Giving Compass' Take:

• Peter Yang shares strategies for more effective capacity building using a case study to explain how these strategies can be implemented. 

• How can these lessons be broadly applied to capacity building efforts? What organizations could benefit from capacity building efforts? 

• Read more about what works in capacity building. 

With the shortage of skills and talents faced in the social sector, it is clear why social organizations are facing difficulties in sustaining and scaling their impact. While much has been done by funders and capacity builders to address this challenge, success at a large scale remains mostly elusive.

After supporting more than 1,000 social organizations in their capacity building journey and mobilizing over 10,000 skilled volunteers, we have identified three strategies to make capacity building more effective: (1) Collaborate; (2) Focus on Needs; (3) Innovate.

Using the following case study on building the technological capacity of non-profits, we expound on the ways in which these three strategies make for more effective capacity building. The case started with us matching a corporate partner with technology expertise to solve our non-profit client’s information technology (IT) security challenge. Ultimately, this evolved into launching a new entity providing cloud-based solutions for the whole non-profit sector.

Read the full article about more effective capacity building by Peter Yang at AVPN.