Grantee Capacity Building and Sustainability Projects |
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The Sustainability Project The Sustainability Project is a seven-month training and planning project with the goal of helping agencies strengthen and maintain their ability to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families. Through this project, agencies bring together teams to strategically plan to build their internal capacity to pursue and secure various resources that will address their agency’s long-term needs. Using the curriculum developed by The Finance Project, a sustainability team of 3 to 4 people from each agency participate in monthly, day-long workshops. Monthly workshops will walk sustainability teams through each step of the sustainability planning process with the ultimate goal of creating a comprehensive sustainability plan. Teams will assess program strengths and weaknesses; identify resource needs and program goals; target potential funding sources and partnerships; and develop strategies to build community support and organizational capacity. Workshop #1: Introduction to the Planning Process The first workshop provides an overview of the planning process and guidance on key questions you need to answer before starting to plan, including who to include in your planning efforts and how to structure and manage their involvement. Please note, Board Member participation in a specific period of time within this workshop is required. Workshop #2: Developing a Vision & Results Orientation This workshop helps agencies define what they want to sustain. We will revisit program visions; assess current strategies and activities; and determine the scope and quality of programming your organization wants to provide over the next three to five years.. Please note, Board Member participation in a specific period of time within this workshop is required. Workshop#3: Creating a Strategic Financing Plan This workshop takes agencies through the process of developing a strategic financing plan, beginning with estimating the fiscal resources needed, and then analyzing a range of funding sources and financing strategies to identify those that are most appropriate. Workshop #4: Building Organizational Capacity & Community Support This workshop will help define other types of strategies – in addition to financing strategies – that you will need to implement to sustain your agency’s programs. These include, for example, mobilizing community support, cultivating leadership, and building organizational capacity. Workshop #5: Writing & Marketing your Plan This workshop briefly describes the content and organization of the written plan. It will also explore strategies for using the plan with different types of funding sources and various stakeholders. Resource Forum The forum will bring participating grantees together with foundation, corporate, county and nonprofit leaders. At the Resource Forum, grantees will present their sustainability plans and receive critical and guiding feedback from the panel. Capacity Building and Sustainability Technical Assistance (TA) The proposed Technical Assistance plan is flexible” in nature to allow First 5 LA to facilitate relevant workshops and trainings, based on identified and documented grantee need, lessons learned from pilot projects and best practices. « Back to Cross-Cutting Approaches |
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