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Nonprofit Capacity Assessment

BoardPulse helps nonprofit boards and leadership teams understand their organizational capacity — and get a clear, actionable picture of where to grow. Start with your organization's details, then choose which module to work on.

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How the Cohort Pulse Works

A funder, CSR program, or TA provider runs one cohort convening. Here's what each organization moves through, start to finish.

Set Up: invite your cohort of nonprofit organizations into BoardPulseAssess: each organization completes the BoardPulse capacity assessment liveUnderstand: see a clear capacity profile across every BoardPulse moduleMeasure Change: track capacity growth from baseline to retake over time

Cost & Access

However your organization engages with BoardPulse, here's what it costs and how to get started.

For Nonprofits

Always Free

The full diagnostic, a plain-language report, and every reassessment over time — at no cost, permanently. No trial period, no paywall on tracking your own progress. You'll also join as a founding member of the BoardPulse Data Cooperative, with a real ownership stake in what this data becomes.

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For Funders, CSR Programs, Agencies & TA Providers

Portfolio Capacity Brief

A no-cost snapshot of capacity across a slice of your own portfolio. Select a sample of 10 organizations you already work with to complete the BoardPulse diagnostic through a dedicated sponsor link. Consept aggregates the de-identified results into a Capacity Brief: a field-level read on organizational capacity for your selected group.

Request a Portfolio Brief

For Funders, CSR Programs, Agencies & TA Providers

Cohort Pulse

A 90–120 minute assessment module built to fold directly into a training day, retreat, or cohort convening you're already running — onsite or virtual, for cohorts up to 25 organizations. Each org completes all four modules live and walks away with its own baseline capacity report; ongoing self-serve rescoring is included at no additional cost.

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For Funders, CDFIs & Lenders — Coming Soon

Institutional Data Subscription

Aggregated portfolio data, capacity-ROI reporting, and grantee roll-ups for the institutions investing in these organizations — currently in development. Reach out to talk through what this could look like for your organization.

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