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It's a New Year: Make the Most of Your NCG Membership

Release Date:

01/05/2015

NCG staff is excited to kick of 2015. We hope you'll make the most of it and also make the most of your NCG membership. Need some ideas for how to maximize your NCG benefits. Look no further!

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2015 Next Gen Fellowship in Mission-Related Investing Now Accepting Nominations

Release Date:

12/12/2014

Run by Confluence Philanthropy and Resource Generation, the Next Gen Fellowship is a 6-month intensive peer-to-peer learning program for trustees and individual donors seeking to align their values with the management of their assets.

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NCG Program Focuses on Supporting New Strategies and Tactics for Social Change

Release Date:

09/08/2014

This program will highlight how the Levi Strauss Foundation is partnering with pioneering nonprofit leaders to embrace technology and breakthrough forms of collaboration. Participants will learn how the Foundation approaches leadership capacity...

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Innovation

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PubPolicy/SocialJustice:CommOrganizing

Infrastructure: Capacity Building

Populations/Communities:People of Color

Public Policy & Social Justice

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Struggling to Get By: The Real Cost Measure in California 2015

United Ways of California released an NCG member supported report analyzing the challenges families face by living in California.

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Economic & Community Development

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Foundation Giving for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Infrastructure

In the special report funded by NCG member the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Foundation Giving for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Infrastructure 2004-2012, Foundation Center presents the first-ever analysis of U.S. foundation support globally for nonprofit and philanthropic infrastructure organizations and services.

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The Emerging Leaders Playbook

The Emerging Leaders Playbook offers a comprehensive guide for emerging leaders and their supervisors to help them make sense of the changing nature of leadership.

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Disaster Philanthropy Playbook

The Disaster Philanthropy Playbook is a compilation of philanthropic strategies, best practices, innovative approaches and lessons learned in order to guide the philanthropic community in responding to future disasters. It is designed as an interactive website which your organization can use to personalize your future disaster strategies.

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Disaster Preparedness

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Disaster Resilience Relief and Recovery

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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Real Cost Project: Barriers to Change

"Real Cost Project: Barriers to Change“ is a new report issued by the Real Cost Project, finds that there are deeply ingrained practices, beliefs and perceptions in the philanthropic community that are preventing the adoption real cost funding practices.

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Organizational Effectiveness Knowledge Center

The Organizational Effectiveness team at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is excited to share its new Organizational Effectiveness Knowledge Center . The Knowledge Center is a web platform dedicated to sharing the Foundation's perspective and resources on improving organizational and network effectiveness.

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The Future of Foundation Philanthropy: The CEO Perspective

Based on the perspectives of more than 200 foundation CEOs, The Future of Foundation Philanthropy: The CEO Perspective captures foundation leaders’ views on challenges and concerns about the changing landscape in which they work and the most pressing issues that will influence foundation philanthropy in the coming years.