Resourceful CommunitiesVirtual Trainings
table of contents
- Food Pantries: Keeping it Fresh!
- Local Food: Choose Your Own Local Food Adventure
- Faith + Lands 101
- Recordkeeping & Documentation
- Budgeting for Nonprofits
- Today’s Youth Tomorrow’s World: Cultivating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders
- Resource Roundup: Evaluation
- Resource Roundup: (Virtual) Youth Programming
- Resource Roundup: Volunteer Strategies
- What’s a Food Hub Anyway?
- Grant Writing For Beginners
- Virtual Peer Learning Visit: McDowell Local Food Action Council
- Trails & Greenways Amid COVID-19: Highlighting Hayesville’s Success
- Community Garden Evaluation
- Virtual Programming: Pivoting with Partnerships
- Meet the Funder: The Cannon Foundation
- Volunteer Strategies for Faith-Based Food Ministries
- Creating New Economies Fund (CNEF) 2023 Webinar
- Meet the Environmental Educators of NC
- “Get Outside” Passport Challenge Information Session
- Funding Local Food Projects: From Purchases to Programs
- Social Media 101
- Youth Abuse Prevention
Food Pantries: Keeping it Fresh!
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Perhaps you’ve been sourcing local food but are struggling to keep it fresh. In this training, food systems and operations consultant Sarah Bostick shares fresh ideas on how to simplify your pantry operations, including cold storage options and work systems that can greatly increase the efficiency of receiving/distributing fresh produce.
Local Food: Choose Your Own Local Food AdventurE
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If you’re wondering how other communities are “making the case” for local food purchases, even when it’s easier to stretch the dollar at the grocery store, join us for an interactive “Choose Your Own Adventure” workshop that explores all of these questions and more!
Faith + Lands 101
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Faith + Lands 101 will provide participants with tools, resources, and examples of how churches can use their land to promote stewardship, partnerships, conservation, and more.
Recordkeeping & Documentation
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This webinar is intended to introduce nonprofit recordkeeping and documentation, along with tools and resources to help implement good financial practices.
Budgeting for Nonprofits
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This webinar is intended to introduce nonprofit budgeting, along with tools and resources to help implement good financial practices. This training also covers how the chart of accounts is used in budget management.
Today’s Youth Tomorrow’s World: Cultivating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders
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RCP’s youth-serving partners play an important role in growing the next generation of environmental & food justice leaders. Join us for a presentation on some of the NC-based resources available to you to support the college and career readiness of your youth. This event is geared towards groups serving youth ages 13-18. You’ll learn about funding opportunities, agencies, and curricula that can help strengthen your youth program offerings. You’ll also hear directly from a peer organization about how they involve youth in food and social justice conversations (and boots-on-the-ground action) through their Youth Leadership Institute!
Resource Roundup: Evaluation
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Do you dread being asked about your “evaluation strategy” when looking for funding? Unsure what that means or where to begin? Looking for easy, grab-and-go tools you can right-size for your organization? This workshop will cover all of this and more. During this interactive session, you will (a) learn why having an evaluation plan is worth the effort, (b) learn some helpful “dos” and “don’ts”, and (c) try on various evaluation resources in real-time.
Resource Roundup: (Virtual) Youth Programming
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Resource Roundup: Volunteer Strategies
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The pandemic has increased volunteerism for some, and decreased it for others. Regardless of the size of your volunteer base, strong volunteer recruitment and management tools will ALWAYS be beneficial to your organization and create less of a coordination headache in the long run. Listen in to learn from some tried-and-true strategies from your peers and their volunteers for recruiting volunteers and keeping them around.
What’s a Food Hub Anyway?
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Food hubs have a dual mission to strengthen local economies and increase access to healthy food. This training provides an overview of what food hubs are, which food hubs exist in North Carolina, and the many way churches can engage with them in their mission to feed their communities. If you are a rural church and would like to learn more, please reach out to our Faith and Food Coordinator, Aaron Hayworth (ahayworth@conservationfund.org). You can visit www.ncfoodhubs.org to learn more about the NC Food Hub Collaborative work.
Grant Writing for Beginners
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New to grant writing and feel overwhelmed by the grant application process? This playlist breaks up the process into manageable pieces and uplifts the most important facets of grant writing for beginners. We recommend you spend time watching all of the videos included here, but feel free to go at your own pace. This playlist includes the following sections:
- Where to Find Funding
- Funder Fit
- Funder Cultivation
- Grant Writing Checklist
- Project Description
- Building a Budget
Download the Grant Writing Checklist here, which is referenced in the Grant Writing Checklist video and is a great tool to reference in the future!
Virtual Peer Learning Visit: McDowell Local Food Action Council
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COVID-19 has upended our world in many ways—but communities have risen to the challenge and proven that necessity truly is the mother of innovation. Learn from McDowell Local Foods Action Council as they share their creative strategies for food access in western NC, and the many ways they continue to adapt to the ever-changing need. This information is useful for all organizations working to increase community food access.
Trails & Greenways Amid COVID-19: Highlighting Hayesville’s Success
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COVID-19 has forced a lot of us indoors, but has also renewed interest in getting outside and enjoying some more isolated outdoor activities. For any organizations who have any interest in building a local trail or using cultural resources as a driver of health and economic development, we present to you the inspiration you need to kick it into gear: the story of Hayesville, NC, as told by Rob Tiger of Clay County Revitalization Association (CCRA)!
This 30-min virtual Peer Learning Visit focuses specifically on the building of Jackrabbit Trail and the partnerships that made it happen. This recording is suitable for any organization that is interested in learning more about the process of getting started with trail-building; it’s full of wisdom from Rob Tiger, who has been part of Hayesville’s renaissance from the start. We hope you are as inspired by their work as we are.
community garden evaluation
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Calling all garden partners! This workshop introduces RCP’s new, one-stop-shopping tool for all your garden evaluation needs. You’ll learn from peers as they share real-life examples of triple-bottom line evaluation for garden-based programming and how they use their data to improve their programs and tell amazing stories.Click here to jump to the evaluation tool.
Virtual Programming: Pivoting with Partnerships
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COVID-19 has opened up a whole new world of virtual learning opportunities (and challenges!). Join Men and Women United for Youth and Families (MWUYF) as they walk us through their experience pivoting to a virtual summer camp—through partnerships, youth engagement, and some key resources that made the camp a wild success. In the second half of the video, RCP will share how they supported with some programming resources & you’ll get a sneak preview of the healthy eating/active living curriculum that MWUYF used!
Meet the Funder: The Cannon Foundation
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Are you interested in funding a building or other capital need of your non-profit? This recording is of an informational session with The Cannon Foundation! Learn about their funding priorities, application process, and “Do”s and “Don’t”s. We reviewed the application together, and there was lots of time for Q&A with Suzanne Philemon, Executive Director of the Cannon. Listen to the full recording and connect with The Cannon Foundation if you think you are a fit!
Volunteer Strategies for Faith-Based Food Ministries
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Many programs struggle to recruit, train, and retain volunteers and leaders. This workshop aims to present helpful strategies in these areas to empower and equip volunteer leaders in faith-based food ministries. Viewers will learn strategies for recruitment, training, and retention from RCP staff, then hear from a panel of talented volunteer managers and their valuable volunteers.
Creating new economies Fund (CNEF) webinar
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Learn more about the Creating New Economies Fund, eligibility for the grant, important documents and deadlines.
Meet the Environmental Educators of NC
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Do you teach people about plants, animals, agriculture, sustainability, environmental science, etc? Want to plug into a network of practitioners like you to lean on for support?
Watch this informational session to meet the Environmental Educators of NC (EENC) and learn what the network can do for you! You’ll also enjoy fun, hands-on activities you can bring back to your community, courtesy of NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Chatham County Solid Waste & Recycling! You’ll walk away with a host of potential resources as you plan this year’s projects.
“Get Outside” Passport Challenge Information Session
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Did you know that 2023 in the “Year of the Trail” in NC? To support this initiative and encourage our partners — especially those serving youth — to get outdoors, we are launching our own little challenge: join the RCP “Get Outside” Challenge and complete activities to earn badges from our very own activities passport and earn awesome prizes!
This short information session shares all the info you need to know to participate. Please be aware that this challenge is aimed at supporting small, rural organizations that provide programs for their communities, especially those that work with youth or do environmental education.
Funding Local Food Projects: From Purchases to Programs
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Sick and tired of relying ONLY on grants? You’re in luck—this training offers up field-tested strategies for fundraising for your food projects…only supplemental grant support required. This session is all about sharing the love-- how to design projects that bring in revenue while supporting those most in need. Learn from peer presenters who have built successful food projects that help sustain themselves. Peer presenters include:
(1) Donna Poe, Garden of Concord
(2) Carla Norwood, Working Landscapes
(3) Claudia Farr, Lillington UMC
(4) Jim Howard, Seeds of Hope Wilson
Social Media 101
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Social media can be a great tool to engage your community, volunteers, and even funders with your organization’s work but it can also feel overwhelming. In this webinar you will learn the best practices to make your social media stand out with Erin Miller-Carter, The Conservation Fund’s Digital Marketing Manager.
Youth Abuse prevention
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The Youth Abuse Prevention webinar aims to help youth-serving organizations create and sustain a culture of safety by identifying how abuse happens and reviewing key policies and procedures organizations should strive to implement.
