Non-Profit Assessment Tool Analysis

One assessment tool that I think every non-profit organization should have is the Assessing and building your organization capacity tool. This helps an organization better understand its policies, along with its managerial, financial, and administrative systems. This assessment shows an organization how to examine its assets such as funding reputation and skills which would allow the organization to effectively carry out their programs to better serve their communities(Foundation Center, 2017).

The second assessment tool I would implement in my non-profit would be Core capacity assessment tool (CAAT). This allows organizations to analyze its organizational strength. " It looks at four core capacities: 1) adaptive capacity: the ability of

a nonprofit to monitor, assess, and respond to and create internal and external changes; 2) leadership capacity: the ability of all organizational leaders to create and sustain the vision, inspire, model, prioritize, make decisions, provide direction and innovate; 3) management capacity: the ability of a nonprofit organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of organizational resources; and 4) technical capacity: the ability of a nonprofit to implement key organizational and programmatic functions"(Foundations Center, 2017).

I found an assessment tool that I liked on line that is a basic assessment for any non-profit organizations the link is attached http://nonprofitoregon.org/sites/default/files/uploads/file/NP%20Org%20Self%20Assessment_0.pdf. This tool does basic organization assessing such as setting goals, determining goals, funding strategies, financial and legal oversight and evaluation. This tool would be a great benefit to any organization that is just starting.

I would use both of these tools to help my organization to expand and it would help me to understand my organization's strengths and weaknesses. they would also better prepare me to help me to connect and better understand my community