QCCF: Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants

Purpose

Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants strengthen nonprofits by increasing their core systems and operations. By improving infrastructure at the organizational level, these time-limited projects help nonprofits more effectively carry out their missions. The grant program focuses on capacity-building projects that improve an identified area of organizational operations including (but not limited to):

• collaboration capacity,
• communications capacity,
• data management capacity,
• equity capacity,
• evaluation capacity,
• financial management capacity,
• fundraising capacity,
• governance capacity,
• leadership capacity,
• mission & strategy capacity or
• program delivery capacity.

What is Capacity Building?

Quite simply, capacity building means focused efforts to make an organization better at its mission—now and into the future.

The Quad Cities Community Foundation funds nonprofit capacity building projects: activities carried out in a set period of time and designed to increase the capabilities, knowledge, and resources—like those listed above—that all organizations need in order to be successful.

By funding capacity building projects, we are investing in the ability of a nonprofit to deliver its mission effectively well into the future. Capacity building is an investment in the effectiveness and future sustainability of a nonprofit.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• Eligible nonprofit organizations:
  • Must be located in or serve residents of Rock Island and/or Scott Counties.
  • May only receive a Nonprofit Capacity Building Grant once every three calendar years.
  • Applications must be for one of the following eligible capacity-building activities:
  • Board training and education
  • Critical equipment
  • Staff training
  • Strategic planning
  • Succession planning
  • Technology/software
  • Other assessment, consulting, or facilitation that improves an identified area of organizational capacity.

Ineligibility

• This grant program does not support
  • capital projects,
  • vehicles,
  • furniture,
  • ongoing operational or program delivery costs,
  • consumable supplies, or
  • food/beverages for meetings or events, or the costs associated with filing for 501c3 status.