Giving Compass' Take:

• The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy discusses the campaign #DisruptPhilanthropyNOW, which aims to hold foundations and nonprofits accountable for putting racial equity into practice.

• Are organizations willing to jump into the fray, calling out funders and peers who may be falling short of social justice goals? There is risk involved, but the movement is for the greater good.

• Here are the benefits of an equity assessment process in philanthropy.

A graduate student interviewing me for a paper recently asked “How could we force foundations to transform their internal culture and open wider conversations about equity to as many stakeholders as possible?” I told her we can’t force foundations to do anything, unless or until the entire nonprofit sector calls a general strike ...

Especially for those who straddle the worlds of social justice and philanthropy, a perennial question is, “How can we encourage social change leaders to speak truth to power directly to foundations?” Pablo Eisenberg modeled this at the Center for Community Change for decades, telling off his funders with ease and confidence. And the organization thrived.

At NCRP, which Eisenberg helped found, we joke that we’ve been biting the hand that feeds us for more than 40 years. Yet racial and social justice organizations remain reluctant to apply the same tactics they use with public officials and corporate titans to philanthropy.

Within Our Lifetime (WOL) and Old Money New System Community of Practice (OMNS) are trying to change that with their bold new campaign, #DisruptPhilanthropyNOW. Fed up with foundations that espouse racial equity goals and values and then treat racial justice groups shabbily, WOL and OMNS are calling on racial justice and movement building organizations to tell their stories publicly, and to hold funders that don’t walk their talk accountable for their actions.

Read the full article about the need to disrupt philanthropy by Lisa Ranghelli at ncrp.org.