What is the Center for Communities?
Portland Leadership Foundation’s Center for Communities is a “capacity building” modality designed to recruit men and women in the professional community to partner with Executive Directors in the non-profit community to help grow the capacity of the non-profit organization. The Center for Communities serves as a system designed to help transform an organization’s good intentions to produce more effective outcomes for both the organization and the community.
Each non-profit seeking to engage our capacity building initiative will take a pre-assessment. Depending on how our team assesses the targeted areas of improvement for an organization, we recruit specialized consultants to help the non-profit organizations develop in a minimum of two of the following areas:
- Mission, Vision, and Values
- Program Capacity
- Fundraising Development
- Board Recruitment and Development
- Program Outcome Measurement
- Marketing
- Strategic Planning
- Creative Partnership Development
Upon acceptance into the program, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is developed between the Center for Communities, the team of consultants, and the selected non-profit to clearly outline the expectations of engagement. Upon completion of the objectives identified in the MOU, the non-profit organization may or may not be awarded a capacity building grant by Portland Leadership Foundation.
Click here to read our Center for Communities “Executive Summary”
Click here to learn more about PLF’s Approach to Capacity Building
