RSS Feed CAPLAW Webinars and Audio Conferences To enable CAAs across the country to access high-quality training while minimizing travel costs, CAPLAW has conducted a number of web and audio conferences on topics. To order a recording, click the Buy Now button or fill out an order form and mail it to: CAPLAW, 178 Tremont st. 10th fl, Boston MA 0211. |
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| Upcoming Webinars |
There are currently no upcoming events Did you miss the CAA Dashboard webinar? View a recording of and materials from the January 17th webinar, Constructing a Community Action Agency Dashboard, on demand!
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| Archived Webinars and Audio Conference
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ARRA | Financial Management | Governance | Grant Law Head Start | Human Resources | Lobbying | Webinar Series Collections |
| ARRA |
Introduction to CSBG
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Davis-Bacon Update Topic: ARRA .......................................................................................................................... |
Internal Controls: Get Ready for the ARRA Spotlight Topic: ARRA
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Weatherization Stimulus Funding Topic: ARRA .......................................................................................................................... |
Solving the Davis-Bacon Payroll Puzzle and other Weatherization Matters Topic: ARRA
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Roadmap to Recovery Act Financial Compliance |
| Financial Management |
| NEW! Constructing a Community Action Agency Dashboard Presented by Michael Anderson, Nonprofits Assistance Fund Presented on January 17, 2012 Data can be overwhelming. Community Action Agencies, often to comply with funder requirements, build and manage complex financial recordkeeping systems that can result in information overload. An effective dashboard report distills data to some key measures and makes meaningful comparisons to benchmarks and goals. With greater clarity, organizational leaders can focus on the most relevant information to make strategic decisions. Topic: Financial Management View Recording | View PowerPoint .......................................................................................................................... |
Budget Builders: Who Does What? Why is it Important" Your budget may be the most important document your CAA will create this year. It will guide your use of resources and ensure your continuing capacity to deal with the daunting challenges of poverty in your community. Budget Builders will provide practical strategies to organize your annual budget development and approval process amidst uncertainty and ongoing financial stress. This new webinar will explore multiple approaches to obtain meaningful Board and staff input on key choices and build buy-in and support for the budget which emerges. Topic: Financial Management
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Agency-wide Budgeting: Counting Every Dollar Because Every Dollar Counts Presented by Dan Miller and Owen Heiserman, Meliora Partners An agency-wide budget helps a community action agency ensure that it has accounted for all the dollars in its fiscal year, and that all the dollars are in their proper place. Using a model agency-wide budget, participants will learn how to diagnose occurrences of duplicate funding of positions or expenses; identify the size and timing of funding gaps; establish “drop dead” timelines and contingency plans in case funding doesn’t materialize; highlight positions that may be vulnerable and the appropriate personnel actions that may be required; and use advance knowledge and planning to mitigate financial risk. Topic: Financial Management FREE!
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More than Math: The Board’s Role in Financial Oversight and Monitoring Many boards fail to recognize that although a CAA is a nonprofit, it also is a business. This in-depth session will emphasize why all CAA board members must focus on their CAA's finances if the board is to avoid problems and discharge its fiduciary duties. Webinar participants will explore who should lead the board discussion of financial statements, the roles that management and the finance committee should play, and what steps the board should follow as it reviews financial statements. More than Math is designed to give board members, who are not experts in finance or accounting, tools that enable them to participate in the discussion of their CAA’s financial issues. Topic: Financial Management FREE! View Recording | View PowerPoint .......................................................................................................................... |
Keys to Cost Effective Controls and Clean Audits – the COSO Internal Auditors use the COSO framework to understand and evaluate your internal controls. Learn how you can use the COSO framework to develop more cost effective controls and streamline the audit process. Spot old fashioned approaches to controls that may be wasting time and leaving your systems insufficiently protected from fraud in our electronic age. Explore new strategies to address the risks which emerge during periods of budget cutbacks and cash flow problems. Topic: Financial Management FREE! View Recording | View PowerPoint .......................................................................................................................... |
Right on the Money: OMB Circular A-122 Topic: Financial Management .......................................................................................................................... |
Effective Cost Allocation Strategies Topic: Financial Management .......................................................................................................................... |
Fundraising Strategies and Rules Topic: Financial Management .......................................................................................................................... |
How to Avoid Common Audit Problems Through Proper Preparation Topic: Financial Management .......................................................................................................................... |
Dealing Properly with Property |
| Governance |
NEW! Quality Improvement: The Payoff from Internal Controls Presented on September 14, 2011 This webinar will emphasize—analysis and corrective action—those parts of the quality improvement cycle that alter performance. Emphasis will be on illustrating how executive directors and program managers utilize internal control systems to define quality, assess performance, and target enhancement strategies. Management attention will be demonstrated as critical to the success of sound policies and procedures. Topic: Governance FREE!
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NEW! Tapping into the Time, Talent, and Treasure of the Tripartite Board Presented on September 7 , 2011 In this session, participants will learn why the CAA’s tripartite board structure is a powerful asset that can—and should—be developed and deployed for resource development, and how to discard the one-size-fits-all approach and discover ways to engage and inspire your board to serve as active ambassadors, informed advocates, and enthusiastic fundraisers. Topic: Governance FREE!
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Purposeful Planning: How to Focus Board & Staff Efforts to Guide Your CAA to Success Learn how to structure your planning processes to yield useful frameworks to guide financial, program, and leadership choices…and how to avoid unfocused, duplicative, unbearably long planning processes that drain resources and yield untouched doorstops. Join CAA Executive Directors, Fiscal Officers, Development Directors, and Board Leaders for this 90 minute interactive session to explore practical strategies to integrate your planning efforts to chart your course through the tough choices CAAs confront as community needs explode and public funding resources shrink. Topic: Governance FREE!
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Risk Management: An Organizational "Flu Shot" This webinar will illuminate the dimensions of risk that CAAs should consider on a regular basis. This session will highlight activities which integrate risk management, strategic planning, agency-wide budgeting, and performance improvement planning. Participants will walk through a risk management planning process, with examples from several experts. ISO 31000:2009, a new international risk management standard, will be examined. Participants will use a checklist to identify risk management practices they already use and others they should add to their planning processes. Topic: Governance FREE!
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Leadership Transition Strategies Filling nonprofit CEO and CFO positions is growing more challenging as the boomer generation begins its exodus from the nonprofit sector. While the recession has delayed some boomer exits, it has also created a new pool of applicants with high level corporate experience, opening new opportunities and pitfalls in transition planning, Explore new strategies to plan for leadership transition and create flexible opportunities for highly skilled professionals to provide transitional leadership. Topic: Governance .......................................................................................................................... |
501(c)(3) Fundamentals Topic: Governance .......................................................................................................................... |
CAA Bylaws Topic: Governance .......................................................................................................................... |
Tripartite Board Tips and Traps Topic: Governance
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| Grant Law |
Federal Grant Law |
| Head Start |
NEW! Head Start: Prepare for the New Renewal System The Office of Head Start recently issued final regulations outlining new procedures for renewal and recompetition of Head Start grants. Join CAPLAW for a 1½ hour webinar to learn about how the new “Designation Renewal System” will work, what criteria will trigger recompetition, and what your organization can do to prepare for the new system. Presenter: Anita Lichtblau, Esq., CAPLAW Presented on December 14, 2011 Topic: Head Start Format: Webinar
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Head Start Reauthorization Topic: Head Start Format: Audio Conference
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| Human Resources |
Health Care Reform: Prepare Now for 2011 Requirements Topic: Human Resources
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Complying with the New 403(b) Plan Rules Topic: Human Resources .......................................................................................................................... |
Legal issues in Working with Volunteers Topic: Human Resources .......................................................................................................................... |
Update on I-9 Form Employment Eligibility Verification Topic: Human Resources .......................................................................................................................... |
Revised IRS Form 990 Topic: Human Resources .......................................................................................................................... |
Recent Changes to the Americans With Disabilities Act |
| Lobbying |
Lobbying Legally & Effectively Involvement in public policy issues is a must for organizations working to improve the lives of low-income people. In this session, examine the rules that apply to lobbying by CAAs, Head Start programs, and 501(c)(3) organizations and find out how to advocate effectively within those rules. Topic: Lobbying Part of the Back to Basics for CAA Series
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| Webinar Series Collections |
| Beyond the Basics Webinar Series This in-depth nine-session webinar series will help executive directors, financial officers, fundraisers, program managers, and board members work together to adopt a pro-active and solutions-driven approach to the risks, compliance demands, and financing challenges CAAs face today. Topic: Varies Format: Webinar FREE! |
