The Social Justice Philanthropy Collaborative

June 2009, The Linchpin Campaign at the Center for Community Change
Got donors? Major donors? You can if you read and do what this new guide describes. This is a free, downloadable brand new manual on reaching major donors about community organizing! It is a crucial addition to community organizing’s fund development toolbox full of insights and specific how-tos to engage long-term supporters.

May 2009, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
North Carolina is the site of NCRP's second in a series of reports from the Grantmaking for Community Impact Project (GCIP). In the newly released report "Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of  Advocacy, Organizing and Civic Engagement in North Carolina," NCRP documents how 13 local nonprofits and their allies leveraged foundation grants to secure nearly $2 billion in benefits for North Carolinians.

May 2009, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
Mark Constantine's Wit and Wisdom: Unleashing the Philanthropic Imagination captures the thoughts, anxieties, sensibilities, and sensitivities of philanthropic leaders who have worked with creativity and persistence to address issues of race, equity and poverty throughout their distinguished careers. The leaders interviewed include Ambassador James Joseph, Linetta Gilbert, Tom Wacaster, Gayle Williams, Sybil Jordan Hampton, Jack Murrah, Sherry Magill, Karl Stauber, and Lynn Huntley, with a closing essay by Emmett Carson.

March 2009, Grantcraft and The Linchpin Campaign at the Center for Community Change
How can a grantmaker support grassroots solutions and build stronger communities? What are the unique demands of supporting community organizing? Foundations and community organizing groups may differ in culture. But they often share the goals of finding durable solutions to social problems, and getting those most affected to be more involved in the process. In this guide, learn how community organizing works and what it can achieve, ways to assess a prospective grantee’s capacity and context, and how to manage relationships and use complementary strategies to achieve program goals. Contributors also reflect on power, the grantmaker’s role, and where to look for the impact of organizing.

See also:  Advocacy Funding:  The Philanthropy of Changing Minds and the new Communicating for Impact:  Strategies for Grantmakers.

March 2009, Institute for Southern Studies, Hill-Snowdon Foundation, and New World Foundation
Today, there is an important national debate underway about the South. Political strategists, grassroots organizers, funders and others concerned about social justice are grappling with critical questions: What are prospects for change in the South? Is it worth investing time, energy and resources in the region? Can historic obstacles be overcome and momentum shifted to "move" a social justice agenda in the South?

To address these questions, the Institute for Southern Studies, in partnership with the Hill-Snowdon Foundation and New World Foundation, undertook an 18-month investigation into the political, economic and social landscape in the South and the state of social justice organizing in the region.

March 2009, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Criteria is the first ever set of measurable guidelines that attempts to answer the questions: What differentiates an exemplary foundation from the rest of its peers? What can foundations do to improve its relevance to nonprofits, the economically and socially underserved Americans and society as a whole?  Criteria makes the case for greater investment in organizing and advocacy, marginalized communities, general operating and multi-year support, and mission-related investing, setting aspirational goals for the philanthropy field and igniting conversations nationwide.