Challenging Grantmakers to strengthen communities

This paper will help philanthropic executives and trustees explore three innovative strategies to achieve greater results with their limited grant dollars. It distills findings from more than 400 pages of research amassed over three years as part of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Grantmaking for Community Impact Project. The paper provides solid evidence of the impacts of foundation-funded policy advocacy, community organ- izing and civic engagement. It explains how these strate- gies create stronger communities and why they are suc- cessful.