Ten local non-profits have received a total of $125,000 to build and strengthen the systems, structures, cultures, skills, resources, and power that they need to serve their communities.
Another round of Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants will be awarded in the spring.
Nonprofit capacity building work is not always visible, but it is critical to nonprofit success.
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Getting Out and Staying Out, co-founded by Tony Smith of the VSA Consulting Group, works to reduce recidivism rate among men at Rikers Island, New York City. The recidivism rate significantly dropped from 60-plus percent to under 20 percent, with more than a thousand men over a span of  eight years.