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Majority of Foundations Need New Sexual Harassment Training
Release Date:
08/15/2019
Beginning this year, employers with 5 or more employees must provide harassment prevention training for all of its employees – full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal – before January 1, 2020.
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Shape California’s Future: Apply to the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission
Release Date:
08/01/2019
Census and redistricting – two sides of the same coin. Both take place every ten years and both are integral to determining how each Californian is represented at the federal, state, and local levels. In California, our groundbreaking independent...
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We’re Still All-In for a Complete Count
Release Date:
06/27/2019
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the citizenship question cannot, for now, be added to the 2020 Census. While this is an important step forward, significant challenges remain to ensuring that every person in our community is counted. The Bay...
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NCG Endorses Schools and Communities First
Release Date:
06/26/2019
When NCG stepped into the policy space two years ago, we did so knowing that it would require us to be bold and lean deeply into our mission to bring philanthropy together to build healthy, thriving, and just communities. With the 2020 election...
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CEO Message | Advancing Racial Equity: Our Journey Continues
Release Date:
06/13/2019
When we announced a few years ago that NCG would be taking up racial equity as a central part of our work we received praise, and we also encountered some skepticism. Many cautioned us that everyone seemed to be “getting into equity” and that we’d...
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Keep Families Together: Continuing Our Fight for Immigrant Families
Release Date:
06/12/2019
Last month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a new proposed rule that would prohibit “mixed-status” families from living in public, Section 8, or other subsidized housing. NCG is deeply concerned about the destructive...
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Everyone Counts, No Exceptions: What Does Japanese American Internment Have to Do With the Census?
Release Date:
05/30/2019
The announcement came as we were pulling into our halfway point: “We’ll be stopping for about 15 minutes. We’ll also be distributing t-shirts, feel free to use this time to change.” Yes, I thought! I had been eyeing the black t-shirts with ‘...
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A Way Forward: Addressing Mobile Segregation in the Bay Area
Release Date:
04/25/2019
How can we turn the tide to become a region of economic opportunity for everyone—especially members of our communities who’ve been locked out of asset-building by decades of discriminatory policies and investments? Our future housing and land use...
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To Ensure Accurate Local Census Count, $1 Million In Grant Funding Available To Nonprofits
Release Date:
04/18/2019
The Bay Area Census Funders Collaborative – a partnership of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the East Bay Community Foundation, Northern California Grantmakers, and numerous other funders – has been created to help ensure a fair and complete...