REI Tour Webinars
Upcoming Webinars:
May 17, 2012 - Best Practices from the Field: 2012 Tax Season Recap
Please join us as we look back on the 2012 Tax season and discuss best practices from our partners across the country. Listen as successes and lessons learned are shared regarding new innovative techniques such as Virtual VITA, Disability training for volunteers and much more as we continue to work and strive for economic empowerment for persons with disabilities.
Registration information will be available soon!
Jul 19, 2012 - Financial Coaching: Strengthening Our Assets
Aug 16, 2012 - Stretching Your Communication Dollars to Reach Your Target Audience
Oct 18, 2012 - 2013 REI Tour Kick-Off
Nov 15, 2012 - Access and Accomodations 2013
March 15, 2012 - Economic Mobility and Strength - Lessons learned from the bottom looking up!
Join the National Disability Institute's Executive Director and Founder, Michael Morris, J.D. as he shares his perspective on economic mobility and strength for persons with disabilities. The American Dream is something we all share and Mr. Morris will provide a brief history of the asset development movement for persons with disabilities, lessons learned along the way and share new innovative strategies that are continuing to drive the movement.
Presenter: Michael Morris, Executive Director, National Disability Institute
February 16, 2012 - Social Media "Behind the Scenes"
Join us for a special open-forum workshop where we share our own from-the-field best practices over the past year highlighting our collaboration with the MyFreeTaxes campaign. The workshop will be designed based on common questions we've received from you. Most importantly, we'll take you "behind the scenes" and demonstrate insiders' tips, tricks, and tools we use and our own day-to-day efforts.
Presenter: Kate Bradley Chernis, Outlandos Media
View a Recording of the Webinar on YouTube (Live Captioning Transcript)
View Kate's Presentation Slides
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2012 MyFreeTaxes Social Media How-To Kit
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2012 MyFreeTaxes Pre-Written Content
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January 19, 2012 - Leveraging the Online Charge for Change - MyFreeTaxes.com
In this webinar, we shared information and insights on the groundbreaking free tax preparation partnership MyFreeTaxes.com, in which National Disability Institute's Real Economic Impact Tour is partnering with One Economy and United Way Worldwide with support from Walmart to increase awareness on free tax preparation services via the internet. MyFreeTaxes.com operated by One Economy is an online tax filing tool.
Presenters:
Lee Davenport, One Economy
Laura Scherler, United Way Worldwide
Michael Roush, National Disability Institute
2011 Webinar Series
December 15, 2011 - Top Ten Tips for the 2012 Tax Season
Don Dill, IRS-SPEC Senior Tax Analyst shared his "Top Ten Tips" for the upcoming 2012 tax season.
November 11, 2011 - 2012 REI Tour Kick-Off
Our theme at this year's Mayor's Leadership Academy was "Leading the Charge for Change: Educate, Advocate, Innovate" and as we begin a new year of National Disability Institute's Real Economic Impact Tour, we want to provide you with the tools to Educate, Advocate and Innovate in your communities and beyond!
In this webinar, we unveiled our new tools and new approaches to our partners as we continue to work and strive for economic empowerment for persons with disabilities.
View a recording of the webinar on YouTube (Live Captioning Transcript)
August 25, 2011 - Engaging the Disability Community To Increase Participation Rate for Your VITA, IDA and Financial Education Programs
This webinar will introduce you to this growing workforce population, familiarize you with community resources that can assist you in your outreach efforts, and teach you how to provide accessibility and accommodations assistance for people with disabilities. You will also hear some best practices from organizations that have been successful in reaching this new audience.
Presenters:
Elizabeth Jennings, National Disability Institute
Elizabeths's PowerPoint
July 28, 2011 - Using Social Media to Enhance Your Online Presence
This webinar will provide an overview of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and will provide 5 social media tips to enhance your online presence. Best practices will be shared by the National Disability Institute and Real Economic Impact Tour partners, United Way of the Bay Area and United Way of Metropolitan Nashville who are using social media to increase outreach for VITA and Financial Education.
View a recording of the webinar (audio and presentations) Press the "Playback" button.
Presenters:
Nakia Matthews, Media and Technology Coordinator, National Disabilty Institute
Nakia's PowerPoint
Kelly Batson, Reginal Director, Earn It! Keep It! Save It!, United Way of the Bay Area
Kelly's PowerPoint
Jessica Brady Ho, Manager, Nashville Alliance for Financial Independence (NAFI), United Way of Metropolitan Nashville
Jessica's PowerPoint
January 27, 2011 - Everything You Need to Know About the 2011 Tax Filing Season
Join us for a conversation with Don Dill, IRS SPEC and Lee Davenport, One-Economy's myfreetaxes.com to learn about updates for the 2011 tax filing season. To view a recording of the webinar (audio and presentations) click here and press the "Playback" button.
Don Dill's Powerpoint
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Lee Davenport's Powerpoint
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