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Welcome to the
Philanthropic Capacity Building Resources (PCBR)
Database
The PCBR database contains 398 descriptions of capacity-building programs being carried out by U.S. foundations. From this database, you may obtain program profiles and conduct searches for programs under one or more search categories, as defined below. If you have questions about a specific program that is not yet on the web site, please e-mail us.
PCBR also contains 22 profiles of intermediary organizations that serve as bridges between foundations and nonprofits. These intermediaries provide capacity-building assistance to nonprofits, supported financially by foundations and others (sometimes foundations provide non-financial resources as well). Visit our Intermediaries page to learn more and to access the profiles.
The PCBR database is intended to be a free-standing information and referral resource. As part of its ongoing work on nonprofit capacity building and philanthropy, the Human Interaction Research Institute welcomes inquiries from funders needing specialized information or technical assistance on capacity building, from planners of educational or conference activities seeking a speaker, or from research colleagues.
Help Us Make PCBR More Useful
After using the PCBR database, we would greatly appreciate your sending us comments by e-mail about whether you found what you needed, and about any suggestions you may have for enhancing the database.
Program Profiles
Each program profile includes (a) a narrative description of the program, (b) contact information to learn more, (c) details about how the program is structured and funded and what types of assistance it offers to nonprofits, and (d) whether and how it has been evaluated. Each profile has been submitted for approval to its sponsoring foundation, and any changes requested have been made. The entire database is updated annually to incorporate new or changed information, including additional profiles (each profile indicates when it was last updated). Programs that are no longer in operation are labeled “Completed Program” at the beginning of the profile and also identified as such on all search reports.
Click here to see how the foundation program profiles are set up
and what information they contain.
Foundation Program Reports You Can Request
The following reports are available online:
- All Foundations in Database
- Foundations by Type of Foundation
- All Programs in Database
- Programs Under Evaluation/With Completed Evaluation
- Programs/Foundations by Type of Capacity-Building Grant
- Programs/Foundations by Type of Capacity-Building Direct Financial Support
- Programs/Foundations by Type of Capacity-Building Direct Service
- Programs/Foundations by Grants to Capacity-Building Service Providers and Intermediaries
- Programs/Foundations by Grants to Support Overall Capacity-Building Infrastructure
- Programs/Foundations by Area of Nonprofit Operations Assisted
- Programs/Foundations by Geography of Grantees/Service Recipients
- Programs/Foundations by Multiple Search Categories
Click here to select one or more of the
online foundation program PCBR reports.
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About PCBR
PCBR, an initiative of the nonprofit Human Interaction Research Institute, promotes exchange and use of information about nonprofit capacity building among foundations, capacity-building service providers, nonprofits, intermediary organizations, researchers, evaluators and academic institutions. Initiated in January 2002, PCBR has been supported by the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, and the Bruner Foundation, with the Benton Foundation as a non-funding partner. Additional funding has been provided by the Surdna Foundation, Southern California Association for Philanthropy, Unihealth Foundation, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. The Carnegie Corporation supported a national study of foundation financing for nonprofit capacity building.
Our goal is to provide as comprehensive a database as possible. We welcome information about other foundations and their capacity-building programs that may be candidates for inclusion. Some foundations with relevant capacity-building programs will not be included in our database, however, either because we have not yet identified and processed them, or because a foundation may choose not to be included due to time constraints, program changes underway, or concerns that a listing might result in too many inquiries.
In addition to this database, PCBR offers publications, conference presentations, training programs, and community-wide technical assistance on capacity building. Please contact us for a current listing. HIRI also conducts research studies on capacity building.
We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and inquiries. Please e-mail or call us.
Thomas E. Backer, PhD, Project Director
Jane Ellen Bleeg, Project Manager
Kathryn Groves, Project Coordinator
Joan Ewing, Volunteer Research Assistant
Mary Anne Shew, Technology Consultant, ShewTech Associates
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Links to More Information
The organizations below also provide information about capacity building and philanthropy. When clicked, each link will open in a new browser window:
- Alliance for Nonprofit Management, www.allianceonline.org
- Board Source, www.boardsource.org
- Capaciteria, www.capaciteria.org
- CompassPoint,
www.compasspoint.org
- CompuMentor, www.compumentor.org
- Council on Foundations, www.cof.org
- Foundation Center,
http://www.foundationcenter.org/
- Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, www.geofunders.org
- Guidestar, www.guidestar.org
- Independent Sector, www.independentsector.org
- Innovation Network, www.innonet.org
- National Council of Nonprofit Associations, www.ncna.org
- NPower, www.npower.org
- St. Paul Management Assistance Program,
www.mapfornonprofits.org
- Techsoup, www.techsoup.org
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