The Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Fairfield County Community Foundation created The Center for Nonprofit Excellence (formerly the Nonprofit Resource Center) to support nonprofit excellence in Fairfield County. The work of The Center for Nonprofit Excellence is guided by an advisory committee of Fairfield County nonprofit leaders.

 

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence:
• Provides skill-building workshops for nonprofit staff, executive directors
   and board members

• Awards grants to support:
      • Technical assistance to mission-critical nonprofits;
      • Financial management assistance;
      • Technology development;
      • Strategic planning through scholarships to attend Harvard Business
         School’s “Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management”; and
      • Key capacity building intermediaries working in Fairfield County.

• Convenes stakeholders important to FCCF’s strategic priorities, including:

     • Regional meetings to increase access of Fairfield County nonprofits

        to funds coming to CT through the American Recovery and

        Reinvestment Act;

      • “Raising The Bar”, capacity building network for girls programs with

        RYASAP; and

     • Fairfield County After School Network, capacity building network

        for after school alliances in the four cities with the CT After School

        Network.

 

• Serves as resource and referral for local nonprofit consultants

 

• Provides networking opportunities for nonprofit executive directors

 

• Provides a consolidated workshop calendar for Fairfield County on

   FCCF website and updated resources on nonprofit management

 

• Provides free meeting space (as available) for nonprofits at the FCCF office

 

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence is generously supported by: Citizens Bank Foundation, the GE Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation and the Perrin Family Fund at The Fairfield County Community Foundation.