One-to-One Support: What do grantees choose?
Explore our catalog of coaching and consulting project ideas — built from more than 600 recent projects — and see what capacity building looks like in practice.
Governance & board development
11 customisable projects
Board effectiveness assessment & development
Challenge:
“Your board meetings feel procedural rather than strategic — trustees are disengaged, contributions are uneven, and the board is not adding the value it should.”
Board recruitment & induction support
Challenge:
“You struggle to find trustees with the right skills — and when you do recruit, new board members take far too long to become useful contributors.”
Board reporting, data and information
Challenge:
“Your Board feels it does not have the right information to function properly”
Board self-evaluation facilitation
Challenge:
“Your board has never formally evaluated itself — there is no shared understanding of what good looks like and no accountability for improving.”
CEO / executive director transition planning
Challenge:
“A leadership transition is approaching — planned or unplanned — and the organisation has no succession plan, no process, and no safeguards in place.”
Governance for a new organisation
Challenge:
“Your new organisation needs a board and you don't know how or why to set one up”
Governance framework review & strengthening
Challenge:
“Your governance has grown organically and is now unclear — nobody is quite sure who decides what, and accountability lines are blurred.”
Strategic risk assessment & management
Challenge:
“When your board asks about your top risks, you can't give a structured or confident answer — risk management is informal and largely reactive.”
Strenghtening Board leadership
Challenge:
“Your Board leadership (chair and vice chair, maybe treasurer) are not performing well and are not able to lead the Board effectively”
Tension between Board and the Executive
Challenge:
“There is palpable tension between (parts of) the Board and the Executive, on key matters that need resolving”
Trustee training & capacity building
Challenge:
“Your trustees are willing but underprepared — they lack confidence in their legal duties and financial oversight responsibilities, and it shows in board meetings.”