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Building Capacity Through HR
July 2025
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Video
Lasting Impact: A Guide to Inclusive Capacity Building
March 2025
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Video
Building Grantee Sustainability: A Bottom-Up Approach
January 2025
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Partner Resource
Sustainability? No, It Is about Building Durability!
December 2024
2024 Annual Conference
Building Leadership and Networks through Collaborative Funding in Native American Communities
October 2024
Resource for members only
2024 Annual Conference
Innovative Practices in Philanthropy: Investing in Nonprofit Leadership Development to Achieve Greater Impact
October 2024
Resource for members only
Blog Post

By Matthew Randazzo, President & CEO, The Dallas Foundation

For 20 years the philanthropic sector has increasingly focused its giving on big strategic initiatives – population level outcomes, systems change, influencing policy, etc...

May 13, 2020
Blog Post

The following guest blog post is written by PSW Road Show partners and presenters, Impact City Founder Salah Boukadoum & CEO Jennifer M. Ware.

Today’s funding models leave so much opportunity on the table for our communities. Too...

February 26, 2020
Blog Post

The following guest blog post is written by PSW Road Show partners and presenters, Impact City Founder Salah Boukadoum & CEO Jennifer M. Ware.

“How will you support your program in future years?”

Some form...

January 29, 2020
Member News

Houston, TX - Texas Pride Impact Funds announced that 17 organizations will share $120,000 to support the transformational work of community partner organizations, from smaller cities around Texas including Corpus Christi, Eagle Pass and Lubbock, as well as organizations serving multi-county regions in the urban centers of Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio. Read more.

November 15, 2019
Case Study
Advancing Social Change Through Movement Building, One Relationship at a Time - A Case Study
Marguerite Casey Foundation
November 2019
Article
What is Behind the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap? A 2019 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Commentary
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
October 2019
Article
The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap - An Impact Report
McKinsey & Company
October 2019
Program Resource
Capacity Building 2019 Strategic Plan - Early Learning Alliance
North Texas Community Foundation
October 2019
Program Resource
Building Nonprofit Capacity to Combat Poverty in Our Neighborhoods: Year One - An Impact Report to Investors
North Texas Community Foundation
October 2019
Program Resource
Giving Our Children the Tools to Succeed - An Impact Report to Investors
North Texas Community Foundation
October 2019
PSW News

Dallas, TX - Philanthropy Southwest and PSW Member Northern Trust partnered to host the sold-out event “Amplifying Philanthropy by Investing for Impact” in Dallas this fall. The event focused on impact investing and featured a dynamic panel to...

December 11, 2018
Guide
Collective Impact Principles of Practice: Putting Collective Impact into Action (Collective Impact Forum)
May 2016
Presentation
A Lifecycle Approach to Investing in Organizational Capacity
October 2015
Member News

Largest gathering of Texas philanthropy on any State Issue Held at the 3rd Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Convening.

March 19, 2015
Member News
Becky Pastner talks about the St. David's Foundation’s history in capacity building and its new Capacity Academy, an opportunity for St. David’s grant partners to develop and implement targeted capacity-building efforts over a period of several years.
February 12, 2015
PSW News

Foundations regularly provide capacity building support to nonprofit organizations, but it’s less typical for foundations to support the growth and capabilities of fellow funders. The Kirkpatrick Foundation’s relatively modest grant support of $12,500 gave the smaller Southwestern Urban Foundation the ability to redefine its direction and mission, develop a strategic plan, and communicate about their grantmaking.

December 15, 2014
The Power of Investing in Nonprofit Capacity
October 2014
Guide
Cracking the Network Code: Impact through Empowerment
September 2014
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