Operating Foundation and Structure
Brings clarity to how decisions get made and how work gets done, so leadership and teams move with less avoidable friction and more discipline.
Program Architecture and Resource Discipline
Aligns what an organization delivers with the people and resources required to sustain it, so impact is built to hold rather than stretched thin.
Relational Communications and Institutional Voice
Builds communication practices rooted in how an organization actually operates, so its public voice matches its internal reality.
Fund cohorts in your region
How sponsorship works, where cohorts are forming, and what your investment makes possible. Full detail is reserved for funders.
Bring your team into a cohort
What each intensive covers in full, how to find your city, and how to request a seat. Foundation-sponsored and free to participating grantees.
Cohorts form city by city.
A cohort is four local nonprofits in one city, moving through all three intensives together over 36 weeks. New cohorts open on a rolling basis, choose your city to register interest, and Civil will confirm dates and available seats as it fills. Sponsorship and participation are arranged directly with Civil, with pricing and structure tailored to each foundation and organization in conversation.
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Sponsor a cohort
Invest in the institutional strength of your grantee community. Civil designs and delivers the Series; you sponsor the cohort of organizations who move through it together.
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Bring your leadership team into a structured intensive alongside peer institutions, and leave with systems your organization can run on its own.
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