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April 2014
Funder Capacity and Effectiveness  Chris Cardona

 

How can funders build their own capacity in a responsible way? Chris Cardona, Director of TCC Group's Philanthropy Services, recently attended the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference where he blogged about the skills, abilities, knowledge, tools, and resources that funders need to play the range of grantmaking and non-grantmaking roles they have chosen to fulfill their mission. Read more. 

What Can You Learn from Your Peers?
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Ever wonder how your organization stacks up to others in the field? Whether your organization is large or small, serves urban or rural communities, is a start-up or celebrating its 100th anniversary, it can be helpful to assess your progress with the knowledge of how other organizations are performing.

TCC Group's Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT), an online survey that measures nonprofit effectiveness, brings real-time benchmarking capabilities that can enhance an organization's understanding of its strengths and weaknesses, as well as inform strategic planning efforts.  Nonprofits can confidentially compare themselves to other nonprofits based on self-selected criteria such as budget, type of service, and delivery model (direct service, policy advocacy, etc.) Organizations choose the benchmarking criteria and can run as many comparisons as they like.

The national CCAT database consists of more than 3,500 nonprofit organizations that have taken the survey. These organizations represent the full spectrum of nonprofit sub-sectors and range from small, grassroots organizations to institutions with multi-million dollar budgets. Learn more.

Welcome Sujatha Sebastian

 

TCC Group welcomes the newest member of our Nonprofit Capacity

Building team, consultant Sujatha Sebastian.  Sujatha has a background in business planning, strategic planning, capacity building, program design, and nonprofit management and development. She will be working out of our New York City office. Prior to joining TCC Group, Sujatha served as the Director of the Women's Business Center at the Business Outreach Center Network - a nonprofit microenterprise development and microfinance organization. She led a diverse team in providing free high-quality business education, mentoring, and counseling services in nine languages to thousands of women and immigrant entrepreneurs across New York City.  Read her bio.

Join TCC Group at These Upcoming Events

 

Associate Director of Philanthropy Ashley Blanchard will moderate a session on "Successful Transitions in Family Philanthropy" at the Advisors in Philanthropy (AiP) conference, in Chicago on April 25. Learn more.

 

Director of Philanthropy Chris Cardona will discuss the role of responsible funders in movement building at the Joint Affinity Groups' Unity Summit June 6-8 in Washington DC. Register here. 
Invitation - Philanthropy Conference - June 18-19 in New York City
 

Don't miss TCC Group's 50% discount to the Social Impact Exchange's 2014 Annual    Conference on June 18-19 in New York City.  The 2014 Conference on Scaling Impact is for foundation officers, philanthropists, corporate executives, trustees, wealth managers and philanthropy advisors interested in learning about innovative methods to support high-impact nonprofits in education, youth development, poverty alleviation, health and impact investing.

 

The conference includes presentations from foundation CEOs and nonprofit leaders, as well as knowledge sessions and peer networking opportunities. Conference themes include building networks to support scale and financial sustainability at scale. The agenda will combine knowledge sessions and opportunities for taking direct action

 

This year's keynote speakers include Tonya Allen, The Skillman Foundation; Antony Bugg-Levine, Nonprofit Finance Fund; Isiah Thomas, Isiah International; Jeffrey Walker, former JP Morgan Partner; and Ken Zimmerman, Open Society Foundations.

 

To receive the TCC Group discount, visit the registration site and indicate in the drop down menu that you are invited by TCC Group  For more information, visit www.scalingconference.org.

 
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