Are you ready to set your foundation on the path towards philanthropy at its best?
Below are some resources to get you started:
Suggested benchmarks that your foundation can work towards to operate ethically and maximize the impact of your grants. We also offer an online self-evaluation tool you can use to assess how your foundation currently stacks up against the benchmarks.
More than 140 foundations have committed to prioritizing and empowering underserved populations such as the poor, elderly, women and girls and other groups. Be inspired!
To be truly effective, a foundation not only needs to set clear goals, use evidence-based strategies and solicit feedback. Our research shows that it must also understand who will benefit from its grants, recognize the need to fund policy and civic engagement, and seek input from grantees and the communities they serve.
Through a series of studies, this initiative found a $115 return for every dollar invested in policy and civic engagement by 110 organizations in 13 states. It has assembled a comprehensive list of resources for grantmakers that wish to fund advocacy and community organizing.
NCRP’s staff and guest contributors contribute to critical discussions on topics related to the role of philanthropy in society, such as how it can help strengthen democracy, how grantmakers can be better partners to their grantees, and how it can be be more strategic and effective.
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