Organisation type: 
Domestic Philanthropy

Develop multiyear funder-nonprofit partnerships

• RNP supports entities working on large, systemic issues — such as access to justice, gender equity, conservation, and biodiversity — that necessitate long-term funding given the time horizon of the change efforts. It typically provides three-year grants that enable nonprofits to strengthen their operational capabilities.
• RNP provides three additional types of grants to support nonprofits in building the expertise needed to expand their ambition and attract future funding. These grants may also form the basis for future multiyear partnerships:
  • Learning grants that explore new areas of interest;
  • Adjacent grants that expand current areas of interest; and
  • Collaborative grants that bring existing grantees together to explore new areas of interest.

Pay a fair share of core costs

• RNP provides flexible funding. Their nonprofit partners decide how best to use grant money to pay for core costs. This approach enables nonprofits to take ownership of core-cost spending.

Invest in organisational development

• RNP provides nonprofits with both financial and non-financial support for organisational strengthening in several ways. These include:
  • Flexibility to allocate a portion of unrestricted grants to organisational development (OD) needs.
  • Separate grants to participate in capacity-building programs conducted by intermediaries.
  • Storytelling grants to help nonprofits communicate their organisation’s work and thoughtfully engage their key stakeholders.
  • Access to organisations, resources, experts, and toolkits for OD.
    
    
• RNP also supports ecosystem-level OD initiatives for nonprofits. For example, RNP is one of the funders supporting the GROW Fund. It also builds social-sector infrastructure around capacity-building services and products.

Build financial resilience

• RNP provides both monetary and non-monetary support to nonprofits to build their financial resilience:
  • It allows its nonprofit partners to use a percentage of unrestricted grants for building a reserve and also provides separate grants to long-term partners to build a corpus, based on their scale and operations.
  • It creates opportunities for nonprofit partners to connect with other funders, peer nonprofits, and experts in the field to build relationships, share learning, and grow their networks.

Embed diversity, equity, and inclusion in grantmaking

• RNP focuses on supporting organisations that work to strengthen communities. By doing so, it seeks to elevate the voices of historically marginalised groups.
  • It supports ideas, institutions, and organisations that are rooted in the contexts where they work — including a range of nonprofit partners that work with tribal communities, gender issues, and people marginalised by religion.
  • It also provides relevant expertise and resources to help strengthen the capabilities of the leaders of such grassroots organisations.