Portfolio - Capacity Builders

Food n More

Capacity Builders is overseeing the creation and implementation of Food n More, a community-wide social enterprise that brings together over 25 social agencies and community groups, the food industry and all levels of government to address a terrible problem in our community – HUNGER. Bill Locke serves as the Manager of the Coalition responsible for [...]

Homelessness

Collective Community Response to Homelessness Demonstration Project. Much of the day-to-day responsibility for addressing the needs of the thousands of men, women and children in Calgary who are homeless is borne by community organizations that are stretched to their limits in time and money. The Collective Community Response to Homelessness Demonstration Project (“the CCRH Project”) [...]

Wycliffe Canada

Capacity Builders helped Wycliffe Canada create Global PartnerLink, a $2.5 Million/year international development organization in 3 years. Wycliffe Canada had struggled for decades to create partnerships with major donors in Canada who believed in its vision. At the same time, it had overseas partners waiting to carry out its mandate in remote villages in Africa, [...]

Calgary Dream Centre

Calgary Dream Centre started up in 2003, with only a handful of full-time staff. Only five years later, it has become a fully-integrated community agency with over 50 staff, serving over 250 live-in clients per year. Capacity Builders helped it to evaluate its programming, gain support for its ongoing operations and become a leader in [...]

Rosebud Theatre

Rosebud Theatre is only one hour and fifteen minutes from Calgary, and has been a rural success story for many years. However, they needed to find a way to connect with the million people in Calgary on their doorstep. Capacity Builders was hired to broaden their media network. We created media partnerships between Rosebud Theatre [...]

Impact Society

How do you say credibility? By focusing on Heroes, IMPACT’s core program, Capacity Builders was able to take the organization forward, give it a strategic direction, communicate its cause, and gain support. Capacity Builders was hired by one of IMPACT Society’s funders to provide this organization with the direction it needed, and to gain support. [...]