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RURAL PHILANTHROPY PROJECT
Focus Groups
As an important part of the rural philanthropy project, NCRP is conducting focus groups in eastern Kentucky, southern Miami-Dade county in Florida, western Texas' border with Mexico, Montana, and northern California. We would like to thank the following organizations and foundations for making these focus groups possible: the El Paso Community Foundation in Texas; the Human Services Coalition of Dade County, Everglades Housing Group and MUJER in Florida; the Nonprofit Leadership Initiative in Kentucky; and the Montana Nonprofit Association with Montana Shares, Bear Paw Development Corporation and the Lewistown Art Center in Montana.
With active partners on the ground, NCRP was able to connect with local nonprofits in a variety of areas, allowing us to explore both the challenges and diversity of rural places. Our primary partners assisted in every phase of focus group preparation, which included building invitee lists, site selection, and outreach. Without them, we would not have had the opportunity to speak with so many nonprofits about their work and the ways in which the philanthropic community can better support that work.
NCRP published Rural Philanthropy: Building Dialogue from Within and presented the results during the Council on Foundation's rural philanthropy conference in Montana in August 2007.
Thank you again to all our partners and focus group participants!
Read about the rural philanthropy project and the Montana focus group in the Helena Independent Record.
The Power of Persuasion: Getting More Foundations to Fund Rural
In Philanthropy and Rural America, Council on Foundations, 2008.
- Read this document for free / Council on Foundations
NCRP talks about the rural philanthropy summit held in Montana in August 2007. It identifies several obstacles to rural grantmaking and strategies to overcome these challenges based on the report Rural Philanthropy: Building Dialogue from Within.
