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Planning and Partnering for Impact: Best Practices for Municipal Opioid Settlement Funds

Planning and Partnering for Impact: Best Practices for Municipal Opioid Settlement Funds

This webinar reviews best practices for municipalities getting started with their opioid settlement funds, including an example of working regionally from the Great Meadows Public Health Collaborative.
Community Health and WellnessWebinarfreePublication Date: Nov 19, 2025
Municipal Legal Updates: Summer 2025

Municipal Legal Updates: Summer 2025

This webinar features a panel of attorneys with the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association addressing current issues. Topics include cannabis law and policy, tax title takings, recent accessory dwelling unit (ADU) bylaw decisions, and policies related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities. Recommended audience: chief municipal officials, all members
Employment LawsWebinarfreePublication Date: Aug 06, 2025
Adapting Public Buildings for Creative Uses

Adapting Public Buildings for Creative Uses

This webinar with the Mass Cultural Council provides an overview of how abandoned municipal buildings have been adapted into artist and creative spaces, featuring projects in Harwich, Easthampton and Dedham. Recommended audience: Planners, all members
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: Jun 11, 2025
Leveraging Arts and Culture for Substance Use Prevention and Recovery

Leveraging Arts and Culture for Substance Use Prevention and Recovery

This webinar discusses how communities can use opioid settlement funds for prevention and recovery services that involve arts and culture. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials
Community Health and WellnessWebinarfreePublication Date: May 12, 2025
Advancing Community Arts, Culture, and Economic Development: Best Practices for Select Boards

Advancing Community Arts, Culture, and Economic Development: Best Practices for Select Boards

Representatives from the Mass Cultural Council discuss how select boards can support arts and culture initiatives and advance economic development in their communities, while local officials from Orleans and Carlisle present local case studies. Recommended audience: select board members
Economic DevelopmentWebinarPublication Date: Dec 11, 2024
Building Vibrant and Creative Communities

Building Vibrant and Creative Communities

This webinar discusses how to build public support for culture, celebrate different traditions and talents, and promote economic opportunity within cities and towns. Recommended audience: Planners, all members
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: Jun 18, 2024
Mastering Municipal Branding: Best Practices and Benefits

Mastering Municipal Branding: Best Practices and Benefits

This webinar offers insights and discusses challenges related to developing and using a new municipal brand, and how it can positively impact economic development. Recommended audience: Communications officials, chief municipal officials
Community EngagementWebinarfreePublication Date: Jun 12, 2024
The Power of Culture in the Commonwealth

The Power of Culture in the Commonwealth

This webinar discusses programs available via the Mass Cultural Council and how municipalities can support and promote the arts through community initiatives. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials, all members
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: May 28, 2024
Broadband and Digital Equity Planning

Broadband and Digital Equity Planning

This webinar with the Massachusetts Broadband Institute discusses the Challenge Process and other timely programming to help bridge the digital divide. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials, select board members
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: Apr 22, 2024
Best Practices for MBTA Zoning Proposals

Best Practices for MBTA Zoning Proposals

This webinar discusses what the EOHLC and AGO have learned from their preliminary review of proposed local zoning amendments, and how what they’ve learned may be helpful to communities in their compliance efforts. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials, select board members, councillors, all members
Housing, Zoning, Land UseWebinarfreePublication Date: Mar 13, 2024
Property Tax Programs for Low-Income Homeowners and Renters

Property Tax Programs for Low-Income Homeowners and Renters

This webinar by the Massachusetts Select Board Association explores recent developments in several property tax programs for low-income homeowners and renters. Recommended audience: Select board members, chief municipal officials, assessors, finance directors
Housing, Zoning, Land UseWebinarfreePublication Date: Mar 08, 2024
MBTA Communities: Municipalities and Compliance

MBTA Communities: Municipalities and Compliance

This webinar discusses key points of the MBTA Communities law related to compliance and enforcement, as well as the distinction between the MBTA Communities law, Chapter 40B, and Chapter 40R. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials, select board members, councillors, all members
Housing, Zoning, Land UseWebinarfreePublication Date: Feb 26, 2024
Cannabis Compliance: Reviewing the New Regulatory Requirements for Host Communities

Cannabis Compliance: Reviewing the New Regulatory Requirements for Host Communities

This webinar reviews the Cannabis Control Commission’s newly promulgated regulations and their impact on host communities.
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: Dec 11, 2023
Cannabis Compliance: Draft Regulations on Host Community Agreements

Cannabis Compliance: Draft Regulations on Host Community Agreements

This webinar discusses the implications of the Cannabis Control Commission’s draft regulations on host community agreements and social equity.
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: Aug 07, 2023
A Practical Guide to Affordable Housing: Separating Fact From Fiction

A Practical Guide to Affordable Housing: Separating Fact From Fiction

This webinar discusses the “why” behind affordable housing and the importance of building complete neighborhoods, while offering tools for responding to common questions and concerns raised about community developments.
Housing, Zoning, Land UseWebinarfreePublication Date: May 23, 2023
Best Practices for Affordable Housing Trusts

Best Practices for Affordable Housing Trusts

Presented by The Massachusetts Select Board Association
Housing, Zoning, Land UseWebinarPublication Date: Mar 17, 2023
Funding Sources For Affordable Housing Initiatives

Funding Sources For Affordable Housing Initiatives

A Massachusetts Select Board Association webinar covered affordable housing and resources available to municipalities for developing new housing.
Housing, Zoning, Land UseWebinarPublication Date: Nov 16, 2022
Broadband and Digital Equity Investments

Broadband and Digital Equity Investments

This webinar provides an overview of the federal broadband funding landscape and the steps municipalities can take to close the digital divide and expand broadband access.
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: Nov 15, 2022
Host Community Agreements and Municipalities: Cannabis Law Update

Host Community Agreements and Municipalities: Cannabis Law Update

This webinar covers how a wide-ranging cannabis law enacted in 2022 is likely to affect host community agreements and community impact fees, as well as how municipalities can best position themselves in the changing environment.
Economic DevelopmentWebinarfreePublication Date: Nov 09, 2022
Community One Stop: One Year Later

Community One Stop: One Year Later

Presented by the Massachusetts Select Board Association
Economic DevelopmentWebinarPublication Date: Mar 04, 2022
Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19

Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19

Presented by MMA Human Services Council
Community Health and WellnessWebinarPublication Date: Apr 28, 2022
Creative Placemaking in Your Community

Creative Placemaking in Your Community

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Attendees learned how the city of Brockton and others have embraced placemaking, and discovered some funding sources and tools that can help engage with citizens on this important topic.
Economic and Community DevelopmentWebinarPublication Date: Feb 03, 2022
Overview of Draft Zoning Rules for MBTA Communities

Overview of Draft Zoning Rules for MBTA Communities

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Attendees learned about draft guidance related to new requirements in Section 3A of Chapter 40A for “MBTA Communities” from the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Economic and Community DevelopmentWebinarPublication Date: Feb 02, 2022
The Future of Work Webinar: 8 Key Insights and Collaborative Solutions

The Future of Work Webinar: 8 Key Insights and Collaborative Solutions

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Panelists shared eight key insights into what needs to be addressed to create vibrant, equitable and competitive cities and towns for the future.
Economic and Community DevelopmentWebinarPublication Date: Jan 27, 2022
How To Bring Affordable Housing To Your Town

How To Bring Affordable Housing To Your Town

Presented by the Massachusetts Select Board Association
Housing, Zoning, Land UseWebinarPublication Date: Sep 10, 2021
State and Local Economic Recovery Efforts in the Wake of COVID-19

State and Local Economic Recovery Efforts in the Wake of COVID-19

Massachusetts Select Board Association’s annual Leadership Conference series
Economic DevelopmentWebinarPublication Date: Jun 24, 2020
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