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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This year, Northern California Grantmakers has partnered again with the Council on Foundations and the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers on the 2016 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Survey, a valuable benchmarking tool. Learn More.
Foundations engage in a delicate dance when it comes to investing in their own work. The world we inhabit holds so much pain and possibility for change, and we want to make the biggest possible difference with the funds entrusted to us. Like the...
Last week, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation released a new report showing implications for the nonprofit arts sector as a whole and for individual organizations striving to keep pace with rapid demographic change. Read Hewlett's blog to...