Tag: Blog
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Marking Dobbs with Action, Not Optics
Three years (yes, only three) have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, unraveling nearly 50 years of precedent and stripping away the constitutional right to abortion care and services. In those three years, abortion access has not just been diminished; it has been criminalized, surveilled, disincentivized, and twisted…
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The Rainy Day is Now a Hurricane—Holding ClimateWorks Foundation and its Funders Accountable to Resource the Frontlines. (Part 2 of 2)
Climate Justice Organizations’ Rally Cry is Echoing Movement groups have spent years sending out the same rallying cry: “Fund the frontlines. Fund a Just Transition away from the fossil fuel-based economy. Listen to us. Support us.” Funders have seen countless funder briefings, closed door meetings, toxic tours, reports, zines, and conferences. This message from the ground,…
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Unbought, Unbossed, and Unbowed: Sex Worker-Led Organizing in the Age of Respectability Politics
Carlton V. Bell II Respectability politics has long cast a heavy shadow over the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. For those of us organizing at the intersections of sex work, Black liberation, trans justice, and bodily autonomy, this shadow is more than metaphorical. It’s a material barrier and systemic obstacle, a locked door to funding, to inclusion,…
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The Rainy Day is Now a Hurricane—Holding Climate Philanthropy Accountable in an Age of Climate Change Denialism to Resource the Most Vulnerable. (Part 1 of 2)
NCRP launches the second phase of our Climate Justice and Just Transition campaign: holding climate funders accountable for their continued underfunding of these necessary frontline organizations with this special 2-part blog. Look out for part 2, where NCRP will dig further into CWF’s grantmaking data, including the increase in overlapped funding for non-frontline organizations between…
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Not Your Model Grantee: When Asian American Advocacy Challenges Philanthropy
I never thought the Asian model minority myth would catch up to me while working at a progressive social justice nonprofit. Until one day, it did. My supervisor Irma Shauf-Bajar and I – both of us Filipino Americans – crossed a line in philanthropy that we didn’t know existed. We broke the unspoken rules on how to…
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A Look Back at Cracks in the Foundation: one year later, what have we learned?
Earlier this month, a new law in the District of Columbia went into effect that will allow the D.C Council to study the possibility of reparations for Black residents descended from enslaved people or otherwise affected by Jim Crow-era policies such as discriminatory housing and employment practices. This law is yet another win for the reparations movement…
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NCRP Research on Funding for Anti-Democracy Organizations
NCRP tracked $1 billion in total foundation funding from around 3,500 private and public funders between 2020 and 2022. In that time, $1 billion in total foundation funding went to 155 election denial and anti-voting rights organizations. These anti-democracy organizations control more than $7 billion, more than each of the well-known conservative funders combined. These…
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Philanthropy is onto the next: how themes from Black Funding Denied are coming up today
In 2020, I remember being on a regional call with funders in New England who were optimistic that, after months of a global pandemic and a summer of the largest racial uprising this country has seen since the Civil Rights Movement, we were in a new era of philanthropy. I was not as convinced that…
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The Hidden Costs of Crisis Pregnancy Centers: The Financial Power Behind Anti-Abortion Agendas
It’s been nearly three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, opening the gates for stricter abortion bans and setting new limits to healthcare access across the U.S. With the shifts to the landscape of abortion access, Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) have positioned themselves as go-to resources for pregnant people. But to be…
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The Tale of Two Climate Weeks: Part 1 of 2
In September 2024, NCRP’s Senior Movement Engagement Manager for Climate Change Senowa Mize-Fox and NCRP’s Research and Development Associate Spencer Ozer attended New York City Climate Week. Climate Week is a series of events sponsored by The Climate Group that aims to bring together actors from all different sectors with a shared vision of tackling…
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The Tale of Two Climate Weeks: Part 2 of 2
In September 2024, NCRP’s Senior Movement Engagement Manager for Climate Change Senowa Mize-Fox and NCRP’s Research and Development Associate Spencer Ozer attended New York City Climate Week. Climate Week is a series of events sponsored by The Climate Group that aims to bring together actors from all different sectors with a shared vision of tackling…
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Native Community Political Power
In national discussions around political empowerment, large swaths of the public often forget about Indigenous communities. Despite the systemic overlook of Native voters, past election cycles have proven the power of the Native Vote in swing states to shift electoral outcomes – most recently seen in Arizona during 2020. The outcome of the 2024 Election…
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Playing It Safe Won’t Save Us
Appeasement is in vogue. That doesn’t make it a good idea. We’re barely a month past the 2024 election, and the hot takes are flying. But a clear theme is already emerging. Former Hewlett program officer Daniel Stid captured it recently for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In his op-ed, he calls on philanthropy to stop “funding…