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Two NCG Members Honored with Distinguished Service Award

Release Date:

04/18/2016

... President and CEO of Northern California Grantmakers. " We are fortunate to have two of the giants in the field as part of our ... transformative impact has happened in the real world as a result of their...

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CEO Message | From Emergency Loans to Preventing Displacement: Marking a Transition in NCG’s Support of the Bay Area’s Nonprofit Sector

Release Date:

06/07/2018

... steady cash flow and financial stability. To address this, a group of local funders came together in 1973 to establish the Emergency Loan ... diminishing demand for ELF assistance. Ultimately, NCG ’s Board of...

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Nonprofit Displacement Project

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Nonprofit Displacement

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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SF Bay Area

NCG Members Fill the San Francisco Business Times Top 25 List of Corporate Philanthropists

Release Date:

08/02/2018

Last week, NCG once again partnered with the San Francisco Business Times to present ... filled more than half of the Top 25! These 18 members made a combined contribution of $194.98 million in cash contributions...

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Corporate Giving

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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SF Bay Area

NCG Members Stand Up for Immigrant Families

Release Date:

12/06/2018

Thank you to all of our members who joined NCG ’s Protecting Families Campaign and lifted up their voices in opposition ... As Grove Foundation founding trustee Eva Grove wrote in a recent Mercury News...

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NCG Policy Quarter: Fall 2019

Release Date:

10/24/2019

When NCG stepped into the policy space two years ago, our goal was to bring a powerful tool to advance change to the complex issues facing our diverse and ... leading these efforts on the ground to achieve the...

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Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter?

Publication date:

11/2014

... how grantmakers support nonprofit results, but also reveals where we ’re falling short. To help inform this study, GEO convened a nonprofit task force and feature the perspective of nonprofit leaders ...

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Resources from California Philanthropy’s Role in Making the Federal Government Work For All

Publication date:

09/2017

... at the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, engaged in a Q& A about the Partnership’s observations on current dynamics in the federal ... leadership during and after the presidential transition. We discussed the opportunities for private and philanthropic audiences in ...

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Strategic Philanthropy

Transparency

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Infrastructure: Capacity Building

Infrastructure: Effectiveness

The Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity

Publication date:

10/2017

... racial equity. Top Takeaways By 2044, America will be a majority people of color nation. Yet, there are enormous inequities that ...

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Corporate Contributions Roundtable

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DEI

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Disrupting Poverty: Coming Together to Build Financial Security for Individuals and Communities

... factors are key to organizations sustaining this work over a longer period of time: capitalizing on their core strengths and aligning ... that assist individuals and the broader community. NCG member FSG , prepared the report. Here are their key concepts to get ...

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Collaborative Philanthropy

Income Inequality

15 May 2018

Demystifying Nonprofit Capacity Builders: Knowing When and How to Partner with Capacity Building Organizations

May 15, 2018 -

10:00am to 11:00am

Conference Call

... – from small foundations to larger institutions —explore a nonprofit’s needs through diverse approaches, and help determine options to ... Audience: Please note that this call is for SDG, NCG and SCG members...

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Infrastructure: Capacity Building

For Generations to Come: Chinese American Philanthropy in the Bay Area

Publication date:

03/2015

NCG members the Chinese American Community Foundation and Silicon Valley ... newly involved. This report describes the findings of a study conducted with Chinese American donors living in the San Francisco ... and, following a brief overview of the community today, will be largely presented in the participants’ own words. ...

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Populations & Communities

Populations/Communities:People of Color

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 . This second report, Part ... 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 .....

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Populations & Communities

Populations/Communities: LGBTQA

Resources from An Introduction to Nonprofit Finance Fund’s Financial SCAN

Publication date:

10/2012

Assessing a nonprofit's financial health is time-consuming and challenging. Which metrics ... should you consider when comparing organizations? Members of NCG 's Arts Loan Fund and Emergency Loan Fund know firsthand the ... for the first time to co-host this webinar to introduce a tool that can help grantmakers read between the financial lines. .....

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Tying the Knot: The Founding of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Publication date:

10/2011

... The Founding of Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a detailed case study, captured by award-winning journalist Janet Rae-Dupree outlines the candid details of a complicated merger between two, very different, community foundations (the ...

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Outcome Focused Grantmaking: A Hard-Headed Approach to Soft-Hearted Goals

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03/2012

... its strategic and grantmaking decisions. This document is a practical and philosophical guide to the OFG process. Outcome Focused Grantmaking: A Hard-Headed Approach to Soft-Hearted Goals ...

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Silver to Gold Issue Brief

Publication date:

12/2006

Across the United States, a major demographic shift is transforming every aspect of community life. ... over 65 has increased by 80 percent. Grantmakers can play a significant role in connecting the generations and in helping our communities ...

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Populations/Communities: Aging

California Governor's Office & Dept of Finance: Stakeholder Roundtable Presentation (Jan 2018)

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2020 Census

The Global Employee Engagement Report: A Corporate Responsibility Practitioner’s Guide

NCG member Silicon Valley Community Foundation published a new report examining employee engagement in Brazil, China, India, South ... The Global Employee Engagement Report: A Corporate Responsibility Practitioner’s Guide is designed to provide ...

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NCG Interim President and CEO David Greco: No Issue is an Island

Release Date:

03/17/2014

... Donne said that “ no man is an island ,” but is “ a piece of the continent” that is mankind. Lately, here at NCG you’ll often hear the phrase “no issue is an island” said with the ...