NCG Members Respond: Federal Appeals Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional
Release Date:
02/08/2012
Yesterday the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Proposition 8, a voter approved ban on same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional.
In Case You Missed It: NCG Members Making News
Release Date:
02/06/2012
With January now behind us, surely we’ve all caught up on the e-mail that was waiting for us after the winter holiday. And just in case some items fell below your radar, here’s a round up of NCG members who were recently in the news and making some...
In the Classroom: NCG Partners to Teach Effective Philanthropy to a New Generation
Release Date:
01/13/2012
Despite a full schedule, NCG President and CEO Colin Lacon co-teaching a college course designed to teach students how to be effective grantmakers.
A Toast to NCG’s Docket Tales
Release Date:
12/08/2011
Members of NCG's Family Philanthropy Exchange met earlier this month to talk abut the grantmaking challenges that "keep them up at night."
NCG Interviews Nayantara Mehta About Upcoming Program on Funding Progressive Groups: Managing the Risk
Release Date:
11/29/2011
NCG interviews Alliance for Justice Senior Counsel Nayantara Mehta on a program designed to help funders and social justice organizations manage "sting" operations, attacks on their organization, and the potential media firestorms that follow.
A Conversation With Van Jones: Understanding Movement Building–The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street and Philanthropy
Release Date:
11/21/2011
Last month NCG was excited to partner with the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to present Van Jones. Van discussed Occupy Wall Street, Philanthropy and other political movements at work in our country today.
Remembering Mortimer Fleishhacker III, 1932- 2011
Release Date:
11/02/2011
Last week NCG learned that San Francisco philanthropist Mortimer Fleishhacker III passed away on October 25th.
Launch of the Social Impact Exchange’s 2012 Business Plan Competition
Release Date:
10/31/2011
The Social Impact Exchange, a community of funders, advisors, wealth managers, intermediaries, nonprofits and researchers interested in developing practices for funding and implementing large-scale expansions of top-performing nonprofit initiatives...
Roddenberry Foundation Gives $5M to San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes for Stem Cell Research
Release Date:
10/28/2011
Last week The Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical-research organization affiliated with UCSF, received a $5 million gift from the Roddenberry Foundation to found Gladstone’s new Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology.
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