Build Your Capacity for Capacity Building
The iCAT is an organizational assessment, planning and evaluation tool for those that strengthen nonprofits.
Easily administer an unbiased, data-driven organizational assessment to the nonprofits that you support.
Provide assessments to your nonprofits for free or as part of your paid services.
View your own, real-time dashboard of individual and collective organizational capacity results.
Get the back-up that you need, with access to online training, support materials, and tech help.
Optimize Each Organization
Learn how to bring any nonprofit to its fullest potential.
Assess Every Nonprofit
An easy-to-administer organizational capacity assessment that highlights nonprofits' strengths and challenges.
Determine Your Capacity Building Impact
Use the iCAT as a longitudinal measure of the effectiveness of your capacity building strategies.
Take the Right Actions
Use the iCAT recommendations to assure that you’re prioritizing the most effective approaches to organization improvement.
A Holisitic View of Any Nonprofit
Leading
Leading is an organization’s capacity to articulate a clear vision for the organization and incentivize everyone to achieve it.
Learning
Learning is the organization’s capacity to collect, process and use information about its programs, operations and external environment, for the purpose of furthering the mission.
Overseeing
Overseeing measures the organization’s ability to hold itself accountable financially and for the achievement of its impact.
Planning
Planning measures the organization’s ability to effectively make decisions and plan for the future.
Resource Generating
Resource Generating is the capacity of an organization to raise the funds and other resources that it needs to operate, as well as its ability to incentivize others to support the organization in doing so.
Managing
Managing measures the organization’s ability to utilize its human and financial resources in an efficient and effective manner.