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Northern California Grantmakers' community of advocates, dreamers, and believers are transforming philanthropy together.

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Upcoming Events

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May 31

Demystifying Trust-Based Philanthropy Session 3: How Do We Approach Risk and Due Diligence in Trust-Based Philanthropy?

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Jun 1

Pathways to Housing Justice Session 2: Charting the Course for Effective Housing Policy

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Jun 8

Managing Family Dynamics in Governance

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Jun 8

Rooting Community Through Art and Place

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Brand & Website Refresh

Did you see we're looking a little different these days? We love it and and we hope you do too. Learn more about the refresh and what it means for our work and the NCG community.

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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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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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Mic Drop: Reparations

How philanthropy can build a culture of repair.

by Aria Florant, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Liberation Ventures

As a country, we’re finally starting to realize that when Black people thrive, America thrives – and that a Culture of Repair is the only way to achieve a true multiracial democracy.

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May 25, 2023

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May 24, 2023

Continuing Conference Momentum

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May 23, 2023

Prioritizing Belonging for Repair and Re-imagining

Mapping our Collective Future: NCG's 2023 Annual Conference

NCG's 2023 Annual Conference brought over 450 members together to map our collective future.

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