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Upcoming Events

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Dec 3

Post-Election Conversation: Climate & Disaster Resilience

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Dec 5

Tax Equity Series - Session 3: Post-Election Discussion & 2025 Planning

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Dec 5

NCG’s 2024 Holiday Party: Resilience and Renewal

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Jan 30 - Jun 26

2025 Rising Leaders Cohort

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Communities of Practice

2024 HOLIDAY PARTY

December 5, 2024 | 5:00 - 7:30 pm

Google Community Space, San Francisco, CA

As we come together after a pivotal election season, this evening offers a space for reflection, connection, and rejuvenation. Celebrate the resilience of our community and the power of our shared purpose as we look ahead with renewed commitment to justice and equity.

2023 Annual (Not) Report

In 2023 the NCG organism grew. Our membership grew, we expanded our offerings and created new opportunities for collective transformation. Read our Annual (Not) Report to see what we are made of.

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Take a Look at our 2023 Annual (Not) Report

NCG’s community of advocates, dreamers, and believers are transforming philanthropy. To support this transformation, we choose to lean into impact, which comes from directly inspiring, mobilizing, and supporting philanthropy to shift practice. Together, our community is advancing collective impact that far exceeds what we can do alone. In 2023, the NCG organism grew. Our membership grew, we expanded our offerings, and created new opportunities for collective transformation. We have gathered stories and data to highlight what we’re made of and how we moved philanthropy to action.

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Where We've Been, Where We're Going

We started as the “Lunch Bunch” in the 1960s, a group of philanthropic leaders committed to growing together. We formalized ourselves in the 1980s as Northern California Grantmakers with the goal of supporting a base of philanthropic members. Currently, we have more than 220 institutional members and over 4,000 individual members. For the past forty years, we have been working to gather, mobilize, and transform philanthropy. 

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Tour NCG's New Website & Refreshed Brand

We have been working hard for the past year to create a website that reflects our current evolution. You'll find that we've updated our brand—and it's not just about changing logos or colors. We've taken a deeper look at how we communicate our values through our new design and our refreshed mission and vision statement.

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Announcement/Press Release
Nov 14, 2024

Our Actions Must Be Greater Than Our Fear: NCG’s Reflection on the 2024 Elections

We have the privilege of living in one of the richest, most innovative, and – some believe –progressive regions in the world. Now is the time we prove it. We must enact solutions that withstand punitive and regressive policies, fortify community, and embody values-based approaches. 

Member Voices
Nov 14, 2024

2024 Election Responses

2024 Election Responses

Practice Lab
Oct 22, 2024

Five Lessons from Ten Years of Power Sharing

Our Actions Must Be Greater Than Our Fears

NCG's Reflection on the 2024 Elections

In the days since the 2024 election, we’ve all been deluged with waves of reaction, analyses, and predictions of what will transpire with the seismic shift in political power to take place on January 20. The volume alone is overwhelming, but its detail is even more disturbing. Closer to home, we’ve seen rapid response, primarily in a series of powerful statements of commitment from many of our members, reassuring grantee partners that they will be there during the dangerous days that follow. This speaks to the conviction of much of the northern California philanthropic landscape in support of the region’s diverse communities. It does raise the question – now what? 
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