Community Based Local Research

The Power of Relationships: Northwest Ohio Community Shares

Published: August 2004

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This report is a history of the creation of Northwest Ohio Community Shares, a coalition of local social justice and social service agencies that came together to create collectively what was denied to them separately, the opportunity to solicit workers for payroll deduction contributions at Toledo workplaces.

Community-Based Public Foundations: Small Beacons for Big Ideas

Published: 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. This report seeks to raise the profile of CBPFs based on the results of a survey NCRP conducted in late 2002 and early 2003 of CBPFs across the nation. Of 192 CBPFs contacted nationwide, sixty-four responded to the survey for a 33 percent response rate. In-depth interviews were also conducted with eight of the CBPF correspondents.

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Advocacy for Social Change in Metropolitan Washington

Published: September 2003

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Though often overshadowed by their more prominent national counterparts, local and regional public policy advocacy groups in the nation's capital are doing vital work while struggling for adequate and appropriate foundation funding. With the support of the Washington Grantmakers' Community Capacity fund, NCRP surveyed local and regional advocacy groups in the metropolitan Washington area looking into the advocacy infrastructure in the region.

A Democratic Landscape: Funding Social Change in California

Published: April 2000

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NCRP continues to advocate for the rights of nonprofits to engage in public policy advocacy and the necessity of grantmakers to support such activities. A Democratic Landscape highlights how foundations and nonprofit groups influence progressive social and economic policy in California. Based on interviews with leaders of 73 nonprofit advocacy groups and eight of the state's leading foundations, this study found that California nonprofits play a crucial but undervalued role in shaping public policies benefiting the state's poorest and most vulnerable communities.