The Capacity Collective

Em Carr, affectionately known as Scout in North Carolina’s activist communities, was an incredible community organizer, and passionate supporter of harm reduction. Em passed away unexpectedly in September 2024, leaving a huge gap in our hearts, and in the world.

In honor of Em’s work and care for the lifesaving work of harm reduction, The Capacity Collective is proud to offer up to 25 hours of FREE capacity building consulting to work on a data project that furthers the work of one harm reduction organization each year. The application for the 2026 scholarship will be open August 31, 2025 - October 10, 2025.

The Capacity Collective is a small but mighty team of “compassionate nerds” who came together to support community-based organizations in leveraging the power of data to celebrate their successes, demonstrate their impacts, innovate their services, and advocate for social change. We were honored to work and learn with Em for nearly 5 years, and miss them every day.

Learn more about Em and the Em Scout Carr Memorial Scholarship here: https://thecapacitycollective.org/em-scholarship/
Learn more about Harm Reduction here: https://hri.global/what-is-harm-reduction/
Learn more about The Capacity Collective here: https://thecapacitycollective.org/

And just like that, we are a team of nine! We are thrilled and honored to welcome these brilliant new minds to our team, and can't wait for them to start working with the communities we love so much.

Please join us in welcoming: Araceli, Audrey, Helen, Jennifer, and Lin to our collective!

We are super excited to announce the next chapter of work here at The Capacity Collective. Over the next year, we will be working with community-based organizations throughout King County to support the development of Prenatal to Five Culturally Relevant Measurement Tools. Data and evaluation do not come as 'one size fits all' and we are looking forward to the opportunity to help CBO's measure their strengths and resilience in ways that best represent the communities they serve.

It is an honor and a privilege to continue this work with Best Starts for Kids and our capacity building partners, Cardea Services! ⭐️

Announcing 2 data and evaluation awards supporting prenatal to age 5 activities We are glad to announce our awardees for 2 data and evaluation projects supporting Best Starts prenatal to five programs!