Building or enhancing your organization's capacity for planned giving is also building its capacity as an organization. There are funding sources that specifically have "organizational capacity building" as a grantmaking priority. Some of those are:
Betterment Fund
www.megrants.org/betterment.htm
David Rockefeller Fund
Davenport Fund
Email:davenporttrust@verizon.net
Davis Family Foundation
Equity Fund
Maine Community Foundation
www.mainecf.org/grants/availablegrants/equityfund.aspx
Maine Development Foundation
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www.mdf.org/downtown/guide/programs.php?pid=8
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New Hampshire Charitable Fund/Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation
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Rines/Thompson Fund
Maine Community Foundation
www.mainecf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=249
Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
Telephone: (203) 772-0740
Surdna Foundation
The Unity Foundation
Tips for Capacity-Building Grant Writing:
Writing Capacity Building Grants, by Susan Chandler
www.tgci.com/magazine/Writing%20Proposals%20for%20Capacity%20Building.pdf
To find other places to research potential resources for capacity building and other areas of organizational support, visit the "links" section of this site for Non Profits

