These statistically-validated measures are drawn from an evidence-based understanding of how nonprofits most effectively deliver on their missions. The CCAT results report is designed to open a window to your complex organization and prioritize the most critical areas to focus on right now. It gives staff and Board members a common language to discuss organizational challenges and assets.
The outcome is a clear plan of where to spend your time and money strengthening the capacities needed for your nonprofit to make the most impact. Designed for and with nonprofit leaders, the CCAT puts nonprofits at the center of their own data to drive strategic decision making.
Learn more about how the CCAT works. The CCAT is not just about the numbers. As a leader who has used CCAT as an organizational tool and facilitates the assessment process, I can attest to the transformative nature of engaging in this work. Nonprofit leadership is about seeing and acting. The CCAT tool supports those efforts, unites stakeholders around core principles and serves as a useful assessment tool for collaboration and action. Want to learn more about the CCAT and how to implement the process at your nonprofit?
The CCAT was created to assess nonprofit organizations. Foundations, corporate funders, and management support organizations MSOs may purchase access to the CCAT as a service for their grantees or as a tool for determining the need for long-term capacity-building services.
What does the CCAT assess and analyze? The CCAT assesses and allows an organization to analyze its Four Core Capacities, organizational culture, and where it is in terms of its organizational lifecycle.
It provides users with a report analyzing their strengths and providing recommendations for future growth and change within each capacity area Leadership, Adaptive, Management and Technical , including sub-categories that provide deeper insight into each core capacity. The lifecycle score can also serve as a benchmark to confirm that a nonprofit is continuing to grow successfully.
Who takes it? The CCAT is generally taken by all senior staff and at least two to three board members possessing an intimate knowledge of the organization.
How do I take it? The CCAT is administered electronically and consists of multiple-choice questions covering a range of operational topics. How much time is needed to take the survey? Understanding what capacity to build and how to measure it is important.
The Advocacy CCAT builds on the CCAT by incorporating key measures of organizational effectiveness that are either unique or particularly important for policy and advocacy organizations. These include:. It uses statistically validated scales and collects independent data from multiple viewpoints within your organization.
It uses concrete, behaviorally based items and a standard assessment scale, resulting in an aggregated findings report of advocacy capacity with recommendations for improvements.
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