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04 Feb 2020

Fireside Chat Part 2 | Liberate Your Foundation: Lessons from POC, Queer, and Allied Foundation Leaders

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
February 4, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
How was philanthropic wealth created in the first place? Who should lead foundations? Who gets to decide how wealth is distributed? Philanthropy is undergoing a moment of reckoning, with many inside and outside the sector questioning the way that...
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Briefing Program
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

When the Movement Calls, Will We Hear It?

Release Date: 
02/16/2017
I recently took the BART to San Francisco International Airport, but I wasn’t trying to catch a plane. I went to join the thousands of people who protested at airports around the country in response to the president’s executive action banning...

Nine Ways to Do What Needs Doing

Release Date: 
08/24/2017
Racial tensions in many parts of the country have again reached a boiling point. The recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia are only the latest in a pattern of violence that is at once alarming and increasingly commonplace. Even in so-called...
12 Sep 2017

Fighting Intolerance in the Bay Area and Beyond

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
September 12, 2017 -
9:30am to 11:30am
Northern California Grantmakers
The rise of hate crimes, bullying, and other forms of bigotry has taken center stage in recent months, with an estimate of nearly 2000 bias-motivated incidents since last November’s election. Communities of color, women, LGBT people, communities of...
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Briefing Program
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice

Too Soon to Forget: Philanthropy Answers Back

Release Date: 
02/21/2017
“No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our...

Resources from A Case of Uncertainty: The 2017 California State Budget

Publication date: 
03/2017
This year’s the Governor’s proposed budget presents a significantly different tone than those of the last few years. It reflects lower revenues, a $1.6 billion projected shortfall, an expected economic downturn and deep uncertainty about what the federal government will do regarding the Affordable Care Act(ACA) and other federal programs. In fact, the proposal is based on current federal policy and doesn’t account for possible cuts to the estimated $20 billion or more that California relies on for health insurance subsidies and expanded Medi-Cal coverage.

Resources from Legislative Briefing on Census 2020

Publication date: 
05/2018
On May 18th, Senator Richard Pan, Chair of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Census, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, Chair of the Assembly’s Select Committee on the Census, joined NCG members for lunch and had a conversation of how to best leverage our philanthropic investments to ensure a complete and accurate count of all people in California on the Census 2020.

Deciphering the California Budget

Release Date: 
01/16/2015
Wondering if you have the mad skills needed to make heads or tails of the 2015/2016 California budget? NCG’s annual California Budget Project program is right around the corner. And as usual, we’re bringing together experts to do the deciphering for...

Breakout Session: Policy Landscape

We’ll dig deep into the issues the pandemic created as well as those issues that it exacerbated. We’ll explore the policy landscape; opportunities to leverage recovery resources, and how we can make headway on some of the issues the pandemic laid bare.

For this session, we'll dive into the policy landscape to answer the questions: What is the policy and resource landscape? What’s the opportunity to leverage and be additive? What is the potential role for companies?

Date & Time: 
10/12/2021 -
11:00am to 11:50am

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