Capacity building is a whole range of activities to improve an organization’s ability, to achieve its mission or a person’s ability to define and realize goals, or to do job more effectively. Building capacity doesn’t just happen, it takes work. In other words, “building capacity” is an active verb.

For organizations, capacity building may relate to almost any aspect of its work: improved governance, leadership, mission and strategy, administration, program development and implementation, fundraising and income generation, diversity, partnerships and collaboration, evaluation, advocacy and policy change, positioning, planning, etc. For individuals, capacity building may relate to leadership development, advocacy skills, training/speaking abilities, technical skills, organizing skills, and other areas of personal and professional development.

 There is a large range of capacity building approaches a continuum that includes peer-to-peer learning, facilitated organizational development, training, research (ask most nonprofits what would better allow them to focus on sustained capacity building), publishing and grant making (help create such a genuine partnership).

 Capacity building has fast become a major topic among nonprofits organizations. The concept of capacity building in nonprofits is similar to the concept of organizational development and organizational effectiveness management in for-profits. Capacity building efforts can include a broad range of approaches, granting operating funds, granting management development funds, providing training, coaching and development sessions, supporting collaboration with other nonprofits. Prominent methods of organizational performance management in for-profits can to be mentioned in discussions about capacity building.

 “Organizational capacity building” is a buzzword these days. The Effective Project, as an organization helping foundations and nonprofit organizations “get to the next level of effectiveness”. We want to say that perspective of foundations and nonprofits is understand the dynamics of building capacity better. And we hope that nonprofits will incorporate the elements of successful capacity building into organizational planning and operation, and that foundations will incorporate these elements into their work of supporting.

 The capacity building can and wants to maximize social impact in the nonprofits organizations. We are foundedthe capacity building byintensely motivated individuals who are promoting a new idea: a different approach, method, or system to address some pressing social need.

The Power of the capacity building is the result of a strong, respectful relationship between a ready and willing organization and a skilled provider working with a set of core principles. In this way (like we said it in article already), good “practice” becomes a verb, not a noun; a provider helps an organization “practice” capacity-building, over time, in a back-and-forth relationship.

Sources of the article: 

http://www.allianceonline.org/about/capacity_building_and_1.page  http://www.envsc.org/bestpractices.pdf                                        http://www.managementhelp.org/org_perf/capacity.htm  http://www.effectivecommunities.com/ECP_CapacityBuildingInquiry.pdf  http://vppartners.org/learning/reports/capacity/capacity.html