Building Capacity from the Bottom Up

Capacity Building is not just a solution; it’s a permanent solution to permanent problems. If you need a proven, logical process to sustain your local service idea beyond implementation to permanence, this is it. Streamline your efforts to improve lives and enhance community well-being. Benefit from the clear and compelling insights of successful program practitioners that explain how to realize your idea:•Foster continuous growth with cyclical bottom-up/top-down 21st-century leadership. •Collaborate with a mission-focused matrix of service providers and partners.•Develop action-oriented staff and partners with a vision-driven approach. •Cultivate essential relationships to develop permanent resources and funding streams.•Ensure constant efficiency and effectiveness with simple process and impact analyses.•Evaluate and define project scope continuously with the mantra 'less is more.'•Instill Capacity Building from the project’s inception to establish permanence.•Tame the chaos with an easy-to-implement checklist of Effective Practices that work.Discover how your program becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Once you succeed with Capacity Building, you have the experience you need to build your next great idea.Why start to fail when you can start to last?James Klopovic holds a Doctor of Public Policy (DPP) with concentration on capacity building for public service programs at the organizational and local community levels. After careers in the U.S. Air Force and with the state of North Carolina, he now consults, writes, publishes, and focuses on The Nicole and James Klopovic Family Charitable Foundation for public service programs. Nicole Klopovic works as a medical provider (PA-C) and is pursuing a career in the USAF Reserves Medical Corps. She is CEO and cofounder of the family foundation.