Program Summary

Capacity Canada is excited to offer facilitated organizational assessments to help charities and nonprofits strengthen their organization, capacity, and impact.

This program includes an assessment survey, summary report, and a debrief session to explore identified capacity-building needs.

Facilitated capacity assessments can help organizations spot opportunities for organizational development, find alignment, and commit to action.

“Organizational Capacity” is the effective combination of knowledge, capabilities, resources to achieve goals, strategy, mission.

Mission and Strategy

Programming

Learning and Evaluation

Advocacy

Field Engagement

Membership

External Communications

Human Resources

Organizational Culture

Governance

Financial Management

Fundraising and Donor Relations

Administration

Safety & Security

Executive Leadership

Not-for-profits use assessments to find & act on opportunities to enhance their impact

Assessment insights support the success of key organizational initiatives including strategic planning, mergers, succession planning, and ED/CEO onboarding and training.

Strategic Planning

Strategic plan embeds necessary organizational strengthening in support of mission and strategic goal achievement.

Mergers

Identify pre-merger risks and capacity-building needs. Monitor post-merger progress and adjust proactively.

ED/CEO Succession

Informing job description, candidate search and screen, transition plan.

New ED/CEO Coaching

Inform ED/CEO onboarding plan with organizational insights. Guide ED/CEO self-development and/or coaching needs.

Program Journey

This program is currently in a pilot phase with generous funding from the Lyle S. Halman Foundation.

“Non-profit organizations today are facing huge challenges as they address increased demand for their services amidst reduced funding and volunteerism. This often prevents them from taking the time to consider their own capacity and impact, and how they might adapt to increasing pressures. Capacity Canada is showing much-needed leadership in developing this new assessment and capacity planning program for non-profits. It will do much to strengthen the sector overall at this critical time.”

Rob Donelson
Executive Director (Interim) Lyle S. Hallman Foundation

"We are grateful to have worked with Capacity Canada to dive into our organizations capacity. Insights from our board and staff identified opportunities to strengthen our organization. Our team thoroughly enjoyed our sensemaking session, and we have come out stronger as a result of this process."

Our organization has had to grow and adapt quickly to the significant emerging needs in our community, and as many others have, we have done this on limited resources and capacity. Throughout that growth as we focus on excellent service delivery and programs, it can be challenging to find the time and resources to take a step back and identify where we need support and change structurally to ensure sustainability. We have been grateful for Capacity Canada in supporting us to identify these needs and possible solutions.

Let's start the conversation.

Thank you for your interest in NFP Assessment & Capacity Planning program.

Please contact Andrew Wilding at [email protected] to learn more.