EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "Social Justice Philanthropy:
The Latest Trend or a Lasting Lens for Grantmaking?
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
April 2005
When it comes to effecting social change, does philanthropy matter?
That question�more or less�was posed to NCRP staff recently at a forum in San Francisco, at which the grantmaking strategies of politically conservative foundations were discussed. The person who asked the question asserted that right-wing philanthropy had done little to help the country reach its current conservative state of affairs. Instead, this person theorized, corporations and their influence in society and public life were responsible for the country�s conservative path. She suggested that it was a �quant notion� that philanthropy had played any role in effecting social change in this country�either left or right, backward or forward"
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