Resource Library
Welcome to the River Network Resource Library!
Search through hundreds of publications, recorded webinars, newsletters, tools, and templates to support your water work. Explore specific topics using the icons below, or if you’re not sure what you need, use the search bar. Type in keywords like “strategic planning,” “State Revolving Fund,” or “data collection.” The resources included here are intended to help you advance your work and spark innovation and new ideas.
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Featured Resources
- Building Blocks of Trust – how community organizations and utilities can work together.
- Self-Paced Training – based on the Building Blocks of Trust
- Colorado SMP – everything you’d ever need to know about stream management planning in Colorado.
- Equitable Infrastructure Toolkit – learn to advocate for equitable water infrastructure in your community.
- Tools for Equitable Climate Resilience – how to perform community-led research and support local leaders to advance climate resilience.
- Waste in Our Waters: A Community Toolkit for Aquatic Litter Removal – one-stop shop for building a litter removal program.
- The Clean Water Act Owner’s Manual – the quintessential, transformational tool on how YOU can use the CWA to protect your waters.
- State Revolving Fund Advocacy Toolkit – a comprehensive guide for advocates looking to get up to speed on the SRF process.
- Effective Organizations – a five-part learning series on everything from board governance, to volunteer management, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and more.
- Mastering the Grant Lifecycle: From Prospect to Execution – a five-part learning series to make your grant management more effective.
Looking for information on specific state-level water policies? Explore the State Policy Hub!
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Mapping the Flow: GIS Storytelling for Conservation
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarDiscover how conservation organizations are harnessing the power of ArcGIS StoryMaps to amplify advocacy efforts and share inspiring stories of those working to protect our planet. Join River Network and the ESRI StoryMaps team for an engaging lesson o… View Resource ›
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Mastering the Grant Lifecycle: From Prospect to Execution
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarThe episodes in this series provide a playbook of processes, tools, and strategies that will make your grant management more efficient and may even lead to more funding down the road.
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Key Principles of Collaborative Fundraising
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarJoin the Urban Waters Learning Network (UWLN) and River Network for a 90-minute workshop on collaborative fundraising. Together, we’ll demystify multi-partner grant applications and learn ways to define roles, responsibilities, and expectations when co… View Resource ›
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Learning Series: Building Water Equity and Climate Resilient Communities for ALL
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarIn this 6-part series, hosted by the Urban Waters Learning Network, we will highlight a variety of strategies that community-based organizations can use to help their communities anticipate, prepare for and respond to climate risks such as flooding, coastal storms and drought, with a focus on protecting community members who are most vulnerable to climate threats.
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Discover Your Nonprofit’s Path to Digital Transformation
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarThe technology landscape is constantly changing, bringing efficiency and resiliency to those that adapt. Join Felipe Reyes, Director of Customer Development at TechSoup, to learn about the TechSoup Digital Assessment Tool (DAT), a free web-based applic… View Resource ›
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The Nuts & Bolts of NGO Budgeting
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarOrganizations of all sizes are facing budget challenges this decade driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting funder priorities, stimulus money and more. For this two-part series, River Network hosted The Fellows Group to talk about budget approaches t… View Resource ›
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Addressing Racial Equity
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarIn this short video series, Jennifer Arnold (Reciprocity Consulting, LLC) and Darryl Haddock (West Atlanta Watershed Alliance) lay a helpful foundation for organizations exploring the nexus between water, equity and race. Over the course of four brief… View Resource ›
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Board of Directors Development Shorts
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarRiver Network brings you this ‘shorts’ series on Board of Directors Development to highlight the various needs of boards in different stages of growth. Whether you’re with a completely volunteer-run organization, a fully staffed organization, or somewhere in between, this series is for you! We have best practices and considerations to ease the burdens of managing your board.
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Multi-Stakeholder Collaboratives – Better Practices for Facilitation and Coordination
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarLeading and coordinating a multi-stakeholder collaboration takes special focus and skill. Join us for two highly interactive, 90-minute trainings led by Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL) focused on facilitating productive virtual meetings, ma… View Resource ›
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Trash to Action: Using Trash Data to Take Informed Action for Your Waterways
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities, Water Science
Resource Type: WebinarTrash is one of the most visible and abundant forms of pollution that our waterways and communities face today. Trash is a water quality issue, yet it is rarely treated as such. Who wants to swim, paddle, fish, or live near a waterway lined with trash?… View Resource ›
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The Fundamentals of SRF Administration & Influencing Equitable Infrastructure in Your Community
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: WebinarWatch our 3-part training series focused on unpacking the fundamentals of State Revolving Fund (SRF) administration – how they work, how to influence the process and how to understand the intersection of water affordability and water infrastructure funding.
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Resources
Program: Drinking Water, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Tools and Templates, WebinarWatch the recorded peer calls and explore the opportunities within IIJA related to removal, rehabilitation, and retrofit of dams and western water issues. The resource also includes links and tools related to implementation advocacy.
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SCW Virtual Workshop Series: Diversion Assessments
Program: Healthy Resilient Rivers, Healthy Rivers in Agricultural Landscapes
Resource Type: WebinarParticipants explored the reasons diversion assessments are important to the SMP/IWMP process. SMP leaders from the Yampa and Mancos Rivers presented their varying approaches to diversion assessments. Phil Brink and Nicole Seltzer’s slides Gretchen Ran… View Resource ›
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Essential Learning Series: Effective Organizations
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarStart a new chapter for your organization by going back to the basics. River Network is excited to make available our acclaimed training series: A Recipe for Effective River and Watershed Organizations. The series is designed to help executive director… View Resource ›
Strategic Planning in 15 Minutes or Less
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarWe’ll review what’s included in a strategic plan process, things to consider before hiring a consultant, special considerations for coalitions and collaboratives, and tricks for keeping your strategic plan relevant.
