Capacity Building

Strengthening Our Community’s Capacity

We increase our community’s capacity to support children, families, and organizations throughout Alamance County by joining forces with community groups. Together, we are building leaders, achieving more than the sum of our individual efforts and boosting our collective impact.

To enhance the organizational health of our partnerships, we offer the following capacity-building resources to grantees and nonprofit partners to strengthen their growth.

Nonprofit Learning Communities

Impact Alamance and United Way of Alamance County are sponsoring nonprofit learning communities — groups of nonprofit leaders working to improve the quality of life in Alamance County. Each learning community enables organizations to learn from one another, build relationships, share resources, and collaborate.

There are five communities, each organized around one of the five social drivers of health

Neighborhood Conditions & Built Environment
Healthcare Access & Quality
Social & Community Context
Economic Stability
Education Access & Quality

Nonprofit Virtual Learning Series

Impact Alamances offers a growing library of free virtual trainings for nonprofits, with topics identified by local nonprofits based on their current needs and interests. Sessions are led by experts and available live or on demand.

Leadership Institute

This nine-month program provides nonprofit and government leaders with foundational leadership skills that are essential to enhancing their development and advancing the mission of their organizations or agencies. This program also serves as an opportunity to be introduced to our growing partnership and resource network.

Board Development or Strategic Refresh

We offer tailored training opportunities for a board development training or a strategic refresh training to update existing strategic plans to current and past participants of the Leadership Institute.

Guidelines and Application Eligibility

This program is for existing boards and leadership of nonprofit organizations who together are committed to enhancing their skills and capabilities to provide effective leadership and governance to their organization and its mission.
Your executive director must be a current or former participant of The Leadership Institute.
The application must include:
Letter of commitment from Executive Director
Letter of commitment from Board Chair
Each board member will agree to participate in a four-hour retreat.
Please note that it is extremely important that the Executive Director and board members dedicate adequate time to this important process.

If you have any questions, please contact our Program Director, Jewel White at Jewel.White@conehealth.com

Consultant Support and Technical Assistance

Impact Alamance works to build the capacity of local nonprofits to further support and sustain the services they offer to our community. We support their ability to operate and to strengthen and enhance core infrastructure so they can deliver quality programming more effectively and efficiently. In addition, we match nonprofits with a consultant who can provide organizational assessments, strategic planning, marketing planning, fundraising planning and more. Impact Alamance will directly pay for the consultant services once an application for capacity building technical assistance is approved.

Guidelines and Application Eligibility

Executive director must be a current or former participant of The Leadership Institute;
The board members of the nonprofit must have received board development training within the past 3 years;
Must have had an executive director in place for at least one full year;
501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization and in operation for at least three years;
The organization must be located in Alamance County.
In some cases, there are exceptions to eligibility requirements.

If you have any questions, please contact our Program Director, Jewel White at Jewel.White@conehealth.com.

Grant Writing Assistance

Many nonprofits lack the time, skills and resources to focus on grant writing. Therefore, many grant opportunities that could improve and enhance health opportunities in our community are not pursued.

In response to this need, Impact Alamance offers grant-writing services free of charge to organizations that qualify. If you are interested in this service, please submit a grant assistance application form posted below. Applications will be accepted year-round.

Guidelines and Application Eligibility

Organization must have its nonprofit status for at least three years;
Organization must have identified a grant opportunity of at least $50,000;
The grant must meet an identified need in Alamance County;
The organization must have the capacity to manage a large grant.

If you have any questions, please contact our Program Officer, Nicole McGinty at Nicole.Mcginty@conehealth.com.

Additional Funding Resources

To help empower nonprofits with the tools and information they need to succeed, we’ve compiled a list of additional funders and funding opportunities offered by other organizations.

Employee Assistance Program

Impact Alamance offers access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) exclusively for our nonprofit partners. This confidential resource supports employees and their family members with professional counseling, work-life assistance, wellness resources, financial and legal guidance, coaching, and personal development tools. Through a variety of in-person, virtual, and self-guided options, the EAP helps strengthen individual well-being, build resilience, and support a healthy, productive workforce.