Funders
Revolutionize Your Grant Process with the Lifecycles Model
It’s a fact that strong organizations often get the best results. And though our field does not like to fund overhead and infrastructure, it is exactly those types of capacity costs that contribute to a nonprofit’s ability to perform from a position of strength. Yet capacity looks different at various stages of organizational life. We have an assessment tool offered to Lifecycles Funders designed to facilitate your grantees understanding of their lifecycle stage and address the corresponding capacity issues in a targeted, non-judgmental way.
We also offer a variety of cohort capacity programs for Lifecycles Funders wishing to strengthen the capacity of a group of mission-critical grantees. Contact us for more information.
Funders, looking for ways to engage?
LEARN
Meet our team and learn about the Institute.
Read Chapter 11: Nonprofit Lifecycles to understand principles of nonprofit capacity.
Read Part 1 of Nonprofit Lifecycles to better understand your grantee’s capacity stage
Learn from our Lifecycle Funders the impact of the Lifecycles Self-Assessment and Lifecycles Capacity programs.
Check out our Directory of NLI Members
LIVE

Become a member of the Institute.
Have a difficult grant situation? Consider a Lifecycles Assessment to pinpoint issues and target solutions.
Request to speak to another funder involved with NLI’s capacity building programs.
Join us at an upcoming event.

LEAD
Host a lecture or workshop for your community.
Hire one of our trained consultants to conduct a Lifecycles Assessment in your community.
Invest in a Lifecycles Capacity cohort program for greatest organizational impact and ROI