Strategic Staff Development Grant
Finding and supporting the best people for the job is critical to a nonprofit’s success. Organizations must identify the competencies they need, assess the teams they have, and create realistic development plans.
What we offer
Using your strategic priorities as a guide, our team will show you how to plan, build, and nourish a robust, capable staff now and for the future.
The estimated value of this Service Grant is $55,000.
Why it’s a win
The specific impact of each project varies, but you can expect to accomplish some of the following, depending on your unique situation:
- Integrate your staffing goals with your strategic priorities
- Map current and desired competencies to specific organizational needs
- Align talent management practices around competencies
- Identify gaps in future staff plans
- Begin to systematize the talent assessment and career development planning process
How we get it done
The pro bono consultant team will complete some or all of the following:
- Discovery interviews with a range of your staff
- Strategic staffing guide that catalogues critical capabilities
- Competency models that create profiles for key roles
- Development plan templates that emphasize on-the-job learning opportunities
- Organization-specific best practices in workforce planning and career development
Who’s the right fit
To be a successful client for this grant, you should have:
- A strategic plan and an annual operating plan that reflects current thinking and practice
- An Executive Director or HR Director who is strongly committed to this project
- An employee manual outlining organizational workplace policies
- Accurate job descriptions for all or most roles
- Basic HR systems to manage performance evaluation, hiring and recruiting, and benefits and compensation
- At least 20 employees
- Staff who can invest the necessary time to make the project succeed. In some cases, the same person can fill more than one role.
- Executive Director: 2-3 hours each week
- Human Resources Director: 2-3 hours each week
- Day-to-Day Contact (may be same as HR Director): 3 hours each week
- Select managers (2-3): 10-15 hours over the course of the project
- Selection of staff: 2-4 hours each over the course of the project
Your Taproot Foundation team will be staffed HR experts. Visit our pro bono consultant roles page for additional information about HR pro bono consultant roles.
Apply for this Service Grant
If this project appeals to your organization and you have the recommended items in place, please review our grantmaking process and criteria, and then apply. If you have questions about the grant or your eligibility, please contact us.
