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2Former NCRP Director of Evaluation Lisa Ranghelli on what philanthropy can learn from NCRP’s largest self-evaluation project to date.     In the fall of 2016, we at NCRP began implementing a 10-year strategic framework that re-focused the organization’s efforts in helping philanthropy actively co-create a… Read More

This year’s NCRP Impact Awards, held on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at the 2021 Unity Summit, was a joyous celebration of the best that philanthropy has to offer.   (more…) Read More

Dear reader,  The last issue of “Responsive Philanthropy” celebrated NCRP’s 45 years and asked what philanthropy should look like in the next 45. This issue celebrates philanthropy now and looks at what this sector is doing to build the future that we want. It’s actually something… Read More

[caption id="attachment_19735" align="alignright" width="239"] Pablo Eisenberg[/caption] Pablo Eisenberg  Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University   NCRP Board Chair, 1976-1990  “NCRP began as a force to challenge philanthropy, and it actually broke, I think, the dominance of foundations and… Read More

Jara Dean-Coffey, Director, The Equitable Evaluation Initiative, Founder and Principal, Luminare Group  [caption id="attachment_19756" align="alignright" width="195"] Jara Dean-Coffey[/caption] “I increasingly find myself going to the origins of words, ideas and actions to better understand what twists and… Read More

We are at a moment of national reckoning. The COVID-19 pandemic, its disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities and the horrific murders of Black people that ignited protests last summer have laid bare the deep injustices that define this country.   In these times, the corporate… Read More