Grassroots community organizations provide critical services and advocate and organize many underserved communities to amplify their voices on important issues that affect them. NCRP is committed to the long-term success of local and community-based nonprofit efforts, and attempts to record challenges and successes, their impact on our communities and the importance of effective philanthropic support.
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Grantmaking for Community Impact ProjectLearn about the positive impact that communities have seen through funder-supported nonpartisan policy and community engagement in seven sites across the country on issues ranging from poverty and homelessness to education and environmental justice. |
Related Publications
Community-Based Public Foundations: Small Beacons for Big Ideas
January 2004
Community-Based Public Foundations (CBPFs) are democratic philanthropic grantmaking institutions, functioning as partnerships between donors and community activists, committed to supporting the work of community-based nonprofit organizations engaged in progressive social change organizing addressing the root causes of inequality, lack of opportunity, discrimination and political and economic powerlessness experienced by disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations in our society.
Advocacy for Social Change in Metropolitan Washington
September 2003
With the support of the Washington Grantmakers' Community Capacity fund, NCRP surveyed local and regional advocacy groups in the metropolitan Washington area and looked into the advocacy infrastructure in the region.
A Democratic Landscape Funding Social Change in California
April 2000
This report highlights how foundations and nonprofit groups influence progressive social and economic policy in California.
