SPARC: Sustainable Programs Reaching our Community

2010-07-20

Capacity building services for nonprofit practitioners are designed to balance learning through instruction, and practical case studies. The course is aimed to help you strengthen your organization’s infrastructure, and position it for long term sustainability.
You will learn how to:
  • develop an effective board of directors,
  • learn the differences and similarities between strategic plans and business plans, and when it is most appropriate to use each
  • develop and implement program evaluation plans
  • strategically develop, write, and submit private and public grant applications
  • diversify and stabilize funding streams for your organization
  • create and manange budgets in complicance with OMB circular A-123
  • effectively communicate your organization’s mission, goals and accomplishments to enhance accountability
  • create and analyze standard financial reports
  • evaluate and prioritize areas of organizational development
  • identify, purchase, and deploy technology that will enhance program activites and evaluation
  • implement community assessment as a tool for monitoring and developing programs

Training Modules

Training sessions can be delivered classroom style or onsite.

Capacity Building 1: Best Practices in Board Development
Capacity Building 2: Strategic Planning: Using Financial Benchmarks
Capacity Building 3: Business Planning: Not Just For Profit Anymore
Capacity Building 4: Developing a Strategic Grant Writing Program
Capacity Building 6: Nonprofit Financing: An Introduction
Capacity Building 5: Evaluation and Data Analysis: Letting Your Success Shine
Capacity Building 7: Budgeting and OMB Compliance
Capacity Building 8: Marketing: More than just Advertising
Capacity Building 9: Financial Statements: The Basics
Capacity Building 10: Organizational Evaluation
Capacity Building 11: Technology: Taking the Mystery out of the Magic
Capacity Building 12: Assessment as a Tool for Program Development
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