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Oct 15

A Spotlight on Disasters & Democracy

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Oct 16

Are You Really Community-Centered? How to Become a More Responsive, Effective, & Equitable Grantmaker

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Oct 17

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: A Conversation and Celebration with New and Former CEOs

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Oct 21 - Nov 14

2024 New Grantmakers Institute: Grantmaking for the 21st Century

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CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE

October 30, 2024 | The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA

This year’s 2024 Corporate Philanthropy Institute will bring together NCG’s corporate community, leaders in the field, and Corporate Philanthropy/CSR professionals. Together we’ll discuss the future of corporate giving, business practice standards, and how we can grow our impact while threading the needle.

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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Oct 10, 2024

Asking for a Friend... How Can Philanthropy Prep for the Next Election?

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Oct 10, 2024

It All Matters: Investing in the Whole of Northern California

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Sep 5, 2024

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Investing in the Long Arc of Justice: Post-Election Convening

November 18, 2024 | The California Endowment, Oakland, CA

There are differing visions claiming a stake in our future this election cycle and it’s clear that the results will hold major social, political, economic, and spiritual implications. In California, we have numerous candidates and propositions on the ballot that will have material impact on marginalized communities. Regardless of the results, how can philanthropy invest in the long arc of justice?

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