▸ Chapter 10Capacity Building Strategies for Successful Fundraising

Michele T. Cole

DOI: 10.4324/9781003387800-23

First published in Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management, 3rd ed., edited by J. Steven Ott and Lisa A. Dicke (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2016).

UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) has defined capacity-building as the process by which individuals, groups, organizations, institutions and societies increase their abilities to: (a) perform core functions, solve problems, define and achieve objectives; and (b) understand and deal with their development needs in a broad context and in a sustainable manner (IIEP 2006, 1). Although UNESCO’s IIEP context is educational ...

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