
What is your role as a funder in building the organizational capacity of your grantees? And how can you best ensure that the support you offer is effective? This Content Collection provides tips, tools, perspectives and case studies from family foundations and other funders that have embraced capacity building as a key strategy.
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Reimagining Capacity Building: Navigating Culture, Systems & Power
Report
Why We Must Stand Up for Overhead
Article
Can General Operating Support Become the New Normal?
Article
Resiliency Guide
Tool
New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support
Report
Making it Happen: A Conversation Guide
ToolFoundation Profiles

Making the Case: Foundation Leaders on the Importance of Multiyear General Operating Support
Tool
Walking the Talk: Striving for Authentic Partnership with Our Grantees
Article
The Brinson Foundation’s Commitment to Living Its Values
Article
The Noyce Foundation Story, 1990–2015: Achieving High Impact With Low Overhead
Passages Issue BriefsSample Policies and Practices

Endowment-related grants policy (Eckerd Family Foundation)
Sample
Peer Skill Share program (Pierce Family Foundation)
SampleArticles and Reports

What is Overhead, Anyway?
Article
The Power of Investing in Volunteer Engagement
Article
Want Effective Capacity Building? Get Rid of the Incubation Mentality
ArticleNCFP Webinars

Community Driven Capacity Building: Creative Approaches from the Field

Community Connections: Place-Based Family Philanthropy
