Past Events
Listening and Feedback: Tools to Assess Your Philanthropy
How can you elicit and act on feedback from your grantees and other external stakeholders? For all funders, gathering feedback is a helpful practice to understand how your work is impacting your grantees—and how you can more...
2023 Corporate Philanthropy Institute: Building New Standards
At this year’s Corporate Philanthropy Institute, we’ll explore what it means to create a new pathway and build new standards. We’ll highlight the pressures (both external and internal), offer context under which we’re doing our...
Liberating Wealth as a Prayer for the Earth: Part 3
In 2021, NCG issued a call to the sector to confront existential challenges - convergent and increasing large-scale climate disasters, gaping racialized economic inequities, and drastically inadequate infrastructure and housing -...
Rise East Site Visit
Join Oakland Thrives, The San Francisco Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, and Northern California Grantmakers for a site visit in the 40x40 neighborhood on November 1st to learn about the visionary work of Rise East. This...
CA Policy Forum: Navigating Disasters and Crises, A Policy Primer for California Nonprofits
Disasters and crises impact more and more Californians each year, and our state’s nonprofits and funders often find themselves on the front lines of helping the vulnerable communities most harmed by these events.
CA Local Voting Funder Briefing
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, Northern California Grantmakers, and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees invites you to a funder briefing to hear about exciting initiatives to end the political exclusion of...
Funder Briefing: Organizing Against Governor Newsoms “California Model” of Incarceration at San Quentin State Prison
Governor Newsom has embarked on a massive $380M expansion of the decrepit 171-year-old San Quentin State Prison, leveraging co-opted language from the criminal justice reform movement in an attempt to rebrand the facility as a...
Information Session: Systems Aware Investing Launchpad (SAIL)
Join Philanthropy California and The Investment Integration Project for an information session on the Systems Aware Investing Launchpad (SAIL).
Events in the Field
Foundation Partnership Program
Foundation Partnership Program (FPP)
CA Policy Forum Quarterly Webinar
January 14, 2025 | 10:00 am - 11:15 am PST | Virtual Event
From Trust to Impact: Rethinking Learning & Evaluation in Philanthropy
January 21, 2025 | 11:30 am - 2:00 pm | In Person Event: Women's Building - Audre Lorde Room 3543 18th Street #8 San Francisco, CA 94110
Philanthropology™ - Winter 2025: Member Registration
- Module 1: Philanthropy History, Ecosystem, and Evolution | Virtual Sessions
- Wednesday, February 19 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm PST
- Module 2: Racial Equity and Equity Analysis in Grantmaking | Virtual Sessions
- Wednesday, March 5 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm PST
- Module 3: Self-Advocacy and Personal Leadership | Virtual Sessions
- Wednesday, March 19 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT
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