Building on Success: Targeted Strategies for Strengthening Southern Nevada Nonprofits

Strengthening nonprofit ecosystems begins with understanding how organizations currently excel, their unique challenges, and their conception of existing limitations and potential solutions. To provide these insights for Southern Nevada nonprofits, and the funders and capacity builders that support them, Nevada GrantLab partnered with TCC Group (TCC) to document the capacity and capacity-building needs of a range of nonprofit organizations in the region.

TCC partnered with nonprofits to gather information on their leadership, management, adaptive, and technical capacities using the Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT®), a validated assessment used with more than 7,000 organizations nationally. In Southern Nevada, 400 staff and board members from 79 organizations completed the CCAT.

Together, these learnings offer a roadmap for funders, capacity builders, and community partners to invest in what nonprofits need to thrive – capacity that accelerates impact, not capacity building that adds more work.