Reimagining Capacity Building: Culture, Systems, and Power

Author: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Publisher: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Resource Type: Report
Principle: Build Capacity

While capacity building is a critical part of our work, traditional models of capacity building tend not to account for culture, systems and power in their design, too often “rendering them inadequate for communities of color.” The limitations of models that do not consider dynamics of power and issues of equity have never been more apparent than they are now.