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Community Capability Trust
Support social service agencies in building their capabilities and improving outcomes for users.
Last updated 6 January 2025
Overview
The Community Capability Trust (CCT) is a charitable trust set up to strengthen the capabilities and capacities of our social service agencies (SSAs), so that they can deliver better service outcomes to their users.
The Community Capability Trust aims to achieve the following desired outcomes:
Sector and SSAs have the capacity & capabilities to continuously improve the quality and efficiency of social services and support the sector’s service plans
Community involvement in funding capability & capacity building of SSAs, and more donors are willing to support these needs
CCT aims to resource the sector with $480m over 10 years, with up to $350m contributed by the Government and Tote Board. In addition to upfront capital provided by the Government, Tote Board and NCSS, there will be a dollar-for-dollar matching of funds raised by ComChest for the Community Capability Trust to encourage donations. This matching will be up to a cap of $100m over 10 years from the Government, and up to a cap of $50m over the first 5 years from Tote Board.
Contact
For donors interested in capability building, please contact ncss_comchest@ncss.gov.sg.
Community Capability Trust - Focus areas
Starting from April 2022, the trust will support the sector's needs by focusing on 6 capability-building areas, while promoting the use of an organisational health diagnostic to help SSAs prioritise areas of capability building and guide them on what to seek funding for.
Supporting organisational health diagnostic
Innovation & digitalisation | People practice | Volunteer management | Board leadership | Financial sustainability | Evaluation & research |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Builds upon existing efforts | Relatively new capability areas that MSF/NCSS will give more emphasis on | ||||
Provide holistic support for SSAs to adopt innovation and technology to increase productivity and enhance service delivery | Strengthen SSAs' abilities in people management and development for continuity of services | Expand SSAs' capabilities and capacity by augmenting the social service professional workforce | Enhance Board capabilities to provide strategic guidance to SSAs on organisational effectiveness & governance | Support SSAs to optimise resources, explore different resourcing possibilities and adopt a philanthropy mindset/ approach | Strengthen SSAs' capabilities for more robust and impactful E&R to deliver effective programmes for service users |
Open grant pot to support SSA initiated projects. | |||||
In addition to the 6 capability-building areas, CCT Open Grant supports funding of new capability areas, not covered in the above focus areas.