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Participate Now and Add Your Voice! Survey of Grantmakers Practice

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01/23/2017

Every three years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conducts a field study to track trends in grantmaker practices at staffed US foundations and we share the results with the field to provide a detailed picture of how grantmaking has evolved...

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One Rock at a Time: Addressing the Impact of Feminine Norms on Jewish Girls

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01/18/2017

Take a look at the snapshot below of a piece by Riki Wilchins. As the Executive Director at TrueChild, Riki leads the action-tank that helps address gender norms. She discusses the impact an NCG member workshop had on her work.

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Northern California's ACLU Executive Director Expects a Busy Future

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12/05/2016

Abdi Soltani, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California, recently spoke out in a Q&A to The Recorder about his future work after the election. You can meet him at our upcoming program on Wednesday, December 7th.

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Philanthropy Reacts

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11/14/2016

Take a look at the social reactions to #Election2016 from the philanthropy community.

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The Volunteer "Toolkit" | KQED and the SF Homeless Project

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11/07/2016

As part of a collaboration with dozens of Bay Area news organizations, KQED is shining another light on the issue of homelessness and housing insecurity with the SF Homeless Project. Take a look at the "toolkit" KQED has provided for volunteer...

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Why We Need to Talk About Parenting in Philanthropy

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09/26/2016

I had coffee recently with a friend and we got to talking about her early days of parenting.

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A New Brand of CSR

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09/19/2016

Corporate responsibility is changing fast. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Corporate Responsibility Manager Kathy Gu explores the evolution of corporate responsibility "from traditional cause-related marketing and grants to embedding...

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Could We Stay or Should We Go? Perspectives on Nonprofit Displacement Part III

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07/18/2016

The San Francisco-Bay Area's social sector is at a critical junction. Surges in real estate prices are forcing nonprofits to close their doors or relocate. In this third installment of Foundation Center West's blog series, Landon Williams, from The...

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SF Takes Action: Perspectives on Nonprofit Displacement Part II

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07/11/2016

Foundation Center West created a tool, Foundation Map California, to visualize Northern California's philanthropy data. Their series on nonprofit displacement brings together our shared interest in the use of data to better understand philanthropy's...

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Nonprofit Displacement Project

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Eviction Defense: Perspectives on Nonprofit Displacement Part I

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07/05/2016

Foundation Center West created a tool, Foundation Maps California , to visualize Northern California's philanthropy data. Their series on nonprofit displacement brings together our shared interest in the use of data to better understand philanthropy...