NCRP uses research to urge the philanthropic community to provide nonprofit organizations with essential resources and opportunities to effectively serve disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations and communities
Imagine a grantmaker that: Decided that its primary purpose was to fight poverty, after a scan of conditions indicated that was the major challenge; Realigned all its grantmaking to address that purpose; Made hard decisions to… Read More
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has long advocated that foundations should pay out more than the legislatively-mandated minimum. Our position has been based on the idea that the warehousing of tax-exempt dollars serves no public… Read More
There was a lot of positive discussion in philanthropy during 2007 about foundation funding for advocacy and societal change. The challenge for 2008 and beyond will be to continue that discussion and turn it into real… Read More
Grassroots community organizations have been at the forefront of the fight for decent wages, emergency food assistance, fair treatment and other social issues for many decades. NCRP recognizes the crucial role that community organizing can play… Read More
“What is ‘Responsive Philanthropy’ anyway?” This is one of the questions I have been asked repeatedly since joining the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy in February 2007. If we’re “for” responsive philanthropy, what does that really… Read More
“We’re not content with tweaking Armageddon,” Ruthie Gilmore told more than 800 social justice activists convened at the 2004 conference, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. “Social movement has to be… Read More
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