The Lab Nonprofit Capacity Building Program is a seven-month leadership and innovation program intended to accelerate new ideas in the Sacramento region’s social sector, build nonprofit innovation skills and capacity, and strengthen and support nonprofit leaders so that impact-driven organizations are maximized to their fullest potential for communities to benefit and thrive.
Donor Name: Sacramento Region Community Foundation
State: California
Counties: El Dorado County (CA), Placer County (CA), Sacramento County (CA), Yolo County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/21/2022
Details:
Te Lab Capacity Building Program provides a hub for established and emerging leaders from local nonprofits to innovate and problem-solve. The seven-month program’s curriculum is a rigorous undertaking for cohort participants: Each month, participants attend regular, guided sessions to identify and address a specific challenge that has stymied their organization’s ability to increase its community impact.
The Lab is a seven-month cohort model, and it is offered at no cost to the nonprofit leaders who participate. The program is divided into two separate focus areas:
- Leadership Development – They believe that in order to truly embrace the innovation process, leaders must prioritize growing their inner capacity to lead and navigate change. By integrating the leadership development group curriculum and 1:1 sessions with an executive coach, they provide the space and the tools for leaders to embrace the changes that will take place as a result of the process.
- Innovation – They create space and support for leaders to innovate solutions to barriers they encounter in their work — and leverage opportunities. They work with participants to understand their target audience, clarify underlying challenges, rapidly develop prototype solutions, test those solutions, analyze test feedback and data, and use the data to improve the prototype.
Eligibility Criteria
The Lab is designed for organizations that:
- Can have their Executive Director and one emerging leader participate fully, and both leaders are resolved to commit the time and resources required to attend all sessions of The Lab and an additional 4-8 hours of work between sessions;
- Are ready to take risks, build connections, innovate, and iterate;
- Have committed staff members who are open to change and believe that capacity building will further their agency’s mission;
- Have a Board of Directors that recognizes the need for training/program enhancement; and
- Have tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) and are located in the four-county greater Sacramento region (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties).
For more information, visit The Lab Capacity Building Program.
