Sphere of Influence
Dashboard Presentation
March 2024
The Forbes Funds
Vision: Envisioning Pittsburgh’s nonprofit sector as innovative, informed, engaged, and effective, The Forbes Funds advances capacity building within and among the region’s nonprofit organizations.
Mission: The Forbes Funds advances the well-being of our region by helping human service and community-based nonprofits build their management capacity and increase the impact of their mission work.
Core Areas:
Data Collection & Research
Equity & Anti-Racism
Grant Making
Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership
Learning & Education
Nonprofit Resource Library
Partnerships & Collaborations
Sustainability & Development
Transformative Leadership
Frameworks:
The Eight Rs
ReturnonAssets
ReturnonEquity
ReturnonInvestment
ReturnonPolicy
ReturnonRelationships
ReturnonSustainability
ReturnonTechnology
ReturnonWellbeing
15,000+ touchpoints with nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community based organizations, for-profit organizations, foundations and more across the region
TFF Pivots
Restructured Grant Making Approach
London School of System Change
Partnership with International Bateson Institute
Ecosystem Co-Creation
Transformative Leadership
Artificial Intelligence & EOS
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Determinants of Health
Social
Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership
Unifying the voice of SWPA nonprofits to leverage their power.
GPNP is the front door of The Forbes Funds.
Building trust beyond funding and through advocacy.
Membership Benefits Include:
Member Portal - launching April 1st
Quorum Policy CRM and Database
Taproot Plus Volunteer Platform and Support
Legal Support and Resources
Policy and Advocacy
Capacity Building Discounts from TFF and Partners
Member Spotlights
e-Newsletter Content
Calls for Community Solutions
GPNP Events
24 Months of Learning
Free access to emotional hygiene app: AIMI Care
Hub and Spoke: 66% of attendees serve communities beyond Pittsburgh & Allegheny County.
589 Members over 5 Years
Building Capacity: 4000 min. of unique content was curated based on regional leaders‘ needs.
Recognizing Ecosystem Expertise:
Over 170 presenters offered 83 sessions, keynotes, and panels.
Networking: 1500 engaged participants connected and shared experiences over 2 days.
Housing
Health
Nonprofit organizations with annual operating budgets of <$1M make up more than 66% of members
Supporting Equitable Practices: 38 sponsors provided over 150 scholarships and 100 discounts.
Workforce
Development
Public
Policy
Focus
Broadband
Education
Environment
20 hours of advocacy capacity building content
updated monthly with the Public Policy Committee
2 0 2 3 G P N P S u m m i t : T r a n s a c t i o n a l t o T r a n s f o r m a t i v e
Learning & Education
Executive In Residence: Providing free, high-level advisory support to nonprofit leadership as they strive to strengthen organizational impact, agility, and sustainability in Allegheny County.
Tropman Report: To serve our funders, partners, and region, The Forbes Funds convenes, supports, and creates pathways for nonprofit research that highlights the region’s nonprofit trends, opportunities and challenges.
Social Innovation & Learning Cohorts: A cohort model that works with groups of organizations that share similar capacity needs.
Humanity Centered Design: Identifying a roadmap for impact with the human experience at the center of problem-solving with TFF’s Strategic Design in a Box.
The Forbes Funds University: Access affordable professional development and accreditations through TFFU. Partnering with MindEdge to offer professional certifications in a number of subject areas as well as virtual learning on many topics.
EIR invested over $54,000 in capacity building, coaching, technical assistance, and education services into the region in 2020
13% identify as living with a disability
350+ digital badges allocated to local professionals
950+ cohort participants in over 20 cohorts hosted since 2019
5% are members of the LQBTQ+ community
250+ Organizations worked 1-on-1 with a TFF Executive-in-Residence Coach since 2019
EIR serves over 470 orgs
Nearly 40% of EIR coaching recipients are people of color
Management Assistance Grants (MAGs)
Our catalytic grants fund programs that focus on Strategy, Finance, and Organizational realignment with two or more organizations partnering together. management Assistance Grants are used to hire a third-party expert to guide the organization through a capacity building project that would support the organization in a better carrying out its mission.
Nonprofit Needs Assessment: Designed to help nonprofit organizations in Southwest Pennsylvania develop a profile of their organizations’ leadership, adaptive, management and organizational capacities to create an accurate portrait of overall capacity. The Forbes Funds can develop a baseline for your organization, identify systemic trends across organizations, and better connect you to resources through our programs and partners.
$1.2M
164
100% of funding supported
17/17 United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals
Invested in collaborative capacity building programs across Southwestern PA since 2019
Partners received capacity building investments across 57 grant projects
71 approved projects awarded $1,315,499 across
50 Zip Codes
250+ Needs Assessments Completed
300+ Partners
Sustainable Community Development
The Forbes Funds seeks to amplify the power of neighborhood nonprofits through a strengths-based approach.
The strength of the community often lies with its residents and leaders. Bringing organizations and leaders together for the greater good can have a compound effect.
The Forbes Funds catalyzes community-wide change through skillbuilding co-design cohorts.
Catalytic Community Cohorts (C3): A yearlong program that engages organizations through a range of regular, skills-building activities.
The Commons: A building block of innovation is community capacity building. Part of our approach to innovating is creating a nexus for community gathering and exchange of ideas. The Commons is a digital space for such interactions and a tool for consensus building.
70 Communities with
203 Partners
Organizations gained:
Educational Assets
Fixed Assets
Miscellaneous Equipment
Strategic Assets
Technology Advancements
$2M
in identified investments
$9M
in anticipated ROI
80% of host organizations were led by POC
2 Dashboards were created to share with stakeholders
The Commons launched in 2 communities
C3
Equity & Anti-Racism
The Forbes Funds prioritizes diversity, equity & inclusion in addition to antiracism.
The programs within this category aim to increase capacity for equitable funding, racial equity, environmental justice, and inclusivity for marginalized groups.
The Forbes Funds leverages a forward-thinking approach to funding, with equity, sustainability, and accessibility always in mind.
International Anti-Racism Institutional Wireframe Cohort (ARC): Without exception, racial equity is a priority at The Forbes Funds. Our AntiRacism Cohorts (ARC) Framework considers an institutional and community-level opportunity to be part of the solution: a society that is equitable from the individual up to the systems level.
Black Equity Coalition: Going beyond responding to COVID-19, The Black COVID-19 Equity Coalition is comprised of a group of physicians, researchers, epidemiologists, public health and health care practitioners, social scientists, bioethicists, community funders, and government officials concerned about addressing COVID-19 in vulnerable populations.
ARC’s inaugural launch meeting hosted 153 participants
Curriculum development for 20 sessions
90+ individuals have received ARC certificates
>10K
Vaccines Administered
CPR, First Aid, and AED Certifications Awarded To Protect Pittsburgh’s Neighborhoods
315
ARC 2.0 launched earlier in 2024 with 14 participants with weekly anti-racism incubator sessions and a digital footprint of anti-racism for each organization
>$8.9M funding raised through key partnerships
Ambassadors Across PA
Addressing COVID-19’s Impact on Five Vital Health Determinants
171
TFF Ecosystem
Transformative Leadership Cohort: Launching the 3rd iteration of TLC, this program utilizes the core principles of golf to increase leaders’ capacity to manage complex challenges and lead with justice and equity.
To date there have been 35 graduates of TLC.
AI Cohorts: In partnership with maad labs, TFF is launching three new groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Strategic Design Cohorts. We want to continue the dialogue on how innovative resources, technology, and artificial intelligence can help you as a nonprofit leader to be more effective and efficient, and to improve operations that allow you to lead the humanity-centered pieces of your work like relationship and trust building. 13 organizations are registered for the first round of cohorts with participation from 3-4 individuals from each organization.
Strategic Design in a Box: Partnering with maad labs, and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, TFF launched Strategic Design in a Box. This new program builds upon more than three (3) years of investment to make strategic design templates and methods more accessible to nonprofits and philanthropy, helping them to develop and implement effective strategies for real-time problem-solving, manage neartime economic and societal challenges, and future-proof their mission and services. 150+ organizations and individuals have downloaded the course.
Top Funding Areas
Local partnerships across the 11-county region of SWPA with a national and global outlook
2500+ nonprofit leaders, GPNP members, and community stakeholders engaged over 12 months in weekly, monthly, and quarterly virtual convenings
70+ national, statewide, regional speakers
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