MASSCAP
Training Center
Founded in 2014, the MASSCAP Training Center offers training and resources to enhance the ability of community organizations to serve their customers, develop their staff and boards, improve operations, expand capacity, and comply with funder requirements.
Practice Areas
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Communities of Practice
(Lane & Wegner, 1994).
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Training Calendar
Thursday, March 21, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
Back by popular demand! This webinar from Tom Ellis is a perennial favorite at the MTC. Covering a range of topics from self-care, how to have difficult conversations, and enforcing your boundaries with coworkers and clients, this session is full of useful information and new skills for any level of staff to take into your work and personal life.
MySidewalk Platform Overview & Training
Thursday, March 21, 2024 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
MASSCAP and the Planners Community of Practice began our project with MySidewalk about a year and a half ago, but we have recently been able to change our ability to use the data tools and platform with increased access for the network. This training will be a great opportunity to learn more about what you can do with these data and mapping tools, and how to navigate the platform and capabilities. For Planners and any others who have already been using MySidewalk, this will be a great chance to ask questions, learn more about how to create the reports and maps you need, and to see demos of the different tools and data sources/topics. If MySidewalk is a completely new entitiy for you, this training will be a chance to learn more and see if this tool is something you can use in your work and gain access.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join MASSCAP and Evelyn Friedman, the network’s resident expert on developing affordable housing, for the second session in this series on how CAAs can begin to develop affordable housing. This session will focus on the operations side of developing affordable rental housing. There will be a quick review of the first session in the series at the start of this training, so please bring any lingering questions or thoughts from last month!
Perceptions, Assumptions, and Identities Training
Thursday March 28, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
Understanding someone’s identity is limited by what we see on the surface. This often leads to bias by making assumptions about someone’s identity based on dominant culture norms and standards and to ascribing identities to people in the workplace. In this webinar, we will explore the concept of identity and go “below the waterline” to challenge and avoid stereotypes and identity-based bias in the workplace and elsewhere, and to begin to understand how it shapes how we work in our programs.
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