Capacity Building - NEW - TCC Group

1 Capacity Statement Capacity Building Challenges and Opportunities Cases in Point As competition, demands for accountability, and needs for service mount, organizations must continually adapt and After conducting a Capacity - Building strengthen their Capacity to survive and succeed. Nonprof needs assessment study of Oregon its and funders are leveraging their dollars to invest in Arts Commission's grantees, TCC. Capacity Building to improve leadership, governance, and Group developed and managed its multi-year Capacity - Building initiative management and to enhance program outcomes. focused on helping grantees become more sustainable. We are organizing What We Do convenings, developing and leading We believe that strong nonprofit organizations lead to workshops, designing and managing strong programs and, ultimately, greater impact in the an online learning community, over- community.

2 Our Capacity Building services to funders and seeing peer exchanges, and providing nonprofits include: management support for the imitative. Design and Implementation of Capacity Building Initia TCC Group was engaged by the Ford Foundation, the Ethics and Excel- tives TCC Group helps funders plan and execute the lence in Journalism Foundation, and initiatives that directly support a cohort of organizations the McCormick Foundation to man- to address specific Capacity Building needs. Our staff age the Challenge Fund for can design and coordinate the initiative, provide case Journalism, a grant program with ca- management services to grantees, monitor and main pacity- Building services that helps tain quality control, and communicate with internal and journalism and new media organiza- external audiences.

3 Tions broaden their base of financial support through challenge grants, fun- Evaluation of Capacity Building Initiatives We help draising training, and organizational development, and leadership team funders to prioritize outcomes and evaluate Capacity . coaching. Building efforts, both in the short and long term, by pro . viding a critical combination of program evaluation and organizational assessment. Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT) The CCAT is an online survey that measures nonprofits' effectiveness in relation to four core capacities leadership, adaptabili . ty, management, and technical capacities as well as organizational culture. Additionally, the tool helps or.

4 Ganizations identify their lifecycle stage and provides a As part of its ongoing learning agen- real time findings report, a prioritized Capacity Building da, the Weingart Foundation plan, and the technology to generate self selected retained TCC Group to carry out an benchmark reports from a national database of more assessment of the health of the non- than 2000 nonprofits. It can be administered to a cohort profit sector in Los Angeles County, of grantees or by individual nonprofits to determine or including administration of the CCAT. ganizational effectiveness. TCC Group also helps to a representative sample of nonprofit individual organizations to determine their internal organizations, an appraisal of the strengths and challenges and develop effective Foundation's Capacity - Building ef- processes for strengthening the core capacities essential forts, and an environmental scan of Capacity - Building services in Los An- to a nonprofit's effectiveness.

5 Geles County. How We Work TCC Group lead a cohort business Our approach is governed by the need to establish a clear planning process with 30 of the and engaging consulting process that offers structure and American Public Health Associa- predictability as well as flexibility to meet unforeseen tion's state a regional affiliates. This needs. Working in multidisciplinary teams, TCC Group tai process was a part of a $ million, lors each new assignment to meet the individual needs and multi-year grant from the Kel- circumstances of the client. We develop a scope of work logg Foundation to build the Capacity of APHA's affiliates. that responds to the particular challenges, timetable, and budget for the assignment.

6 Sometimes clients engage us TCC Group was hired by The Chesa- for short term research, problem solving, or facilitation. peake Bay Funders Network, a Other times we provide comprehensive planning and evalu consortium of environmental funders, ation assistance over a longer period or conduct other to review and provide advice on the activities such as direct technical assistance and program goals, logic model framework, and the evaluation. In addition, TCC Group helps clients manage design of a Capacity - Building initia- and implement their work and provides advice on an ongo tive. Over the three years of the ing basis. We bring to each new assignment our expertise, initiative, TCC developed evaluation broad experience, and the enthusiastic commitment to get tools, collected data and provided a multi-year analysis of the initiative.

7 The job done right. TCC Group was chosen to develop, Our Distinctive Qualifications implement and evaluate Capacity - For more than 30 years, TCC Group has provided strategic Building efforts for a set of anchor so- planning, program development, evaluation, Capacity build cial service grantees of the Berkshire ing, and management consulting services to foundations, Taconic Community Foundation. nonprofits, corporate citizenship programs, and govern TCC conducted organizational as- ment agencies. Each project we undertake benefits from a sessments, developed customized team approach that involves individuals with different skills trainings, facilitated peer exchanges, and provided one-on-one coaching.

8 And backgrounds. TCC Group consultants are leaders in the field of Capacity Building . Staff are knowledgeable and have TCC Group assisted the Pfizer Foun- written books and articles about organizational lifecycles, dation in developing and Building evaluation Capacity , board and executive develop implementing Capacity - Building plans ment, governance, operations and systems, human for 23 grantees in the Southern resources, fund development, and finances. HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative. In addition, TCC coordinated annual grantee convenings for the Founda- tion's Alliance for a Healthy Border, Global Health Partnerships, Mobilize Against Malaria and ConnecHIV pro- grams.

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