Webinar Archives
Municipal leaders have the opportunity to listen to a series of free archived webinars hosted by NLC. Through these events, local officials can follow lively discussions among NLC staff, national policy experts, and city officials on key opportunities for municipal leadership.
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School-Community Data Sharing Strategies That Get Results
Join NLC for this webinar to learn how schools can work closely with their communities to share information and drive better results for their youth.
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Using Data to Drive Change for Postsecondary Success - Part 1
Building upon the release of college attainment and enrollment reports to Talent Dividend cities, representatives of cities in the Communities Learning in Partnership (CLIP) initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will discuss how they have assembled and built analytical capacity, used data on attainment and enrollment to establish baselines, and set citywide goals.
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U.S. Communities Marketplace: Online Purchasing Just Got Easier and Better!
Through the U.S. Communities Marketplace, using an online, one-stop shopping environment has never been easier for cities to purchase a wide range of products.
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Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties Webinar: Highlighting Your Community’s Achievements
This webinar will provide users with valuable information about how to use and get the most out of the exciting new features, including how to submit information about their city, town or county's Let's Move! activities for display on their community profile page.
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Cities Promote Opportunity Audio Conference: Building Opportunity
The final segment of the Cities Promoting Opportunity audio conference series will discuss the innovative Step Up Savannah partnership.
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Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties Webinar—Goal I: Start Early, Start Smart
This webinar will provide valuable information related to the first goal of Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties—Goal I: Start Early, Start Smart.
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New Technology Resources for Improving City Human Service Systems
Join this webinar to learn how to apply to IBM's Early Adopters Program: an offer of software, consultation and technical assistance targeted to the human and social service system needs of NLC members.
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Sequestration: What Local Officials Need to Know, Say and Do
NLC is hosting a free webinar to discuss the sequestration process and how city leaders from across the country can join together to urge Congress to find a bipartisan and balanced solution to reducing the deficit, not one that will undermine the economy.
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Cybersecurity Awareness
October is National Cybersecurity month. The National League of Cities and the Public Technology Institute are presenting this webinar to raise awareness of this important issue for local elected leaders and local officials. This non-technical webinar will help attendees better understand the variety of cyber risks and vulnerabilities, both internal and external that governments face and the actions they can take to provide for a safer and secure cyber work environment.
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New Findings from the FDIC on the Unbanked: 2011 Household Study and Model Safe Accounts Pilot
Join the YEF Institute for a free, hour-long webinar to hear about the implications of new findings from the FDIC for cities that are working to help families gain access to the financial mainstream.
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"Cities Promote Opportunity" Audio Conference: New City Strategies
The Cities Promote Opportunity audio conference series will explore on October 18 how Providence, R.I. is carrying on its task force’s mission with new strategies.
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Housing Our Heroes: What City Leaders Can Do To Ensure All Veterans Have a Place to Call Home
To help cities meet the housing needs of all veterans, the National League of Cities is hosting a webinar focusing on the solutions to provide housing for disabled veterans across the “disability spectrum”
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Supreme Court Preview
The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted numerous cases of interest to state and local governments and will take more as the term continues. Join Lisa Soronen, Executive Director, State and Local Legal Center, in this free preview of the Supreme Court’s October 2012 term.
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Strengthening Citywide Afterschool Opportunities: Improving Quality Systemwide
This webinar will introduce a new how-to guide for Out-of-School Time (OST) systems-builders that identifies the key stages and steps in building effective, sustainable and systemic approaches to quality improvement systems (QIS) for afterschool.
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NLC Procurement Card Program: Bringing Efficiencies and Savings to the City Payment Process
RECORDED 10/10/12: A new payment solution for cities offered by the National League Cities and administered by PFM Financial Services, LLC (PFM) brings cost savings and efficiencies to city purchasing.
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RECORDED 10/2/2012: Using Social Media to Improve Government Services & Public Engagement
Social media is now being utilized by local governments to meet core operational goals beyond traditional communications and marketing tactics. It is becoming fundamental to the notion of “government” by helping offices provide additional or improved government services at an increasing rate. Hear how it is being used in areas such as service improvement, public engagement, economic development, and emergency response.
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Streamlining Code Compliance
RECORDED 9/21/12: This webinar will present strategies cities can use to streamline – and thus increase – code compliance. These strategies, including the use of technology, serve to remove duplication and create more efficient administrative procedures thus allowing staff to focus on thorough plan review and the inspections that are crucial to improving compliance rates.
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Understanding Your Cooperative Purchasing Options: U.S. Communities Webinar on Purchasing Cooperative Standards
When it comes to public procurement, joining a purchasing cooperative is a well-established best practice for cities and public agencies. But how do you distinguish one purchasing co-op from another? This U.S. Communities webinar will offer suggestions on what to look for when choosing a cooperative purchasing program for your city in a way that provides transparency and standards that will bring the best value to the city’s procurement process.
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Strengthening Citywide Afterschool Opportunities: Harnessing the Power of Data
RECORDED 9/18/12: This webinar introduces the YEF Institute's new in-depth report comparing major data systems vendors for citywide out-of-school time (OST) programming and offers guidance from The Wallace Foundation’s recently released data tip sheets.
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How a Municipal Network Can Help Your City
RECORDED 9/13/2012: The Public Technology Institute and the National League of Cities will be hosting a webinar where participants will hear more about the report from Chris Mitchell at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and city officials and staff who have examined how a municipal network can benefit them and have successfully implemented it.
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Complying with the Affordable Care Act: A Guide for Cities and Towns
RECORDED 9/11/2012: This webinar will provide cities as employers the resources needed to assess whether municipal health plans meet the standards outlined in the ACA.
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Strengthening Citywide Afterschool Opportunities: All About Intermediaries
Learn about the importance of intermediaries in building Out-of-School Time (OST) systems in the first of a three-part webinar series on OST system building.
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Healthy Communities for a Healthy Future: Supporting Let’s Move! Cities, Towns, and Counties
Tune in to this webinar to learn how NLC and its partners will assist local elected officials who sign up their communities to participate in LMCTC in achieving five goals to improve the health of local residents.
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Managing Foreclosures and Vacant Properties
Managing Foreclosures and Vacant Properties
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City Innovations to Empower Families in the Evolving Financial Marketplace
RECORDED 6/20/2012: This webinar highlights cutting-edge city initiatives directly from municipal leaders and city staff, and how they to begin or enhance financial inclusion efforts in your own communities.
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A New Approach to Transportation and Housing Development
RECORDED 6/14/2012: This webinar highlights a new set of case studies on an emerging city strategy for ensuring that more young children are poised for educational success.
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Building a Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network: What Local Leaders Need To Know
RECORDED 6/6/2012: This webinar will help local leaders understand their role in building the critical public safety communications network.
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Poverty Reduction Peer Network
RECORDED 5/31/2012: This webinar highlights Erie Together, a collaborative community initiative to alleviate poverty in Erie, Pa.
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Helping Residents Improve Financial Outcomes through Financial Coaching
RECORDED 5/30/2012: This webinar will feature three experts currently implementing financial coaching as part of their broader financial empowerment efforts.
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Economic Development Webinar: Small Business Financing
RECORDED 5/23/2012: This webinar highlights ways communities can connect with CDFIs and other financing institutions to support local businesses.
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NLC Prescription Discount Card Program-Meeting the Needs of Your Residents
RECORDED 5/22/2012: During this webinar the NLC Prescription Discount Card Program staff will review the easy steps and the materials provided to implement the program in your city.
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Educational Alignment for Young Children: Profiles in Local Innovation
RECORDED 4/30/2012: This webinar highlights a new set of case studies on an emerging city strategy for ensuring that more young children are poised for educational success.
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Healthy Food Shortage: How Cities Can Use Federal Meals Programs to Reduce Childhood Hunger and Obesity
RECORDED 4/18/2012: This webinar will describe how municipal leaders can leverage federal nutrition assistance program funding to combat these interconnected crises.
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Economic Development: Agricultural Incubators
RECORDED 3/22/2012: This webinar focuses on the Food Innovation Center, a unique business incubation and economic development accelerator program, which provides business and technology expertise to startup and established food and value-added agriculture businesses in New Jersey and the surrounding region.
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Using Ready by 21 Tools to Guide Youth Master Planning
RECORDED 3/21/2012: This webinar will introduce city officials, senior municipal staff, and community partners to Ready by 21 – a set of innovative strategies that helps communities improve the odds that all children and youth will be ready for college, work and life.
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Local Strategies for Improving Energy Code Compliance
RECORDED 2/23/2012: This webinar addresses strategies that local governments can employ to ensure that buildings in their jurisdiction are meeting the requirements of the energy code while still meeting the constraints of their budget.
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How Broadband Access in Santa Monica has Impacted Local Economic Development
RECORDED 2/22/2012: This webinar, hosted by the National League of Cities and the Public Technology Institute, presents a case study on the city of Santa Monica and how a strong telecommunications infrastructure and local leadership on the technology front is helping drive this city’s economic development.
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Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth through Collective Impact
RECORDED 2/15/2012: As part of a year-long YEF Institute focus on creative local partnerships to improve outcomes for children, youth and families, the Collective Impact webinar helps National League of Cities members and partners consider how to use coordinated approaches more effectively to improve results.
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Reengagement Centers-Key Element in a City Strategy to Recover Dropouts
RECORDED 1/31/2012: An interactive discussion with local leaders who have each contributed to the establishment of reengagement centers in their cities.
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The National Broadband Map: An Economic Development Tool for Cities
RECORDED 1/25/2012: Representatives from NTIA will share how local elected officials can use the National Broadband Map to compare their city’s connectivity speed and distribution to others; to locate availability of specific services in certain locations places; and learn how to provide feedback that will further enhance the tool.
