tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post3392866845375702818..comments2024-03-28T03:11:22.839-07:00Comments on PHILANTHROPY 2173: Changemakers - R. I. P.Lucy Bernholzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253941214286179394noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-87036739217168884382008-10-17T12:34:00.000-07:002008-10-17T12:34:00.000-07:00My take is that the social justice community has a...My take is that the social justice community has always favored putting resources into work on the ground and underinvested in "infrastructure" groups like NNG and Changemakers and, as a result, they have always been forced to operate on skimpy budgets. <BR/><BR/>Rockridge Institute, too, bit the dust recently. From their post-mortem --- "The Progressive Funding Problem: The 1997 Covington Report [Sally Covington, Moving a Public Policy Agenda: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations] observed that conservative foundations tend to give large, multi-year block grants to promote conservatism in general. By contrast, progressive foundations tend to give small grants for a short time over a short list of specific issue areas. This results in small nonprofits having to constantly spend a lot of time and effort raising money, and all too often failing to raise enough." <BR/><BR/>I think these recent developments are part of this overall pattern - it's no wonder to me that they're dying off.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12218607482466694448noreply@blogger.com