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Collective Resilience Initiative

Northern California nonprofits are the driving force and backbone of our collective efforts to address the social justice issues impacting the region. Philanthropy can support this backbone and strengthen the sector.

About

Northern California nonprofits are the driving force and backbone of our collective efforts to address the social justice issues impacting the region. NCG's Collective Resilience Initiative supports this backbone and strengthens the nonprofit sector. This begins with focusing on the key factors impacting nonprofit sustainability in the region to shift grantmaking practices and support evolving organizational needs.  

Many nonprofits, particularly those led by Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, are chronically underfunded making it difficult to invest in the talent, systems, and other foundational capacities they need and leaving them without cash reserves to handle a crisis. Long standing funding practices such as not funding full costs, intensive application and reporting processes, not providing support beyond grant dollars, and delays and restrictions in government contracts and payments prevent nonprofits from achieving long-term sustainability.  

Focus Areas

NCG supports our member community to adopt giving practices that center racial equity, shift power, and build trusting, responsive relationships with nonprofit partners to create a strong ecosystem of organizations well-resourced to meet changing community needs and advance transformational systems change. Through this initiative, we will provide programming and education around our 4 focus areas: Workforce, Public Funding, Organizational Resiliency, and Space.

Workforce

Public Funding

Organizational Resiliency

Space

Regional Advisors

Solomon Belette

Managing Director
East Contra Costa Community Alliance (ECCCA)

Georgia Farooq

Executive Director
Thrive Alliance of Nonprofits

Kyra Kazantzis

she/her
CEO
Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits

Debbi Lerman

Director
San Francisco Human Services Network

Contact

Viridiana (Viry) Romero

Viridiana (Viry) Romero, Manager of Strategic Initiatives, Northern California Grantmakers

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