Technical Assistance and Capacity Building: What Works and How Do We Know It?
Monday, October 19, 10:00am – 11:30am
Organized by Bronwyn Mauldin, Research & Evaluation Manager, Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Presented by Vera de Vera, Director, Community Building Initiative, California Community Foundation; Juliet Flores, Senior Program Associate, Annenberg Foundation; and Bronwyn Mauldin, Research & Evaluation Manager, Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
How are you helping build the capacity of the nonprofits you fund? This interactive session offers grantmaker models for technical assistance and capacity building, and tools to make sure efforts are working. Alchemy is a free capacity building and leadership development program created by the Annenberg Foundation that strengthens small to mid-sized nonprofit organizations. The Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative (NSI) is collaboration of 12 foundations that provides funding to nonprofits to explore strategic restructuring such as mergers, acquisitions, shared administration, or program consolidation. The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has completed a study measuring the cost and quality of its technical assistance services, and will present a toolkit which was created to help other organizations replicate the study for themselves.