“Philanthropy can take words and use them so much that they become meaningless,” remarks Rev. Mac Legerton, executive director of the Center for Community Action, based in Eastern North Carolina, in a report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP).
The NCRP report, authored by Ryan Schlegel and Stephanie Peng, is the third in an expected series of five reports called As the South Grows. This installment is titled “Weathering the Storm.” Legerton’s complaint is that the term “resilience” is being watered down by overuse.
Read the entire article in Nonprofit Quarterly.
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