Equity-Embedded Capacity Building Workshop

Reexamine traditional support models and explore how equity-centered capacity-building can lead to more sustainable, community-rooted outcomes. In this interactive virtual workshop, you’ll learn practical tools, reflect on your philanthropic role and leave with clear, actionable strategies to align your work with the realities that nonprofits are facing today.     

Nonprofits currently are stretched thin, navigating staffing shortages, rising demand and dwindling resources. In this moment of compounding challenges, philanthropy must go beyond technical fixes and embrace capacity-building approaches that address the deeper roots of sustainability: equity, power, culture and community voice.  

Workshop dates

• Wednesday, July 29, 1 – 4 p.m.
• Thursday, July 30, 1 – 4 p.m.

Why this matters now 

Many conventional capacity-building efforts fall short because they ignore the structural forces nonprofits must contend with. This workshop offers a chance to retool and recommit, ensuring that the support you provide to nonprofits doesn't just help them survive but enables them to thrive.   

What you’ll take away 

• Alignment in your capacity-building approaches with equity-centered grantmaking practices.  
• Tools to adapt strategies for greater impact on today’s realities.  
• Actionable steps to support equitable outcomes in your community through grantmaking.  
• Connections to colleagues within the Philanthropy Ohio and GEO networks through a deepened understanding of how equity-centered capacity building can be practiced.   

Who should attend 

• Program officers and staff with significant external partnership responsibilities.  
• Staff interested in strategies to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in philanthropy.