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What Remains After Roe: The Crisis Pregnancy Center Empire in Appalachia
This piece is informed by reproductive justice-led work in Appalachia during Hurricane Helene recovery, where community care networks step in as a matter of practice when systems fail. For 53 years, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade has held a mirror to the sector. Too often, what it reflects back is the cost of our own silence,…
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A Time for Solutions
Resources that Make Climate Justice Work We have heard it all before: “well, if we had more funding, we would do x” or “we had a lot of momentum going on this project, but it was only funded for a year, so we have to focus on other priorities.” In the eleven years I’ve spent in the…
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A Time for Solutions: Part Two
Creative and Intentional Resourcing In 2021, Walton, along with key frontline Climate Justice leaders, played a key role in helping to reallocate $141 million from the Bezos Earth Fund to frontline accountable intermediaries, with The Solutions Project (TSP) receiving $43 million themselves. Additionally, TSP co-developed three movement support funds with frontline organizations, The Justice 40 Accelerator, Communicating Our Power Fund and The Fund for Frontline Power (A note that…
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The Rise of Regressive Philanthropy in the 21st Century
New research from the National Committee of Responsive Philanthropy explores the increased investment of regressive private and public foundations in recent years. All figures in this reporting have been converted to 2025 dollars* Over the past decade, we have seen the fruition of a well-financed 60-year campaign to roll back major movement-won advances made on…
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The Grass is Not Always Greener in Network States
It’s been called “California Forever,” and described as a chance to rejuvenate a struggling rural community in Solano County, California. The slick website promises 53,000 jobs, affordable homes, good schools, and thriving local businesses. California Forever is pitched as a “gift” from some of the state’s wealthiest to the good people of East Solano County.…
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NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing
NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing WASHINGTON, DC – As a network of more than 250 individual donor activists who harness their collective power for justice, Women Donors Network (WDN) and its c4 sibling organization WDN Action have mobilized over $140 million to the…
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NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking
NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking WASHINGTON, DC – Since its origin in 1953, the Bush Foundation has held fast to the belief that “wealth should be used for the benefit of all humanity.” Now, with a historic $200 million commitment to addressing racial wealth gaps, the foundation…
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NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism
NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism WASHINGTON, DC – The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) recognizes two visionary leaders whose decades of fearless critique and advocacy have helped shape both the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. The Philanthropy Project’s Jon Pratt and Jan Masaoka have…
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NCRP Identifies Philanthropy’s Best & Boldest Leaders Meeting the Moment in its Winners of the 2025 IMPACT Awards
NCRP Identifies Philanthropy’s Best & Boldest Leaders Meeting the Moment in its Winners of the 2025 IMPACT Awards Selection Committee of 10 philanthropic and nonprofit leaders spotlights innovative and steadfast commitment of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grand Victoria Foundation, Women Donors Network, Bush Foundation, and The Philanthropy Project’s Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt to challenge the sector to…
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NCRP Invites Three Leaders to Advance a More Accountable Philanthropy
CONTACT(S): Jennifer Amuzie— jamuzie@ncrp.org Russell Roybal — rroybal@ncrp.org NCRP Invites Three Leaders to Advance a More Accountable Philanthropy Daniel Altschuler, Fatima Angeles, and Yordanos Eyoel bring their personal and professional experience at a crucial time for philanthropy Daniel Altschuler, Fatima Angeles, and Yordanos Eyoel join the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy WASHINGTON, DC — The…
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Why Funding Black and Brown Lactation Initiatives Matters: A Personal Reflection on DME-R and Healing 19 Years Later
There’s a name for what happened to me when I tried to breastfeed my daughter, and I didn’t learn it until she was almost in middle school. It’s called DME-R, or Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex, and it’s a condition where a rush of intense negative emotions is released while nursing. This isn’t about willpower or…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Are foundation website changes masking their values, or pulling off their masks?
Hiding in Plain Sight: Are foundation website changes masking their values, or pulling off their masks? CONTACT(S): Russell Roybal rroybal@ncrp.org Jennifer Amuzie jamuzie@ncrp.org WASHINGTON, DC – With rising threats of Congressional scrutiny of the groups that support marginalized communities, NCRP’s researchers analyzed the stances of…
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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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A time for radical solidarity
CONTACT(S): Russell Roybal rroybal@ncrp.org Jennifer Amuzie jamuzie@ncrp.org A time for radical solidarity For nearly 50 years, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) has spoken truth to a sector that isn’t always ready to hear it. In moments like this when our…
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Here We Go Again (and Again and Again): Let’s Stop Looking for the One ‘New Approach’ to Philanthropy
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