Tool: Capacity Assessment Checklists

Keywords

• capacity building
• organisational assessment

Summary

Organisational assessment surveys (or checklists etc.) can act as a starting point for assessing capacity and performance and can function as a basic diagnostic tool. According to the Center for Community and Economic Development, the tool can "help guide a group discussion about the operations of a Nonprofit organization. This group discussion ideally should include board members, staff, volunteers, and service recipients, but could be used as a self-assessment tool by anyone associated with a Nonprofit organization"

Related Sources

• Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool Prof. Andrew Lewis: Center for Community and Economic Development, 1995
• The Performance Management Checklist: Idea.gov.uk
• The IOM Checklist MDF Training and Consultancy, 2005
• The McKinsey Capacity Assessment Grid McKinsey & Company on behalf of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP)
• The Marguerite Casey Foundation Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool The Marguerite Casey Foundation
• Organisational Assessment Institute for Human Services