Capacity Building

Capacity Building

Literature Review on (Nonprofit Organizations) Capacity Building

In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Catherine H. Brown offers the following summary about the topic of (Nonprofit Organizations) Capacity Building: Capacity building in nonprofit organizations tends to focus on strengthening an organization's internal management practices so that the organization is better able to fulfill its mission or missions. Government agencies and philanthropic organizations are among the primary funders of efforts that support capacity building in nonprofit organizations—otherwise known as nonprofit capacity-building programs. Funders may invest in such efforts for a variety of reasons. Chief among these reasons is the expectation that such investments can help nonprofit organizations become better providers of public services. Other reasons include the expectation that such investments will help build stronger communities. Less has been written about what motivates nonprofit organizations to participate in such programs, although the evidence suggests that they may see participation as a means to gain knowledge about nonprofit management, and/or as an indirect means of securing potential future resources. The literature suggests that there are several types of nonprofit capacity-building programs and a range of activities that may be associated with them, ranging from funding that the nonprofit organization may use as it sees fit to more structured forms of support and intervention, usually involving an outside consultant. Although the link between activities and outcomes remains an area for future research within the capacity-building literature, evaluation data generally shows that nonprofit organizations and individuals associated with the organizations that participate in capacity-building programs do change over the course of the program.

Capacity-building

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on capacity-building explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

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Further Reading

  • The entry “capacity-building” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press

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Notes and References

  1. Entry about (Nonprofit Organizations) Capacity Building in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2015, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom)

See Also

Further Reading

  • Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018, Springer International Publishing, Germany)

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