Funding Area: Capacity Building for Nonprofits

The Capacity Building for Nonprofits grant program strengthens internal capacity and professional development while also encouraging collaboration and a shared vision amongst small and mid-sized nonprofits in Pontiac.

The Capacity Building for Nonprofits program includes three grant opportunities:

  1. Professional Leadership Development: Support for individuals working in civic, nonprofit or community organizations to participate in professional development activities.
  2. Organizational Development: Support for small and mid-size nonprofit organizations seeking to improve their capacity to better serve the community in one or more of the following areas: Operations. Funding & Resource. Organizational Culture. Strategy & Planning, Program Management, & Evaluation. Leadership & Governance.
  3. Collaboration Development: Support for small and medium sized nonprofits to more effectively cooperate, communicate, and coordinate for consensus-building, shared policies, practices, and projects.

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What is capacity building?

We define capacity building as support through funding or training that develops staff skills and organizational systems.

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Interested in applying for a grant?
See our current grant opportunities here.

Past Grantees

2020 Pontiac Leaders Grants

  • Bound Together
  • Center for Success Network
  • Centro Multicultural La Familia, Inc.
  • City of Hope CDC
  • Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic
  • Growing Pontiac
  • Oakland Forward Education Fund
  • Venture, Inc.
  • We Care Neighborhood Association

2020 Pontiac Organizational Grants

  • 2 As 1 Forever, Inc.
  • Centro Multicultural La Familia, Inc.
  • Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic
  • Greater Pontiac Community Coalition, Inc.
  • Micah 6 Community
  • Michigan Animal Rescue League
  • Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society
  • Pontiac Community Foundation
  • Pontiac’s Little Art Theatre

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