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Capacity Building

The Four Steps

Mission: Congruent with founding core beliefs.

Guiding Principles: Animating work to ensure mission fulfillment.

Strategic Plan: Aligned with mission and guiding principles; reviewed regularly.

Plan of Work: Tactics to fulfill strategic plan.

Effective capacity building, upon the foundation of realizing these four steps, and understanding the dynamics of the invisible and the philanthropic spirit, is much more art than science and much more theology than ideology.

Mission:Visionary, Responsible, & Compassionate Grassroots Organizations Transform Communities.

Guiding Principles : Empowering leaders by inspiring them to commit to lifetime learning; educating the community about the transformative power of the grassroots; giving wings to the spirit of philanthropy; creating philanthropically ready organizational cultures; refining the tools needed to fulfill mission and realize vision; and strengthening organizational core values.

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Principal Consultant

David H. Lukenbill

I am a Sacramento native, married and we have one daughter. We live along the American River with two cats, and all the wild critters we can feed. I have been a consultant for many years and my educational credentials include an Associate of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco, and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.

During the thirty years I have been involved in the nonprofit sector, I have had the opportunity to found several nonprofit organizations, and to work with many other organizations as either a consultant, executive, or volunteer. There are more details on the Community Work page.