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Culturally Competent Capacity Builders: What will it take?
How are changing demographics and growing diversity affecting the nonprofit workforce? The task of helping nonprofit leaders manage diversity and, subsequently, improve their ability to comply with antidiscrimination laws, leverage differences, and practice inclusivity, requires the expertise of professionals or capacity builders, trained to help nonprofit leaders understand how diversity can lead to effectiveness.
The Alliance for Nonprofit Management (the Alliance) is a professional association and learning community that promotes quality in nonprofit capacity building. It asked Community Science's Kien Lee to conduct a process evaluation of the Cultural Competency Initiative (CCI) intended to 1) research and document culturally-based practices in nonprofit capacity building, and 2) provide training and resources for nonprofit capacity builders and nonprofit leaders to develop the awareness, the will, and the skill to practice cultural competency effectively.
The CCI is achieving progress towards its goals of understanding and promoting the practice of cultural competency among its members. The Alliance has made strides to:
Key Findings
- Develop better understanding about the current role of cultural competency in nonprofit capacity building;
- Establish a climate to foster understanding and demand; and
- Provide some capacity builders with knowledge and skills related to cultural competency.
The article, Culturally Competent Capacity Builders: What Will It Take? by Kien Lee, appears in the current issue of OD Practitioner, the Journal of the Organization Development Network. Click here to purchase a copy of the article from the Journal's website or email Community Science for more information.
