Other Related Training Events
(not
sponsored by the University of Idaho)
University of Idaho Extension
Partners with AARP-Idaho to Offer
Long-Term Care Seminars this Spring
A seminar on long-term care--co-sponsored by
an AARP-Idaho and University of Idaho Extension
partnership will be held again this spring at six Idaho
locations. Offered statewide since 2003, the free
seminar on "Planning for Independence and
Long-term Care" is slated for:
April 26 in Pocatello,
May 3 in Grangeville,
May 10 in Twin Falls,
May 17 in Burley,
June 14 in Boise
June 28 in Nampa.
"People in their fifties, sixties and seventies
need to be thinking about their long-term care
options," said Marilyn Bischoff, University
of Idaho Extension family economics specialist.
She noted that the seminar covers not only long-
term care insurance but community resources
that are available for Idahoans who want--or need--to
stay in their own homes.
"Participants learn how to plan for long-term care
for themselves and their elderly parents, as well as
how to manage its risks and protect their financial
security despite its high costs," Bischoff said. Of the
nearly 2,500 Idahoans who attended the seminar in the
past, 91 percent indicated that it would help them make
decisions about long-term care.
In addition to University of Idaho Extension and
AARP-Idaho, speakers will include representatives of the
Area Agencies on Aging, Idaho Department of Health
and Welfare, Legal Aid of Idaho or local law firms.
Each seminar will run from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. All who attend are
invited to stay an extra hour for individual counseling with Senior
Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA), who will help them evaluate
their current policies or compare sales information of new ones.
For more information or to pre-register, contact
Luke Erickson (Pocatello) at 359-6215 or
erickson@uidaho.edu
Kathee Tifft (Grangeville) at 799-3096 or
ktifft@uidaho.edu
Lyle Hansen (Twin Falls and Burley) at 324-7578 or
lhansen@uidaho.edu
Beverly Healy (Boise and Nampa) at 377-2107 or
bhealy@uidaho.edu
Community Action Parntership offers homebuying workshop
The Community Action Partnership will conduct an
all-day
Finally Home! workshop Saturday at its office,
124 New Sixth St. in Lewiston.
The class is for all potential homebuyers and
covers topics
like avoiding predatory lending, improving credit scores,
government programs, purchasing foreclosures and negotiations.
The program meets homebuyer education requirements of
many lending programs, including Idaho and Washington Housing
Finance, Fannie Mae, Rural Housing and Home Start Grants.
Pre-registration and a refundable $10 deposit are
required.
Those interested can call (208) 746-3351 or toll-free to
1-800-326-4843 to sign up and learn class times.
Idaho Governor's Conference on
Recreation and Tourism
May 6-8, 2008
Red Lion Hotel
Pocatello, Idaho
Idaho Governor’s
Conference on
Recreation and Tourism
It’s not too late! Register now for the 2008 Idaho
Governor’s Conference on Recreation & Tourism.
This annual conference is designed for Idaho’s tourism
industry leaders to come together to share ideas and
learn about new opportunities for marketing your
organization. This year’s theme entitled “Capture
the Moment” invites attendees to arm themselves
with digital cameras and “capture” their memories
to be shared at the conclusion of the conference.
Dates: May 6-8, 2008.
Cost: $150 before April 25th; $200 after April 25th.
Full-time student or spouse: $110.
Visit the
www.tourism.idaho.gov website for
more information and to register.
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: If
you are in need of
additional sponsorship or exhibitor information, please
contact Mitch Knothe
(208-334-2470, ext 2155) for
registration and/or travel expenses.
Idaho Nonprofit Development Center
Training Series:
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"Nurturing Your Donors during Economic Turmoil"
What can you as a staff and board do to minimize the impact of the current economic turmoil on your organization? Come learn the organizational philosophy of donor stewardship, how to step up contributions from previous giving levels and how to do it all over the long haul. You’ll Gain:
Presenters: Kristin Prieur of WhiteRock Consulting, and Laurel York Odell of Concepts in Writing, Inc. May 6 - Coeur d'Alene, May 7 - Sandpoint, May 13 -
Hailey, May 15 - Pocatello, May 20 - Boise, May 22 -
Lewiston
"Proven Strategies to Strengthen Your Board"
Presenters: Lynn Hoffmann, Idaho Nonprofit Development Center Executive Director. Russ Lowder, Idaho Nonprofit Development Center Training Director May 6 - Coeur d’Alene, May 7 - Sandpoint, May 15 - Pocatello, May 22 - Boise Half day workshop—$65/person
"Board Member Orientation"
Presenter: Russ Lowder, Idaho Nonprofit Development Center Training Director. May 13 - Hailey, May 20 - Boise, May 22 - Lewiston
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Morning workshops will be held from 8:30am - noon, afternoon
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Rural Economic Development Forum:
How We Can Build Prosperity
Here at Home
Colville, WA
April 17, 2008
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
During this workshop you will learn how:
• Economic leakages can become business
opportunities
• Entrepreneurship creates a sustainable economic
base for rural communities, individuals and families
• Businesses can cooperate within the economic
community to increase sales
• Local purchasing by consumers, businesses and
local governments strengthens the local economy
• Local investing more effectively supports
business opportunities and growth
• Public policy can encourage business growth
through research and regulatory practices.
Michael Shuman, will address what local communities
can do to create vibrant, self-reliant, community based
economic networks. He will highlight current trends in
the national and global economy and show how
consumers, investors, policymakers and organizers
can revitalize their own community by supporting
local business.
Click
here to download the information flyer.
Idaho Nonprofit Training
Lynn Hoffman, Executive Director
Idaho Nonprofit
Development Center
Cottonwood, Idaho
May 12, 2008
Framing Our Community (FOC) is a nonprofit
dedicated to reducing poverty and improving the
quality of life in the communities of North Central Idaho.
To achieve this goal our rural communities need to
build Community Capacity by strengthening leadership
skills; an important component is the understanding of
board responsibilities among our local nonprofit
organizations and local governments.
Lynn Hoffman, Executive Director of the Idaho
Nonprofit Development Center will conduct training on
board roles and responsibilities, legal duties, and good
board practices. All participants will come away with a
good understanding of how an ethical board operates
and what their individual responsibilities are to uphold it.
Lynn will review 10 responsibilities of a board,
discuss governance (board) roles vs. member roles,
staff vs. board roles, board structure and tips and
tricks for board effectiveness.
This lively training session will be held May 12,
2008,
in the Spirit Center at the Monastery of St. Gertrude’s,
465 Keuterville Road, Cottonwood, Idaho. The morning
session will begin at 10:00 am and end at 5:00 pm.
We will share a delicious, home-cooked lunch with the
sisters in the monastery dining room for a cost of $8.00.
All other expenses for the facility and instructor are being
funded by FOC’s Northwest Area
Foundation “Great Strides Award.”
To reserve seats for your board members please RSVP
Ellen at
Framing Our Community by April 25th via
telephone (208) 842-2939 or 842-2322,
mail (PO Box 321, Elk City Idaho 83525) or
e-mail (ellen@framingourcommunity.org).
We look forward to joining you in May for this
important
board capacity building exercise, which will help all of
our organizations to become more effective in achieving
our goals.
Sincerely,
Ellen Bartlett
Office Manager
Framing Our Community, Inc.
P.O. Box 321
Elk City, ID 83525
Livable Transportation: Getting
the
Most For Our Communities.
American Planning Association:
Inland Empire Section
Priest Lake, Idaho
May 29-30, 2008
In this two-day conference, we will learn the
basics
of livable transportation and how to incorporate
these strategies in our planning process. Case
studies will be presented from around the country
as well as the nuts and bolts of paying for
these alternatives.
Click
here to download the information flyer.
Living on the Edge:
Living with Wildfire
McCall Field Campus
McCall, ID
June 17, 2008
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Living on the Edge is a community education
program developed in response to the increasing
number of families moving to rural areas.
Stakeholders in these communities who plan,
develop, permit, landscape, insure, protect, and
live in the wildland urban interface (WUI) need
to understand the issues involved in living safely
on the edge. This program, developed by Idaho
Department of Lands, will increase awareness of
Idaho’s expanding WUI.
Click
here to download the "DRAFT" information flyer.
The Grant Institute's Grants 101:
Professional Grant Proposal Writing
Boise, Idaho
May 7 - 9, 2008
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Interested development professionals, researchers,
faculty, and graduate students should register as
soon as possible, as demand means that seats
will fill up quickly.
All participants will receive certification in professional
grant writing from the Institute. For more information
call (888) 824 -4424 or visit The Grant Institute
at www.thegrantinstitute.com.
The Grant Institute's Grants 101 course is an
intensive and detailed introduction to the process,
structure, and skill of professional proposal writing.
This course is characterized by its ability to act as
a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at
the same time. In this course, participants will learn
the entire proposal writing process and complete the
course with a solid understanding of not only the
ideal proposal structure,
but a holistic understanding
of the essential factors, which determine
whether or
not a
program gets funded. Through the completion of
interactive exercises and activities, participants will
complement expert
lectures by putting proven techniques
into practice. This course is designed for both the
beginner looking for a
thorough introduction and
the intermediate looking for a refresher course
that will
strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This class, simply
put,
is designed to get results by creating professional
grant proposal writers.
Participants will become competent program planning
and proposal writing professionals after successful
completion of the Grants
101 course. In three active and
informative days, students will be exposed
to the art of
successful grant writing practices, and led on a journey
that
ends with a masterful grant proposal.
Grants 101 consists of three (3) courses that will be
completed during the
three-day workshop.
(1) Fundamentals of Program Planning
This course is centered on the belief that "it's
all about
the program." This intensive course will teach professional
program development essentials and program evaluation.
While most grant
writing "workshops" treat program
development and evaluation as separate
from the writing
of a proposal, this class will teach students the
relationship
between overall program planning and grant writing.
(2) Professional Grant Writing
Designed for both the novice and experienced grant
writer,
this course will make each student an overall proposal
writing
specialist. In addition to teaching the basic
components of a grant
proposal, successful approaches,
and the do's and don'ts of grant writing,
this course is
infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery
of
the process. Strategy resides at the forefront of this
course's intent to
illustrate grant writing as an integrated,
multidimensional, and dynamic
endeavor. Each student
will learn to stop writing the grant and to start
writing the
story. Ultimately, this class will illustrate how each
component
of the grant proposal represents an opportunity
to use proven techniques for
generating support.
(3) Grant Research
At its foundation, this course will address the
basics of
foundation, corporation, and government grant research.
However,
this course will teach a strategic funding research
approach that encourages
students to see research not as
something they do before they write a
proposal, but as an
integrated part of the grant seeking process. Students
will be exposed to online and database research tools,
as well as
publications and directories that contain
information about foundation,
corporation, and government
grant opportunities. Focusing on funding sources
and basic
social science research, this course teaches students
how to use
research as part of a strategic grant acquisition effort.
Registration $597.00 tuition includes all materials and certificates.
Each student will receive: The Grant Institute
Certificate in
Professional Grant Writing The Grant Institute's Guide to
Successful Grant Writing The Grant Institute Grant Writer's
Workbook with
sample proposals, forms, and outlines
Registration Methods
1) On-Line - Complete the online registration form at
www.thegrantinstitute.com under Register Now.
We'll send your confirmation
by e-mail.
2) By Phone - Call (888) 824 - 4424 to register by phone.
Our friendly
Program Coordinators will be happy to assist
you and answer your questions.
3) By E-mail - Send an e-mail with your name, organization,
and basic
contact information to info@thegrantinstitute.com
and we will reserve your
slot and send your Confirmation Packet.
Thriving Rural
Schools in
Challenging Circumstances
Tuskegee, Alabama
May 16-18, 2008
The Rural School and Community Trust is holding
their annual rural education working group meeting
on May 16 – 18 in Tuskegee, Alabama. The title of
this year’s conference is “Thriving Rural Schools in
Challenging
Circumstances.” They have a great
lineup of workshops this year including one on youth
led poverty
initiatives. For those of you who attended
the Horizons Summit at the end
of January you probably
met Rachel Tompkins, the President of the Rural
School and Community Trust. Registration cost is
$247/person for 3 or more
people which includes
lodging and meals. Cost to you/your Horizons fund
would be $247 and air fare. We are willing to help
put together a team from Idaho to attend. If you have
someone from your
community interested in attending
please notify us! Early bird registration is March 15.
Go to
www.ruraledu.org and download the conference
information.
Idaho STARS Childcare and Resource
Referral Training Opportunities
Please download this
newsletter for
further information. Training opportunities include:
STARS Basic Training
for Centers &
Family Child Care
(various dates and locations)
Setting Your Program Up to Succeed (3/22/08)
Teaching Children Anger Control (4/8--Grangeville)
Poverty & Other Special Concerns (5/14/08)
Becoming a Leader in Early Childhood (5/17/08)
ONLINE/FREE TRAINING
WELCOMING ENTREPRENEURS TO YOUR COMMUNITY
Online
Wednesday, April 23 at 1:30pm (EST)
The April eXtension Entrepreneurs & Their
Communities webinar
topic will be Welcoming Entrepreneurs to Your Community.
Communities of all sizes are starting to recognize the value of
home-grown
businesses as a vital part of economic development.
So how can Extension,
local officials, and community and economic
development professionals help
create a climate where entrepreneurs
feel welcome and supported?
Co-facilitators Greg Wise, UW Extension
and Charlie French, UNH Cooperative
Extension will share tips and
tools that communities can implement to
encourage entrepreneurship
as an economic development strategy.
Please help us to spread the word about this
session. No pre-registration
is required and there is no fee to participate.
About 10 minutes prior to the
start time simply go the Adobe Connect Pro
meeting room at
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/ecop/.
You will be presented with
a login screen that has an "Enter as Guest"
option. Enter your first name,
last name and state, then click "Enter Room"
to join the conference. To
hear the audio of the workshop and participate in
the Q&A portion of the
workshop we will be using a built-in teleconferencing
capability of Adobe's
Connect Pro conferencing software. Once you log into
the meeting you
will be presented with the option to enter your call-back
number, your
phone will automatically be called. After entering your number
you will be
automatically called and joined into the audio portion of the
Web
conference on your phone.
Newcomers to online learning are welcome! We're all learning this together.
GRASSROOTS & GROUNDWORKS: Sharing
What Works to
Reduce Poverty and Grow Community Prosperity
Sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation
May 28-30, 2008
Sheraton Blomington Hotel
Bloomington, Minnesota
May 28-30, 2008
Grassroots & Groundwork offers a range of
opportunities for learning, sharing, questioning and connecting. From
smaller, more intimate 70-minute break-out sessions on community-focused
models and tools for reducing poverty to the larger, hands-on, half-day
Community-Builder Institute, Grassroots & Groundwork spotlights practical
solutions in a variety of venues.
During the conference, attendees
can view powerful film documentaries on poverty in America. An Exhibit Hall
showcases a variety of online, interactive tools communities can use to
reduce poverty and promote prosperity. Outstanding keynote speakers examine
poverty and community building in ways that are thought-provoking and
inspiring.
You may be eligible for a
conference scholarship.
Find out more today!
For more information visit their website.
THE BUSINESS OF CHILDCARE
Training provided by Lisa Horan, M.S.
Various dates:
February 16, March 22, April 12, May 17
Each training is a “stand alone” workshop, so
participants do not have to sign up for all four.
However, every training also builds on the previous
workshop enabling those
who would like to attend
the whole series to benefit from the progression of learning concepts.
Trainings will each run from 9am to 12pm and be held
at the Community Action Partnership Conference
Room located at 124 New 6th Street in Lewiston, Idaho.
The cost
is $40 per person per session for 3 hours of IdahoSTARS approved training.
This includes all
workshop materials. Scholarships may be available
to IdahoSTARS participants. Please call the Lewiston
Child Care Resource & Referral office by dialing 2-1-1,
and ask how you can apply for a scholarship.
To register, please call or email Lisa Horan at
208-743-4725 or
encourager@cableone.net
BY NOON on the Friday prior to each training.
Class size is limited, so register early.
Session A
The Business
of Child Care: The Law of the Niche
Presented by: Lisa Horan
Lewiston, ID, February 16, 2008, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Community
Action Partnership Conference Room, 124 New 6th Street
Cost: $40.00
Participants will learn more about themselves and others through a series of
personality, abilities and motivational testing. This workshop is designed
to help providers identify their own “fit” in the early childhood field, as
well as the roles their co-workers and employees should play in a quality
early childhood environment.
Session B
Setting Your Program Up to Succeed
Lewiston, ID, March 22, 2008, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Community Action
Partnership Conference Room, 124 New 6th Street
Cost: $40.00
This “nuts and bolts” workshop’s objectives will be to help participants: 1)
Develop their program’s philosophy, business policies and procedures and fee
schedules; and 2) To emphasize the necessity of merging professional
business practices with a quality learning environment.
Session C
High Quality = Great Customer Service
Lewiston, ID, April 12, 2008, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Community Action
Partnership Conference Room, 124 New 6th Street
Cost: $40.00
It is important for any business to understand the concepts behind providing
great internal and external customer service and its relationship to quality
programming and continued business success. The objectives of this workshop
are to help participants gain customer services skills that: 1) Begin with
the advertising and hiring process; and 2) Continue with providing
exceptional service to families, co-workers and communities.
Session D
Becoming a Leader in Early Childhood
Lewiston, ID, May 17, 2008, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Community Action
Partnership Conference Room, 124 New 6th Street
This workshop covers the topics of leadership, influence, positive power, self-initiative and the basics of conflict resolution. Its objectives are: 1)To help participants identify behaviors and attitudes that enable them to work well under leadership; and 2)To strengthen their abilities to positively lead others.
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NWCDI is the place for you!
Do you want to
become a... increasing community effectiveness? Are you confident in... addressing complex community issues? Would you like to... keep current with today's important issues while earning CEU's?
Learn all this and more at NWCDI 2008!
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At NWCDI you will learn current strategies for sustaining strong communities, attend exciting classes from knowledgeable instructors from across the country and develop networking relationships with other community leaders.
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Years 1-3 Tuition: $550 earlybird $600 regular (after May 30, 2008) »Course materials »Lunches (Monday - Thursday) |
Advanced Class Tuition: $300 earlybird $350 regular (after May 30, 2008) »Course materials »Lunches (Monday - Wednesday) |
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Classes and events run through 12:00 noon on Friday. Tuition covers course materials, continental breakfast and lunches. |
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