Twitter FAcebook LinkedIn Email Insights & Perspectives • Perspective A New Approach to Capacity Building Jared Raynor, Director, Evaluation and Learning Julie Simpson, Director, Nonprofit Effectiveness “What you see is what you get.” This phrase is often used to describe a person who is very straightforward, but it can have another meaning – what you are able to see, what you choose to notice, affects what you can accomplish. TCC’s Directors make a fundamental distinction between capacity (skills, knowledge and relationships) and capacity building (the process of cultivating those skills, knowledge and relationships), and map out the evolution of capacity building over the last few decades. The “end-result” is strategy and discussion that pays attention to all actors in the social ecosystem, their relationships, and their respective roles. Read “Relational Capacity: A New Approach to Capacity Building in Philanthropy” in the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy’s winter journal > January 1, 2015
Capacity Building 3.0: How to Strengthen the Social Ecosystem The social sector has evolved to incorporate multiple stakeholders and organizations to solve social issues, working together in a larger… ResourcesBriefing Paper
Partner-Centered Evaluation Capacity Building: Findings from a Corporate Social Impact Initiative Funders can play a proactive role in helping to fill the gap between funders’ expectations and nonprofits’ ability to evaluate… ResourcesArticle
5 Things Foundations Say About Their Capacity Nearly 60 foundations – of all shapes and sizes – recently took the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT), a… Insights & PerspectivesPerspective