Building Capacity for Better Results: Strategies for Financing and Sustaining the Organizational Capacity of Youth-Serving Programs

Given the weak economy, many nonprofit organizations have been forced to make budget cuts, and often, these reductions are in organizational capacity, rather than direct service funding. The Finance Project authored this report in response to these trends on four approaches for nonprofit organizations serving youth, specifically, and how organizational leaders can support and strengthen their organizational capacity, including building accurate overhead rates into contracts and grants, accessing funding to directly support capacity building, accessing technical assistance to support or improve organizational capacity, and forming partnerships to share administrative services.