Capacity Building 9.0: Fund people to do stuff, get out of their way / Nonprofit With B... - 0 views
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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16
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First, when people talk about capacity building, it ironically seems to be about larger organizations that have some of what one of my colleagues calls “Prerequisite Capacity,” t
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Second, I’m glad the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in capacity building is starting to be recognized and talked about. However, there is still a long way to go.
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Third, I am astounded by our sector’s ability to overthink and overcomplicate things while ignoring the obvious.
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So many capacity building efforts fail because we do not invest enough in people to carry out these efforts
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And any effort to build the capacity of communities of color that does not take staffing into account will fail completely. Many of these orgs do amazing work but don’t have a single full-time staff, so funding anything without strategically funding staffing first will be ineffective.
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Supporting the right people so they are consistently there doing stuff, and then removing barriers that are preventing them from doing stuff and making them want to run screaming from the sector. THEN fund toolkits and workshops and peer learning circles and talk about ecosystems and partnerships, etc. With that in mind, here are 9 recommendations from Capacity Building 9.0: