Webinars to Support Your Project or Program Success
Webinars to Support Your Project or Program Success
We’re invested in your success! Join us online for monthly webinars that provide insights, ideas, and feedback sessions geared toward making your program or project a success for native communities.
Register for upcoming regional webinars!
White House Council on NA Affairs: Tribal Engagement Session on Native Language – June 29, 3:30pm EST
Pacific Region: Keeping Our Native Families Safe on the Internet – June 30, 3:00 pm EST
Western Region: Financial Literacy Education for Native Youth – July 14, 3:00pm EST

Instructional Webinars
This is an archive of instructional webinars conducted by the Western Region TTA Center, ANA and ACF.
Project Planning and Development 3: Community Surveys, Conditions and Project Goal
December 15, 2020
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about the second of several community-based planning techniques: Community Surveys. You’ll also learn about the next Products of project design: Current Community Condition and Project Goal. Using community surveys can help to identify the conditions and goals of the community, which is the next step of a community-based project plan. This is video 3 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 4: Steering Committees and Objectives, Outputs and Outcomes
January 8, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about steering committees, their importance throughout the life of project planning and implementation, as well as how they can help design the building blocks of a project. This is video 4 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 5: Focus Groups and Approach
January 8, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about Focus Groups, how they can help you pick important topics apart and design a community-based project Approach. This is video 5 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 6: Key Informant Interviews and Evaluation
January 27, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about Key Informant Interviews and how to engage with your community one-on-one as well as how this insight can be used to develop an evaluation plan. This is video 6 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 7: Organizational Capacity, Contingencies and Sustainability
January 27, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn how to leverage your asset mapping to identify your organizational capacity, contingencies, and sustainability plan. This is video 7 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 8: Budget
February 2, 2021
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In this final, PPD Training vignette, you will learn how to build a budget to fill gaps in the resources and assets that are already available to you. This is video 8 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
NA’s 2019 FOAs: What You Need to Know
March 7, 2019
TA staff and Division of Program Operations Director, Mia Strickland, present the 2019 FOAs. Listen in to learn about how the FOAs have changed from last year, and to review ANA’s application requirements.
Food for Thought: Eating your way to mental health
May 10, 2018
Diagnosable mental illness affects over 21% of the American Indian/Alaska Native population (SAMHSA). And while there is a general decline in rates of violence and drug abuse, rates of suicide, marijuana use and depression diagnosis are on the rise. Many factors play a role in mental illness, and in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we explored just one: Food. Healthy choices in food, improved food security and increased subsistence farming may play a role in improving mental health
Community Planning and Preparedness
April 26, 2018
The key to a well-developed project as well as a competitive grant application is to have a firm foundation in community-based planning. Community planning and preparedness will enable you to easily move forward on projects and funding opportunities that align with your community’s long-term goals.
2017 ANA FOAs and Useful Application Development Tools
May 31, 2017
It is ANA application season! Join us to learn about the changes to the 2017 FOAs and two new application development tools: the ANA Application Toolkit and Grants.gov’s Workspace. Get the up-to-date information about applying for ANA funding in 2017!
Effective Community-Wide Native Language Strategies
February 15, 2017
For many years, native language projects have been making strides in increasing the fluency of their students with the assistance of ANA funding. But how do we go about increasing language use within the entire community? In this webinar, we showcase Native Language projects that have been successful in affecting change in language awareness and use within their communities.
Are You Ready to Apply for Federal Funding?
December 12, 2016
Obtaining a DUNS number and registering with SAM.gov AND Grants.gov are all required steps in the process of applying for federal funding. In this webinar, we break down what can seem a long and lengthy process into simple steps.
Indigenous Evaluation
October 5, 2016
Evaluation is key to successful project management and is usually a requirement when seeking funding. In this webinar, we discuss how indigenous ways of knowing can be woven into your evaluation plan.
Logic Models: A Framework for a Project
September 7, 2016
A logic model is a roadmap connecting the need for a project to its desired results. Join us as we go over the steps and the terminology used in creating logic models, and discover how they can be a valuable tool for your project planning