SUSTAINING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION CAPACITY AFTER AN INTENSIVE CAPACITY-BUILDING PROGRAM

As the nonprofit sector grows and increasingly becomes the delivery system for public services across the country, an interest in nonprofit capacity to deliver these services has also increased (Milward, 1994; Mirabella, 2001; Herman & Renz, 2004). The purpose of this study was to identify the longitudinal change in organizational capacity in local nonprofit organizations after an intensive capacity-building program and explore the intervening variables that influenced the change. Findings underscored capacity building’s association to organizational effectiveness theory and identified multiple factors that influence the change in organizational capacity over time.