Accessibility Session 2: Let’s Talk Removing Communication Barriers Registration *Effectively recruiting and hiring people with disabilities *Practical solutions to removing barriers – including reasonable accommodations and assistive technology *Legal requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act Sections 503 and 504 *Determining essential functions of positions *Strategies to create an inclusive culture ... Read more

Start up with a Mission (aka Business Planning) with blew kind and Shanti Mayers. Looking to develop your mission-driven arts and culture business? Blew and Shanti will host a workshop that helps you articulate your mission so that you can begin to build your business around that purpose. After the workshop, and some storytelling about ... Read more

Join this meeting for one-on-one or group support to advance your grant writing or to get feedback on work sample preparation. NFN staff member, Selina Morales, is an experienced grant writer and will be on hand to answer any questions you may have and provide personalized feedback on your proposals. We’ll do this work together ... Read more

Accessibility online, in-person and philosophically (aka Planning for Access) with Alisha Vasquez and Aura Valdes This dialogue between Alisha and Aura will deepen your understanding of planning for accessibility in programs. Alisha will bring her experience as a disabled person building accessibility practices into Tucson Meet Yourself, a citywide festival drawing 150,000 people to an ... Read more

The NFN invites Community Connectors and Community Voices to the African American / Black folx listening session with Emmy Her Many Horses. Each one of us conducts our relations and carry our work in circles of practice, strategy, or wisdom that may or may not align neatly (or at all) with the categories of naming ... Read more

Organizing with Money (aka budgeting and financial literacy) Selina Morales and Maribel Alvarez This skill-building workshop will walk you through budgeting for projects or for organizations, and will demonstrate some best practices. Participants can both learn how to approach budgeting and can repeat this workshop to deliver locally. Register by clicking this link **Spanish interpretation ... Read more

The NFN invites Community Connectors and Community Voices to the listening session for Disabled Folx led by Emmy Her Many Horses. Each one of us conducts our relations and carry our work in circles of practice, strategy, or wisdom that may or may not align neatly (or at all) with the categories of naming of ... Read more

Accessibility Workshop 3: Removing Architectural and Physical Obstacles Registration *Effectively recruiting and hiring people with disabilities *Practical solutions to removing barriers – including reasonable accommodations and assistive technology *Legal requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act Sections 503 and 504 *Determining essential functions of positions *Strategies to create an inclusive culture ... Read more

Resource Generation and Mobilization (aka fundraising) with Allison Budschalow and Selina Morales Reframing fundraising as resource generation and mobilization focuses on how we take an active role in making/naming resources for our work and moving these resources toward our communities’ needs. This workshop will focus on building skills and theory around asking for money (and ... Read more

Apoyo en la redacción de subvenciones para NFN Community Connectors y Community Voices Únase a esta reunión para obtener apoyo individual o grupal para avanzar en su redacción de subvenciones o para obtener comentarios sobre la preparación de muestras de trabajo. Arnaldo Lopez es un redactor de subvenciones con experiencia y estará disponible para responder ... Read more

Storytelling for Social Change (aka communications) with Westlake (Flannel and Blade) You do great work, you have good stories to tell. How do you make the most of them? This session with Westlake from communications agency Flannel and Blade will focus on storytelling (about your projects, initiatives, and priorities) to the public and the press. ... Read more

“Formalized Curiosity” (aka Research & Asset Mapping) ACTA and Nelda Ruiz Community-led research has many methodologies and asset mapping is a useful way to learn about what knowledge, ideas, resources and activities are most important and useful to a community. This session will be an introduction to asset mapping and will also provide examples of ... Read more