Capacity-Building Grants: Learn to Be a Self-Sustaining Nonprofit, Part 2

The story for the food bank doesn’t end there. Shortly after the capacity-building grant was completed, RCFB sustained a terrible fire that completely destroyed its building, something that could cripple any organization of any size, let alone a small community nonprofit.

“When you face a tragedy as a nonprofit, the first thing you think is maybe this is it,” Thomas says. “But because of where we had come from and the work that we did with 3fold, we already had name recognition in the community and we are able to come back stronger after something that was so devastating."