History
NCRP was founded in 1976 by The Donee Group, a coalition of nonprofit leaders across the nation who asserted that traditional philanthropy was falling short of addressing critical public needs.
The Donee Group encouraged foundations to support nonprofit organizations that monitored institutions of power and those that advocated for change and nurtured innovative solutions to the root causes of societal problems.
More than a quarter century later, the Donee Group's analysis and recommendations gain greater significance as the government and the corporate sector become further removed from the public, as evidenced by the growing role of money in politics, the decline of political parties as the chief vehicles through which public interests are summarized and citizens mobilized, declining levels of public trust in politicians, the media, and corporations, and the continuing devolutionary thrust passing the role of financing, designing and delivering critical social and human services from the federal government to the states to inadequately equipped and already strained nonprofits.
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