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CEO Message: Leading with Love

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11/08/2018

My sweetheart and I were married a couple of weeks ago. We celebrated with friends and family with good food, dancing, and lots of laughter on a hilltop overlooking Tomales Bay. In the weeks leading up to our wedding the airwaves were saturated with...

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CEO Message: The New Normal

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08/16/2018

I’ve recently started a yoga practice. (OK maybe it’s a bit premature to call it a “practice,” but I have been to four classes so far, and I plan to keep going.)

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2020 Census

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CEO Message | From Emergency Loans to Preventing Displacement: Marking a Transition in NCG’s Support of the Bay Area’s Nonprofit Sector

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06/07/2018

More than 40 years ago, changes in federal funding practices undermined nonprofits dependent on those funds to maintain steady cash flow and financial stability. To address this, a group of local funders...

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Nonprofit Displacement Project

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Nonprofit Displacement

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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SF Bay Area

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CEO Message: Radical Hope

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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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Equity and Social Justice

Leadership, Culture and Community

Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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CEO Message: Where We Need to Be

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11/09/2017

There are some things you are glad to have, but hope never to have to use: A quarter for the phone booth (I know, I know – 20th century stuff). A snake for your drain. An epi pen. The capacity to respond quickly and effectively to an emergency is...

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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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CEO Message: Navigating the End

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09/21/2017

In 2007 I found myself in a situation we all dread: witnessing my mother’s declining health and doing everything I could to help her in what turned out to be her last year of life. With the hindsight of ten years, I now look back on that time as one...

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CEO Message: Full Team Ahead!

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06/22/2017

By Ellen LaPointe , President and CEO , Northern California Grantmakers Last December Northern California Grantmakers unveiled a new brand for our organization. We designed it to embody the considerable collective energy of our...

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On The Move

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Equity and Social Justice

Leadership, Culture and Community

Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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CEO Message: If Not Now, Then When?

Release Date:

05/04/2017

“Now is the time to be the grantmaker, you have been waiting to be, Time to be braver and more committed, Than you have ever imagined yourself” - Chinaka Hodge

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CEO Message: Thinking about Leadership in Times of Turbulence and Transition

Release Date:

03/14/2017

I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership these days. Recent events have inspired many of us to explore opportunities to lead in our communities, in our work, in our world.