Capacity Building Resources

 

 

Kataly is partnering with values-aligned capacity building organizations and practitioners to make workshops and other programming available at no cost to our grantees and borrowers. Please use the links and instructions below to access a variety of offerings.

Our approach to capacity building ultimately seeks to foster:

  • Resilient change agents within Black and Indigenous communities, and all communities of color
  • Highly collaborative teams and partnerships that can sustain and evolve in the face of new and changing conditions; and
  • Enduring community assets that create shared prosperity, self-determination, and power.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions about our capacity building offerings.

Strategic Partners

CompassPoint

CompassPoint works with social justice leaders, organizations, and movements to unleash their full potential for creating social change. CompassPoint offers a range of online workshops on a variety of topics, such as leadership, change and conflict management, resource mobilization, and finance.

Each Kataly grantee can enjoy one public training (register 1-3 folks from your organization), as well as one network membership (up to 2 people from your organization will be able to join on a single membership) at a 90% discount.  Please contact us at [email protected] to access your Kataly grantee discount for trainings and networks.

The Embodiment Institute

The Embodiment Institute (TEI) is a training and research entity serving the embodied transformation for our broader movements. TEI’s Self-Guided Embodiments Basics Course is a great offering for anyone and everyone who is looking to deepen their own understanding and awareness of embodiment.

The hope is that this course helps you:

  • Emerge with more recognition of the relationship between your embodiment and your individual and ancestral experiences of trauma and oppression
  • Activate the sense that healing is possible and necessary for societal transformation
  • Decolonize your relationship to your body
  • Relearn basic tools for regrounding after activation

The course is four modules, 36 lessons (four hours total), somatic practices, and an accompanying workbook to help you explore what it means to feel and heal in your own body and to help you set a path for your own courageous vision.

We are partnering with TEI so that each Kataly grantee can enjoy one free enrollment for the Self Guided Embodiment Basics Course (one individual participant). If you are interested in the Self-Guided Embodiments Basics Course, please complete this form and you will be contacted soon with enrollment information.

Raise for Good

Raise for Good encourages and supports leaders to create big visions for impact and leverage strategy, storytelling, and scale to realize that vision. Raise for Goods Capacity Building “Bootcamp” Program is a 10-week cohort-based learning program. This program is designed to align with your needs as an organizationa nd to help grow you and your team’s leadership and thought partnership skills.

We are partnering with Raise for Good to offer the Bootcamp experience with custom programming and technical support for approximately 15 Kataly grantees annually. This invite-only offering is designed specifically for the leaders of Kataly grantee organizations (1) that are in the start-up (or restart-up) phase and growing; and/or (2) for which Kataly is the largest funder.  As a spend-out foundation, it is especially important to us to support groups in achieving financial independence and self-determination for the long haul.

At this time, participation in this program remains invite-only. If you are interested and think this program is right for you, please discuss with your program contact at Kataly. 

Purpose Possible

Purpose Possible transforms communities by empowering mission-driven organizations. Recognizing that community ownership and stewardship of land is essential to healing and building power in Black, Indigenous, and all communities of color, Kataly and Purpose Possible launched Rebuilding Capital Campaigns, a program to support Kataly grantees and borrowers who are dreaming about, planning for, actively running capital campaigns. 

The pilot cohort ran from May through November 2023. If you are seeking resources, you are free to access the recordings for the program’s introductory workshops series here. In 2024, we plan to make available some of the resources that were developed through the first run of programming and to launch a second cohort. Check back for updates!

If you have questions about Rebuilding Capital Campaigns, please contact us at [email protected].

Upcoming Events

Community Care Clinic for Disabled and Chronically Ill Movement Folks

Dates:

  • Thursday, August 8: 2:30-3:15 pm PT/ 3:30-4:15 pm MT/ 4:30-5:15 pm CT/ 5:30-6:15 pm ET
    • This clinic will be followed by a special event, details TBA
  • Tuesday, September 10: 4-6 pm PT/ 5-7 pm MT/ 6-8 pm CT/ 7-9 pm ET

Sponsored by: Peoples Hub

An ongoing community care peer support space aimed at expanding possibilities around how we live and work as disabled and chronically ill people. Register here.

Strategy Clinics for Black Disabled Movement Workers, Fall 2024

Dates: Thursdays: August 15, September 19, October 10, November 14

Time: 3-6 pm PT/ 4-6 pm MT/ 5-7 pm CT/ 6-8 pm ET

Sponsored by: Peoples Hub

PeoplesHub invites Black disabled movement workers into strategic conversations to sharpen organizing approaches, develop points of unity amongst Black radical disabled people, and share tools, skills, and resources that continue to support Black disabled people. Register here.

Resilient Communities Legal Cafe

Dates: Multiple, see website

Time: 12:00 PM PDT

Sponsored by: Sustainable Economies Law Center

The Sustainable Economies Law Center provides direct legal support to individuals and groups who are working to create new solutions for resilient local economies. The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides sliding-scale donation-based legal advice, via Zoom, by appointment.

If you need advice about starting a worker-owned cooperative, converting an existing business into a cooperative, organizing a housing cooperative, founding a nonprofit or other social enterprise, please RSVP online! 

Note: SELC especially encourages Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities to RSVP. SELC focuses on cooperatives, participatory or democratic nonprofits, land trusts, and mutual aid groups. If you need Spanish Language or American Sign Language interpretation, please email Hope ([email protected]) with Subject Line “Interpretation Request – for [mm/dd/yyyy] event.”

You and/or your group will be paired with a lawyer for 30-45 minutes to get answers to questions about entity formation, contracts, governance, and more! Since SELC is based in Oakland, CA, session times are listed as Pacific Standard Time. Only one person per group needs to RSVP.

Free Online Resources

[ARTICLE] Protecting Your Organization's Cash Position

This piece provides tools and information to help you conduct further research under the guidance of a financial professional.

[TEMPLATES] Nonprofit Real Estate & Financial Management Resources (Community Vision)

Download these free, on-demand templates for support with navigating real estate and financial management needs across the following categories: Assembling Your Real Estate Team; Budgeting; Buying Space; Cash & Debt; Finance & Strategy; Leasing Space; Nonprofit Compliance; Real Estate Readiness.

[TEMPLATES] Free Financial Oversight & Tracking Tools (Fun with Financials)

Download these free, user-friendly templates and tools including sample policies, fiscal sponsorship guidance, and tracking spreadsheets for grants and lobbying.

[ARTICLES] Grassroots Fundraising Journal Online Archive (Nonprofit Quarterly)

Grassroots Fundraising Journal (GFJ), in publication from 1984 through 2020, is now archived on the Nonprofit Quarterly’s website. The 600+ articles that comprise Grassroots Fundraising Journal are used widely by fundraising professionals and volunteers, by professors in university courses on nonprofit management, by seasoned practitioners, and by people brand new to the ideas and concepts presented there.

[WEBINAR] Community Centric Fundraising 101 (Purpose Possible)

Donor-Centric Fundraising has long been the de facto fundraising model – the belief that nonprofits must center the donor and their desires and expectations to accomplish necessary fundraising goals. But if donors are centered, then where does that leave our work, staff, and communities? In this recorded webinar (air date 5/24/2022) Laura Hennighausen and Starsha Valentine of Purpose Possible provide an overview of the Ten Principles of the Community-Centric Fundraising movement and an exploration of how and why to incorporate them into our practices.

[WEBINAR] What is a Worker Self-Directed Nonprofit?

What do you get when you cross a worker cooperative with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit? A worker self-directed nonprofit! Presented by the Sustainable Economies Law Center, this webinar offers an introduction to implementing workplace democracy for nonprofit organizations.

[GUIDES] The Sustainable Economies Law Center’s Bite-Sized Legal Guides

While the contents of these Guides should not be relied upon as legal advice or in lieu of consultation with an attorney, they can be a great place to start for learning about legal issues related to worker cooperatives, nonprofits, food and farming, employment law, and real estate.

[GUIDE] A Guide to Transformative Land Strategies: Lessons from the Field

The report synthesizes the practices and strategies of transformative community land organizations under three primary themes: participatory comprehensive planning, partnerships across grassroots and mainstream organizations, and community and cooperative financing. These findings are relevant for those who are invested in the transformative potential of the CLTs and other community land ownership models. This guide provides emerging organizations with inspiring examples to learn from and to adapt for their own work.

[REPORT] Broke: How Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sectors are Talking about Poverty—And How We Can Do Better

More than a report, BROKE is an opportunity for each of us to examine the stories we tell about poverty and wealth, and to work together to build new narratives rooted in the wisdom of lived experience, narrative power, organizing for economic justice, and social science. The insights from BROKE help us understand where and how we can grow and transform as a community of activists, communicators, storytellers, and strategists dedicated to building a free and just world in which all people can live authentic lives with dignity.