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Capacity-building Grants overview
Capacity-building Grants process and schedule
Capacity-building Grants overview
The specific goal of capacity-building grantmaking is to assist 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
- Marketing and communications planning
2. Governance & Leadership:
- Leadership development
- Board development
- Executive transition
3. Strategic Relationships:
- Collaboration and strategic restructuring
- Positioning for merger or affiliation
- Business planning for social enterprise
4. Internal Operations:
- Human resource or volunteer management
- Financial Management
- Facility planning
5. Technology:
- Computers and other hardware and software
- Websites
- Staff training to optimize use of technology
Any Erie county nonprofit organization is eligible to apply.
Applicants focused on capacity building areas 1 through 4 above should be prepared to use grant funds to purchase their own capacity building leadership, activities, and resources and may use their own staff or purchase outside assistance from a consultant, facilitator, researcher, or other qualified resource. Applicants in these areas will complete the Capacity-building Grants pre-application questions, and, if invited following review of these preliminary materials, the standard ECF five page grant application.
Applicants in the Technology area will complete The Technology Project application, and chosen finalists will participate in a collaborative technology planning process with The Nonprofit Partnership that involves a grant and a volunteer project service team.
Capacity-building Grants process and schedule
- June 16th- All applicants requesting a Capacity-building Grant must complete and return the pre-application questionaire (downloadable below). For The Technology Project grants, the project grant application (downloadable below) must be completed in full and submitted to The Nonprofit Partnership.
- June 23rd- Invitations to submit Capacity-building grant applications will be issued to selected agencies. Finalist applicants for The Technology Project grants will be notified.
- July 15th- Deadline for Capacity-building grant applications
- July 31st- Announcement of successful grant applications. Grantees must be ready to implement proposed activities by October, 2008.
For more information regarding the grant application process, please contact the Nonprofit Partnership at (814) 454-8800 or e-mail TNP@TheNonprofitPartnership.org.