Welcome to CapacityWise



Doing good well is challenging and complex, especially if you are a small or medium sized community agency or community group. With limited resources, you deal with constant change and continued demand for increased and better services. As an organization working in the community services sector ourselves, we understand your challenges. We are here to help you build your capacity to deal with these challenges effectively through our professional development training and capacity building consulting services.


How do we help you?

Vision





We envision effective community agencies and strong community residents and groups that are capable of creating lasting impact in their community development efforts.



Mission





We build the capacity of small and medium sized community agencies as well as community residents and community groups in the Greater Toronto Area through professional development training and capacity building consulting services.



Our Role and Guiding Principles





Our role in providing you with capacity building support depends on your context, capacities and the type of task, challenge or need you want us to address. As such, we adopt multiple or mixed roles on a continuum ranging from implementing to facilitative.


These principles guide our capacity building support:



Maximum Participation and Ownership





Our capacity building support is based on the principles of your maximum participation in and ownership of change processes. We believe that when you develop the capacity to find your own solutions and adapt to change, your work will have a lasting impact.



Alignment with Your Needs and Priorities





We believe that any capacity building initiative you plan to implement should be in alignment with your needs and priorities.



Use of Your Expertise





We value and promote the use of your expertise – at whatever stage they are – and view them as assets to your capacity building initiatives.



No "one size fit all" Approach





We believe that your contextual factors have clear implications on the kind of capacity building support we provide. As such, we do not use a capacity building blueprint in our work.



Mutual Accountability





We believe in mutual accountability when it comes to the outcomes of capacity building initiatives we collaborate on.



Co-Producation Approach





We strive to adopt a co-production approach in our work with community residents and groups in order to recognize, engage and value them as ‘co-designers’ of community development initiatives and eventually as ‘co-producers’ of community value.



Email us





inquiry@capacitywise.ca



Call us





416 567 5595



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