Community Calendar

Hiring the right people—and helping them thrive—can make or break your nonprofit’s success. This interactive workshop series walks you through effective interviewing techniques, collaborative problem-solving around common hiring challenges, and proven onboarding strategies to set new staff up for long-term success. You’ll leave with practical tools to attract, select, and retain talent that strengthens your mission and culture. Join your peers in this hands-on learning experience to sharpen your hiring and onboarding practices from start to finish.

Workshop Design

Morning Session – Effective Interviewing

Who you hire is a direct reflection of you and your organization. During this portion of the workshop, we will explore and role-play helpful tips and tools to improve your interviewing skills and ensure you hire the right candidate that your budget can afford every time. Focus areas will include defining your ideal candidate, proper interview preparation, and proper interview execution.

Brainstorming Lunch – Recruitment Challenges

Leveraging the peer knowledge in the room, we will surface the key challenges we all face in recruiting and retaining talent in the nonprofit sector. We will then seek to brainstorm as a group around solutions and best practices for addressing these difficulties.

Afternoon Session – Effective Onboarding

Phasing new employees into their roles with structured onboarding to set them up for success has always proven to be more effective than the very common “throw them into the frying pan,” or “figure your own job out” schools of learning. During this section of the workshop, we will examine and discuss tips and best practices to help new employees assimilate quickly and accelerate their speed to proficiency resulting in more productive, satisfied, engaged, and tenured employees.

Who Should Attend:

Nonprofit leaders and managers charged with hiring and building high performing staff teams. Organizations are encouraged to attend as a leadership group.

On Tuesday, March 17th at 7PM, the Ventura County Interfaith Community will try to answer the question of Why We Do Interfaith Dialogue. It will do so by suggesting that interfaith dialogue is a pathway both to peace and to personal growth.

Responding to this question will be:
Dr. Tim Helton,
Rabbi Michael Lotker
Imam Muhammed Shoayb Mehtar.

The event will take place as part of the Catholic University Series at Padre Serra Perish. The organizers of the University Series charge a nominal $15 per class (or $10 prior to February 16th if you register at The University Series [link below] with an accompanying friend attending free.

All are welcome to attend whether Catholic or not, so please consider sharing this information with friends and family!

Now in our 50th year of serving Ventura County, the Coalition for Family Harmony—founded in 1976 in Oxnard, CA—is the only rape crisis center in the region to provide emergency domestic violence shelters counseling, legal services, and a 24-hour hotline with crisis response.

Our main fundraiser every year is Denim Day. It is held on the last Wednesday of April during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and raises awareness about sexual violence and challenges victim blaming. It began after a 1998 Italian court overturned a rape conviction, suggesting tight jeans implied consent. In protest, women in Italy’s Parliament wore jeans—sparking a global movement. Wearing denim shows support for survivors and promotes education about consent and prevention.