The Capacity Building Challenge - Part I: A Research Perspective and Part II: A Funder's Response

Abstract

Part I: Examines the capacity building efforts of eight funders and proposes a system for understanding and measuring the outcomes of such efforts. Part of the series Practice Matters: The Improving Philanthropy Project. Part II: Presents one grantmaker's perspective on applying the lessons from this research to the craft of making grants that build nonprofit capacity. Part of the series Practice Matters: The Improving Philanthropy Project.