Strengthening Nonprofits:Understanding Your Community's Nonprofit Ecosystem

Registration is now closed. If you have any questions, please contact Dionna Anderson at 206-443-8437.

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Cost: This is a free event for Philanthropy Northwest members. $45 Nonmember Grantmakers

Location: Various videoteleconference locations

Who Should Attend: Philanthropy Northwest members, please log in to receive the member rate. If you do not know your login information, please contact us at info@PhilanthropyNW.org or 206-443-8437.

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The nonprofit sector works for a better society – for vibrant and healthy communities that enrich people’s lives, support and protect our most vulnerable, enhance cultural vitality, and steward our natural resources. If all the nonprofits in your community closed their doors tomorrow, how healthy would your community be?

Join the Philanthropy Northwest Capacity Building Learning Circle for an interactive workshop that will help funders think systematically about strengthening and supporting local nonprofits.

Using the novel "ecosystem" framework from The Giving Practice's recently released study, this session will explore how funders can work to create and support healthy nonprofits. While the study was conducted in Washington State, the framework applies anywhere nonprofits are working to build better communities. By videoteleconferencing from multiple locations, you'll be able to share and discuss what resonates in your community, what types of capacity building you’ve been investing in, and the gaps and strengths in your community’s ecosystem.

Philanthropy Northwest Capacity Building Learning Circle
Join your fellow grantmakers in an exploration of what it takes to understand and support the capacity of nonprofit organizations. We plan to meet quarterly to study best practices in the field, network with other funders, hear from leading practitioners, share resources, tools and the latest literature, and ultimately strengthen the sector.

Presenter: John Smith is a partner with The Giving Practice and co-author of The Nonprofit Ecosystem report. John is also a principal at Social Market Strategies, a firm that helps nonprofits with strategic planning, business planning, and market research. He has 11 years of capacity building consulting experience to nonprofits and philanthropy clients. During that time, John has provided strategy, business planning, and technology consulting to a wide range of organizations in the charitable sector: large foundations, community foundations, family foundations, businesses, and large, medium and small nonprofits in a variety of sectors.