This course provides an orientation of the Neighborhood Academy program, outlines what a neighborhood association is, and details an association’s goals and benefits.
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Neighborhood Outreach and Welcoming teaches you how to meet your neighbors and start discussions, provides tips on how to expand neighborhood communications, offers tips and tools for continued communications, and how to constructively talk about neighborhood issues and change.
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This course provides a breakdown on planning and leading community workshops. Additionally, it outlines how to evaluate the success of a workshop and how to create a neighborhood action plan from the discussion.
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Developing Leaders is neighborhood leadership 101 on identifying and understanding the various types of neighborhood leaders, how those leaders benefit your association, and how to thrive in leadership.
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This course reviews the various association officer positions and responsibilities, provides tips for identifying potential candidates, outlines officer selection and election procedures, and emphasizes officer transition and onboarding.
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This course is a deep dive into the core components, benefits, creation, and adoption of association bylaws.
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This course teaches you how to plan and hold an effective association meeting. It covers the parts of a meeting, roles in a meeting, how to make official decisions during meetings, and what to do before and after a meeting to keep momentum.
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Financial Administration & Compliance outlines the basics of association money management, including reporting and fundraising.
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This course offers tips and best practices on identifying partners from the local business and nonprofit community, crafting your initial approach, building a lasting relationship, and navigating challenges.
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This course outlines best practices, tips, and tools on identifying sources for volunteers, recruitment and retention, onboarding and ongoing management, and understanding and planning for volunteers’ limitations and needs.
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This course provides an overview of SWOT Analysis, how to conduct an analysis yourself, and how to convert your analysis into action. This course also provides a guided template presentation and instructions to walk community leaders through facilitating SWOT Analysis on their own.
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This course delivers an overview of asset mapping, what kinds of things you should map in your neighborhood, how to conduct asset mapping as a group, and how to use it as a tool.
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This course gives an overview of what the Neighborhood Conditions Index (NCI) Report is and how to use it to enact improvements in your neighborhood, provides a walkthrough of a report and an explanation of all its components, and outlines how to use a report to craft an action plan and access resources.
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Impact Reporting delivers a general overview of how to measure, track, and share your association’s success. The course covers the core components of a report, how to craft a report for different audiences, and how to change a report for different mediums (social media, email, etc.).
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This course provides an overview of the three different types of succession planning, the risks and barriers to implementation, general tips and best practices, building bench strength, the importance of mentorship and cross training, and facilitating healthy closure for neighborhood association founders.
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This course outlines how city government works, provides an overview of authorities, boards, and commissions, and details the various ways citizens can connect with the city’s elected officials, staff, and volunteer boards.
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