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Upcoming Events

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Feb 6

What’s at Stake? Governor Newsom’s 2025 – 2026 State Budget Proposal

1:00 - 2:30pm

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Feb 11

Fortifying Movements: Investing in Cultural and Narrative Power

4:30 - 6:30pm

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Feb 13

Destructive and unexpected: What funders should know about wildfire recovery

10:00 - 11:00am

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Feb 13

Philanthropy and Black Communities: From Crisis Response to Sustained Investment

12:00 - 3:00pm

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Coordinate Your Response

The wildfires in Los Angeles are a devastating start to the new year and particularly impactful to marginalized, frontline communities. NCG is working with our partners at Southern California Grantmakers through Philanthropy California to coordinate philanthropic response. Please find more information here.

2024 Annual (Not) Report

In 2024, NCG's community of over 4000 philanthropic leaders worked together to transform philanthropy. We gathered, mobilized, and inspired philanthropy to invest in equitable futures. We are facing times of upheaval and in such times, staying rooted in our values requires tenacity and clarity.

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Take a Look at our 2024 Annual (Not) Report

Check out how we wrapped up the year in our 2024 Annual (Not) Report. While it's not an annual report, it's a great representation of our community working together.

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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

Feb 5, 2025

Resourcing Resilience Report

Announcing the Resourcing Resilience Report

by Philanthropy California & Nonprofit Finance Fund

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Practice Lab

Jan 23, 2025

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A Call for Solidarity: Standing with our Grantees

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Mic Drop

Dec 12, 2024

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Community Development at Scale: Harm Repair for Black Communities

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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?