Capacity Strengthening
Catalysing philanthropy management to drive social impact
12+
Donors partnerships
350+
Organisations strengthened
1050+
Organisation’s team members trained
Why capacity strengthening?
We partner with social purpose organisations in identifying operational and strategic gaps and providing actionable solutions tailored to the organisations’ DNA.
To collaborate and co-create solutions set within the context of the developmental sector based on the needs and challenges of the individual organisation through ongoing support to institutionalise the solutions.
To equip organisations with the capabilities to independently and effectively deliver their mission thereby increasing their potential to have a positive social impact over time.
To support clients in determining how to utilise their resources most effectively to solve increasingly complex social problems and bring about long-lasting change.
Our approach
Social Lens strives to assist organisations in understanding their current framework and growth objectives by conducting a comprehensive assessment of their needs and assets. The development of progress-oriented initiatives can then be aided by effective analysis of the capacity strengthening of an organisation.
The fundamental tenet of Social Lens’ methodology is that nonprofit organisations and funders must first evaluate needs, set effectiveness benchmarks or goals, and then move forward with capacity strengthening initiatives intended to meet the requirements and improve outcomes.
Our capacity strengthening approach includes
Organisation persona identification
Organisation capacity diagnosis
Conceptualisation and designing capacity strengthening
At Social Lens, our evolving studies and methodologies incorporate the concept of the ‘persona’ of a nonprofit into their methodologies, and this, by definition, enables philanthropic capital providers, practitioners, and nonprofits to understand who they are, the kind of organisations they are, and designing their capacity strengthening solutions.
Our services
We service the entire spectrum of the impact sector ecosystem which include philanthropies, grant makers, and nonprofit organisations by catering to their most pressing challenges through advisory and consultancy services.
With end-to-end management of the capacity-strengthening components in a program, across organisational support, training design, and implementation, we lead and support change initiatives from strategy formulation to implementation, resulting in optimised achievement of the program objectives and program delivery.
We offer end-to-end management of the capacity-strengthening components in a program, including organisational support, training design and implementation, to result in optimised achievement of the program objectives and program delivery.
To know more about our services, write to us at contact@slens.co