NONPROFIT CAPACITY BUILDING

Since 2014, we have been working with our nonprofit grantees in a unique learning network called “Tribes.”  As we have learned over the years, it is most effective to provide our nonprofit grantees with more than funding for their programs, but also with support through coaching and group sessions with the nonprofit leaders.  We have found that this nonprofit networks learn together to achieve together.  We are fortifying these organizations with skills and training to create healthier organizations and collaborative opportunities to benefit their missions and our community as a whole.

Each year, the Southwest Florida Community Foundation distributes a capacity survey to nonprofit organizations, their leadership and staff, across Southwest Florida. The survey is a self-assessment instrument that helps nonprofits identify capacity strengths and challenges and establish capacity-building goals. Individual reports are built and shared with each organization that takes the assessment to use as a diagnostic and learning tool that provides a useful framework for measuring growth in capacity over time. Our hope is that nonprofits take the capacity assessment each year to use the results and changes as a catalyst for the organization’s key stakeholders to discuss the capacity of the organization. The Foundation uses the year-over-year collective results to learn about the continuous measurement of nonprofit capacity to help support the development of core skills, management practices, and systems within the individual nonprofit resulting in a stronger Southwest Florida community.

2017 REPORT

Southwest Florida Nonprofit Capacity Report 2017