BoardPulse by Consept

Portfolio Capacity Brief

Capacity across your portfolio, in one view.

Select 10 organizations you already work with. They complete the BoardPulse diagnostic through your invite link, and Consept turns the de-identified results into a Brief. No cost to you or to them.

Portfolio Capacity Brief Average score by module, 0 to 10 Governance Financial Management Fund Development Impact Measurement 10 organizations, de-identified Illustrative view

The Gap

Four portfolio questions no single report can answer.

Capacity information usually sits in separate reports, one organization at a time. A Brief answers all four from one round of assessments.

Strengths

Where is capacity strongest across the portfolio?

Stall points

Where are several organizations stalling at the same maturity gate?

Concentration

Are gaps concentrated in a few organizations or widely shared?

Reach

Where would shared technical assistance reach the most organizations?

The Deliverable

What a Brief looks like.

Illustrative sample. Not actual portfolio data.

Capacity profile

Average strength by module

Governance
5.4
Financial Management
4.6
Fund Development
3.8
Impact Measurement & Management
3.1

Average score across the group, on the 0 to 10 cumulative maturity scale.

Stall-point heat map

Where organizations stop advancing

Revenue diversification
7 of 10
Board succession
6 of 10
Outcome measures
6 of 10
Board evaluation
5 of 10
Operating reserves
4 of 10

Filled squares: organizations stalled at that gate.

How It Works

Four steps. Minimal lift on your side.

01

You choose 10 organizations

Select ten you already work with. Ten is large enough to show patterns and small enough to manage.

02

They complete the diagnostic

Each organization uses your invite link and receives its own free report.

03

Consept aggregates

Results are de-identified and rolled up across the group.

04

We review it with you

Consept walks you through the Brief before publication.

Your part: select the 10 and send one link.

Privacy

Anonymous by design. Patterns, not organizations.

  • No namesNo organization is named, scored, or ranked inside a Brief.
  • De-identifiedResults are de-identified before they are aggregated.
  • Reviewed with youConsept walks you through the Brief before publication.

Who Is Behind It

An underwriter's questions, asked across a portfolio.

27 yearsin community development and community investment.
$15M+in loans and grants originated, assessing capacity as a component of credit analysis.
1,800+assessment data points across all four BoardPulse modules.

BoardPulse was built by Aaron Laramore at Consept, a social investment thinktank connecting capital to community capacity.

After the Brief

If the Brief raises more questions.

Request

Request your Portfolio Brief.

No cost. Tell us who you are and roughly how large your portfolio is. Aaron follows up personally to scope the ten organizations.

We use these details only to respond to your request.