- Organizational
- Programmatic
- Adaptive
An illustrative capacity profile — your assessment plots your own.
The arc — a loop, not an audit
The three arcs of the Ring are three phases of one continuous loop. You do not pass through them once; you run them again and again as the organisation grows.
- 01
Diagnose
Get an honest baseline across all 15 domains — where you are strong, where you are fragile.
- 02
Develop
Close the lowest-maturity gaps with courses, resources, community and accompaniment.
- 03
Demonstrate
Show the growth — to your board, your funders, and yourself — and run the next loop.
Each loop ends where the next begins: the growth you demonstrate becomes the new baseline you diagnose against. Maturity is never “done” — it is a direction you keep moving.
Three pillars — why these three
An organisation that delivers brilliantly but cannot govern itself fails; one that is perfectly governed but never learns stalls. Capacity is all three at once — how you are run, how you deliver, and how you adapt.
Organizational
How the organisation is led, staffed, funded and run.
5 domains
Programmatic
How the mission is delivered and its results are proven.
5 domains
Adaptive
How the organisation learns, innovates and connects outward.
5 domains
Fifteen domains, scored 0–4
The full model. Every domain scored on the same five-level scale, from Baseline through your Latest read to a Target you set. The gaps between them become your growth plan.
- Organizational
- Programmatic
- Adaptive
The scale runs 0 (Absent) → 4 (Embedded). The profile shown is illustrative; your assessment plots your own.
- Organizational
- Governance & Leadership
- HR Management
- Financial Management
- Org Administration
- Safeguarding
- Programmatic
- Child Protection
- Family & Community-Based Care
- Child Welfare
- Program Management
- Monitoring & Evaluation
- Adaptive
- Inquisitiveness
- Innovation
- External Focus
- Community Involvement
- Network Connectedness
The Programmatic pillar shown here is the flagship instance — built for child-welfare and family-care organisations, where the method was forged. The Organizational and Adaptive pillars hold for any mission organisation.
Why this shape wins
A method, a tool, and a network of practitioners — the same three-part shape behind EOS, Scaling Up and Salesforce’s Trailhead, never built for mission organisations until now.
Authority
The methodology creates the demand and the language. When the sector measures capacity your way, you become the standard — not one tool among many.
Scale
Software does cheaply, offline and everywhere what a consultant never could — so the diagnosis and the growth plan reach the orgs no engagement would ever afford.
Trust + margin
A certified practitioner network turns the method into accompaniment — creating evangelists and revenue, and feeding what it learns back into the platform.
It was forged in the field — across a network of ~197 partner organisations and a government-aligned care-reform roadmap — not drawn up in a SaaS office. That is where the method’s hard-won insights come from, like the Trust Threshold: honest baselines start inflated, then recalibrate down as candour grows.
Where the method lives
The assessment is the spine. You diagnose and develop here on Adaptive Impact — and the scores flow straight into Curaspark, the operating platform, where they become a growth plan and a maturity overlay across every module. One login, one organisation.