The Nonprofit Capacity Building Program (NCBP), a program authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, is increasing the capacity of five intermediary grantees working with small and midsize nonprofits in communities facing resource hardship challenges to develop and implement performance management systems. The initial portfolio of grantees include: Arizona Community Foundation; Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston; Minnesota Council of Nonprofits; University of Central Florida; and The United Way of the Bay Area. Collectively the intermediaries are working with dozens of local nonprofits in their respective service areas.

Grantees are providing recipients with organizational development assistance to establish procedures for measuring progress and improving performance towards intended outcomes leading to community impact.

Funded organizations are focusing on implementing organizational development assistance programs that emphasizes the development and implementation of performance management systems that enable nonprofit recipients to measure their progress and improve their performance toward intended outcomes. The desired organizational performance management systems also seek to align organizational goals and services with performance plans of staff and volunteers and be used to measure and reward performance toward specific outcomes. Grantees are also, in some instances, providing assistance in additional areas of best practices in nonprofit management tailored to the specific needs of individual nonprofit recipients.

National Service Agency Awards Grants to Strengthen Nonprofit Capacity and Impact

Funding

Click here to read the 2011 Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA)