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Below you will find resources and downloads available to assist you with your efforts on the following topics:  

Grant Writing

Successful grant proposals underwrite your organization’s invaluable programs. Preparing competitive proposals is our strength.  View/Download Sample of an awarded grant prepared by Lynne Damon, Rudi Horner and Estelle Young. 

All organizations want the best outcomes for the populations they serve. Monitoring and Evaluation enables your organization to meet your expectations—and those of your funders—by tracking progress along the way. Capacity+ developed a free resource to get you started. Please disseminate freely to your networks. 

Improving monitoring and evaluation capacities for all organizations is our goal.   View/Download the M&E Template.

Partnership is Key

Collaborations and partnerships are essential to achieving nonprofit missions. Watch our Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Microlearning video with tips on building effective partnerships. View Estelle's presentation on collaboration and partnerships on the VIDEO 

Monitoring & Evaluation Plans

All organizations want the best outcomes for the populations they serve. Monitoring and Evaluation enables your organization to meet your expectations—and those of your funders—by tracking progress along the way. Capacity+ developed a free resource to get you started. Please disseminate freely to your networks. 

Improving monitoring and evaluation capacities for all organizations is our goal.   View/Download the M&E Template.

Program Design

Capacity+ believes strongly that winning proposals are most often a result of upfront, comprehensive project design efforts. Capacity+ Principal Estelle Young volunteers for the Greater Baltimore Urban League as a member of the Project Management Team for the Saturday Leadership Program. Working with the team, she prepared this overview of the program design.  Improving the capacity of organizations to design programs to meet their mission is our goal. 

View/Download a sample program design from the Greater Baltimore Urban League. 

Evidenced-Based Practice

View our favorite links to evidence-based programming to share with you. 

Professional and Personal Development

View our favorite links  for professional and personal development.

Building Your Organization's Capacity

View our favorite links to building your organization's capacity.

Resources - Grant Writing

Successful grant proposals underwrite your organization’s invaluable programs. Preparing competitive proposals is our strength.  Below is an example of an awarded grant prepared by Lynne Damon, Rudi Horner and Estelle Young.

Download Grant Writing Sample

Resources: Monitoring & Evaluation Plans

 All organizations want the best outcomes for the populations they serve. Monitoring and Evaluation enables your organization to meet your expectations—and those of your funders—by tracking progress along the way. Capacity+ developed a free resource to get you started. Please disseminate freely to your networks. Improving monitoring and evaluation capacities for all organizations is our goal.    

Download Monitoring & Evaluation

Resources: Program Design

Capacity+ believes strongly that winning proposals are most often a result of upfront, comprehensive project design efforts. Capacity+ Principal Estelle Young volunteers for the Greater Baltimore Urban League as a member of the Project Management Team for the Saturday Leadership Program. Working with the team, she prepared this overview of the program design. 

Improving the capacity of organizations to design programs to meet their mission is our goal. 

Download Sample Program Design

Additional Resources & Links

Top 10 Links for Evidenced-Based Practice

We believe the best resources are often free. We also believe using research to design our programs allows us to direct our energies on the quality implementation of those programs and achieves better outcomes for the people we serve.  We have selected our favorite links to evidence-based programming to share with you. 

  

  • American Youth Policy Forum - Helping Youth Succeed Through Out-of-School Time Programs
  • Annie E Casey Foundation - Publications 
  • CASEL - Impact of Out-of-School Time Programs that Promote Personal and Social Skills
  • Lumina Foundation - Publications - College Completion, Workforce, College Readiness 
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Improving SELS in Childhood Enhances Long-Term Wellbeing
  • Consortium - University of Chicago-Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners
  • Searchable Database of Wise Interventions to Help People Flourish
  • PERTS - Growth Mindset Interventions
  • Wallace Foundation - Knowledge Center
  • IES_What Works Clearinghouse-Structuring Out-of-School Time To Improve Academic Achievement


Top 4 Professional and Personal Development Links to Achieve Your Purpose

We believe the best resources are often free. We also believe that nurturing yourself as a person and developing yourself as a professional make you more impactful in your purpose. 

We have selected our favorite links to self-care and professional development with you. 

 

  • Bamboo Project-Positive Professional Development
  • Mind Tools Newsletter
  • Healthy Minds Innovation Meditation App
  • Thriving in Higher Education Podcast


Top 9 Links to Build Your Organization’s Capacity

We believe the best resources are often free. We have selected our favorite links to guide your efforts at budgeting, prospect research, grant writing, logic models and evaluation.  

  

  • Credentialed Grant Professionals
  • How to Conduct Prospect Research Using Foundation Directory Online. 
  • The Foundation Directory Online offers free access to its funder database through its Funding Information Network.
  • Wallace Foundation - Out of School Time Calculator 
  • Raising the Visibility of Your Nonprofit Via GuideStar
  • Peak Proposals_Sample Grant Proposals and Other Great Resources
  • Empowerment Evaluation
  • CDC-Framework for Program Evaluation
  • Logic Models - Designing and Monitoring Program Evaluations


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