Community Navigator Project Training Opportunities

Upcoming TRAININGS

  • Considerations and innovations for better Community Wildfire Protection Plans (Fall 2024)

  • Federal funding award management (Fall/Winter 2024)

PREVIOUS TRAININGS

  • Grants & Agreements: People and Processes 

    • Forest Service grants and agreements facilitate an array of partnership work in communities and landscapes across the country. The people and processes behind these tools often vary based on a project’s context, Forest Service unit, agency priorities, and more. Join our panel of Forest Service staff and nonprofit leaders – all with deep grants and agreements experience – who will walk through various ways these tools are put into practice, important steps and strategies, and their own lessons learned and advice for more successful outcomes with grants and agreements.

      • Watch the recording here (available in English, Spanish, and with ASL interpretation).

  • Forest Service Grants & Agreements 101

    • Join us for this introduction to Forest Service grants and agreements, essential tools the agency uses to deliver funding and work in partnership with nonprofits, fire departments, conservation districts, local governments, Tribes, and more. This webinar session reviewed key grants and agreements tools for wildfire and climate resilience work, including important functions, features, and distinctions.  We also heard from Forest Service staff about services and resources offered by the agency’s Grants and Agreements Outreach and Partnership Engagement branch with plenty of time reserved for participant Q&A.

      • Watch the recording here (available in English, Spanish, and with ASL interpretation).

  • Understanding and Navigating the U.S. Forest Service

    • Interested in learning more about the U.S. Forest Service, how the agency is organized, and how it works with partners? This session, hosted by the Watershed Research and Training Center and the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, provided an introductory overview of the Forest Service’s structure and scope, the policy and financial drivers of its activities, and bigger changes and opportunities relevant to partnerships that have been spurred by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. This webinar was supported through generous private donations to the Watershed Center.

  • Community Wildfire Protection Planning with The Ember Alliance

    • Learn all about Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) in this overview hosted by The Watershed Research and Training Center and The Ember Alliance in partnership with Coalitions and Collaboratives and the Hispanic Access Foundation. This webinar was supported in part by the USDA Forest Service through the Community Navigators Program. 

Read more about the Watershed Center’s Community Navigator Project.