The Huffington Post
By Paul Brest
March 5, 2009
Earlier this week, The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) published a paper entitled Criteria for Philanthropy at its Best®: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaking Impact. NCRP starts from the premises, which I share, that philanthropy is seriously underperforming in achieving "social benefit or impact" and in helping "solve the most urgent problems facing our nation and the world," and that disparities of opportunity, wealth, and power, especially when systematically coupled with race and other personal characteristics, are high among these problems...
