We believe capacity building is at the epicenter of organizational effectiveness. Yet historically in our sector, it hasn’t worked as well as it should. It’s expensive – each org has to figure it out for themselves – and typical “white paper” offerings often don’t take into account the practical complexities of how nonprofits will implement in the real world. Each year, in collaboration with our members, we create a series of cohort-based Capacity-Building Program Tracks designed to solve for these challenges. By looking across our 100+ member orgs, we work to understand what the most urgent capacity building priorities are in our community, and then design deeply responsive, high impact programming. This programming is: 1️⃣ Included in our membership fee with no additional cost to member orgs, enabling more leaders to do more of it. 2️⃣ Done in cohorts, so that peer learning and accountability are built in, enabling leaders to understand all the ways these same needs and challenges show up across our sector. 3️⃣ Explicitly designed not as a “white paper,” but a series of practitioner-led sessions resulting in a co-created blueprint that leaders can take back to their orgs, ready for implementation. This year, 70% of all member organizations are participating in our capacity building programming. To learn more about joining the Alliance, reach out to Sadiq A. Ali.
Transforming systems to advance equity and results for youth and families of color.
🎉 Felt like I was emceeing a graduation ceremony yesterday: thrilled to be celebrating the progress of 30+ leaders from 14 leading youth-supporting organizations who completed the first-ever capacity-building series on Managing Engine 1 and Engine 2 Innovation at America's Promise Alliance. Over the last 12 months, these leaders and organizations clarified new innovations or methods for achieving impact at even greater scale while keeping their core programs and services running. Along the way, they leaned into joy, candor and radical support at every step. It’s been humbling to hold space for these incredible leaders and organizations on their journey to greater impact at scale! Kudos, Adelante Mujeres, Afterschool Alliance, City Year, DoSomething.org, Surge Institute, Generation Citizen, Let's Get Ready, The Literacy Lab, YouthBuild USA, Youth Guidance, PENCIL, Inc., Peace First, First Place for Youth, and One Million Degrees!
