Advocacy by 110 nonprofit organizations over a five-year period has brought more than $26.6 billion in benefits to low-wage workers, communities of color, rural residents and other marginalized groups.
That’s one finding in NCRP’s new study, Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Benefits by Funding Policy and Community Engagement.
Our research found that every dollar grantmakers and other donors invested in policy and civic engagement provided a return of $115 in benefit.
In the report, you’ll discover how investing in advocacy and civic engagement:
- Helps foundations leverage their grant dollars for significant benefit to communities across the nation
- Enables nonprofits and grantmakers to address complex social and economic challenges effectively
- Results in substantial benefits for and improves the lives of the under-served
To further showcase the effectiveness of such work, NCRP created the GCIP Impacts Directory. The directory is a compilation of data from the seven Grantmaking for Community Impact Project (GCIP) reports, and includes monetized and non-monetized impacts that were achieved by 110 organizations in 13 states over a five-year period.
I hope you’ll check out the report and the directory of impacts. Here are some quick links:
Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Benefits by Funding Policy and Community Engagement
GCIP Impacts Directory
Grantmaking for Community Impact Project (GCIP)
Thank you for your continued support of our efforts to make our philanthropic sector more effective and responsive to the needs of our communities.
Best regards,
Aaron Dorfman
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy