“Diversity of stimulation means novelty, and novelty means challenge to thought.”
- John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Building Capacity for Organizational Resilience and Renewal Program (BCORR)
The Foundation's organizational development and technical assistance program includes support to select grantees through the Building Capacity for Organizational Resilience and Renewal Program (BCORR).
BCORR
The core mission of BCORR is to assist social change organizations to achieve their missions by strengthening and potentially transforming their organizations to a new level of development and impact. A parallel mission of the project is to guide the learning and development of participating foundation staff in the fundamentals of building organization capacity and how best to support grantees engaged in organizational development efforts.
BCORR is an investment in grantees' lasting relevance and impact. The program provides resources and guidance to organizations to attain resilience –strength and vitality– and renewal – the transformation of an organization's capacity from one level to the next. BCORR is founded on four elements that characterize successful capacity building:
- A systems and learning perspective
- A multi-year commitment
- A bridge between grantmaking and capacity building and
- Learning fueled by feedback
Ann Dowley leads the Building Capacity for Organizational Resilience and Renewal (BCORR), program which was created and launched in partnership with the Panta Rhea, General Service and McCune Foundations. Ann provides support to leaders of social benefit organizations engaged in transforming their organizations. Ann earned a doctorate in organizational psychology, is passionate about organizational learning and development and has more than 15 years of experience leading and consulting to social change organizations and philanthropic foundations. Contact: ann@rockwoodleadership.org
Participation in this process is by invitation only.