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A new funding model to meet Georgia’s Latinx evolution

Written by: Gilda (Gigi) Pedraza

Date: March 22, 2018

Adelina Nicholls, co-founder and executive director of Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) described the challenges of her work in the As the South Grows: Bearing Fruit NCRP report with a simple yet illustrative quote:… Read More

“South Meets West”? Philanthropy needs to invest in grassroots organizations in California and the South

Written by: Ben Barge

Date: March 20, 2018

California and the American South have much in common. They’re both economic powerhouses. They’re both engines of culture, literature and film. And they’re both dynamos of resistance, from the mayor of Oakland’s recent Immigration and Customs… Read More

Asking the right questions: How philanthropy can make a difference in challenging times

Written by: Aaron Dorfman

Date: March 15, 2018

NCRP president and CEO Aaron Dorfman delivered the closing keynote at the Yale Philanthropy Conference on February 23, 2018. Brief excerpts from his remarks are below. Text of the full speech can be found here. The slides… Read More

Beyond the walkout: A call to philanthropy to invest in youth-led social change

Written by: Mónica Córdova

Date: March 13, 2018

In late 2007, I was a youth organizer at the SouthWest Organizing Project in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sitting in the third row of a cold school board room anxiously awaiting my turn to speak. A few… Read More

Change begins with funding for women at the local level

Written by: Sophia Cole

Date: March 08, 2018

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights." – Gloria Steinem, American feminist, journalist and… Read More

5 important strategies for funders to support power-building in the urban South

Written by: Aaron Dorfman

Date: February 28, 2018

Atlanta is the philanthropic center of the South, and is known as a city of prosperity and inclusiveness. Unfortunately, that reputation is not the reality for all residents of the Metro Atlanta region, as many of… Read More

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