Please join us for the Michigan Children's Savings Accounts Network quarterly meeting on Wednesday, September 22, from 10:00am-12:00pm EST. You can view the meeting agenda here.

We are welcoming topics of discussion for the technical assistance section of the meeting. If you have a topic you would like added to the agenda; please email me at rakovitis@cedamichigan.org.

Foundations of Inclusive Hiring: A Four Part Series

Nonprofit staff members wear countless informal hats, and often hiring manager is one of them! This four part series will explain the importance of purposeful, inclusive hiring practices and provide attendees with attainable action steps they can take immediately to improve their hiring plans.  

Join CEDAM's director of capacity building to get started on this essential work.

October 7- Why inclusive hiring?

• Explore what being inclusive means to your organization and community

• Learn how discrimination happens when hiring plans aren't purposefully inclusive

• Understand what implicit bias is and examine your own implicit bias

Attendees will leave understanding what diversity means to their specific location, organization, and the population they serve.

October 14- Inclusive recruitment strategies

• How to create inclusive marketing materials and job postings

• Where to promote positions to ensure a diverse candidate pool 

• How to implement an inclusive applicant review process 

Attendees will leave able to create a hiring plan.  

October 21- Interview best practices

• Craft an interview process that allows all interviewees to have their best interview   

• How to determine who to interview

• Communication with candidates prior to interview

Attendees will leave understanding how to create an interview matrix.

October 28- Successful onboarding and training

• How to tailor onboarding processes to candidates' skillsets

• Best practices in setting up your new employee for success

Attendees will leave able to create an onboarding plan.

Join us in our first Community Economic Development 101 webinar of the series! 

We often see "community development" and "economic development" used as separate terms. So what do we mean by "community economic development" (CED)?

The CED field is diverse and has many definitions and interpretations. CEDAM's executive director will explore several of them and through examples, attendees will learn about how locally-based CED organizations create healthy communities, empower residents, create economic opportunity, and more.