Network Resource Center

CNP3 / PEER TO PEER Skills Bank

CNP3 (Cal/Neva Peer to Peer Project) training is an innovative tool for agencies to learn best practices and productive strategies from their peers throughout California. It is designed to extend your network of helpful colleagues at community action agencies throughout the state – without the expense in time or money of traveling to another conference or hiring an outside consultant.

Here’s how CNP3 works:

CNP3 uses a skills bank of peers with expertise to assist any CSBG Network Executive Director who requests assistance for a challenging situation and/or to train management/staff on a variety of subjects. Areas of assistance may include: Fiscal, Asset Building, Board Support, Community Development, History and Purpose of the CAA, Governance/Program Administration, Community Outreach, Evaluation, Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Program Development, among others.

CNP3 activities include:

One-to-one exchanges, where staff from one agency may visit staff at another agency, to share information, best practices, etc.
Knowledgeable CNP3 Peer Trainers facilitate and support certain types of trainings, technical assistance and peer exchange.

CNP3 activities are based upon your unique needs. Best of all, this peer volunteer program is at no cost to you.

If your Agency would like to request CNP3 training, or if you would like to become a Peer Trainer, contact lynn@cal-neva.org for more information.

REGIONAL ROUNDTABLES

Cal/Neva is looking to schedule a Regional Roundtable in your area. The Regional Roundtable concept is to have professionals from agencies in a particular regional area meet quarterly to form relationships and strengthen skills. Best of all the agenda will be determined by you.

Here is how it works:

Regional Roundtable Peer Trainings, facilitated by Cal/Neva, are held in four regional geographic areas including:

Northern California
Southern California
Central Valley
Bay Area

Board members, Fiscal Officers, Human Resource practitioners, Executive Assistants, Program Managers and Communications professionals from each of the agencies in the four regional areas meet on a quarterly basis to strengthen skills and discuss best practices, with the goal of incorporating the efficiencies and effectiveness into their own agency processes.

Cal/Neva will facilitate peer training discussions based upon national best practices through a peer host agency (can rotate among the regional members) that would include review of approved topics and/or curriculum, shared issues/problems/what works and other topics to develop best practices among the network members.

The pilot program - Northern California CFO Roundtable - has been quite successful and the knowledge exchanges and relationships built, invaluable to the organizations involved.

Contact lynn@cal-neva.org for more information.

CCAP

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEWEST CERTIFIED COMMUNITY ACTION PROFESSIONALS!!

Godwin Aimua (Riverside)
Su Briggs (Merced)
Brenda Callahan-Johnson (Merced)
Dana Campbell (Butte)
Richard Lemire (Riverside)
Jim Masters (Cntr for Community Futures)
Grace McIntosh (San Luis Obispo)
Gloria Rogers (Butte)
Kathy Snyder (Riverside)

CCAP READINGS

CAA Executive Handbook and Missing pages

21 Irrefutable Laws - Maxwell

Nickel and Dimed - Ehrenreich

Leadership Challenge - Kouzes

Working Guide for Directors - Waldo

Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964

Maximum Feasible Success - Clark