How does the grant work?
An organizational effectiveness* grant ($15K per year + technical assistance) will be awarded to a nonprofit grantee for up to 3 years. Once a grantee is selected, hereʻs what happens:
- Key staff (executive, program, board, etc.) at the grantee organization completes the McKinsey Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) to help uncover strengths and improvement opportunities.
- The IP4G Evaluation Team analyzes the results of the OCA to identify priorities. These priorities drive the co-design of a 12-month action plan.
- IP4G deploys Co-leads who co-design a 12-month action plan with the grantee. Once we know where to focus our efforts we deploy Capacity Builders with deep expertise to come alongside, as needed.
- There are monthly alignment meetings between the grantee and co-leads to keep things moving.
- Around the 9th month, the co-leads work with our grantee to submit a year-one report (logic model) to the IP4G Evaluation Team. Note: The Evaluation Team helps design tools and provides resources with the grantee, as requested.
- The Evaluation Team makes a recommendation to the IP4G Board for the following year's funding ($15K). A new 12-month action plan is developed and implemented.
- This happens for one more year, if needed to ensure the gains are embedded, and the culture has time to shift to support the changes.
*Term defined “Organization Effectiveness”: There is no one definition since one’s organizational context differs from another. Effectiveness can revolve around the degree to which an organization accomplishes its goals, satisfies its stakeholders, has the resources it needs to operate, or creates societal or environmental impact. Wikipedia describes it as “the degree to which organizations achieve the goals they have decided upon. Among those are talent management, leadership development, organization design and structure, design of measurements and scorecards, implementation of change and transformation, deploying smart processes and innovative technology to manage the firms' human capital, and the formulation of the broader Human Resources agenda.”
