Resources
Welcome to our Resource Library! Here you can search through River Network’s large compilation of publications, newsletters, tools, templates, and recorded webinars. The resources included here are intended to help you advance your work and spark innovation and new ideas. We hope you find some things that help!
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Data Visualization Tools: Google Data Studio
Program: Clean Water, Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarThis web training will introduce participants to Google Data Studio, a free service that allows users to easily create and host live data dashboards, reports, and other data visualizations on your website. The training will cover how to access, format,… View Resource ›
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Water Quality Standards of the Delaware River Basin
Program: Clean Water
Resource Type: WebinarThe objective of the Clean Water Act is to maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of our Nation’s waters (CWA section 101(a)). What exactly does that look like for the Delaware River Basin? This session discusses water quality standa… View Resource ›
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Drinking Water: Community Action & Advocacy
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: WebinarJoin River Network and our community partners from around the Great Lakes for conversation about how to take action on drinking water in your community to ensure clean, safe, and affordable water for all. Speakers: – Alicia Smith, Junction Coalition of… View Resource ›
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Navigating End of the Year Giving in 2020
Program: Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarHear from River Network fundraising staff and other professionals in the field as they share advice and best practices for end of year giving to help finish the year strong and propel your organization into 2021. This meeting is a continuation of our C… View Resource ›
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Making the Case for Equitable Water Infrastructure Investment, Repair, and Upgrades
Program: Clean Water
Resource Type: WebinarDo you want updated drinking water and wastewater treatment plants and pipes, more rain gardens to reduce stormwater pollution and flooding, and opportunities to restore local rivers and floodplains? Do you want these infrastructure investments to crea… View Resource ›
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Data Products and Vizualization Tools
Program: Clean Water, Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarRiver Network, Academy of Natural Sciences, and Stroud Water Research Center introduce options for data products and visualization tools available to the Delaware River Watershed Initiative. In this introductory webinar, you’ll learn about ANS’ availab… View Resource ›
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Using “Waste in Our Waters: A Community Toolkit for Aquatic Litter Removal”
Program: Clean Water, Strong Champions
Resource Type: Webinar“Waste in Our Waters: A Community Toolkit for Aquatic Litter Removal” is a step-by-step guide for addressing litter in your community, both before and after it reaches your local waterway. River Network is proud to provide this free to access, easy to… View Resource ›
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2020 Election Resources for Nonprofits
Program: Strong Champions
Resource Type: Publications, WebinarClick here to register for River Network’s Post-Election Community Conversation 11/5 at 2p ET. Post-Election Now that election day has passed, it’s important to now focus our efforts on amplifying the message that we must take the necessary time to cou… View Resource ›
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Planning Virtual Meetings and Conferences
Program: River Rally, Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarConnecting people is a key element of how River Network and groups across our Network carry out our missions. And yet, COVID-19 has forced many of us to move our long-planned meetings and conferences to a virtual space. River Network and members of our… View Resource ›
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Best Practices for Fundraising in a Crisis
Program: Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarClick here to download slides. During this Coffee/Lunch Roundtable hosted on 4/15/20, Lisa Runkel, River Network’s Philanthropy Manager, presented on “5 Fundraising Essentials During COVID-19.” During the presentation she shares five ways she stays con… View Resource ›
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Advocacy 103 Planning + Resources = An Effective Campaign
Program: Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarBuilding upon the information learned in the first two of this three part series, we will provide you with a step by step process to prepare for and launch an effective issue campaign. Learn tips and tricks for outlining your campaign plan, how and why… View Resource ›
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Advocacy 102: Boards + Advocacy = A Winning Strategy
Program: Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarThinking about dipping your organizational toe into the world of advocacy or expanding your advocacy work? This online training builds upon the webinar short, “Yes You Can: Advocacy Basics for Beginners,” seen above. In this full-length live webinar, w… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Anti-Displacement Strategies: Environmental Restoration… Meet Affordable Housing
Program: Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarBuilding on the first two webinars in our series on gentrification and displacement that (1) defined the issues and (2) showed how to use data to track them, this recorded webinar focuses on the most effective strategy to preventing displacement: prote… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Monitoring Neighborhood Change – Using Data to Track and Prevent Displacement
Program: Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarIn this recorded webinar, the second in our Urban Waters Learning Network series on gentrification and displacement, we explore different ways data is being used by communities and decision-makers to understand displacement vulnerabilities, inform infr… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Understanding Gentrification and Displacement – The Path to Equitable Development
Program: Clean Water, Strong Champions
Resource Type: WebinarThis recorded webinar frames the topics of gentrification and displacement and provides an example of the types of multi-sector partnerships that urban waters practitioners can create to ease displacement pressures. Presenters Paulina Lopez and Robin S… View Resource ›