Resource Library
All of CAPLAW’s resources and publications are now available in CAPLAW’s new Resource Library. Use the search filters below to find the resource you need.
Featured Resources
![Responding to Data Incidents](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Data-Security-Featured-Image-1080x675.png)
Responding to Data Incidents
Responding to Data Incidents: A Step-By-Step Guide for CAAs You just learned that your Community Action Agency (CAA) experienced a data incident. What should you do next? With cybercrime...
![Being Direct: Shared Cost Recovery through Direct Cost Allocation](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Resource-Type-Toolkit2-1080x675-1-1080x675.png)
Being Direct: Shared Cost Recovery through Direct Cost Allocation
When federally funded organizations incur shared costs that benefit multiple funding awards it can be difficult to determine how much to charge each award for those costs. Allowable methods of...
![CAPLAW CSBG Training Module](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CSBG-Training-Module-Featured-Image-2-1-1080x675.png)
CAPLAW CSBG Training Module
This Introduction to CSBG training module is an interactive tool for Community Action Agencies to learn about the federal Community Services Block Grant Act. All Community Action Agencies receive Community Services Block Grant (or CSBG) funds…
![2020 Uniform Guidance Updates: Indirect Costs](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Resource-Type-Webinar-1080x675-1-1080x675.png)
2020 Uniform Guidance Updates: Indirect Costs
The Uniform Guidance, 2 C.F.R. Part 200, has been substantially revised for the first time since it was issued, and the final revisions took effect on November 12, 2020. Though most of the revisions will not apply to federal awards issued before November 12, CAAs should begin to plan now for their...
![2020 Uniform Guidance Updates: Indirect Costs](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Resource-Type-Webinar-1080x675-1-1080x675.png)
Joining Forces: Evaluating Merger Opportunities
Now more than ever, CAAs are thinking about innovative ways to maximize their impact while conserving resources. One method for doing so is a merger with another CAA or nonprofit organization. CAPLAW recently issued a new merger decision-making tool that helps CAA leaders understand critical...
![2020 Uniform Guidance Updates: Indirect Costs](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Resource-Type-Webinar-1080x675-1-1080x675.png)
FQHC Opportunities: Designation to Collaboration
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 health care lines of business to...
![Leadership Lessons: Northern KY Community Action Commission](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Resource-Type-Case-Study-1080x675-1.png)
Leadership Lessons: Northern KY Community Action Commission
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 a lot to report. The team had...
![Combining Forces: A Merger Manual for CAAs](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Resource-Type-Guide-1080x675-1.png)
Combining Forces: A Merger Manual for CAAs
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, identify and evaluate potential...
![Leadership Lessons: Northern KY Community Action Commission](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Resource-Type-Case-Study-1080x675-1.png)
Leadership Lessons: Pro Action of Steuben and Yates
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 a year. Fortunately, CEO Laura...
![All a-Board! Series: Duty of Loyalty (Purpose)](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Resource-Type-Video-1080x675-1.png)
All a-Board! Series: Duty of Loyalty (Purpose)
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, whether they be good, bad, or ugly.Whether...
![All a-Board! Series: Duty of Loyalty (Purpose)](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Resource-Type-Video-1080x675-1.png)
All a-Board! Series: Engage & Retain Board Members (People)
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, continually enforcing policies, and...
![All a-Board! Series: Duty of Loyalty (Purpose)](https://caplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Resource-Type-Video-1080x675-1.png)
All a-Board! Series: Board Meeting Ecosystem (Process)
Discover the wonder of the CAA board meeting ecosystem and how board members navigate survival in a world of compliance and governance responsibilities. Follow one group's use of a consent agenda to save time and resources at a board meeting, and allow for in-depth analysis and discussion of...