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04 Feb 2020

Fireside Chat Part 2 | Liberate Your Foundation: Lessons from POC, Queer, and Allied Foundation Leaders

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February 4, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Northern California Grantmakers

How was philanthropic wealth created in the first place? Who should lead foundations? Who gets to decide how wealth is distributed? Philanthropy is undergoing a moment of reckoning, with many inside and outside the sector questioning the way that...

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27 Jan 2020

Great (and Not-As-Great) Collaborations: Why They Succeed and How They Fail

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January 27, 2020 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

Northern California Grantmakers

Collaboration has long been an aspiration in our sector. You can trace its early beginnings to donors pooling their resources through vehicles like Community Foundations to locally-focused efforts to the emergence (and rise) of gigantic aggregated...

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Collective Impact

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14 Jan 2020

Fireside Chat Part 1 | Liberate Yourself: How to Bring Your Full Identity to Your Work

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January 14, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Northern California Grantmakers

Have you ever been a room full of people who don’t look like you? Do you code switch at work because you know you can’t be real in certain environments? You’re not alone. The norms in philanthropy often prevent us from bringing our authentic selves...

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13 Jan 2020

The Wisdom of Youth: Equity Centered Solutions to Prevent Youth Homelessness

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January 13, 2020 -

1:30pm to 3:30pm

Northern California Grantmakers

Adolescence and young adulthood are critical developmental times in a person’s life, and experiencing housing instability and homelessness at this stage can have lifelong negative impacts. Many adults who experience chronic homelessness first became...

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Economic & Community Development

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Children & Youth

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16 Dec 2019

Navigating Change: The Journey of Seven CEOs

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December 16, 2019 -

11:30am to 1:30pm

Skoll Foundation

We are once again seeing a wave of transitions among foundation CEOs in our region. These transitions have come about in a number of different ways. A significant number of CEOs retired from their positions. Others have come about due to the natural...

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On The Move

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Peninsula and South Bay

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13 Dec 2019

Power of We: Peer Lunch Meeting

December 13, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Northern California Grantmakers

Join Northern California Grantmakers and The San Francisco Foundation for a lunchtime session to explore the use and support of the Power of We race/class narrative. In a previous session with Anat Shenker Osario we learned about the potential of...

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Peer Network

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Communications

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12 Dec 2019

Arts Loan Fund Meeting 12/12/2019

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December 12, 2019 -

9:30am to 11:30am

Zellerbach Family Foundation

NCG's Arts Loan Fund (ALF) Steering Committee is comprised of a diverse range of Bay Area funders, who are committed to the Arts. The committee convenes every four weeks to discuss issues impacting the Arts in Northern California and to review loan...

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Collaborative

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Arts Loan Fund

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Arts and Culture

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09 Dec 2019

2019 Bay Area Philanthropy Holiday Party

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December 9, 2019 -

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Please join us to celebrate the season at the 2019 annual Bay Area Philanthropy Holiday Party! There will be music, food, and lots of laughter and joy as we reflect on the year’s end and grow deeper in community.

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Emerging Practitioners

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Equity and Social Justice

18 Nov 2019

What’s on the Horizon for Health Equity in 2020?

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November 18, 2019 -

11:30am to 2:00pm

Northern California Grantmakers

2019 has been a year of progress in the pursuit of health equity for Californians. We started off with Governor Newsom’s bold vision for the state rooted in a commitment to a “California for All,” and the final state budget included major wins for...

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Bay Area Health Funders Group

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Health

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