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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. When we focused our attention on supporting organizations and networks we built an approach that emphasized their ownership and leadership of the process. Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead. “The

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

As time has gone on, my attention has shifted from the tactic of participation to the outcome of building community. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. More and more families showed up.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Guided by an understanding that good listening is a first step towards authentic and meaningful participatory grantmaking, in 2019 CRUS began an intentional process to review its strategy and approach to grantmaking.