By Todd Cohen, Philanthropy Journal
WRAL-NC
May 8, 2009
Investing in nonprofit advocacy and policy work and in efforts by nonprofits to engage their constituencies in solving problems can have a big payoff, a new report says.
Thirteen groups that work with underrepresented constituencies in North Carolina received $20.4 million from 2003 through 2007 to support advocacy and community organizing, an investment that generated benefits worth over $1.8 billion, says the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
That represents $89 in benefits for every $1 invested.
