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Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity: Core Concepts in Capacity Building
A primer for grantmakers on supporting grantee capacity. It defines nonprofit effectiveness, capacity and capacity building, and covers trust between funders and grantees, links to funder strategy, grantee and funder readiness, and 5 types of support from unrestricted grants to collective capacity building. It sets out 3 principles: contextual, continuous and collective. Each section ends with questions for grantmakers, and a final section covers measuring impact.
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Funding Organisational Development: From Insight to Action
Funding Organisational Development: From Insight to Action is a practical guide for funders seeking to strengthen the resilience, effectiveness and long-term sustainability of the organisations they support. Developed by Philea's Organisational Development Community of Practice and informed by experienced practitioners, it explores how funders can move beyond one-off capacity-building interventions towards more holistic, trust-based approaches that centre partner agency, equity and context. The publication offers a practical ten-step framework for designing or renewing organisational development support, addressing challenges facing civil society today.
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Creative Disruption
Deborah Linnell and Tim Wolfred's study of what happens when nonprofit leaders take a funded sabbatical. It draws on surveys of 61 sabbatical awardees and 30 interim leaders from programmes run by six funders, including the Durfee Foundation, the Barr Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. It found that sabbaticals rejuvenate leaders, build second-tier leadership, strengthen boards, work as a dry run for succession and help leaders stay in their jobs longer. It ends with advice for funders on grants, selection, and support before and after the leave.
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General Operating Support: Action Guide (executive summary)
The executive summary of GEO's 2007 action guide for grantmakers on general operating support. It covers what operating support is, why it matters, how to make it work and how to keep accountability. Foundation staff use it to decide when and how to give unrestricted grants. The full guide is not online.
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Making the case for unrestricted funding
A short briefing that brings together IVAR's research on unrestricted funding. It is written for foundation staff and board members who want to consider unrestricted funding and argue for it inside their organisation and with peers. It finds that the preference for restricted funding rests on familiarity and lacks evidence, accepts that restricted grants sometimes fit, and sets out the value unrestricted funding brings to charities and funders.
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