Grow your capacity: legal clinic, collaboration, fundraising, and more — Anacostia Parks and Community Collaborative

Local events and resources

NEW: The Progressive Talent Pipeline. The goal of this new project is to identify top-flight progressives to work on the Hill for the projected wave of Democrats. Visit the website to learn more about getting involved as a cheerleader of young talent or as someone who wants to work in Congress.

If online learning is your thing, check out some of the the upcoming courses on Coursera: Influencing People, The Age of Sustainable Development, and Creative Problem Solving.

Get your ServSafe Food Handler Certificate Saturday, October 6 from CAUSES. Learn more about this class being taught in Ward 8.

D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center's Free Advice and Referral Clinic takes place Saturday, September 8 from 10:00am to Noon at Bread for the City, SE (1640 Good Hope Rd, SE, Green line to Shaw/Howard University; Green line to Anacostia, Bus B2 or W6). Lawyers can discuss the following issues: bankruptcy/debt collection; civil rights; consumer law; employment law; family law; health law; housing law; personal and property damage; probate; public benefits (SSDI/SSI, etc.); and tax law.

Individuals living on low incomes can meet one-on-one with an attorney for free legal advice on any civil legal matter governed by DC or federal law. Although the attorney will not be assigned to represent you, you may receive important information about your legal situation. If you are eligible, you may be referred to one of the legal or social services agencies in the District to provide you with additional assistance and/or representation. However, this clinic does not guarantee that you will obtain representation through one of the referred agencies. Bring all of the documents concerning your legal problem to the clinic.

For more help, visit www.lawhelp.org/dc. To ensure the lawyers can assist you with the help of an interpreter, call the Legal Information Help Line, (202) 626-3499. After selecting your language, press 5 for all other inquiries, press 3 for information about the free legal clinic, and then press 9 to leave a message with the information requested.

Tools and resources

10 Simple Things You can do to Support Your Favorite Nonprofit Without Spending a Single Dime (PDF) includes telling someone about your favorite organization, forwarding emails to your friends, and my favorite, adding info about the organization in your email signature (!!!). (do good Consulting)
45 Quotes That Celebrate Teamwork, Hard Work, and Collaboration (HubSpot)
The Master List of Peer to Peer Fundraising Ideas. Who knew there were so many ideas?! (Fundful)
The Complete List of Instagram Features for Marketing Experts (Sprout Social)

At work

The Role of Senior Leaders in Building a Race Equity Culture (The Bridgespan Group)
If you want to engage people 50 and older in your work with young people, take a look at The Gen2Gen Learning Hub. You'll find goodies like 10 steps to take to engage adults 50+ in youth-serving organizations, a seven-page guide. To get the most out of the learning hub, you will have to register (free).
How and When to Let a Volunteer Go (Nonprofit Hub)
Are you a leader or a manager? Here's the difference. Knowing the difference matters not only to individuals but to supervisors and boards. How often does someone get promoted to a leadership position (where leadership actually matters) but they have no leadership skills? A good read from Fast Company.
The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills (MITSloan Management Review)