Strategy:
Identified and offered professional development and leadership opportunities to advance Cohort members’ skills and knowledge.
Leverage cohort knowledge, expertise, and best practices to promote collaboration.
Key Activities: The pillar team worked on providing trainings and capacity-building opportunities focused on building trust with and increasing accountability to the communities we serve.
The Build Capacity pillar launched a new model for capacity building by allocating microgrants of $5,000 to each organization. This approach provided more customized support, empowering each organization to focus on its unique needs and enhance its capability to prioritize community-centered initiatives.
The Build Capacity pillar planned and held trainings on storytelling as a tool for communication, organizational leadership development, and building a culture of trust within communities.
The pillar aimed to promote learning and collaboration among cohort organizations through guided discussions and targeted trainings on storytelling, organizational culture, and community engagement.
Developed trainings including bringing in experts to build the skills of individual cohort members. A storytelling training was provided to help cohort members to powerfully share their own stories and how to help others craft and share theirs. A training was also provided to help cohort members build trust with their coworkers in order to increase trust within their organizations as a whole.
Brought in other non-cohort members of our organizations and advocacy partners to expand the reach of using storytelling as an advocacy tool. To promote trust-based philanthropy, designed a microgrant program accessible to each organization to plan unique activities in line with their missions so they can better serve their communities.