Identifying and Promoting Best Practices
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Glossary
Capacity building — Capacity, very simply, is the ability to perform or produce. Therefore, to build the capacity of an organization, you do something that increases its ability to perform or produce. As a result of your capacity building activities, the nonprofit organization can accomplish more than it could before.
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) — Private, nonprofit organizations that have an overt, self-identified religious affiliation, background or motivation. FBOs include organizations from the broadest spectrum of faiths and beliefs. The use in this guidebook refers to those faith-based organizations that include an intentional social service or community development mandate within their mission and programs.
Community-based organizations (CBOs) — Private, nonprofit, organizations focused on providing social and community development services and targeting problems within a designated location. The term CBOs is generally used to differentiate between private nonprofits providing social services without an overt faith-based affiliation or identity (FBOs) and those private nonprofits providing social services which are nonsectarian or secular in identity.
Capital Compassion Fund Demonstration Program (CCF or CCFDP) — The Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) is a flagship initiative designed to build capacity and promote best practices among FBCOs which have not traditionally had access to Federal resources for their social service programs. A key strategy of the CCF is to identify intermediary organizations already committed to building the capacity of FBCOs and to utilize these existing intermediaries in the delivery of training, technical assistance and the sub-granting of Federal funds for capacity building.
Field tested best practice — A program, activity or strategy that has been shown to work effectively and produce successful outcomes and is supported to some degree by subjective and objective data sources.
Intermediary organizations — Those organizations that conduct significant activities designed to build the capacity of other organizations providing social service or community development programs which directly serve or service individuals and families at—risk or in need.
Practice — A program, activity or strategy used by an organization that has clearly defined parameters that can be assessed for effectiveness and compared against other similar practices.
Research validated best practice — A program, activity or strategy that has the highest degree of proven effectiveness supported by objective and comprehensive research and evaluation.
Validation — The process of conducting a comparative assessment using objective and subjective data to evaluate the effectiveness of a practice in solving the targeted problem.
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