To strengthen and expand the work of the central office staff, NCGives engages in many local and statewide partnerships.

• Association of Fundraising Professionals

  NCGives has been a sponsor for North Carolina’s AFP chapters’ statewide conference and led a session at the conference introducing one of NCGives’ flagship programs, Philanthropy of Community.

• Center for Community Action

  The Center for Community Action, located in Lumberton, NC, is a multicultural nonprofit organization that utilizes the strategies of grassroots empowerment and multi-sector collaboration as the foundation for social change. CCA has partnered with NCGives on our Philanthropy of Community project, studying the multi-faceted giving practices throughout North Carolina and…

• Center for Participatory Change

  The Center for Participatory Change (CPC) partners with NCGives around two major goals: (1) documenting and lifting up Philanthropy of Community, the webs of mutual giving, help, and support that exist naturally in low-wealth communities and communities of color, and (2) changing communities by amplifying giving (especially the giving…

• Creative Philanthropy

  Creative Philanthropy, a founding partner with NCGives, works to catalyze and inspire leadership, vision and opportunities for North Carolina women to transform their relationship with their time, talent and treasure. Women by nature are philanthropists, freely giving time, talent and resources to transform families and communities. In collaboration with NCGives,…

• Cumberland Community Foundation

  Giving is rampant in Cumberland County, NC. People help each other. People share their time, talent and treasure. People give and give back. NCGives and Cumberland Community Foundation are working together to leverage that giving through the creation of two giving circles, as well as the development of community knowledge…

• HindSight Consulting, Inc./Community Investment Network

  In 2006, HindSight was selected as a partner of NCGIVES. This partnership included investment to focus on organizing giving circles in the state of North Carolina. The giving circle organizing is primarily with African Americans but also includes allies of African Americans and other people of color.

  Currently HindSight's giving…

• Leading To Change, Inc.

  North Carolina Youth Giving

  Combine innovative and fast-paced, professional training and facilitation techniques with an unprecedented knowledge of youth culture and a cutting edge, grass-roots approach to social change. The result? A statewide network of youth in North Carolina who are creating change through…

• North Carolina American Indian Fund

  Through an NCGives-supported collaboration between the NC American Indian Fund and Leading To Change, the NC Native American Youth Organization has developed its own statewide youth giving program. NCGives has also assisted the American Indian Fund in various scholarships.

• North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

  The NC Center for Nonprofits (North Carolina’s statewide nonprofit association) has been involved with NCGives in various capacities over the years, from the Center’s “Nonprofit Awareness Month” initiative to their annual statewide conference.

  Founded in 1990, the N.C. Center for Nonprofits is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that serves as…

• North Carolina Community Foundation

  The North Carolina Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization established to help people make an impact through lasting and meaningful contributions to meet needs throughout our state. As the single statewide community foundation serving North Carolina, the NCCF sustains and administers nearly 1,000 endowment funds established to provide long-term support…

• North Carolina Latino Nonprofit Leadership Academy

  NCGives was a co-sponsor of the inaugural class of the NC Latino Nonprofit Leadership Academy, an institution established to support the growth of Latino leaders and contribute to the sustainability of Latino nonprofits, increasing their ability to effect systemic and transformative change as stewards of diverse low-income Latino community organizations…

• North Carolina Network of Grantmakers

  In partnership with NCGives, "Community Foundations Serving North Carolina," a working group of the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers comprising 14 of North Carolina's community foundations, has embarked on an effort to institutionalize and expand their work with communities of color, women and youth.

  For community foundations, the inclusion of…

• Philanthropy Journal

  NCGives sponsors the Giving and Community section of the Philanthropy Journal, North Carolina’s leading nonprofit and philanthropic news source. NCGives is also a series sponsor for PJ’s Lunch ‘N’ Learn program. The luncheon workshops provide nonprofit professionals information to do their jobs better and the…

• The North Carolina Peoples’ Coalition for Giving

  The NC Peoples’ Coalition for Giving is a multi-cultural statewide network of people of color that amplifies the wealth and power of giving, in all its forms, by people and communities of color.

  Our Vision for Social Change requires a dual-pronged power shift:

  • People of color are seen (by…