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Pam David's Next Play
Release Date:
04/26/2018
NCG President and CEO, Ellen LaPointe, interviewed our Senior Fellow, Pam David, on her next play in philanthropy and baseball.
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
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Thank You! An NCG Departure
Release Date:
04/13/2018
Andrea Zussman, who joined NCG in the fall of 2016 to establish a Disaster Resilience, Relief, and Recovery program to support regional philanthropic disaster planning and readiness, will be leaving her position to devote herself full-time to the...
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Interview with Michael Tubbs, Youngest-Ever and First African American Mayor of Stockton
Release Date:
03/29/2018
Mayor Michael Tubbs recently spoke with NCG in preparation for an upcoming Stockton Reinvention Tour for funders. Mayor Tubbs was elected in 2016 in a landslide victory with 70% of the vote. Since then, Stockton has become the second most fiscally-...
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The Solutions-Side to the Nonprofit Displacement Problem
Release Date:
03/29/2018
The Bay Area’s real estate boom is on full display from our office windows. The dizzying new Salesforce tower gleams over the city, and smaller skyscrapers are quickly sprouting up in the blocks around it. Across the Bay, Oakland is seeing...
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Ideas Fest: 30 Ideas to Change the World
Release Date:
03/15/2018
This year, NCG is creating a new kind of space adapted from the tech sector’s ‘un-conference’ and tracing its origins to indigenous practices of creating open space for differing views. This ‘new space’ which, for our purposes, we’ll call ...
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Purposeful Action: Four Key Takeaways from the Corporate Philanthropy Institute
Release Date:
02/26/2018
Bringing together over 200 corporate responsibility and philanthropy professionals, the fourth CPI ignited rich discussions around business’ responsibility to take purposeful action in our changing world. Here are four key highlights that...
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Announcing our Closing Speaker: Emmy Award-winning Producer, Actor, Comedian, Writer Larry Wilmore!
Release Date:
02/23/2018
To close out our conference day, Larry Wilmore will be in conversation with Wesley Morris, making sense of what it’s going to take to address the critical issues of our time.
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CEO Message: Radical Hope
Release Date:
02/15/2018
I am not gonna lie: the world is some tricky s**t right now. All around us, we are confronting myriad, urgent challenges: to the safety and well-being of our loved ones and neighbors, to the vitality of communities undermined by disparities and...
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Announcing NCG’s Annual Conference Emcee: NYT Writer Wesley Morris
Release Date:
02/12/2018
This past year has given us all a lot to process – the Women’s March, #TakeAKnee, Charlottesville, #MeToo, and so much more. Making sense of it all can feel like we’re swimming upstream. Luckily, cultural expert Wesley ...
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2018 Annual Conference Featuring the American Mosaic Journalism Prize Winners
Release Date:
01/25/2018
"In today's journalism, freelancers are both vulnerable and valuable," says NCG member, the Heising-Simons Foundation . The Foundation has announced Valeria Fernández and Jaeah Lee as the...
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