For immediate release
Moving Philanthropy Forward: A Report to Our Community
Washington, D.C. (9/13/11) – The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) released today “Moving Philanthropy Forward: Report to Our Community for 2008 to 2010.” The report highlights the organization’s accomplishments in the past three years to improve the accountability, effectiveness and impact of philanthropy, such as:
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Philanthropy at Its Best, the first ever set of aspirational guidelines to help grantmakers assess and improve their grantmaking.
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Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunity, a series of reports on the monetary and non-monetary benefits from nonprofit advocacy, community organizing and civic engagement.
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Key findings from NCRP’s 2010 organizational evaluation which had notable results such as, “58 percent of surveyed foundations agree that NCRP has raised the level of discourse around exemplary grantmaking practices.”
“The challenges and struggles resulting from the economic hardship that our country faced during the past several years underscores the critical role of philanthropy in our society,” said Aaron Dorfman, executive director of NCRP. “NCRP will continue its efforts to promote ways that make philanthropy more effective at achieving meaningful impact in our communities.”
Moving Philanthropy Forward also talks about ongoing efforts such as:
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High Impact Strategies in Philanthropy, a series of reports encouraging issue-specific grantmakers to consider how two strategic approaches to their grantmaking can boost the impact of their limited grant dollars.
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Philanthropy’s Promise, NCRP’s latest initiative that celebrates grantmakers that maximize the impact and effectiveness of their giving through targeted universalism and policy and civic engagement.
Moving Philanthropy Forward is available for free download at http://www.ncrp.org.
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