Welcome to the Technical Assistance Partnership of Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming
United Way of Larimer County, in partnership with United Way 2-1-1 and Third Sector Enterprises, has initiated the Technical Assistance Partnership of Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming (TAP) The United Way of Weld County, Foothills United Way of Boulder, and United Way of Laramie County in Wyoming are also participating.
TAP will act as a regional resource center for Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) providing easily accessible, reasonably priced classes; upper-level special programs; and consulting services to help enhance their organizational competencies. Membership fee is $30 a year and entitles members to numerous benefits, including reduced fees for classes.
More Membership Information & Application
Download Fall 2009 TAP Workshop Registration Form
TAP's organization-building curriculum focuses on improving competencies in the areas of NPO legal requirements; strategic planning; and recruitment and development of staff, board of directors and volunteers.
Additionally, the training will also include fund raising, organizational change, budgeting and financial issues, public relations and human resource managements for NPOs. The training is designed to provide NPOs with tools to develop a collaborative organizational culture.
Member benefits include reduced class and consulting rates, free organizational assessment and consultation for review and planning, and in some cases, grant-supported consulting services.
Skilled professionals, experienced in business, human resources, strategic planning and NPO staff development and training teach the classes, provide consulting and direct special programs.
"To unite local foundations, corporations, philanthropically minded individuals and non-profit organizations (NPO's) into an organized effort to support the success of the non-profit sector."
The ability for NPO's to meet the mission for which they were formed is directly related to the competencies of the professionals and volunteers who operate the NPO's. Those organizations with specific organizational building blocks in place will thrive and seek to reach for higher professional challenges and goals each year. Those without specific building blocks in place will struggle, may not be able to achieve their full mission potential for their clients, and risk going out of business.
The vision of TAP is that the professionals and volunteers of NPO's will have easy and local access to very reasonably priced professional training and consultation services. These services will help to enhance their organizational competencies.
By definition, "competent" means to possess a requisite or adequate ability or skill. It is being qualified to have the capacity to function or develop in a particular way.
For NPO's, the Technical Assistance Partnership (TAP) believes the following are skills that "build" the capacity of professionals and volunteers to operate well-functioning organizations. We are calling these organization skills "capacity-building competencies." The professional training techniques and consultation services offered by TAP are designed to build the following competencies:
- Establish and maintain an organization that understands and adheres to all legal requirements (local, state and national)
- Define an organization mission and set strategic objectives with quantifiable outcome measurements
- Recruit, develop and effectively utilize a volunteer board of directors
- Recruit, select and professionally develop an executive director and staff
- Recruit, select and professionally develop a solid base of volunteers
- Develop a respectful and collaborative organizational culture
- Attract and sustain contributing members
- Maintain a financially viable and accountable organization
- Present and sustain a positive public image
