Co-Impact brings together local changemakers and funders from around the world. We provide flexible grants to locally-rooted partners making health, education, and economic systems stronger and more inclusive – creating impact that lasts.
At Co-Impact we believe that deep change in people’s lives comes through investing in social justice organizations. Our approach to change begins with the ‘who’ we partner with and ‘how’ we support them. This guidebook articulates Co-Impact’s perspective of why organizational strengthening is necessary for systems change work and what we mean by organizational strengthening using a systems change lens.
For us, the north star of organizational strengthening is Strategic Coherence, that is achieved when the organization aligns its values, priorities, capabilities, and resources with its purpose of achieving deep systemic change in response to the problem they have identified.
The primary purpose of this guidebook is to help our program partners on their organizational strengthening journeys. We also hope that the guidebook is a useful resource to funder and practitioner communities. Finally, it is intended to help orient and guide our work as we engage with and support each program partner to achieve their core purpose.
