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The Community Capability Trust (CCT) Approach

From FY22 onwards, CCT has replaced the VWO-Charities Capability Fund (VCF)'s Organisational Development Grant (ODG)& Innovation & Productivity Grant (IPG) to support the social service sector’s capability and capacity-building needs with a bigger budget and wider coverage, as well as enable funding of new capability areas.

CCT Approach

Building a Stronger Social Service Sector Together

CCT aggregates resources from the 3Ps, the Public, Private and People sector to accelerate sector and SSAs' capability and capacity building for greater impact. CCT aims to achieve the following desired outcomes to build a stronger social service sector.

Desired outcomes of CCT

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

3-Step Approach to Improving Organisational Health with the Community Capability Trust

A targeted, streamlined, and data-driven approach to strengthening social service agencies’ key capabilities, to achieve better service outcomes:

CCT 3 Steps approach

Resources for Step 1:
Diagnose Current State

Organisational Health Framework for Social Services (OHFSS) to diagnose your agency’s organisational health holistically

Resources for Step 2:
Plan Next Steps

Organisational Health Diagnostic Scheme (OHDS) to gain a deeper understanding of your agency’s organisational health and plan capability building efforts with a consultant

Resources for Step 3:
Apply for Capability-Building Support

Transformation Sustainability Scheme (TSS) to support your agency’s development across key organisational capability areas, to better respond to your service users’ evolving needs and deliver quality services
Tech-and-GO! (TNG) to provide holistic support for SSAs to adopt innovation and technology to increase productivity and enhance service delivery
Open Grant to support any other SSA-initiated capability-building projects

Other Diagnostic Tools:

Board Leadership Assessment Tool to diagnose your agency’s leadership capability and capacity
Digital Acceleration Index (DAI) to understand your agency’s digital maturity
NCSS Employee Engagement Survey (EES) to gauge the overall level of engagement and satisfaction of your agency’s employees
Volunteer Management Maturity Matrix (VMM Matrix) to ascertain your agency’s strengths and gaps in volunteer management practices

In collaboration with

Tote Board