CTK Free Educational Webinar Series

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February 14, 2012

Effective Community Strategies for Greater Impact and Results

Identify and implement the community level strategies required to achieve greater impact.

Learn how to:

• Understand why both community level strategies and program based services are required to achieve impact 
• Employ the principles of Asset Based Community Development for effective Community Engagement
• Implement effective community level strategies
• Use the power of asset mapping and other community engagement tools
• Use technology to track community assets for greater impact

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February 7, 2012

Advanced Outcomes
Tracking Results at the Community/Initiative Level

Identify, collect and report the community outcome data needed to drive your community impact work for greater results. 

Learn how to:

• Understand the difference between community level data and program outcome data
• Identify the community level indicators and data required to drive your impact agenda
• Collect the data you need to drive your community agenda  
• Utilize technology to enhance your outcomes reporting 

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February 2, 2012

CTK's Web-Based Technology for Jewish Federations

Using CTK's CI ODM Grantmaking software for your grantmaking and evaluation functions.

Learn how:

• Agencies can easily apply online for funding 
• Reviewers can review and score the applications online
• Funded agencies can report their progress and results online
• To use CTK's Report Builder to keep track and display your entire grantmaking outcomes process to more effectively tell your story

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January 31, 2012

CI ODM's Web-based Student Scholarship Application

Using the CTK's CI ODM Student Scholarship Application process. 

Learn how:

• Students can easily apply online for scholarships 
• Reviewers can review and score student scholarship applications online
• Student scholarship recipients can report their progress and results online
• To use CTK's Report Builder to keep track and display your entire scholarship process to more effectively tell your story

PDF coming soon!

January 31, 2012

Technology and Community Impact To Drive your Results

Identify your outcome data needs and implement effective technology strategies for greater impact and results. 

Learn how to:

• Identify the data and indicators required to drive your impact agenda 
• Help your grantees collect data that is relevant to outcomes based reporting
• Use data to drive your community agenda
• Utilize technology to enhance your impact and results and help you raise more resources

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January 24, 2012

CTK's Web-based Technology for State Housing Agencies

Use CTK's web-based software to enhance your project application and management processes.

Learn how:

• Developers can apply online using a user-friendly and secure website for tax credits and other grant related opportunity and upload all required documents for easy electronic access
• Your staff can review and score the proposals and create reports to display the information in a variety of formats
• Developers or grantees can submit electronic invoices for payments in an automated process
• To use the system to meet other data-base needs

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January 24, 2012

Outcomes 101 – Building Capacity in Evaluation and Outcomes Reporting

Identify your outcome data needs and implement effective strategies for greater impact and results. 

Learn how to:

• Identify the data and indicators required to drive your impact agenda  
• Help your grantees collect data that is relevant to outcomes based reporting
• Use data to drive your community agenda
• Utilize technology to enhance your outcomes reporting to raise more resources 

PDF coming soon!

December 13, 2011

Effective Community Engagement

How to unlock a community's resources for greater impact

Identify and implement the community based strategies required to achieve greater impact:

Learn how to:

• Employ the principles of Asset Based Community Development for effective Community Engagement
• Implement effective strategies with limited resources
• Use the power of asset mapping and other community engagement tools
• Data collection strategies for tracking community assets for greater impact

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December 8, 2011

Refining and Refocusing Impact Area Tools & Community Level Outcomes

CTK United Way User Group

Identify your outcome data needs and implement effective strategies for greater impact and results

Learn how to:

• Identify the data and indicators required to drive your impact agenda
• Help your agencies collect data that is relevant to outcomes based reporting
• Identify the community level indicators and data required to drive your impact agenda
• Use data to drive your community impact agenda

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December 7, 2011

Using CTK's Web-based CI ODM Student Scholarship Application Process

Intended for Foundations interested in implementing a web-based scholarship process.

Learn how:

• Students can easily apply online for scholarships
• Evaluators can review and score student scholarship applications online
• Student scholarship recipients can report their progress and results online
• To use CTK's Report Builder to keep track and display your entire scholarship process to more effectively tell your story

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December 6, 2011

Technology and Effective Outcomes Based Grantmaking

In today's environment, technology can play a critical role in helping to enhance the effectiveness of your grantmaking and enhance your ability to tell donors your story.

Learn:

• The principles of effective Outcomes based grantmaking
• How to engage your volunteers, stakeholders and grantees
• How technology can increase your effectiveness
• How to more effectively tell your story

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November 29, 2011

Bringing it all Together: Tracking a United Way's Community Impact and Results

Identify your outcome data needs and implement effective strategies for greater impact and results

Learn how to:

• Identify the data and indicators required to drive your impact agenda
• Help your grantees collect data that is relevant to outcomes based reporting
• Use data to drive your community impact agenda
• Utilize technology to enhance your outcomes reporting to raise more resources

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November 22, 2011

Effectively Tracking and Reporting your Impact in Today's Challenging Environment

Identify your outcome data needs and implement effective strategies for greater impact and results.

Learn how to:

• Identify the data and indicators required to drive your impact agenda
• Help your grantees collect data that is relevant to outcomes based reporting
• Use data to drive your community impact agenda
• Utilize technology to enhance your outcomes reporting to raise more resources

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November 15, 2011

Community Engagement And Health: Unlocking The Power Of The Community

Designed for Health Foundations and other organizations interested in the issue of improving health indicators.

Learn:

• The importance of community and its residence as a health strategy – residents as producers of their own and their community's well-being
• The principles of Asset Based Community Development and its impact on Health outcomes
• Asset Mapping and other community engagement tools
• Technology as a tool to increase community engagement.

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November 10, 2011

Your Organization as Grantee

Using Technology to Track the Grants you Receive and Results

You will learn how to use CTK's CI ODM to track the grants you receive and your results to help drive your community impact work for greater results.

Learn how to:

• Track grantors, their funding interests and your grant applications
• Track funded grants reporting and deliverable requirements
• Track your sub-grantees (internal or external)
• Track and report your outcomes and results
• Track grant expenditures from internal departments and sub-grantees
• Automate sub-grantee invoice submittals, approvals and payments

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November 9, 2011

The Importance of Tracking and Reporting Community Level Outcomes

Identify, collect and report the community outcome data needed to drive your community impact work for greater results.

Learn how to:

• Understand the difference between community level data and program outcome data
• Identify the community level indicators and data required to drive your impact agenda
• Collect the data you need to drive your community agenda
• Examples of strategies and data collection to drive impact and results
• Utilize technology to enhance your outcomes reporting

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September 29, 2011

Do Needs Assessments really tell you what you need to know?
Alternative strategies for greater impact

You will learn why Needs Assessments can be counter productive and explore strategies to achieve greater impact.

Learn how to:

• Why Needs Assessments can be counter productive
• The difference between Needs Assessments and Community Assessments
• The power of asset mapping
• How to unlock community resources for greater results
• Asset Mapping and Education, Income and Health
• Tracking community assets

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