MOVEMENT INVESTMENT PROJECT

Are you fully leveraging your philanthropy
to help secure an equitable and vibrant future for all?
Get the NEW “State of Foundation Grantmaking
for the Pro-Immigrant Movement

Your philanthropy goes towards improving schools, providing quality health care, boosting economic outcomes and other efforts to strengthen our communities

Amp up the impact of your giving by supporting social movements that mobilize people and communities around long-term solutions to longstanding challenges. By investing in these movements, you’re bolstering efforts to secure a thriving future for all.

The Movement Investment Project helps grantmakers and donors understand the relationship between their giving and the success of social movements at the center of critical national debates. Our recommendations are rooted in the experiences of grassroots leaders and their funder allies so that your philanthropic strategies and practices can:

  • Meet urgent needs and fill critical gaps for immediate and long-term impact.
  • Ensure you don’t overlook communities most affected by the issues you care about.
  • Align with your mission to improve lives and secure a thriving future for our communities and nation.

Two images: 1. Hands reach up against a blue background. The text reads: "Imagine... an inclusive, vibrant future where all communities thrive is within our reach." 2. The text reads "5 essential practices for donors to support the pro-immigrant movement: 1. Give long term. 2. Fund organizing and services. 3. Help grantees access 501c3 funding. 4. Work with other funders to fund the movement ecosystem. 5. Support beyond the grant.New brief: The State of Foundation Funding for the Pro-Immigrant Movement

Photo of Daranee Petsod, President & CEO Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees“NCRP offers concrete recommendations that challenge philanthropy to invest more deeply in movement organizations and to ensure that the entire immigrant rights ecosystem is properly resourced to respond to immediate threats, advance long-term systemic change and work in concert with other movements for justice.

Daranee Petsod
President & CEO
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
On the State of Foundation Funding for the Pro-Immigrant Movement Brief

3 Ways to invest in social movements now

  • Discover and apply the essential foundation and donor practices for each social movement
    NCRP’s actionable movement-specific recommendations are based on candid feedback from grassroots leaders and funder allies, the latest available foundation giving data and NCRP’s research on high-impact philanthropic strategies and practices.
  • Support the Movement Investment Project
    By financially supporting NCRP, you are playing a critical role in promoting philanthropy that improves the lives of individuals, families and communities – now and for the future. Donate or give a grant today!
  • Tell your peers about the Movement Investment Project
    Help grow the community of funders standing in partnership with front line leaders and organizations addressing urgent immediate needs while moving us closer to the thriving future we all want for all communities.

Ask colleagues and peers to #InvestinMovements today on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

We’re here to help

This project began in 2019 to highlight some of the innovative work already happening to support movements and to educate other funders about these opportunities to maximize their impact.

The first movement brief focuses on the pro-immigrant movement.  We’ll be working on other issues areas in the future – reach out to investinmovements[at]ncrp.org for questions and ways you can get involved. 

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When immigrants thrive, we all thrive.

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STATE OF FOUNDATION FUNDING FOR THE PRO-IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT

STATE OF FOUNDATION FUNDING FOR THE PRO-IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT

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TELL OTHER FOUNDATIONS AND DONORS ABOUT THE MOVEMENT INVESTMENT PROJECT

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