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Building Organizational Capacity: A Simple Useful Framework

August 24, 2019

The importance of organizational capacity building in nonprofits can hardly be overstated. Just a glance at the attached one–page Framework of Nonprofit Organizational Capacities reveals its essential building blocks. Consider them the muscle, blood, guts, [...]

Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations

June 13, 2019

“Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations” tells how small community foundations can get bigger, stronger, and more useful to their communities. Endorsed as essential reading in the field, this small book summarizes the [...]

Urgency and Opportunity

June 29, 2015

Highway markers, we’ve discovered, make great reading. Posted by state and regional historical societies all along State, US, and Federal highways, they provide lessons and insight into what happened right there, where you’re standing, in [...]

The Assets Model of Community Development

October 9, 2018

The “assets model of community development,” as distinct from the “deficits model,” has really caught on in philanthropy in the last 30 years. Articulated first by John McKnight at the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, the [...]

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