October 16, 2025

NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism

Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt – some of philanthropy’s best critics – call for philanthropy to meet this moment with courage and clarity

October 16, 2025
NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking

Bush Foundation recognized for groundbreaking approach to community wealth-building and equity through radical generosity and collaboration

October 16, 2025
NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing

Women Donors Network is recognized for its funding model that combines long-term investment in movement building with rapid response support in times of crisis

October 16, 2025
NCRP Honors Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with its “Get Up, Stand Up” Award for Rapid-Response Grantmaking

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is celebrated for modeling how to build fair systems to resource and support health equity, especially with ongoing threats to racial and Indigenous health.

NCRP in the News

June 16, 2023
CHANGE coalition: Philanthropy’s Bridge Bends Toward Justice, Not Cooperation

As a coalition of philanthropic networks working together to strengthen bridges across funders and communities, CHANGE Philanthropy has issued a statement against what some have labeled “new philanthropic pluralism.”...

Brennan Center For Justice
February 9, 2022
Abortion Funds Enable Access: The Time to Invest in Direct Aid Is Now

Despite the clear and present need for the services they provide, a January 2021 report issued by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy found that foundation support for abortion funds occupies...

January 10, 2022
Philanthropic Advisors List Five Biggest Issues in America Today

The problem is vast, but if you want to address health-care inequities in your community, says Aaron Dorfman, president of the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy, start with your local...

Press Releases

October 16, 2025
NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism

Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt – some of philanthropy’s best critics – call for philanthropy to meet this moment with courage and clarity

October 16, 2025
NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking

Bush Foundation recognized for groundbreaking approach to community wealth-building and equity through radical generosity and collaboration

October 16, 2025
NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing

Women Donors Network is recognized for its funding model that combines long-term investment in movement building with rapid response support in times of crisis

Unpacking Philanthropy

Screenshot from the Racial Healing episiode of NCRPs video series, Unpacking Philanthropy.
January 25, 2024
Unpacking Philanthropy Ep. 3: Philanthropy’s Role in Racial Healing (Transcript)

Episode 3 of NCRP’s video series, Unpacking Philanthropy, focuses on racial healing and why honest truth-telling is a first step towards healing and living in a more equitable world....

February 23, 2022
Unpacking Philanthropy Ep. 2: What We Can Learn from the Otto Bremer Trust Debacle (Transcript)

Episode 2 of NCRP’s new video series, Unpacking Philanthropy, focuses on oversight, the Bremer Trust & what happens when Trustees go astray.

February 2, 2022
Unpacking Philanthropy Episode 1: Can Philanthropy Help Save Democracy? (Transcript)

Episode 1 of NCRP’s new video series, Unpacking Philanthropy, focuses on the philanthropy, democracy and the common Good.

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