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Bridgestar
July 13, 2012Bridgestar was founded on the premise that mission-focused nonprofits have greater opportunity to achieve breakthrough results when they attract, assemble, and nurture strong board and senior leadership teams. Bridestar seeks to be a resource for enhancing the flow and effectiveness of capable executives into and within the sector.
Building Non-Profit Capacity
July 19, 2012The evaluation results provided evidence of the effectiveness of the Demonstration Program in increasing organizational capacity.
Designing and Managing a Subaward Program
June 14, 2012Equips intermediaries, particularly those funded by the federal government, to develop a comprehensive plan for providing subawards to grassroots organizations.
Delivering Training
September 10, 2012Overview Training Plan Systems Approach Adult Learning Principles Learning Styles Blended Learning Using Online Tools Reminders Summary Overview This lesson will help you design and deliver training that meets organizations' needs.For nonprofit organizations, training can be an excellent way to develop staff and board member skills and build organizational capacity. However, high-impact training requires careful planning and development. It also requires an understanding of adult learning principles.
Establishing a Community of Practice to Enhance TTA
June 14, 2012Reviews the benefits of using Communities of Practice (COPs)—a group of people who share a common concern, set of problems, or passion about a topic—to support learning from training and technical assistance (TTA) programs.
Identifying and Promoting Effective Practices
September 12, 2012Overview BenchMarking Areas of Need Effective Practices Validate and Classify Promote and Implement Summary Overview Learn the "benchmarking basics."This e-learning will help organizations answer these key questions:
Promising Practices for Improving the Capacity of Faith- and Community-Based Organizations
July 12, 2012This report documents the range of services that intermediaries provide to their constituent organizations, and highlights those that constitute promising practices. The report defines as promising practices those efforts undertaken by the intermediaries that show potential for producing successful outcomes-they improve the organizational capacity of faith-based and community organizations, are broadly used and accepted (although not universally), and have the potential for replication among other organizations.
Establishing a Community of Practice to Enhance Training & Technical Assistance
September 10, 2012Overview Forming a COP Needs and Expertise Work and Structure Managing a COP Outlive TTA Program Summary Overview Establish communities of practice to enhance your TTA.Analyzing Data and Communicating Results
September 13, 2012Overview Statistics Analysis and Data Communicating Results Summary Overview Analyzing data and communicating results is part of the outcome measurement plan.Although there are many uses for the information generated by outcome measurement, organizations often engage in outcome measurement because they are required to do so. They are asked to be accountable for the use of their grantmakers' funds. This includes foundations and grantmaking organizations such as United Way, as well as local, state, and Federal governments.
Identifying and Promoting Effective Practices - Tool for Capacity Building
June 14, 2012Equips intermediaries with the knowledge and information needed to identify, validate, and promote effective practices.