About the Institute
The Supporting Organizational Sustainability Institute (SOS Institute) offers resources, technical assistance, and hosts interactive, multi-day trainings to help U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grantees, partner organizations, and community-based organizations, enhance their programming, organizational infrastructure and capacity.
Started in 2010, the SOS Institute has a national focus, targeting community-based organizations responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
SOS Institute Goal
The overarching goal of the SOS Institute is to provide participants with core organizational competency through workshops, webinars, and tools that enhance their skills and improve their knowledge to maintain and sustain their organizations.
SOS Topic Areas on organizational development and capacity building include (but are not limited to):
- Review of mission, core values, and healthy organizational culture
- Strategic planning and short and long-term planning, to better serve survivors, including succession planning
- Managing change and growth
- Tools for board recruitment, development, governance, and engagement
- Promoting staff leadership, professional growth, and wellness
- Communications, internal and external
- Financial management and leadership (internal controls, policies, and procedures)
- Organizational infrastructure needs assessment
- Strategic partnerships
- Human resources
For More Information
For information, resources, or technical assistance support, please contact Futures Without Violence, Attention: Mónica Arenas, E-mail: marenas@futureswithoutviolence.org
