Helping People

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Member Resources

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Helping People • Changing Lives • Member Resources •

General Resources

Staffing and HR Support

  • CAAP’s learning course library, FREE to all CAAP member’s staff!

    This tool serves as an interactive and passive training tool. Aside from our CAP Infinity Basic course that meets the Pennsylvania directive on Continuous Improvement, CAAP Learn is also a repository for many other resources. This includes the 2022 webinar series and accompanying materials, COPOS training, the CAAP Statewide DEI Summit, and webinars on management, governance, human resource, and DEI. You can also find technology tools, community action history, customer service, employee well-being, and census data, among other resources. We continue to work to build and grow CAAP Learn to serve our members’ needs better.

    CAAP LEARN ⮕

    How to create a CAAP Learn account ⮕

  • We understand that often it is challenging to navigate for new Community Action staff what the “network” means, and who we are at CAAP and how it all fits together! Check out this packet to incorporate in your staff onboarding practices.

    Download CAAP Welcome kit ⮕

    Looking for some other fun onboarding resources?
    Check out our downloadables!

    Printable affirmation cards ⮕

    Staff Favorites: Ideas for staff incentives and rewards ⮕

    Community Action Acronym Reference Guide ⮕

  • Interested in digging into what your staff has to say about their work at your organization? Looking for an objective third party to conduct them? CAAP is very excited to help support our network in conducting and assessing results of stay interviews at your organization.

    If you’d like to hear more about this service to CAAP members please email info@thecaap.org.

    Or looking to do on your own? Use our template ⮕

  • Looking for CAAP Staff to review and optimize your position descriptions? Please complete the form below and expect confirmation of review or questions from CAAP staff.

    Complete Position Description Review Request Here ⮕

Grant Opportunities

  • Funder

    US Department of Education

    Purpose

    • A Promise Neighborhood is a place-based, collective impact approach to improving results for children and families.

      • The transformative vision of the Promise Neighborhoods initiative is that all children and youth growing up in Promise Neighborhoods have access to great schools and strong systems of family and community support.

      • Promise Neighborhoods weave together people, services, and organizations to create a seamless cradle-to-career pipeline, along which community members have access to high-quality early care and education, smooth and effective transition to kindergarten, excellent K-12 schools, and pathways to achieve postsecondary and career success.

    • The purpose is to significantly improve the academic and developmental outcomes of children and youth living in the most distressed communities of the United States, including ensuring school readiness, high school graduation, and access to a community-based continuum of high-quality services.

    • PNs serve neighborhoods with high concentrations of individuals with low incomes; multiple signs of distress, which may include high rates of poverty, childhood obesity, academic challenges, and juvenile delinquency, adjudication, or incarceration; and adverse childhood experiences; and also serves schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement activities or targeted support and improvement activities under section 1111(d) of the ESEA.

    • All strategies in the continuum of solutions must be accessible to children with disabilities and English learners.

    Eligibility

    • Institutions of Higher Education

    • Indian Tribe or Tribal organization

    • One or more nonprofit entities working in formal partnership with not less than one of the following:

      • A high-need local educational agency (LEA)

      • An Institute of Higher Education

      • The office of a chief elected official of a unit of local government

      • An Indian Tribe or Tribal organization

    Project Period

    Up to 24 months.

    Amount

    4-5 awards of an average of $400,000-$500,000 each for a total of $4,000,000. An award exceeding $500,000 for a single budget period of 12 months will not be made.

    Deadline

    Notice for intent to apply - due July 29, 2024

    Final application - due September 10, 2024

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