary level for "highly compensated employees" from $100,000 to over $120,000 per year, and seeking comments on whether the government should establish a mechanism for automatically raising these salary levels in the future."
CLICK HERE To read the full story
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2 PART WEBINAR SERIES ON RISK ASSESSMENT PROCESS
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July 23 and August 13
2:00 ET/1:00 CT/12:00 MT/11:00 PT
Are you concerned with how to get started with COE-developed CSBG Organizational Standard 4.6 "An organization-wide, comprehensive, risk assessment has been completed within the past 2 years and reported to the governing board"? Once you have completed a risk assessment, do you know what the next steps are?
Join Community Action Partnership and the Nonprofit Risk Management Center for a two part webinar series to think about the process around using the online risk assessment tool. Learn about how to initiate a risk assessment, what staff should participate, likely documents and preparation work to have on hand, and how to organize the follow-up process.
These webinars are free, but pre-registration is required. You may sign up for one or both of the webinars, though it is suggested that you attend both. These webinars are spaced a few weeks apart so that you could learn about the process in July, begin your risk assessment between the webinars, and ask specific follow-up questions in August.
Register here today!
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WIPFLI NONPROFIT AND GOVERNMENT UPCOMING EVENTS
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August 24-25, 2015
OMB's New Uniform Guidance
Community Action Partnership Annual Convention
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
San Francisco, CA
Registration Fee:
Cost for Community Action Partnership members are as follows:
* $625 per participant registering on or before July 27, 2015. (Partnership Members must use the promo code CAPSF* when registering or they will be charged the regular early bird rate of $645)
* $795 (regular registration fee) per participant registering after July 27, 2015.
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 The PRELIMINARY LIST OF SESSIONS is available now, click here.
The CONVENTION BROCHURE is available to download, click here.
To download the REGISTRATION form, click here.To register online, click here. _________________________________________________________________
 CONVENTION OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SUSAN BALESSusan Nall Bales is founder and President of the FrameWorks Institute, and a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She has lectured at Pitzer College, and served as a visiting scholar at Brandeis University's Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management. She is a contributing member of the National Scientific Council at Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child. She is also a Visiting Scholar in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
A veteran communications strategist and issues campaigner, she has more than 30 years of experience researching, designing and implementing campaigns on social issues. She is the author of numerous articles on public opinion and media published by Sage Publications, the Zero to Three Bulletin, Society for Research on Child Development and the Center for Research on Children. Most recently, she is co-author of the monograph Communications for Social Good, published by the Foundation Center. Her work has been presented at colloquia and lectures at Brandeis, Yale, Rice and Harvard Universities, and at the White House.
WORKSHOP UPDATES
 * Evaluating and Improving Complex Programs with Lee Schorr
This session will identify effective interventions among discrete, well-defined programs that can be held constant over time and place. Additionally it will explore approaches for complex, multifaceted and systematic interventions, such as place-based, policy or systems reform efforts. Also, the effectiveness factors (i.e. the essential elements) across proven and promising interventions will be highlighted. Finally, strategies for documenting short-term and ongoing progress towards achieving outcomes used for funders for accountability purposes and implementers to guide continuous learning and improvement will be presented.  * Your Money, Your Goal Train-the-Trainer CAAs across the country are using the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's "Your Money, Your Goals" financial empowerment toolkit. This four-hour, interactive training will equip you to train staff and volunteers in your agency to use the information and tools in this modular toolkit to help clients set and plan for financial goals; manage income, spending, cash flow, and debt; understand credit; choose financial products that meet their needs; and protect their money.
PRE-CONVENTION ACTIVITIES
- To register for Wipfli's OMB's New Uniform Guidance on August 24-25, click here.
- To register for Monday's Pathways Peer Review Training, click here.
- To register for Tuesday's Emerging Leaders, New Executive Director's Training, of Veteran Executive Director Training, click here.
- For Community Service day. SOLD OUT - Check at the registration desk for cancellations.
Overflow Hotel AvailableOur room block at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis is full. We have secured a limited number of guest rooms for our Community Action block at: Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, 299 2nd Street, San Francisco 94105. The room rate is $279.00. It's a 7-10 minute walk to the Marquis. Please click here or call 1 (800) 321-2211 or (415) 947-0700 and identify yourself as part of the Community Action Partnership Overflow Group Block. An additional Overflow Hotel, just a 5 minute walk from the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, is the Villa Florence Union Square, 225 Powell Street. Room rate: $225.00 Single/Double. Please call: 1-888-758-4668 and ask for the Community Action Partnership block.
On-line REGISTRATION for the Annual Convention is now available , click here.
Go out to the ballgame! We just secured a limited number of tickets, so sign up now or check at the registration desk.
Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco Giants,
Tuesday, August 25 at 7:15 pm.
The $40 ticket price includes special Community Action
at the ballpark t-shirt and ballcap.
Get the Registration Form here
For exhibitor, sponsorship, and advertising information, please click here.
Click on this link for registration and more information!
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