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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Vision:
Our core aim is to invest in organizations’ long-term success.
We provide a range of coordinated resources that enable McKay grantees
to better serve their communities by building effective organizations
that can gain power, influence policy, and create change.
Mission:
Within a holistic framework, we provide integrated, client-focused
organization development services that promote constructive change
and sustainability. We leverage our knowledge and experience through
consultation, training, coaching, assessment, and evaluation so that
McKay grantees are able to increase power and democracy in marginalized
communities.
Value Statements:
The organizational capacity building team is committed to the success
of the grantees by
• Co-creating sustained capacity.
We support increasing the longevity and salience of the information
and skills we co-create with client organizations in ways that extend
to include the capacity of the whole organization.
• Understanding the relationships
between the parts and the whole within organizations, and transferring
this knowledge to the client. In identifying practical, tangible responses
we will start where the client is.
• Practicing honesty in our working
relationships, clarity of expectations, and balance between process
and outcomes.
• Keeping consultant skills and knowledge
current.
Operating Assumptions:
We believe that
• Change is constant. These changes--
whether positive or negative-- force systems and relationships in
organizations to shift. Any capacity building approach must accommodate
this fact to be effective and relevant over the long term.
• Organizations that adopt a continuous
process of reflection, testing their hypotheses, documenting the learning
of their experiences, and making strategic adjustments are better
able to move through the changes that arise. The ability to manage
this continuous process is dependent on the staff and board’s
capacity to speak openly and directly about what helps and hinders
the work in the organization.
• Though some capacity building interventions
are fairly standard and common for most nonprofit organizations, these
interventions need to be tailored to each client’s specific circumstances.
• At the core of our interaction
with client systems, we strive for knowledge transfer: everyone learns,
everyone teaches, and everyone adapts, grows, and changes.
If you are a core grantee and would like assistance, call any of us
to discuss your needs and possible next steps. There is no application
process. Capacity building resources are available as long as
the grantee is fully engaged, and the work of the consultation is
moving in a positive direction.
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