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Community Connection in Times of Crisis

April 2, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

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Date:
April 2, 2020
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

Organizer

CFLeads
Email
rreiss@cfleads.org
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Community Connection in Times of Crisis is a virtual gathering for community foundation staff to share their experiences responding to COVID-19 through a community leadership perspective. Together, we explore best practices for bringing our relationships, tools and resources to the table to address this crisis, both in the short-term and in the long-term as our communities begin to recover and rebuild.

Below are the first six meetings we hosted on a weekly schedule. Starting in May, we have moved to a biweekly schedule and will post upcoming webinars on our Events Calendar.

Meeting 6 – Thursday, April 30

On this week’s webinar, we’ll hear about the value of coordinating your response with the public sector, the usefulness of supporting infrastructure providers, and the benefit of finding the right partners. We’ll also discuss the importance of keeping our work rooted in community engagement and accountability, even in a crisis.

Speakers:

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Meeting 5 – Thursday, April 23

On this week’s webinar, our speakers highlighted the value in setting principles for grantmaking from your COVID-19 funds and the need to devote attention now to reimagining public systems and rebuilding the third sector.

Speakers:

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Meeting 4 – Thursday, April 16

At our fourth meeting, we discussed creative responses to the challenges being faced by small businesses, ways to navigate new and existing donor partnerships and how to begin to lift our heads to think about what comes next.

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Meeting 3 – Thursday, April 9

At our third meeting, we discussed how to align our work with the nonprofit and public sectors, recognizing that this crisis is different from others community foundations may have responded to in the past. We also explored the opportunity for community foundations to weigh in on key policy issues that have been exposed by the pandemic to ensure that they advance racial equity and economic inclusion.

Speakers:

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Meeting 2 – Thursday, April 2

At our second meeting, we discussed the importance of continuing to listen to underrepresented populations in times of crisis, ways to invest in self-care for ourselves and our non-profit partners, and how to punch above our weight by working collaboratively with community partners on immediate and long-term recovery needs.

Speakers:

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Meeting 1 – Thursday, March 26

At our first meeting, we discussed building on existing relationships to support the public sector, fostering community trust and transparency, and using innovative tactics and strategies to support the most vulnerable among us.

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