Within this paper the authors first describe the types of benchmarking and the benchmarking process. The next section describes the application of benchmarking in three areas: education, human behavior, and capacity building. After the foundation on benchmarking has been laid, the authors detail the Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center (ARCC) at Edvantia’s approach to capacity building and the model used to explore how to benchmark individual capacity building. The paper concludes with limitations, lessons learned, and recommendations.#Benchmarking #2011Conference #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding