National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)

06/10/2026

NCRP gathered at the in New York City to celebrate 50 years of challenging philanthropy to live up to its values.
The evening brought together leaders, supporters, partners, and friends who have helped shape NCRP’s work across five decades. NCRP’s contributions have strengthened efforts to move resources toward communities, support movements building power, and push philanthropy to be more accountable, transparent, and responsive.
As we reflect on the past 50 years, we’re also looking ahead. NCRP remains committed to advancing a philanthropic sector that invests in that leadership and helps build the conditions for all communities to thrive.

05/15/2026

Yesterday at FCCP’s annual gathering, panelists Jonathan Jayes Green, Vienna Kay and NCRP’s Katherine Ponce shared NCRP’s ongoing research documenting the funding networks attacking democracy, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigrant communities.
NCRP’s research documents the real world harm that regressive philanthropy subsidizes. What would it look like for philanthropy to invest just as boldly in the movements defending multiracial democracy and collective liberation?
Read about NCRP’s regressive philanthropy work at the link in bio.

05/14/2026

Recently, our team had the powerful opportunity to gather at the Highlander Research and Education Center — a place that has shaped generations of movement leaders, organizers and justice work.
As we celebrate 50 years of holding philanthropy accountable, being at Highlander reminded us that our work is part of a much larger movement legacy.

Our team connected in the Workshop Center, sitting in the same circle of rocking chairs where so many movement ancestors have gathered to learn, strategize and imagine what is possible. We also convened by the fire and grounded ourselves in front of the Carwan Cultural Organizing Pavilion, reflecting on the history, courage and collective power that continue to guide the work ahead.

There was so much history, learning and care in this space. We left reminded that accountability work is not just about critique — it is about relationship, memory, strategy and building the conditions for movements to win.

Thank you to for holding such a powerful space for our team.

05/11/2026

Mother’s Day was Sunday but the need for philanthropy to invest in mothers and care givers continues! We call on the sector to support the birth workers servicing families and caregivers through pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood.
Check out the Reproductive Access and Gendered Violence Movement Investment Project Page for more information: Link in Bio!

05/04/2026

Fidelity Charitable’s decision to stop processing donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center is outrageous and hypocritical.
For years, donor-advised funds at Fidelity have moved millions to regressive initiatives undermining rights and democracy.
Philanthropy cannot claim neutrality while enabling resources to flow toward hate and restricting support for civil rights organizations.
NCRP has documented this pattern for years. Learn more about how regressive philanthropy is fueling this. Link 🔗 in bio.

04/13/2026

We’re excited to welcome Darryl Molina Sarmiento, Executive Director of Communities for a Better Environment, and Trina Jackson, Senior Solidarity Officer US International Program at Grassroots International to NCRP’s upcoming virtual funder briefing and workshop, Making Climate Funding Work for the Frontlines, on April 16 at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT.

Darryl brings decades of environmental justice leadership and deep experience winning frontline fossil fuel campaigns in California. Join us for a timely conversation with funders, intermediaries, and climate justice movement leaders on what it takes to center frontline voices and solutions in climate philanthropy.

Space is limited and registration is subject to approval by NCRP staff. Register now: https://bit.ly/MakeCJfunding4frontlines

04/09/2026

Join NCRP on April 16 for Making Climate Funding Work for the Frontlines, a virtual webinar-workshop on what it takes to move more resources to frontline-led climate solutions and build greater accountability in climate philanthropy.

We’ll bring together funders, movement organizers, and philanthropic actors for a timely conversation grounded in NCRP’s research on ClimateWorks Foundation and the broader climate funding landscape.

Space is limited to 50 spots and registration is subject to NCRP staff approval. Register here: https://bit.ly/MakeCJfunding4frontlines

04/08/2026

🎙️ New Episode Alert!
What if the most radical act of leadership isn’t strategy or ex*****on, but knowing yourself deeply enough to stay in the fight?
On a new episode of Gathering Ground, Mary sits down with Darlene Nipper and NCRP's Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer Russell Roybal to celebrate Rockwood Leadership Institute’s 25th anniversary and explore what it means to lead from the inside out:
- The “relationship before task” principle that defines Rockwood’s approach
- How the Heart of Black Leadership program emerged from grief and became a movement
- Why joy isn’t a luxury for leaders. It’s a necessity.
🎧 Tune in: bit.ly/gatheringground

Join consultant, filmmaker and activist Mary F. Morten as she delves into what it’s like to operate within and outside of the nonprofit industrial landscape. Along with her special guests, Mary answers questions from listeners and covers topics including racial and gender equity, and the experie...

03/30/2026

Join NCRP on April 16, 2026 at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT for Making Climate Funding Work for the Frontlines, a 2-hour webinar-workshop. Building on our research on ClimateWorks Foundation, this conversation will bring funders, movement organizers, and philanthropic actors together to discuss shifting resources to frontline-led solutions and organizing for greater accountability in climate philanthropy. Speakers will be announced shortly. Space is limited to 50 spots. Registration is subject to NCRP staff approval. Link
🔗https://bit.ly/MakeCJfunding4frontlines

03/25/2026

Today, NCRP is launching our Reproductive Access and Gendered Violence Movement page.
This work is grounded in what movement leaders have long made clear: we cannot challenge gender inequality and violence without also confronting people’s barriers to bodily autonomy, reproductive health and rights, and real safety.
At NCRP, reproductive access means supporting both birth justice and abortion access. Gendered violence includes not only physical and sexual violence, but also state and economic violence that disproportionately harms women, girls, LGBTQIA+ people, gender-expansive people, and those most marginalized.
We’re proud to share an initiative shaped with movement leaders and rooted in a more inclusive vision of justice.
Click the link: https://bit.ly/RAGVpage