by beagle | Sep 5, 2024 | Thrive
For many decades now, knowing that their ability to achieve their vision is only as strong as that of their organization partners, many foundations have been offering grantees capacity-building support as a complement to their primary grant. In recent years, there has...
by beagle | Sep 5, 2024 | Thrive
Throughout our time working in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, the terminology used to describe support to leaders and teams working in nonprofits has changed. We have at different times used different names for what we do: “technical assistance,”...
by beagle | Sep 5, 2024 | Thrive
Often, well-intended efforts by the philanthropic sector to offer capacity-strengthening resources create too many hurdles for organizations to jump through and too many limitations on what they can do and how they do it, making it hard for organizations to deeply...
by beagle | Sep 5, 2024 | Thrive
Traditionally, capacity support has been provided primarily through grants. Yet there are other powerful moves that foundations can make to help strengthen their grantee partners’ capacity and ability to thrive. Here we outline four main forms that this support can...
by beagle | Sep 5, 2024 | Thrive
According to recent surveys of nonprofit leaders by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, many foundations ask and express concern about the challenges that their grantees are up against. Yet the number that have translated that concern into a robust...
by beagle | Sep 5, 2024 | Thrive
Reprint of an article originally posted in May 2022, by Holly Delany Cole In our fifteen years of partnering with community-based organizations, the Flexible Leadership Award (FLA) has been the primary vehicle by which we have provided support to organization leaders....
