Program areas at NCRP
Reproductive access and gendered violence: this program area has released two additional sections of the abortion access roadmap which focus on centering transgender and gender-expansive people and bringing attention to crisis pregnancy centers (cpcs) as the "ground troops" of the anti-abortion movement. The program also worked on preparing for and then helping respond to the overturning of roe vs wade by the supreme court. Throughout the year, team members wrote blogs, spoke at conferences, and were featured in major publications discussing the abortion access roadmap and ncrps response to the overturning of roe vs wade.
Power moves in fy22 hundreds of foundations used ncrp power moves toolkit to help them improve their strategy and ops. The tool helps funders understand how well they share, build and wield power. The scorecard project team conducted a landscape analysis of other reports on funder behaviors, workshopping various assessment questions drawn from the power moves toolkit, and we concluded that moving forward with the scorecard project makes sense for ncrp because it fulfills a need in the sector for a public funder assessment tool based on shifting power, and can be used as an accountability tool to further the work of the movement and membership programs.
Pro-immigrant and -refugee movement in october, ncrp co-hosted a funder briefing about black-led migrant justice, which we organized responsively in collaboration with unbound Philanthropy, our black-led nonprofit members active in the movement, and other movement allies like undocublack, baji, and haitian bridge alliance on that call, movement leaders issued a $10 million call to action for the sector. Since that time, ncrp has advised four freedoms fund (fff) and several of those movement allies in the creation of a movement-led fund at fff centering black migrant justice, as well as a launch campaign in late winter that fff holds and ncrp will help amplify. In may, ncrp joined a dozen black-led migrant justice groups in a day of action encouraging Philanthropy to invest in black-centered work in the movement. In "black migrant justice groups deserve more than a drop in the bucket," we pointed out for the first time that black migrant justice groups receive just 1.4% of all funding for the pro-immigrant, pro-refugee movement; 0.4% of all funding explicitly for black communities; and less than 0.01% of all foundation grants.
Communications: ncrp also stimulates critical thinking in the philanthropic sector with a robust communications program. Our communication efforts include:infrastructure and relationship buildingncrp communications staff reached out and worked with indigenous communications staff at allied organizations including native americans in Philanthropy (nap) and native american rights fund (thanks to board member don ragona for helping to make connections at his organization) to draw attention to the indian child welfare act fight currently before the supreme court, as well as to lift up articles, infographics, and events. Our goal was to urge the sector to invest more in indigenous communities beyond november's native american heritage month. We are working with our reproductive access & gender violence (ragv) staff to build on these relationships to prepare for the expected late spring decision on icwa as this issue is part of our reproductive justice portfolio. Communications staff also traveled to the National immigration inclusion conference where we connected with various pro-immigrant and refugee groups not only about our latest pirm report, but also on the narrative change effort that gcir and others are leading in Texas and California. We are working with our membership team to follow up on those conversations to see how their work can dovetail into the narrative change work that we are doing both in climate justice and our reckoning initiative. Media hits overall, ncrp was mentioned in 285 media mentions from oct. 1st to february 6th, with high profile placement of aaron's contributed analysis of the questionable practices of the Washington commanders' foundation being featured on abc news, yahoo news!, the bleacher report, and several other mainstream sports pages. Fortune magazine's maria aspan also quoted aaron in her piece about the inherent tension in the Philanthropy of business giants like warren buffet. Blog & content updates our most popular post was one that we published in november around the land back movement: published near and through thanksgiving, the thread spotlighted various groups in different parts of the country and generated the highest totals in q4, with 10,000+ impressions, 351 engagements, 51 rts, 91 likes and 204 link clicks. Shared widely among progressive movement groups, including the National partnership for new americans, al otro lado, giving compass, asylum seeker advocacy project, leadership from the sierra club, and dozens more. Other high performing social media posts included the twitter thread describing our pirm research (3,278 impressions), a quote promoting a rewire news piece about the threat posed by cpcs (3,232), a repost of an npq article about climate justice efforts in puerto rico (2,564) and announcement of new vp maria de la cruz (our highest performing post on linkedin with 1,185 impressions and a combined 2k impressions when you factor in twitter.
Research: ncrp's research and evaluation department organizes information about movements and the Philanthropy sector to advance racial and social justice in Philanthropy.
Membership: ncrps nonprofit membership department oversees the organization's nonprofit membership program which is an opportunity for social justice focused nonprofits to become a member of our organization and participate in efforts aimed at helping them better understand and navigate the philanthropic sector.
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