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Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter?

Publication date: 
11/2014
To help us understand whether we are making progress in supporting nonprofits in ways that allow them to be successful, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conducts field research to track trends in grantmaker practice. GEO’s 2014 study highlights some important shifts in how grantmakers support nonprofit results, but also reveals where we’re falling short.

Resources from Beyond the Grant: Building Capacity of Your Nonprofit Grantees Through Pro-Bono

Publication date: 
10/2014
As part of Global Pro Bono Week, NCG is partnered with the Taproot Foundation to present a special program on how funders can support their grantees' work by providing much-needed pro-bono services.

Resource from Building the Bench: How Philanthropy Can Sustain Nonprofit Leaders

Publication date: 
10/2014
This interactive briefing, co-sponsored by Northern California Grantmakers and Bay Area Justice Funders Network, provided a three-way look at how the leadership bench is being built. Research from Rusty Stahl of Talent Philanthropy and Margi Clarke of RoadMap Consulting grounded our conversation as we examined how funders support and build internal benches of leadership within social justice organizations, as well as looked at what organizations are doing internally to sustain themselves for the long haul.
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Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits

Publication date: 
09/2014
This new D5 report confirms that foundations can, in fact, facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through their grantmaking processes and their partnerships with nonprofits—and identifies eight specific practices for foundations to emulate.

Resources from Social Change, Advocacy and Movement Building

Publication date: 
09/2014
Once again NCG partnered with Alliance for Justice to present an encore of the most popular session from our 2014 NCG Annual Conference, addressing how funders can support social change, advocacy and movement building.

Out in the South Part II: LGBTQ Community Assets in the U.S. South

Publication date: 
09/2014
This Funders for LGBTQ Issues report is the second in a series of reports entitled Out in the South. The report assesses the state of the LGBTQ movement in the U.S. South based on a comprehensive scan of the region's LGBTQ community assets, a survey of more than 200 organizers and service providers working in the South, and in-depth interviews with 30 LGBTQ leaders.

"For All Ages": The GIA Guide to Funding Across the Lifespan

Publication date: 
08/2014
For grantmakers interested in health, community development, the arts, and more, aging offers a natural extension of your programs. For All Ages: The GIA Guide to Funding Across the Lifespan is an invaluable resource for funders exploring the possibility of expanding their funding to encompass aging.

Resources from #YesWeCode: A Special Briefing with Van Jones

Publication date: 
08/2014
Hosted by NCG, Marin Community Foundation and Rebuild the Dream, this briefing featured Van Jones and other movement leaders exploring Tech's diversity problem and how #YesWeCode endeavors to address it.

Building Power Through Data-Sharing: Issues and Opportunities for Environmental Health and Justice Funders

Publication date: 
08/2014
This Health & Environmental Funders Network paper is intended to provide environmental health and justice funders with background information that may be helpful in considering investments to increase data-sharing.

State of the Work: Tackling the Tough Challenges to Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Publication date: 
07/2014
D5’s annual State of the Work report. The 2014 report highlights new tools and resources, recently completed research, and new organizational approaches that are putting us in a better position than ever to take action in support of advancing DEI.

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