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Capacity Building Networks

Networks of organizations build capacity together through the Capacity Building Fund. The Capacity Building Fund (CBF) of Third Sector New England provides grants to self-defined networks of nonprofits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Grants are for groups of organizations that wish to learn and build capacity together in order to gain skills necessary to effect change on an issue of shared concern. The process of learning together will also be designed to build the capacity of the member nonprofits to further their respective missions.

The goal of the Capacity Building Fund comes from the TSNE mission of providing capacity to the non-profit sector “to build the knowledge, power and effectiveness of non-profit organizations that engage people in their community and public life.”

Preference is given to groups designing capacity building projects that lead to ongoing relationships resulting in work that makes change in communities or issues with which the groups are engaged.

What is Capacity Building?

Building capacity refers to institutionalizing individual and organizational learning and new skills development in such a way that an organization is better able to meet its goals.

In this case, the capacity building goes a step further and also builds the capacity of the group of organizations to better meet their shared goals. The assumption is that by learning and skill building together, organizations will simultaneously learn how to work more effectively together.

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