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Targeting Human Needs Capacity Building
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Compassion Spotlight
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The Need
The Response
Other Initiatives
From competitive grants that fund innovative social service models to in-depth skills training, the FBCI works to expand the capacity of FBCOs across the country to maximize service delivery for those in need.
The Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) is the most extensive of the FBCI’s capacity-building programs. CCF offers competitive grants through three innovative funding models to build FBCO capacity by enhancing the provision of social services and expanding organizational capacity to serve low-income individuals, children, and families. Since the program began in 2002, more than $310 million has been awarded were awarded to over 5,000 FBCOs in all 50 States and two U.S. territories.
Under the CCF Targeted Capacity-Building Program, competitive grants of up to $50,000 are awarded directly to FBCOs providing services to distressed communities. The grants must be used to build the capacity of the organization to deliver social services in a secular manner. From FY 2003 to 2007, nearly 1,000 competitive grants were awarded totaling over $48 million. A 2008 retrospective study of this program found that
The CCF Demonstration Program uses intermediary organizations that provide competitive funding and training primarily to FBCOs with no history of Federal funding.. As a result, this "intermediary model" allows the program to reach the smallest front-line FBCOs. From FY 2002 to FY 2008, 112 awards, totaling $172.4 million, were made to intermediary organization grantees; who, in turn, competitively awarded more than 5,200 subawards to FBCOs in 47 States and the District of Columbia. A 2007 evaluation revealed that
The CCF Communities Empowering Youth (CEY) program was created in FY 2006 to strengthen existing coalitions working to combat gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect in their communities. CEY grants are made to “lead organizations,” which provide both financial support and capacity-building training to their coalition of FBCO partners, building effective and sustainable community networks of service focused on the needs of youth. From 2006 to 2008, approximately $90 million was awarded via competitive grants to 131 projects. The CEY Program is currently undergoing a national evaluation, findings from which should be published in 2009 and 2010.
Other Initiatives
Beyond the CCF, multiple Federal agencies operate capacity-building grants programs, such as example, through the Department of Justice (DOJ):
The vision to identify new community-level partners and enhance their effectiveness is at work internationally as well.
In addition to grants for capacity-building, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and Federal agencies have provided in-person training to over 100,000 social entrepreneurs on a range of skills and topics, including competing for Federal grants, fund-raising from private sources, board development, nonfinancial partnerships with government, recruiting volunteers, and performing outcome-based evaluations. To date, these efforts have achieved the following: