1. Trends in Giving for Health Equity
Lisa Ranghelli
Senior Director of Assessment
& Special Projects, NCRP
Communities Joined in Action
February 16, 2017

2. Topics NCRP and our mission Latest giving trends
Grantmakers funding health justice
Best practices in funder-nonprofit relationships
How funders respond in new policy era

3. 40 Years of Impact
Transparency—pushing foundations to provide annual reports
Benefit to MCs—1990s CF reports and leadership change at Denver Foundation
Effective practices—Advocacy and organizing—opened up workplace giving to advocacy groups

4. Lifting Up Best Practices

5. Making the Case

6. Holding Up a Mirror
Mention TPL and new 10-year trend data, Pennies for Progress

7. New 10-Year Strategy

8. Support Movements

9. Influence High Net Worth Donors

10. Deepen Collaboration
Examples: GSP and CHANGE Philanthropy

11. Provide Compelling Content

12. FC1000 Funding Trends Underserved Communities ncludes: People of color
At-risk Youth
Economically disadvantaged people
People with HIV/AIDS
People with disabilities
LGBTQ people
Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people
Immigrants and refugees

13. FC1000: Social Justice Advocacy Coalition building Equal access
Ethics & accountability
Grassroots organizing
Litigation
Systems reform

14. Domestic Giving to UCs and SJ
Domestic giving for UC has increased slightly, ~1% per year on average since 2003
Domestic SJ giving hasn’t budged

15. Proportion of Health Grant $ Supporting Advocacy for Underserved Communities (2011-2014)
About 1/3 of all health grants from were targeted to underserved communities. Of the funding targeted to UC’s, on average 13% went to advocacy and systems change. This is slightly better than trends for all of philanthropy
Five–year Average: 13%

16. Sector Leaders: Top 10 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The California Endowment
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ford Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Colorado Trust
The Commonwealth Fund
The California Wellness Foundation
Foundation to Promote Open Society

17. Funder Best Practices Listen to communities; close feedback loops.
Have honest conversations.
See who’s not at the table. Go to their table.
Support advocacy/organizing on all levels.
Support non-partisan voter engagement.
Support collaboration and intersectionality.

18. Responses to New Landscape
Special emergency funds, pooled funds for response and resistance
Flexible, fast $ that responds to uncertain policy landscape
Use bully pulpit and advocate directly
How do you want
funders to respond?

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