• Alliance/COA Statement on Growing Incidence of Hate Crimes Against Asian American Community

    The following is a statement from Jody Levison-Johnson, president and CEO of the newly merged Alliance for

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  • Building a New Organization: Reflections on the First Thirty Days

    A big thank you to Jody, our President & CEO, for this blog post. After a successful due diligence process and Board and Member vote to merge, on January 1, 2021, the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities (Alliance) and the

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  • Alliance and COA Statement: Efforts to Reunify Families Separated at the Border Is Key First Step

    The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the Council on Accreditation have released the following statement on efforts of the Biden administration to reunify families separated at the border: The Trump administration’s ‘zero

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  • President Biden Signs Executive Order on Racial Equity

    From President Biden’s clear call for unity to poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s impassioned reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb,” this morning’s inauguration ceremony delivered the unifying message our country desperately needs to move

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  • A Statement from the Alliance and COA on Yesterday’s Capitol Hill Events

    January 7, 2021 – Jody Levison-Johnson, president and CEO of the newly merged Alliance for Strong Families and Communities (Alliance) and the Council on Accreditation (COA) issued the following statement in response to the violent protests

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  • Exciting News: We’re Merging!

    An update from Jody Levison-Johnson, COA President & CEO January 6, 2021 Hello all… As we welcome a new year and begin to move forward from the challenges of a year that looked dramatically different than any of us could have

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  • How Nonprofits are Navigating the Uncertainty of the Pandemic

    The most vulnerable members of society have also been the hardest hit by the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The work of nonprofit organizations serving those populations continued largely uninterrupted over the past several

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  • Communicating About COVID-19

    Since we began taking huge societal steps to flatten the curve and address our current public health crisis, my inbox has been flooded with emails from what seems like every retailer and  restaurant I have

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  • Preparing for response to COVID-19

    Protect your clients, protect your staff, protect your organization, protect your community. As the virus that causes COVID-19 continues to have a significant impact on our lives, accredited and in-process organizations have asked us how the

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  • COVID-19 Resources (Extended Version)

    In light of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, we wanted to highlight some of the resources that we provide on our website, and to provide additional ones, as well. Stay up-to-date on everything happening with COA during the pandemic here. No

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