Building Capacity

Community-based organizations are uniquely positioned to provide life-changing services to the people hardest to reach. Yet they’re often trapped in a cycle: a lack of funding keeps them from investing in capacity building to strengthen their organization, yet the lack of strong infrastructures makes funders wary of investing in them. (Learn more about why we focus on community-based organizations here.)

We provide a range of free capacity building programs to help community-based organizations break out of this cycle.

See a snapshot of the hundreds of nonprofits served through our capacity building programs.

• Open to nonprofits serving children, youth, and families in Washington, DC and Prince George’s County, MD.
• An 8-month engagement that aligns leadership and organizational practices to build strong foundations for nonprofits with budgets between $50K – $250K
• Focused on strengthening capacity in two of the following areas: Board Development, Fundraising, Leadership & Management, and Program Evaluation

• Open to nonprofits serving children, youth, and families in Washington, DC
• A 12-month engagement to strengthen organizational leadership and systems to foster sustainability and growth
• Focuses on strengthening capacity in four of the following areas: Board Development, Financial Management, Fundraising, Human Resources, Leadership Development, Outreach & Communications, Planning & Strategy, and/or Program Evaluation

We partner with private and corporate funders to develop customized capacity building programs or one-off services for their grantees. For example, we’ve developed workshop series, facilitated communities of practice, provided leadership coaching, assessed grantees’ capacity with our proprietary assessment, and other services.

Fair Chance is committed to the sustainability and growth of our nonprofit partners – even after the partnership program is completed. Our vibrant alumni network has access to a suite of Network Services offerings such as Legal Services, Executive Director Learning Community, E-Forum, Alumni Resource Support Hub (ARCH), and Boston Consulting Group Fellows Program.