Capacity Building Fund
Program Goals and Objectives

The Capacity Building Fund objectives are both simple and complex. The program has annually funded several self-defined groups of non-profit organizations, or networks, for the purpose of planning and implementing shared learning projects that build organizational capacity.

Network projects enable each member organization to gain knowledge that will enhance its ability to meet its goals. The network must also define shared outcomes for learning derived from the people who directly benefit from them.

For example, in a funded project, executive directors would focus on defining the outcomes of a peer learning network for executive directors. Community members would define outcomes for a learning project that emphasizes building knowledge and/or skills to effect change at the community level.

If a coalition applies to create a learning project among all or some of its coalition members, the member groups, not the coalition staff, would define what learning is important to them.

Finally, all networks need to be able to answer the “so what” question: What is the ultimate shared purpose of the learning beyond creating better individual organizations?