Capacity Building

Achieving Impact Through Organizational Effectiveness

To achieve impact, the Trust must have robust partners. Building organizational capacity is an important tool for ensuring effective service delivery to the state’s underserved and financially needy populations.

Since 2008, both the Poor and Needy and Health Care divisions of the Trust have supported opportunities for grantee organizations to participate in capacity-building activities designed to strengthen their performance and better serve their clients. These opportunities have included:

A $200,000 grants effort in support of 28 organizations in Forsyth County for various infrastructure, training, and developmental needs
Joint sponsorship of the national Ladder to Leadership program in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Center for Creative Leadership to support 19 emerging leaders in seven economically disadvantaged eastern North Carolina counties in a 16-month leadership program
Six sessions of Leadership Essentials supporting 140+ local and statewide health and human service leaders in a two-day program conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership
Regional group and one-on-one technical assistance sessions conducted by Hal Williams of the Rensselaerville Institute with 150+ participants
Support of training conducted by the Institute for Dismantling Racism, including the development of a "first-ever" healthcare version of the national Crossworks curriculum
Ongoing support of the attendance of low-income serving health organizations at the twice yearly Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation Healthy Communities Institute
New grants support of capacity building organizations in the west (Western North Carolina Pathways), the southeast (QENO), and Forsyth county (HandsOn Northwest North Carolina) along with continued support of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits
Partnering with University Health Systems in Greenville on development of an eastern North Carolina capacity building strategy and organization
Funding of 11 small, grassroots organizations in Tier One counties around the state

The Trust continues to work on enhancing our effort so that organizations interested in improved health for low-income North Carolinians can be strengthened...