Offering the CCAT® to Your Grantees

By leveraging the CCAT, funders can ensure that their capacity-building investments are targeted and effective, creating a tailored roadmap for organizational development. This data-driven approach helps grantees strengthen internal operations like strategic planning, financial management, governance, and program evaluation, and fosters transparency and trust between funders and grantees.  

Target Future Support:  The CCAT can provide funders with aggregated data, offering a clear view of shared challenges and capacity-building needs across their grantees. This insight enables funders to focus support more effectively by tailoring technical assistance, refining grant priorities, and designing strategies that strengthen the nonprofit ecosystem and maximize impact. 

Enrich Cohort Learning: The CCAT provides a valuable framework for grantee cohorts to engage in peer learning, fostering collaboration and mutual support. By identifying common themes and challenges from individual assessments, the CCAT creates a platform for grantees to share strategies, exchange ideas, and collectively explore solutions. This collaborative approach strengthens individual organizations but also builds a network of shared expertise and accountability, enhancing the overall impact of capacity-building efforts. 

Enhance Investment: Pairing programmatic grants with organizational capacity support helps nonprofits identify gaps, address risks, and build a solid foundation to sustain impactful programs. Similarly, combining general operating grants with capacity-building efforts maximizes philanthropic investments by empowering grantees to set and achieve prioritized goals that strengthen their overall effectiveness.