National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)

05/17/2022

Join this important conversation, hosted by NCRP member SisterReach, TONIGHT at 6:30!

What are reproductive justice advocates and clergy saying about this political moment? Tune in May 17th!!!

05/12/2022

Abortion as Healthcare RoadMap: Why I Fund the Frontlines - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

#TBT: Libra Foundation Executive Director and NCRP Board Member Crystal Hayling's letter urging funders to support independent clinics and local funds is just as urgent now as when it was first published. "It’s time for action, not more empty political debates. Grantmakers concerned with women’s issues must understand that policy doesn’t mean much without practitioners."

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A Letter from NCRP Board Member & Libra Foundation Executive Director Crystal Hayling on the importance of foundations supporting abortion access.

05/10/2022

Black Migrant Justice Groups Deserve More than a Drop in the Bucket - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

NEW: As NCRP prepares to share updated analysis on funding of the pro-immigrant and pro-refugee movement, we begin with an especially underfunded group of organizations - Black migrant-led groups.

These groups are doing intersectional, powerful work with only a fraction of a penny of the philanthropic sector's dollar. Philanthropy must do better.

A new NCRP analysis details how philanthropy's continued under resourcing of immigrant and refugee communities is even worse for Black migrant groups.

05/09/2022

Making the Invisible, Visible - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

In honor of #AAPIHeritageMonth, we're revisiting our conversation with Asian American trailblazer Eveline Shen about the importance of changing narratives around AAPI communities and reproductive justice.

Read more here:

A conversation with Foward Together's founding Executive Director Eveline Shen on the importance of changing the narratives around AAPI communities and reproductive justice.

05/08/2022

Honoring Mothers – in deeds, not just flowers – is a year-round effort - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

Celebrating all of the mothers should also mean addressing all aspects of their care, including the health disparities Black women face during and after pregnancy.

Yet philanthropic funding for maternal health has not kept pace with the number of pregnancy-related deaths among Black women.

#MothersDay

Maybe a better celebration of Mother's Day would be public policy that directly serves the economic and social needs of caregivers?

05/03/2022

You Say You Don’t Fund Reproductive Justice? There’s still a lot you can do - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

"Reproductive justice advocates and practitioners will need all kinds of support, way more than the little that has been given to them in the past. ...So what can you do if your foundation’s grantmaking falls outside of this issue area? Actually, a lot."
Read more to learn how funders can act effectively in this urgent moment:

What can you do if your foundation’s grantmaking falls outside of the reproductive justice and abortion access area? Actually, alot.

05/03/2022

Creating Black Systems of Care and the Next Generation of Black Maternal Health Leaders - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

N.O.U.R.I.S.H is a full spectrum community doula program for college students to educate & expose young women to the importance of preconception health while giving them hands-on training + knowledge as doulas and community birth workers.

#NationalDoulaMonth

Reflecting on Black Maternal Health Week’s theme “Building for Liberation: Centering Black Mamas, Black Families, and Black Systems of Care” Dr. Kanika A. Harris, MPH, the Director of Maternal and Child Health at the Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) explores how the reproductive justic...

05/02/2022

Bremer Trust Decision a Step Forward in Accountability - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

Late last Friday, after seven years of local advocacy, Judge Awsumb ousted Brian Lipschultz, who had made himself trustee and co-CEO, from the helm of Otto Bremer Trust. This is an important first step to restore a sense of accountability, but it still leaves many questions. Read NCRP's response here:

Judge Awsumb's decision to force Brian Lipschultz from his position as an Otto Bremer Trustee is a step forward, but it is not a total victory for good governance advocates. Nevertheless, NCRP applauds the leadership of Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison for not just investigating the ma...

05/01/2022

This #MayDay we recognize & honor the work and contributions immigrant workers have made.

Immigrant justice is worker justice and we must continue to fight to ensure they receive the support needed to thrive.

#InvestInImmigrants

04/26/2022

Celebrating and Thanking Jeanné Lewis - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

Jeanné Lewis has a genius for leadership. She brought that talent to NCRP eight years ago and will be leaving our leadership team on May 13. Read more reflections from our CEO here: https://www.ncrp.org/2022/04/thank-you-jlewis.html

A bittersweet announcement, but we celebrate Jeanné Lewis and wish her the best at Faith in Public Life, where she'll excel in her new role as interim CEO.

NCRP Executive Director offers his thoughts on the announcement of Faith in Public Life naming VP of Engagement Jeanné Lewis’s as their next Interim President & CEO.

04/22/2022

We Have a Responsibility to Support Black, Brown and Indigenous Climate Justice Leadership - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

"The tenacity of Black, brown, and indigenous organizers throughout the South are why we have grassroots environmental and climate justice movements, but the region remains chronically underfunded by philanthropy." — Senowa Mize-Fox

#EarthDay

Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island in a mixed-Black, bi-cultural Southern family, I took in a lot of misconceptions about the South. Both sides of my family (my father is from El Paso, TX and my mother is from Marietta, GA) enthusiastically moved north during their twenties and have never looked...

04/15/2022

Creating Black Systems of Care and the Next Generation of Black Maternal Health Leaders - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

Reflecting on Black Maternal Health Week’s theme “Building for Liberation: Centering Black Mamas, Black Families, and Black Systems of Care” Dr. Kanika A. Harris, MPH, the Director of Maternal and Child Health at the Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) explores how the reproductive justice movement can support Black institutions, specifically Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and create new narratives for the future of Black birthing people.

Reflecting on Black Maternal Health Week’s theme “Building for Liberation: Centering Black Mamas, Black Families, and Black Systems of Care” Dr. Kanika A. Harris, MPH, the Director of Maternal and Child Health at the Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) explores how the reproductive justic...

04/11/2022

From the Frontlines: Understanding Sex Worker-led Movements - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

"Despite the sector’s attempts to cast sex workers into the shadows, we are in fact your program officers, development coordinators and movement engagement managers." — Brandi Collins–Calhoun

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) opened this month’s issue of Responsive Philanthropy to authors and artists from sex worker-led and sex worker supporting organizations.

04/05/2022

Be Fund(ed) or Die: The Precarity of Sex Worker Organizing - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

"Unrestricted funds allow sex worker organizers – who know best how to get this work done – to support themselves and the waves and layers of our community who might not otherwise become engaged due to the lack of support and resources." — Red Schulte

In this piece, Red Schulte and contributors from the Support Ho(s)e collective share their personal experiences with the best and worst funders. There are so few funders in the space that when mistakes are made there is a lack of accountability for funders that leads to compounding violence for orga...

04/02/2022

Trans and Sex Worker Justice Needs Steady Allyship - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

"Committing to unrestricted funding gives trans–led and sex worker-led organizations the means to help re-shape the conversation around the continued criminalization of sex work and behavioral health issues.

Funding that is not project specific gives programs like ours the latitude be responsive to meet the immediate direct needs of trans women in their communities while also advocating for systemic change." — Maddalynn Sesepasara

The Kua ’ana Project is at the intersection of public health, decriminalization, Indigenous rights, and the rights of trans and gender expansive people as they serve the Pasifika trans women and sex workers in Honolulu. Maddalyn Sesepasara, who leads the project, explains that steady allyship mean...

04/01/2022

Funder lessons from four years of resourcing sex worker–led organizing and grantmaking at the Sex Worker Giving Circle - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

"Now more than ever, funders must account for the disparity in power dynamics between philanthropy and the movements we support and how these dynamics are always present, even if we’re actively trying to dismantle them." — Christian Giraldo, Third Wave Fund

Third Wave Fund, NCRP’s 2021 winner of the “Smashing Silos” Impact Award, shares four key lessons funders can use as they support sex worker-led organizations: provide unrestricted, multi-year grants, center trauma-informed, empathetic grantmaking, build multilingual grantmaking structures and...

03/22/2022

Frontiers of Social Innovation

TOMORROW: Join NCRP's President & CEO, Aaron Dorfman as he moderates, "Funding BIPOC communities through intermediaries – the good, the bad and the ugly” at Stanford Social Innovation Review's Frontiers of Social Innovation.

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of interest from donors and foundations in funding intermediary organizations that prioritize giving to social change nonprofits led by and accountable to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color.

In this session, Dorfman will explore the forces driving this trend and dig into the benefits – and the potential disadvantages – of funding through intermediaries and share structural ways to ensure that communities will truly benefit from funding, and to mitigate the potential disadvantages.

Learn more:

A Convening of Global Leaders

03/20/2022

From the Frontlines: Understanding Sex Worker-led Movements - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

Protecting sex workers means prioritizing, listening and investing in these communities.

It's time for the sector to resource them and show their support openly.

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) opened this month’s issue of Responsive Philanthropy to authors and artists from sex worker-led and sex worker supporting organizations.

03/18/2022

From the Frontlines: Understanding Sex Worker-led Movements - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

With violence, stigma and criminalization continuing to surround sex work, it's time for philanthropy to protect and invest in these communities.

NCRP's March 2022 issue of Responsive Philanthropy highlights some of the many frontline sex worker–led funding and movement initiatives that are looking to reform and replace the systems that leave too many communities marginalized, underserved and disenfranchised.

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The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) opened this month’s issue of Responsive Philanthropy to authors and artists from sex worker-led and sex worker supporting organizations.

03/17/2022

The Public Safety of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women - AAPIP Website

The Public Safety of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women - AAPIP Website

For Immediate Release: Mar 16, 2022 Contact: [email protected] New York, NY – As we mark one year since the horrific ...

03/17/2022

*Deadline Extended!*

Now, you can sign up your #Foundation for the #2022DAPP by Wednesday, March 23rd.

Learn more about the DAPP and how it aims to advance #DEI in the #philanthropic sector - https://changephilanthropy.org/dapp/faqs/

Sign up - https://mailchi.mp/changephilanthropy/jc63bezhfl

03/16/2022

Frontiers of Social Innovation

Join NCRP's President & CEO, Aaron Dorfman on Wednesday, March 23 as he moderates, "Funding BIPOC communities through intermediaries – the good, the bad and the ugly” at Stanford Social Innovation Review's Frontiers of Social Innovation.

Register here:

A Convening of Global Leaders

03/14/2022

Trans Communities Are Under Attack. Here’s How Philanthropy Must Respond — Inside Philanthropy

"We know that long-term, general support grants are what will ultimately sustain and strengthen the power-building, programmatic and capacity-building needs of emerging trans-led organizations. We need funders to listen to, trust and invest in trans leadership and trans-led organizations." — Aldita Gallardo, Fund For Trans Generations, Borealis Philanthropy

Legislatures across the nation are stripping away trans rights and legalizing discriminatory practices. Aldita Gallardo of the Fund for Trans Generations urges action, encouraging funders to listen to—and fund—trans communities.

03/08/2022

How funders are stepping up: Women and the environment - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

To confront pressing environmental challenges, women must play a role, have a seat at the table and participate in decision-making.

Astonishingly, less than 1% of international philanthropy goes to women’s environmental initiatives. That must change.

#InternationalWomensDay

Climate change and subsequent damage to water, land and clean air affects women differently than men.

03/07/2022

Change begins with funding for women at the local level - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

"While we stand in awe at the strength and resilience of the voices who speak out, organize and push for gender equality, are we giving enough attention to our local, quiet heroines championing gender equality?" — Sophia Cole

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is #PressforProgress, words that symbolize the hope and resilience needed more than ever in our country.

03/03/2022

Sex Workers |

Today is international #SexWorkersRightsDay.

Sex workers are often at the vanguard of human rights movements, but only receive 1% of human rights funding.

An interactive guide for grantmakers, activists, NGO staff, researchers, and others interested in better understanding the world of human rights funding.

03/02/2022

U.S. maternal mortality points to institutional racism. Is philanthropy listening to Black women? - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth!

This month, we're reflecting on philanthropy's history of funding women, and starting with the question: Is #philanthropy listening to Black women?

Every year, 700-900 women die of pregnancy related causes in the U.S., one of the worst maternal mortality rates among developed countries.