by ws-user | Sep 2020 | members-resources
Reductions in funding and reimbursement have made it increasingly challenging for Community Action Agencies (CAAs) to furnish critical outpatient health care services to their high need and often medically underserved communities. For many CAAs, structuring certain...
by ws-user | Sep 2020 | resources
Now more than ever, CAAs are exploring mergers as a strategy to improve their sustainability and enhance their efficiency and effectiveness. This new tool and the accompanying webinar can help CAA leaders understand the risks and benefits associated with merging,...
by ws-user | Sep 2020 | resources
When the board of directors of Pro Action of Steuben and Yates, Inc. gathered for their monthly meeting at the organization’s offices in Bath, New York on February 18, 2020, they had no idea that it would be the last time they would sit in the same room for over half...
by ws-user | Sep 2020 | resources
Catrena Bowman-Thomas picked up her office phone and called Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission’s (NKCAC) board chair, J.C. Morgan. She had just left an early March 2020 executive leadership team meeting at NKCAC headquarters in Covington, Kentucky, and had...
by ws-user | Sep 2020 | resources
Understand the great responsibility of being a board member through the lens of the duty of loyalty: each board member’s obligation to place the interests of the CAA before their personal interests. Learn how to identify and address conflicts of interest,...
by ws-user | Sep 2020 | resources
Join late-night talk show host Carlton Caplaw and renowned band leader Carmen Alto as they discuss five practices that CAPLAW has found to be the hallmarks of engaged and committed boards: educating board members, communicating openly, requiring participation,...
