Capacity-Building Support
Supporting grantees beyond the check.
Three Tiers of Support
In addition to grantmaking, Overdeck Family Foundation provides grantees with capacity-building support to help them unlock innovation, evidence, and growth opportunities. These services, offered through a three-tiered approach, aim to improve the effectiveness and future sustainability of organizations, clearing the path to cost-effective scale and accelerating key academic and socioemotional outcomes for all children.
Universal Support
Guidance and support provided by Foundation’s program staff; focused on diagnosing barriers to scale and supporting organizations in meeting innovation, growth, and evidence goals.
Selective Support
Pro-bono support provided by Foundation’s cross-functional teams, aligned to helping grantees achieve communications, human resources, impact, and organizational / leadership goals.
Intensive Support
Technical services provided by third parties, focused on strategic leadership development, financial planning, revenue model generation, impact evaluations, and strategic growth / market demand.
Partnership Spotlight
Learn more about some of the capacity-building support work.
Building Nonprofit Capacity, Hand in Hand
How capacity building and trust-based philanthropy can work in concert.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Navigating dynamic financial times with capacity-building support.
Next Education Workforce
Strengthening financial sustainability and exploring strategic scale pathways.
Nurse-Family Partnership
Examining the relationship between client feedback and program outcomes.