10 Ways to Engage in 2014
Release Date:
01/30/2014
It’s a new year! Make a resolution to make the most of your NCG membership. And in case you need any help in figuring out how to do so, here are ten ways to engage in 2014.
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KQED Public Media and The Power of Now
Release Date:
04/14/2016
KQED is partnering with us for our 2016 Annual Conference | The Power of Now on May 25th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View. They are helping to create sessions and media content as well as providing news talent as moderators to draw the best...
On Preserving Inclusivity
Release Date:
07/27/2017
NCG is proud to share a statement from our friends at LGBTQ Funders as our community contends with the implications of an order banning transgender people from military service.
12
Dec
2018
Power and Progress: What the 2018 Elections Tell Us About 2020
Areas of Focus
December 12, 2018 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
California’s record turnout and the big questions decided in this year’s election hold some key signals for philanthropy. Voters advanced and held back initiatives on housing, taxation, and homelessness. For people of color and women in particular,...
23
May
2019
A Better Measure of Need: The Real Cost Measure in California
Areas of Focus
May 23, 2019 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Creating widespread economic opportunity in the Bay Area, especially for communities of color, requires a better understanding of what a decent standard of living actually costs in our region. The commonly used federal poverty measure vastly...
15
Aug
2019
Guaranteed Income: A Silver Bullet to Reduce Poverty?
Areas of Focus
August 15, 2019 -
10:30am to 2:00pm
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
In recent years, guaranteed income initiatives such as Universal Basic Income (UBI) have garnered national attention. The topic has been elevated in the national discourse by potential presidential candidates as part of their economic platforms...
31
Aug
2020
Funder Update: The Alternatives to Incarceration Care First Model and Vision
Areas of Focus
August 31, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
Zoom Meeting
This year presents a historic opportunity to fundamentally reimagine justice in Los Angeles County. Years of deep organizing and several recent motions by the LA County Board of Supervisors have laid the groundwork for real transformation. In March...
07
Oct
2020
Meeting their Mission: How CDFIs Can Better Serve Communities of Color
Areas of Focus
October 7, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Zoom Webinar
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) play a critical role by bringing investment and resources to historically underserved communities through capital and other supports to help entrepreneurs start and grow businesses, develop...
What We’re Reading: Gender Justice & Trans Communities Edition
Release Date:
06/17/2021
The realities, challenges, and larger context of what Black and brown trans communities are facing locally and nationally are not well-known to funders or to our society in general. The list of articles here showcase Bay Area trans leaders and their...
04
Aug
2021
Pacific Islanders Leading for an Equitable Recovery
Areas of Focus
August 4, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Screen Shot 2021-07-09 at 12.30.06 PM.png COVID-19 made starkly visible the disparities in our society. Nowhere was this more clear than for the Pacific Islander (PI) community in California. The data that is available shows that this community was...
23
Jun
2022
Midterms and Moving Lines: How Nonprofits and Philanthropy Can Support Safe and Secure Elections
June 23, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:15am
Zoom Webinar
Midterm elections are quickly approaching, and California’s new redistricting lines are already having an effect on the voting landscape. How the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors can help voters understand the implications of these changes before...
Resources from What’s next for California? The Immigration Agenda after the Supreme Court Decision
Publication date:
08/2016
Participants learned the latest on the Supreme Court ruling and its impact in the state of California, and explored how philanthropy in California can strengthen and support the immigrant community.
Geographies of Opportunity: Ranking Well-Being by Congressional District
Publication date:
04/2015
This report by Measure of America is an in-depth look at how residents of America’s 436 congressional districts are faring in three fundamental areas of life: health, access to knowledge, and living standards.
Putting Schools and Communities First
Schools and Communities First is a historic effort to reform Proposition 13 and restore over $11 billion a year for services that all Californians rely on like schools and community colleges, social services, libraries, and health clinics. Conceived and championed by those communities most impacted by decades of disinvestment, Schools and Communities First is one of several opportunities for California for advance bold, long-term structural reforms rooted in equity and inclusion that can serve as a model for the rest of the country. Change of this magnitude requires a deep and expansive voter...
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.
13
May
2020
The Economic Moment & What Philanthropy Can Do
Areas of Focus
May 13, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
Zoom Meeting
COVID 19 is leading to an economic collapse of proportions we have not seen since the Great Depression. Leaders across sectors are acting swiftly in order to be responsive to the crisis at hand. However, we have known for many years that the economy...
Feeling the Impact Series: Personal & Organizational Integration of Crises
REGISTER for the series About the Series In this program series, you will encounter and work with frameworks and practices for understanding and coping with the effects of crises as they impact us as individuals, organizations, and society. In these...
10
Sep
2020
Harnessing the High Stakes Election in 2020
Areas of Focus
September 10, 2020 -
1:30pm to 3:00pm
Zoom Meeting
This November, California has the opportunity to reimagine how to engage underrepresented community members in the electorate process. Important racial justice measures on the ballot offer opportunities for California to improve voter turnout in...
What We Mean by CARE in a Year of Cascading Crises: Part 2
Release Date:
01/28/2021
Living with Disasters and Disabilities.
25
Feb
2021
Bay Area Regional Homelessness: A Data Sharing System to Accelerate Impact
Areas of Focus
February 25, 2021 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Regional approaches are essential to addressing the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis, but without a system for sharing data across jurisdictions, our counties operate in siloes. A regional data-sharing system would transform the Bay Area’s ability to...