Part of CCEDA’s Faith-Based CDC Initiative.

Webinar content and discussion points:

• CDC Structures
• Faith-based community development
• Developing budgets and financial projections
• Inter-faith efforts and partnerships

Part of a series of Regional Webinars, the culmination of CCEDA’s Climate Adaptation Initiative. (In association with the Climate Resolve)

Webinar content and discussion points:

• Overview of the Regional Climate Adaptation Assessments and the implications of climate change.
• Initiatives, services, and programs implemented in the Sierra Nevada’s communities of concern that aim to achieve equitable climate solutions.
• Strategies to encourage community-lead climate resiliency initiatives.

Part of CCEDA’s Faith-Based CDC Initiative.

Webinar content and discussion points:

• CDC Structures
• Faith-based community development
• Developing budgets and financial projections
• Inter-faith efforts and partnerships

Overview of CDFI Fund Technical Assistance award and Financial Assistance award (In association with FUND Consulting)

Webinar content and discussion points:

• Technical Assistance
  • Eligibility, preliminary steps, and important registrations
  • TA Application Overview
  • Section 1 – Questions required for uncertified applicants
  • Section 2 – Business Strategy
  • Best Practices for Advance Planning
  • How to develop a competitive application and compelling application strategy
  • Application attachments
• Financial Assistance
  • Eligibility, preliminary steps, and important registrations
  • FA Application Overview
  • FA Objectives overview and examples of successful application objectives
  • Best Practices for Advance Planning
  • How to develop a competitive application and compelling application strategy
  • Matching funds
  • Application attachments
  • FA Supplemental awards

An Introduction to the Enterprise Facilitation model of local economic development (In association with Sirolli Associates)

Webinar content and discussion points:

• Overview of the Enterprise Facilitation model of economic development by Dr Ernesto Sirolli.
• The value of adding a social technology that is responsive to existing initiatives and local intelligence 
• Avoiding the pitfalls of assumptive and “top down” models of economic development.

An Introduction to Affordable Housing in Rural Environments (In association with the California Coalition for Rural Housing)

Webinar content and discussion points:
• Effects of Unaffordable Housing and Affordable Housing
o Effects on greater community, tenants/homeowners, and quality of life
• Defining Affordable Housing
o Goals, eligibility, parties involved in affordable housing
• Funding and Obstacles
o Rural housing obstacles, Federal and community development programs for rural housing, community land trusts, rural housing innovations

Net Energy Metering Information Session (in conjunction with Ideate Labs)

Session content and discussion points:

General Overview:

• Net Energy Metering, or NEM, is a billing system that credits electricity customers for the excess electricity produced by their own generation system (e.g., rooftop solar panels) and sent to the electric grid.

Benefits to Low Income Customers:

• Establishes an Equity Fund
• Up to $600 million to support clean energy and storage programs for low-income customers
• This could be used to enhance and expand existing low-income storage and community solar programs that have strong consumer protections (e.g., Disadvantaged Communities-Green Tariff and Self-Generation Incentive Program Equity) or support new low-income programs that improve access to clean energy.
• Low-income customers, customers living in a disadvantaged community, and tribal households would be exempt from paying the Grid Participation Charge.

Low Income Home Water Assistance Program presentation for various water associations and providers.

Briefing content and discussion points:

• How to maximize enrollment to the program
• How to partner  with CBO’s to ensure successful implementation of the program
• Best practices derived from LIHEAP implementation that apply to LIHWAP

An Introduction to Affordable Housing in Urban Environments (In association with the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing)

Webinar content and discussion points:

• Initial Steps on Assessment and Development
  • Initial Assessment, due diligence in property research, how to select a consultant and/or a development partner, requests for proposals, negotiating a partnership.
• Project Feasibility: Site Planning and Entitlements
  • Selection and Site Criteria, Feasibility analysis, Cost analysis, Site control and risk management, zoning, entitlements
• Financing 101 & Understanding LIHTC
  • Types of Funding, funding phases, local programs, LIHTCs, point-system, ownership structures

An Overview of the Office of Community Services Federal Community Economic Development Grant Program

General Overview:
The CED grant program is a federal program administered by the Office of Communities Services will fund creation of sustainable business development, employment opportunities for low- income people, and leverage funding investments in communities. CED awards up to $800,000 in funds to private, non-profit organizations CDCs, including faith-based organizations and Tribal and Alaskan Native organizations.

Community Reinvestment Information Session

General Overview:
• The Community Reinvestment Act is a foundational funding mechanism for CDCs and CAP/CAAs, however understanding how to leverage the legislation for resources can be difficult. This webinar filled that gap, explained the connect between CRA and CDCs/CAAs, and notified attendees of an opportunity to advocate for their needs in the upcoming CRA Rule Change.

A small business lending overview for faith-based organizations.

Webinar content and discussion points:

• Small Business Lending
  • Loan readiness and Packaging
  • Loan Products
  • Micro-lending
  • Why loans get denied
• Technical Assistance
  • TA entities
  • Types of TA

Leadership development and succession planning training for faith-based organizations.

Webinar content and discussion points:

• Leadsership in Community Development
  • Stages of leadership
  • 10 themes of Leadership
• Leaders of Color model of leadership
  • Diversity in leadership
  • Developing leaders directly from community
• 21^st Century Leadership
  • Engaging in leadership development at all stages

State Small Business Credit Initiative and CalCAP program overview for community development organizations.

Webinar content and discussion points:

• SSBCI
  • Program overview
  • Differences from previous SSBCI
• CalCAP Loan Loss Reserve for Small Business
  • Program overview
  • Application process
• CalCAP Collateral Support for Small Business
  • Program overview
  • Application process

Affordable housing 101 educational session for faith-based organizations operating in rural areas.

Webinar content and discussion points:

• Effects of Unaffordable Housing and Affordable Housing
  • Effects on greater community, tenants/homeowners, and quality of life
• Defining Affordable Housing
  • Goals, eligibility, parties involved in affordable housing
• Funding and Obstacles
  • Rural housing obstacles, Federal and community development programs for rural housing, community land trusts, rural housing innovations

Affordable housing 101 educational session for faith-based organizations operating in rural areas.

Webinar content and discussion points:

• SSBCI
  • Prgram overview
  • Differences from previous SSBCI
• Small Business Loan Guarantee Program
  • Program overview
  • Application process
• Jump Start Microloan Program/California Dream Fund
  • Program overview
  • Application process