NCRP is committed to the long-term success of local and community-based nonprofit efforts, and attempts to record challenges and successes via their research. One example of a current research project is studying foundations' response to the Los Angeles civil disturbanced just over a decade ago. A completed research project, Community-Based Public Foundations: Small Beacons for Big Ideas, continues to impact foundation and nonprofit thinking. The report concluded that CBPFs are in a unique position to affect social change through both their grants and access with the local communities they serve. The Power of Relationships: Northwest Ohio Community Shares - Download this publication for free / View full catalogue August 2004 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. Prospects for a New Model of Workplace Giving in Miami-Dade - Download this publication for free / View full catalogue March 2004 This report is the result of a field research from the National Alliance for Choice in Giving (NACG) and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). The research team visited Miami-Dade County in December 2003 to assess the feasibility of creating a new workplace fundraising federation to support social change and social justice charities through employee charitable donations in public and private sector workplaces. Community-Based Public Foundations: Small Beacons for Big Ideas - Purchase this publication / View full catalogue 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.   Advocacy for Social Change in Metropolitan Washington - Download this publication for free / View full catalogue September 2003 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 - Purchase this publication / View full catalogue April 2000 This report 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.