How Can We Be Better Funders? Let’s Do the Homework May 26, 2021 By Claire Schultz TCC Group Senior Philanthropy Consultant Maritza Guzmán shares tips for how funders can do their part to minimize the financial burden on the nonprofits they seek to work with.
The Evaluator as Facilitator: Considerations for Good Facilitation Practice February 10, 2021 By Claire Schultz TCC Group Evaluation Consultant Ijeoma Ezeofor shares a list of best practices and resources for evaluators looking to improve their facilitation skills.
A Nonprofit Balancing Act: The Precipice or Solid Ground? November 11, 2020 By Claire Schultz The crisis facing the nonprofit sector in 2020 and beyond has prompted funders to think critically about how to better support the full cost of service delivery, and more effectively deploy financial capital to build strong and resilient organizations.
Leading with Values: How Communicating Your Organization’s Values Will Help You Live Them October 27, 2020 By Claire Schultz Within the social sector, nonprofit and philanthropic leaders should live and model their organizational values, using them to guide their organization; they must be communicated clearly, credibly, and consistently to all stakeholders, both within and outside the organization.
Relational Capacity: Why Does Working Together Feel So Damn Hard? June 16, 2022 By Claire Schultz Discover the eight capacity areas nonprofits need to effectively build and leverage relationships with peers, constituents, funders, and businesses in their communities.
We’re Giving Away Five Diagnostic Tools to Organizations Impacted by COVID-19. Here’s Why. September 16, 2020 By Claire Schultz During crises like COVID-19, when the environment is increasingly complex, diagnostics help us home in on the things that we can actively understand and manage.
Strengthening Nonprofits in the Time of COVID-19: Part One August 27, 2020 By Claire Schultz Part one of our three-part series focuses on the ways grantees must prioritize strength-building to remain resilient and sustainable.
Offering the CCAT to Your Grantees September 26, 2016 By Claire Schultz Strengthen and support your nonprofit partners. Through TCC’s guidance, we have been able to demonstrate to our Board that our nonprofits are working better, smarter; they’re asking the right questions and finding their own solutions… We’ve also proven to nonprofits through TCC’s structure that we will help them to design a program that works for … Continued
CCAT Facilitator Certification Program February 22, 2022 By Claire Schultz Want to add expert interpretation of TCC Group’s CCAT to your consulting toolkit? TCC Group has trained hundreds of nonprofit consultants around the world in using the CCAT to lead change in organizations. Certified CCAT Facilitators provide expert guidance to nonprofit leaders to translate assessment results into meaningful organizational improvement. Register today for our next … Continued
How Does the CCAT Work? September 26, 2016 By Claire Schultz Built on decades of experience and research in capacity building, the Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT) measures a nonprofit’s effectiveness in four key ways.