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Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University
Click here to download "Capital Ideas: Moving from Short-Term Engagement to Long-Term Sustainability" by Kathleen Buechel, Elizabeth Keating and Clara Miller, published in 2007.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/whats_new/CI_proceedings.pdf

Amy Sample Ward

 

Foundation News & Commentary

Capacity Building Begins at Home

"Grantmakers are considering capacity-building grantmaking more, and that's good news." 2000

http://www.foundationnews.org/CME/article.cfm?ID=263

 

Foundation News & Commentary

Funder's Little Shop of Horrors

An article about "misguided attemps at nonprofit capacity building." 2005

http://www.foundationnews.org/CME/article.cfm?ID=3422

 

Capacity Development Needs (DOC)

TACS

This is an excerpt from "Report on Capacity Building Strategies", prepared by Kay Sohl as an "examination of effective community-based organizations" to reaveal "key capacities which assure orgaizational survival, support community direction, and result in productive service delivery."

http://www.tacs.org/files/CapacityDevHandout-enews.doc

 

Capacity Assesment Grid (PDF)

Venture Philanthropy Partners

"The McKinsey Capacity Assessment Grid is a tool designed to help nonprofit organizations assess their organizational capacity. The grid should be used in conjunction with the Capacity Framework, which explains the seven elements of the organizational capacity and their components."

http://vppartners.org/learning/reports/capacity/assessment.pdf

 

Kate Cassidy

 

 

For Additional Resources, please see the Capacity Building section of the Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington website:

http://www.gosw.org/grant/makers/info/capacity_building1/



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