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Group capacity building

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This resource provides tools and templates to support capacity building within small community groups. It focuses on strengthening group sustainability, leadership and collective effectiveness to improve outcomes for the organisation and its members.

The guide is designed for Volunteering Involving Organisations, particularly charities and not for profit groups, seeking practical ways to build capability, resilience and long term effectiveness.

Benefits for volunteer managers

  • supports sustainable and effective group functioning.
  • strengthens leadership and shared responsibility.
  • helps identify areas for growth and improvement.
  • provides practical tools to enhance group outcomes.

How to apply this resource

This guide is most useful when supporting small community groups, planning capacity building initiatives, or reviewing organisational practices to improve sustainability and performance.

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Volunteering Queensland has for 41 years been the state’s peak body for advancing and promoting volunteering. It represents over 300 member volunteer involving organisations and support thousands more through a wider network, encompassing hundreds of thousands of volunteers, who contribute their time, money, and skills to the benefit of all Queenslanders.
National charity working to improve responses to drug-related issues through policy, practice and workforce development in Scotland.

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