Philanthropic and Capacity-Building Services

OMG supports the social sector by providing intermediary services, managing local and national programs, and building grantee capacity through trainings and convenings. Our commitment to organizational effectiveness and impact, coupled with our well-developed financial and oversight systems, supports high-level foundation investments. OMG can oversee the development and administration of RFP’s, proposal awards, and grant monitoring. Also, to help organizations achieve their strategic goals, our team works with leadership teams to help them align internal structure, staffing, information systems, and operations. In addition, we provide lively, engaging professional learning workshops in which organizational teams, and multi-site grantees, funders, and community members share experiences. OMG’s work in this area helps to protect our clients' investment through careful oversight and by developing more effective organizations that can deliver greater impact.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Convening
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OMG is assisting the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to design  a convening to extend the policy development skills of its Health Policy Research  grantees. While informing RWJF about its grantees’ capacity needs, this meeting will deepen grantees’ understanding  of the critical role of research in the policy change process, and its place among the broader set of policy change tools and players. The resulting information will ensure that grantees are able to work smarter to effectively influence policy.
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Increasing the Scale of Arts Education Programming for the William Penn Foundation
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In support of a citywide agenda to make the arts an element of all children’s public education, OMG is leading a two-tiered planning and capacity building pilot. First, OMG developed a scaling assessment framework and helped a small cohort of organizations evaluate their readiness. Then, through workshops and one-on-one sessions, OMG is helping five organizations that provide arts education develop plans to build their organizational infrastructure to grow their programs. OMG is introducing the framework and approach to a wider group of organizations through a citywide workshop.
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Capacity-Building for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Human Capital Program
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The work helped the RWJF identify cross-cutting outcomes and indicators to measure the Human Capital portfolio’s key goal areas: leadership, diversity, and a skilled workforce. OMG provided a series of evaluation trainings to RWJF grantees and developed strategies for the foundation to track outcomes and indicators across the Human Capital portfolio. A second phase is assisting the foundation to communicate its strategy to grantees and gain buy-in for reporting requirements through a series of evaluation-focused webinars.
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New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming
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OMG is the national program office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming. New Connections aims to expand the diversity of perspectives informing RWJF programming and introduce new scholars to RWJF, particularly those historically underrepresented in RWJF research and evaluation activities. In addition to identifying scholars for the program, the work supports a broader network of diverse scholars beyond its grantees through activities and events such as the Annual New Connections Symposium.
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Capacity-Building Program for Pew's Philadelphia Region
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Specifically designed to support agencies currently receiving service delivery support from the Pew Charitable Trust, the program provides awards, workshops, and other guidance to help agencies identify their organizational capacity-building needs and to implement projects that address them. OMG evaluates, awards and monitors projects, and provides workshops to support effective awardee use of capacity-building dollars.
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Redesign of The Philadelphia Foundation’s Grantmaking and Evaluation Services
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OMG completed the redesign of The Philadelphia Foundation’s full grantmaking and evaluation services. This work created a nonprofit sector capacity-building strategy that strengthens organizational effectiveness and leadership capacity for the Philadelphia region through grantmaking, convenings, knowledge building, and donor service programs. A national foundation practice capacity-building scan, foundation-wide theory of change, grantmaking strategies and administrative services, and evaluation strategies were products of this engagement.
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Intermediary Services for Pew's Vulnerable Adult Program
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OMG served as an intermediary for the Pew Charitable Trusts grantmaking program to nonprofit human services agencies serving vulnerable adults in the five-county Philadelphia metropolitan region. As an intermediary, OMG solicited proposals for both service delivery and capacity-building grants leading to funding recommendations to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Board of Directors. OMG also provided ongoing fiscal and administrative oversight to grantees, and offered training and technical assistance to grantees on outcome assessment, organizational development, fiscal management, and effective program practices.
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Goldman Sachs Charitable Services Group
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OMG conducted an evaluation of the capacity-building work undertaken by six grantees selected as capacity partners in the Goldman Sachs Capacity Partners Initiative. OMG used a case study methodology to assess the implementation and impact of capacity-building strategies for each grantee and also identified cross-site trends in program take-up and progress.
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