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Capacity-building Grants
Overview
The specific goal of organizational capacity-building grantmaking is to assist member nonprofits in securing the professional, timely assistance they need to enhance organizational capacity and address important issues of organizational development and effectiveness.
Capacity-building grants focus on the following:
1. Mission, Vision & Strategy:
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational assessment/development
- Business planning, re-tooling, and social enterprise
- Planning for branding and marketing
2. Governance & Leadership:
- Board development
- Executive transition
3. Strategic Relationships:
- Collaboration and strategic restructuring
- Positioning for merger or affiliation
- Coalition building
4. Internal Operations:
- Human resource or volunteer management
- Financial Management
- Facility planning
5. Websites:
- New websites that bring CMS capacity to the organization
Any Nonprofit Partnership member organization is eligible to apply.
In 2011, The Nonprofit Partnership awarded capacity-building grants to:
- Northwest Pennsylvania Artists Association - $2,250 for technology improvements.
- Stairways Behavioral Health - $7,000 for strategic planning support.
- MHEDS - $2,250 for technology and communications improvements.
- Experience Children's Museum - $3,200 for technology improvements.
- Autism Society of Northwest Pennsylvania - $2,900 for a new website.
- United Way of Erie County - $1,360 for technology improvements.
- Harborcreek Youth Services - $2,000 for a new website.
Beginning in 2012, organizations seeking capacity-building support for technology improvements such as new computers, office networking, data management systems, software, and the like are encouraged to apply through the Erie Community Foundation's Helping Today grant program.
