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Bolder Together

How can foundations help build movements for opportunity and social change... and win? An innovative partnership of nine foundations is working in four California counties to increase civic participation in communities of color and among low-income populations. By combining their efforts, these funders hope to be able to make a bigger, more focused collective impact.
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Leadership, Culture and Community
24 Jul 2019

Standing Together: Coalition Building to Stop Jail Expansion

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
July 24, 2019 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Webinar
Throughout the state of California, organizers and communities impacted by incarceration are demanding an end to jail expansion. JusticeLA (a coalition of grassroots organizations) celebrated an unprecedented victory in February 2019 when the Los...
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Briefing Webinar
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Populations & Communities
Geographic Location 
Statewide
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
07 May 2020

Bay Area Health Funders Group | The Next Generation: Youth Mental Health

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 7, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Zoom Meeting
The lives of youth and families across the Bay Area have dramatically changed in the past month, and adjusting to a new way of learning and living is hard. For young people, being away from schools, friends, and relatives can intensify feelings of...

Announcing Sarah Evers as Member Engagement Coordinator

Release Date: 
01/20/2022
NCG is pleased to announce NCG's membership team is growing! Sarah Evers (they/them) joins the team as the new Member Engagement Coordinator to support all things membership for the NCG community. Interested in getting to know Sarah or have...
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NCG Blog

FordForward: The Ford Foundation Charts a New Course

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06/11/2015
"Today is not a new beginning. It is a next step in a quest begun eight decades ago," said Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation.

NCG's Resource HUB

Release Date: 
09/27/2015
NCG publishes post-program resources regularly, but recently many of our members are publishing their own resources and toolkits–we wanted to share! Below is a collection of resources including emerging leader best practices, impact investing,...
14 Sep 2017

Arts Loan Fund Meeting 9/14/17

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
September 14, 2017 -
9:30am to 12:00pm
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund
NCG's Arts Loan Fund (ALF) Steering Committee is comprised of a diverse range of Bay Area funders, who are committed to the Arts. The committee convenes every four weeks to discuss issues impacting the Arts in Northern California and to review loan...
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Collaborative
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Arts Loan Fund
Funding Area 
Arts and Culture
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Where Next for Whole Person Care

Release Date: 
09/07/2017
With Labor Day behind us, communities across the nation are heading back to school and work. Congress returns to Washington, DC, this week, too. What would members of Congress write in response to that classic first day of school writing assignment...
12 Mar 2018

SOLD OUT: Putting Wealth to Work | A Conversation with Joel Fleishman

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
March 12, 2018 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
Google Community Space
Join us for a discussion with Professor Joel Fleishman. His recently released book, Putting Wealth to Work, tells the unprecedented story of the movement of socially motivated capital, and how it may unavoidably change the American economy, and the...

Ideas Fest: 30 Ideas to Change the World

Release Date: 
03/15/2018
This year, NCG is creating a new kind of space adapted from the tech sector’s ‘un-conference’ and tracing its origins to indigenous practices of creating open space for differing views. This ‘new space’ which, for our purposes, we’ll call ...
25 Oct 2018

A Conversation with Mayor Michael Tubbs & Lateefah Simon

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
October 25, 2018 -
3:30pm to 5:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Mayor Michael Tubbs was elected in 2016 in a landslide victory with 70% of the vote. Since being elected at the age of 26, the youngest mayor in the history of a mid-size American city, he has raised the visibility of Stockton in the California here...
31 Jan 2019

Silicon Valley Nonprofit Displacement: A Funder & Nonprofit Briefing

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
January 31, 2019 -
2:30pm to 4:30pm
Sobrato Center for Nonprofits
Please join NCG and the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits for a joint nonprofit and funder briefing to share the findings from the Silicon Valley Nonprofit Space and Facilities Report and discuss their implications for our community. At this...
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Briefing Program
Topic(s) 
Nonprofit Displacement Project
Funding Area 
Nonprofit Displacement
Geographic Location 
Peninsula and South Bay
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
16 Sep 2020

Dodging Democracy Doomsday Before November 3: How To Support a Freer, Fairer, Safer Election

Areas of Focus 
Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
September 16, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Zoom Webinar
A perfect storm is swirling around November’s presidential election with ominous signs of bitter partisanship and chaos amid surging Coronavirus cases. With daily attacks on a vote by mail system; swing states with little experience in absentee...
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Briefing Webinar
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Policy
Funding Area 
PubPolicy/Social Justice:CivicEngagement
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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To chart a course toward a more caring, connected, and equitable region powered by the philanthropy sector, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation supported a unique partnership between Northern California Grantmakers and Open Impact . The...

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