Established in 1925, The Denver Foundation is a community foundation dedicated to improving life in Metro Denver through philanthropy, leadership, and strengthening the community. Community foundations are endowments: permanent pools of money contributed by local donors to benefit a specific geographic area. In 2007, The Denver Foundation gave over $65 million in grants to nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit www.denverfoundation.org.
About Technical Assistance & the Technical Assistance Blog
Technical Assistance (TA) can be broadly defined as any specialized skill or service that a nonprofit may require to fulfill its mission that isn’t available within the organization’s existing staff or board of directors. The range of services may vary greatly from grant-writing, meeting facilitation, development of a strategic plan, or website development. And how these services may be delivered will vary greatly as well, in terms of the cost, complexity and oversight.
Managed well, technical assistance helps an organization leverage its limited resources to effectively reach new milestones. However, without proper planning and management, technical assistance efforts can drain time and energy, distracting the organization from its core mission.
This Blog contains comments from past grantees as well as articles which will introduce the basic concepts necessary to help you hire a consultant who will provide technical assistance. We encourage you to contact previous TA grant recipients for further information. We ask that if you post comments or questions about consultants, that no specific names are used. Lastly, if you have pertinent articles you would like to share to help others, please email them to tablog@denverfoundation.org.
Click here to visit The Denver Foundation’s Resources for Nonprofits web page for more information.
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