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Transparency in Philanthropy: Get on Board or Get Run Over

By Aaron Dorfman
Nonprofit Quarterly
Dec 22, 2014

NCRP’s Executive Director Aaron Dorfman weighs in on the growth in transparency of grantgiving. “Secrecy isn’t possible anymore. The sooner the nation’s grantmakers get used to that idea, the sooner they’ll start sharing information freely and openly and begin real conversations with their partners about how their dollars can make the world a better place.”

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