What is it about?
This article is about how nonprofits can assess their progress in strengthening different parts of their organizations, such as board governance.
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Why is it important?
Nonprofits need a valid way to tell whether they are making progress in building capacity in key areas like strategic planning and human resources.
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The way we think about nonprofit capacity in abstract terms like "adaptive capacity" - and the different actions of nonprofits that make up these abstract terms - is harder to measure than we might assume. But there may be valid ways for nonprofits to self-assess their progress in building capacity. In this article, we find a 19-item scale nonprofits can use to do this.
Dr Mathieu Despard
University of Michigan
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This page is a summary of: Can Nonprofit Capacity Be Measured?, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0899764016661425.
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