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What is your role as a funder in building the organizational capacity of your grantees? And how can you best ensure that the support you offer is effective? This Content Collection provides tips, tools, perspectives and case studies from family foundations and other funders that have embraced capacity building as a key strategy.
Featured Reads: Start Here!
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Reimagining Capacity Building: Navigating Culture, Systems & Power
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Why We Must Stand Up for Overhead
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Can General Operating Support Become the New Normal?
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Resiliency Guide
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New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support
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Making it Happen: A Conversation Guide
ToolFoundation Profiles
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Making the Case: Foundation Leaders on the Importance of Multiyear General Operating Support
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Walking the Talk: Striving for Authentic Partnership with Our Grantees
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The Brinson Foundation’s Commitment to Living Its Values
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The Noyce Foundation Story, 1990–2015: Achieving High Impact With Low Overhead
Passages Issue BriefsSample Policies and Practices
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Endowment-related grants policy (Eckerd Family Foundation)
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Peer Skill Share program (Pierce Family Foundation)
SampleArticles and Reports
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What is Overhead, Anyway?
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The Power of Investing in Volunteer Engagement
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Want Effective Capacity Building? Get Rid of the Incubation Mentality
ArticleNCFP Webinars
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Community Driven Capacity Building: Creative Approaches from the Field
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Community Connections: Place-Based Family Philanthropy
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