Building the Backbone: Capacity as Infrastructure for North Carolina’s Charitable Sector
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Event Details
Many nonprofit organizations and foundations face a growing challenge: an increase in demand for their services coupled with shrinking traditional funding streams. This pressure makes organizational capacity - the ability to effectively deliver on a mission - the most critical issue in 2026. In this session, Catchafire will share how funders are using capacity building as the connective tissue that helps nonprofits remain resilient through any kind of shift - from hurricanes and flooding, to election cycles, to changes in state and federal funding. By investing in the systems, skills, and operational backbone of nonprofits, grantmakers can help ensure organizations are prepared not just to respond, but to recover and rebuild.
This session will explore:
- How urban and rural funders can support nonprofits to withstand rainy days and emerge stronger, rather than starting from scratch after each crisis
- How capacity building enables nonprofits to show up during any disruption, from natural disasters to funding and policy shifts
- The role of capacity building as the connective tissue between mission delivery, operations, and long-term strategy
- How urban and rural funders can support nonprofits to withstand rainy days and emerge stronger, rather than starting from scratch after each crisis
