By investing in leaders, organizations, and networks, we help create more powerful and impactful fields and movements.
Organizational Effectiveness (OE) amplifies and accelerates Packard Foundation strategies to improve the lives of children, families, and communities, advance reproductive health, and protect and restore our planet. We work collaboratively to identify and develop customized capacity-building projects that help our partners learn and adapt, leverage opportunities, and collaborate. OE listens deeply, respecting our partners’ perspective and expertise on their opportunities, needs, and solutions. There are two types of OE support:
- Grants for individual organizations. OE works with grantee partners to identify and implement customized organizational or network development projects designed to achieve deeper mission impact over the long term.
- Cohort projects. In collaboration with grantee partners, Foundation program staff, and external experts, OE develops capacity building cohorts that support groups of leaders and organizations. These cohorts provide participants with opportunities to strengthen individual skills and organizations, as well as build the collaborative relationships that are key to achieving greater impact as a field or movement.
In addition, OE collaborates with other funders to expand and improve capacity building funding. We also provide limited funding for projects that inform how the nonprofit sector can become more effective.
150M
Total amount the Packard Foundation has invested in building the capacity of grantees through Organizational Effectiveness grants.
2,827
Number of grants given to support capacity building for grantees.
OE Knowledge Center
The OE Knowledge Center is a space to exchange learning, resources, and reflections about improving nonprofit organizational and network effectiveness.
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How to Get Support
The Organizational Effectiveness program is open to all current grantees of the Packard Foundation. Although any current grantee can apply for a grant, we prioritize grantees that are critical to achieving program goals, and are at significant growth or inflection points. For more information, visit our How to Get Support page.
