CONTACT(S): Russell Roybal rroybal@ncrp.org
Elbert Garcia, egarcia@ncrp.org
NCRP & Candid Renew Data Collaboration Agreement
This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) announced their renewed working partnership with the philanthropy sector’s trusted source for grantmaking data, Candid. The announcement comes nearly four years after NCRP’s Black Funding Denied report used Candid data to help put a spotlight on the continual resourcing of Black communities in the United States.
“NCRP has always sought to provide both grant makers and nonprofits with the kind of practical data and analysis that helps bridge the gap between funders’ best intentions and the reality of where their dollars go,” said NCRP President and CEO Aaron Dorfman. “Our continued partnership with Candid helps ensure that both funders and nonprofits get the kind of high-quality, consistent, and timely public data on grantmaking that allows everyone to better understand the funding landscape for important issue areas.”
Formed out of the 2019 merger of GuideStar and the Foundation Center, Candid provides the most comprehensive data and insights about the social sector, exploring where grant money comes from, where it goes, and why it matters. Through research, collaboration, and training, Candid looks to connect people who want to change the world to the resources they need to do it.
In recent years, NCRP has anchored and facilitated a coalition of concerned PSOs, and funders advocating for Candid to improve its data collection strategies and build reciprocal relationships with community-centered organizations. These fruitful conversations have led to a more equitable pilot partnership for all parties, as well as a commitment by Candid to increase access to its offerings for small nonprofits.
A Shared Commitment for Data Quality & Community Feedback
Over the next year, NCRP will encourage and help nonprofits provide important demographic data about work and funding through Candid’s Demographics via Candid initiative. They will also reach out to funders to encourage their participation in Candid’s grant data eReporting platform for grantmakers.
NCRP researchers will also work with Candid staff to make improvements on subject area coding and taxonomy of grants and grantees to better reflect the realities of movement work.
The renewed partnership efforts are rooted in NCRP and Candid shared commitment to community engagement and feedback around data collection and analysis.
“Quality, community-centered data is crucial for carrying out the transparency and accountability that the philanthropic sector needs to help us all get to the just and equitable world that we desire,” said Dorfman.
ABOUT NCRP
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) has served as philanthropy’s critical friend and independent watchdog since 1976. We work with foundations, non-profits, social justice movements and other leaders to ensure that the sector is transparent with, and accountable to, those with the least wealth, power and opportunity in American society.
Our storytelling, advocacy, and research efforts, in partnership with grantees, help funders fulfill their moral and practical duty to build, share, and wield economic resources and power to serve public purposes in pursuit of justice.
ABOUT CANDID
Candid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides the most comprehensive data and insights about the social sector.
Every year, millions of nonprofits spend trillions of dollars around the world. Candid finds out where that money comes from, where it goes, and why it matters. Candid was formed in 2019 when GuideStar and Foundation Center merged. Candid combined GuideStar’s tools on nonprofits and Foundation Center’s tools on foundations with new resources to offer more comprehensive, real-time information about the social sector.
Find out more at candid.org and on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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