Back Donate

Neither the SAI nor CPBB’s Strategic Development Program would have been possible without the visionary $12 million investment of the Sandler Foundation, which has long been a champion of the principle that investing in nonprofit infrastructure can yield equal or greater impact than investing directly in policy initiatives. Their vision was recently recognized by the National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy, which bestowed the foundation with its 2016 Impact award. In accepting the award, the foundation stated: “If we had one wish, it would be for philanthropic funders to set aside more resources to invest in the long-term institutional capacity of organizations and far fewer resources on short-term projects or programs. The issues we all care about will not be ‘solved’ in two or three years, and even after short-term wins, these issues will reemerge in new and unexpected ways.”

Read the entire article.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.