Audio Conferences

Now Available!

CAPLAW's Head Start Reauthorization audio conference CD's

If you happened to miss the audio conference, but would like to purchase a CD recording of it, simply click here to fill out our order form and email it to hunt@caplaw.org.  CD’s are $85.00 for members and $100.00 for non-members.

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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 including:

      • Head Start Reauthorization *
      • Tripartite Board Tips and Traps *
      • Conflicts of Interest
      • CAA Bylaws *
      • Fundraising Strategies and Rules *
      • Federal Grant Law
      • Federal Fair Labor Standards Act
      • Legal issues in Working with Volunteers *
      • Dealing Properly with Property
      • Taking Leave and Leave-Taking*'
      • Union Issues
      • Wage and Hour Laws

* A recording of this audio session is available. If you are interested in purchasing the recording along with the available materials for this audio conference session, please click here to fill out an order form and email it to Bridgette Hunt at hunt@caplaw.org.

 

      • Legal Training Workshops

CAPLAW presents on varying topics pertinent to Community Action Agencies at workshops across the country and throughout the year, ranging from Board and Nonprofit Governance and Fundraising to Lobbying and Political Issues. Workshops can be tailored to your individual organization’s conference. For more information, please contact CAPLAW at (617) 357- 6915 or at caplawinfo@caplaw.org.

Upcoming Workshops

National Association of State Community Services Programs (NASCSP) Mid-Winter Conference - Washington, DC, January 30-February 1, 2008

 

Recent Workshops

Community Action Partnership 2008 Winter Management & Leadership Training Conference - New Orleans, LA, January 11, 2008 - Excellence in Governance: Focus on Bylaws.

CAPLAW Audio Conference, December 20, 2007 - Head Start Reauthorization

Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies 2007 Winter Conference - Tulsa, OK, December 12-13, 2007 - Bylaws Briefing and Board Best Practices for Oklahoma CAAs and Keep It Legal: CAPLAW Legal Liability Audit for Oklahoma CAAs

Tennessee Association of Community Action Agencies 2007 Annual Conference - Nashville, TN, November 27, 2007 - CAA Board Requirements and Political Activity and Lobbying: Playing by the Rules

Community Action Association of Pennsylvania 2007 Annual Conference - Harrisburg, PA, October 24-26, 2007 - The Political Game: Do's and Don'ts

Northeast Institute for Quality Community Action CAA Staff Professional Development Conference - Sturbridge, MA, October 18, 2007 - HR Policies and Practices Risk Management Tune Up

Southeastern Association of Community Action Agencies Conference - Myrtle Beach, SC, October 9-12, 2007 - Effective  CAA Advocacy

Washington State Community Action Partnership Retreat - Chelan, WA, October 3-5, 2007 - Keeping it Legal: CAA Accountability from the Legal Perspective

Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Audio Conference - October 2, 2007 - Yes! You Can Lobby - and Here's How

Colorado Community Action Agencies Region 8 & 10 2007 Conference - Steamboat Springs, CO, September 24-27, 2007 - Keep Your Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Legal and Volunteer Law

CAPLAW Audio Conference, September 20, 2007 - Tripartite Board Tips and Traps

NASCAP 2007 Conference - Boise, ID, September 19, 2007 - Developing and Monitoring Tripartite Boards

Community Action Partnership Conference - San Diego, CA, August 28-31, 2007 - Keeping it Legal:CAA Accountability from the Legal Perspective and Lobbying and Political Activity: The Rules of the Road

Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs Executive Directors Conference - San Antonio, TX, August 1-3, 2007 - Getting on Board - A Look at Governance Best Practices for CAAs.

 

      • Training and Technical Assistance Projects
 

CAPLAW has recently collaborated with state Community Action associations and state CSBG offices on several innovative projects designed to enhance the legal accountability and governance practices of Community Action Agencies, update compliance with legal requirements, and decrease the risk of legal liability. In all of these projects, we have worked with in-state members of the CAPLAW Attorney Network to bring the best of both CAPLAW’s expertise in national legal issues critical to CAAs and the knowledge of state law and experience of local attorneys in representing individual CAAs. The projects include:

 

  • CAA Bylaws Projects – CAPLAW Associate Counsel Eleanor Evans is working with attorney Cheryl Vaught of the Oklahoma City law firm Vaught & Conner, PLLC, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies to provide training on CAA bylaws best practices and to review the bylaws of each Oklahoma CAA.

Ms. Evans has also recently worked with Missouri attorney Michael Madsen, the Missouri Association for Community Action and the Missouri Department of Social Services to provide training on CAA bylaws best practices and to review the bylaws of each Missouri CAA.

  • Legal Liability Audit Projects – CAPLA W Executive Director/General Counsel Anita Lichtblau recently worked with attorney Joel Kaleva and his Montana law firm, Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, PLLP to assist Montana CAAs in conducting the CAPLAW Legal Liability Audit. Each audit focused on particular issues of interest to the individual CAA.  The project was coordinated by the Montana HRDC Directors’ Association with assistance from the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services. 

 

Ms. Lichtblau has also recently worked with Lana Ross, Executive Director of the Iowa Community Action Association and members of the association’s board of directors, as well as Art Eggers and Mike Wendt, attorneys from the firm of Califf & Harper, to have legal liability audits conducted for each Iowa CAA, using the CAPLAW Legal Liability Audit for Community Action Agencies, a guide containing short summaries of the law and compliance checklists on nonprofit corporate requirements, employment law and personnel issues, employee benefits, Head Start, and CSBG. In preparation for the audits, CAPLAW and attorneys from Califf & Harper conducted a one-day training session for the Iowa association, CAA executive directors and other representatives of Iowa CAAs.

 

We look forward to collaborating with our member CAA associations, as well as with state CSBG offices on more projects like these.  Please give us a call at (617) 357-6915 if you are interested in conducting one of these projects in your state or if there is another project on which you would like to work with CAPLAW.