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Climate and Disaster Resilience

When the time comes, most foundations become disaster funders whether they've previously thought of themselves that way or not. That’s because disasters and community crises touch all aspects of people’s lives, communities, and cities. NCG's new...
25 Jun 2021

Addressing Data Gaps for Equitable Implementation of Climate and Disaster Resilience Solutions in California

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 25, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:00am
Funding for community-based programs for climate and disaster resilience relies on information about who is at risk and who is impacted. Existing data on health and socioeconomic risks of and impacts, especially data that reflect the experiences of...
09 Dec 2021

Engaging Indigenous Leadership in Climate and Disaster Resilience

December 9, 2021 -
9:30am to 11:00am
Webinar
ENGAGING-INDIGENOUS-LEADERSHIP_Option-1-1.png Increasing impacts from climate change are testing the resiliency of Native peoples and cultures throughout the West. This is exacerbated by more than a century of forced displacement and wealth...
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Briefing Webinar
16 Nov 2021

Engaging Indigenous Leadership in Climate & Disaster Resilience

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
November 16, 2021 - 12:00pm to December 9, 2021 - 1:30pm
Increasing impacts from climate change are testing the resiliency of Native peoples and cultures throughout the West. This is exacerbated by more than a century of forced displacement and wealth extraction, marginalization through discriminatory...
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Briefing Program
Topic(s) 
Disaster Preparedness
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
31 May 2017

Flipping the Script on Disaster: A Tale of Three Resilient Cities

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 31, 2017 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Leaders in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco are taking bold action. In the face of racial inequity, climate change, lack of affordable housing, earthquakes, healthcare disparities, and wildfires, these cities are strengthening our ability to...
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Briefing Program
Topic(s) 
Disaster Preparedness
Funding Area 
Disaster Resilience Relief and Recovery
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

NCG Expands Efforts to Secure an Equitable Climate-Resilient California

Release Date: 
06/02/2022
Climate change is here to stay. Although what’s needed seems endless as the impacts will worsen in the coming years, I am hopeful. Since joining the sector four years ago, I have seen an increasing number of funders exploring new ways to address...

Announcing Alan Kwok, NCG's New Director of Disaster Resilience

Release Date: 
11/12/2018
Northern California Grantmakers is pleased to announce that Alan Kwok has been named Disaster Resilience Director. He brings to the role years of experience in Bay Area disaster response and leadership in the emerging field of community resilience.

Resilience: Not Your Parents’ Disaster Plan

Release Date: 
05/11/2017
On May 31, NCG will be hosting the first event in its recently launched Disaster Resilience, Relief, and Recovery initiative, Flipping the Script on Disaster: A Tale of Three Resilient Cities. Mayor of Oakland, the Honorable Libby Schaaf will open...
27 Mar 2019

Building a More Disaster Resilient Future in our Communities: A Conversation Among Grantmakers

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
March 27, 2019 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Northern California Grantmakers
As climate-related disasters are increasingly affecting our health, livelihoods, and social fabric, how might philanthropic investment build greater community disaster resilience to preserve and sustain the hard-earned socioeconomic gains in our...
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Briefing Program
Topic(s) 
Disaster Preparedness
Funding Area 
Disaster Resilience Relief and Recovery
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Breakout Session: From Climate Curious to Climate Justice

Confronting and transforming the devastating harm of a planet in crisis stands alongside reckoning with this nation’s true history of genocide, land theft, and chattel slavery as The Work of our time. We know that communities of color bear the brunt of climate breakdown and also lead in implementing solutions. However, data indicates that white-led groups –especially the nation’s largest environmental and “clean energy”-focused nonprofits -continue to receive more than90% of philanthropic funding to address the climate emergency.
Date & Time: 
05/05/2022 -
10:00am to 11:15am
22 Apr 2022

Funders for Climate Justice

April 22, 2022 -
10:30am to 12:00pm
The NCG Funders for Climate Justice Group is a collaboration with Smart Growth California and the League of California Community Foundations. We invite funders who are interested in or are already funding at the intersection of climate justice and...
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Briefing Webinar
28 Jul 2020

Building Wildfire Resilience in the West: The Future of Wildfire, Climate Change, and Water in the West | Session 4

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
July 28, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Zoom Webinar
About this Series Western landscapes have always burned and always will. The more we suppress fire and change the climate, the more catastrophic wildfires become. How can we make communities and wild lands more resilient in the age of megafire?...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Disaster Preparedness
Philanthropy CA
Geographic Location 
Statewide
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
16 Sep 2022

Funders for Climate Equity September Meeting

September 16, 2022 -
10:30am to 12:00pm
Zoom Meeting
A recent report, Much Alarm, Less Action , from the Center for Effective Philanthropy found that both foundation and nonprofit leaders believe that climate change will negatively affect their work —no matter the issues they focus on. However, less...
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Briefing Webinar
24 Sep 2020

Is 2020 Over? Responding to Multiple Disasters Amid COVID-19 and Climate Change

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
September 24, 2020 - 12:00pm
Zoom Webinar
It feels like 2020 has lasted 15 years. The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) team started following COVID-19 in January while we were also responding to the Australian wildfires and the earthquakes in Puerto Rico. The beginning of the year is...

Resources from Flipping the Script on Disaster: A Tale of Three Resilient Cities

Publication date: 
06/2017
At NCG’s May 31 event, Flipping the Script on Disaster: A Tale of Three Cities , the Chief Resilience Officers of Oakland and San Francisco each shared their city’s resilience strategy and ways for philanthropy to support resilience. The Honorable Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland, also offered her perspective on resilience and current efforts in Oakland. The Managing Director of the Bay Area Resilient By Design Challenge shared details of this new effort to catalyze innovative, collaborative planning to build resilience in advance of disaster. Although the Berkeley Chief Resilience Officer was...
17 Jun 2019

Democratizing Resilience Planning and Disaster Recovery

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 17, 2019 -
8:30am to 4:30pm
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Natural disasters are increasing in severity and frequency here in California and around the nation, generating housing instability as well as physical, mental, and financial stress for residents of affected areas. However, these impacts are not...
19 May 2020

Resilience During Crisis: Coffee and Resilience Series | Session 1

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
May 19, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Zoom Meeting
This is not your typical ZOOM call. There will be no PowerPoints and no moderators. For one hour, we invite you to join a conversation between two impassioned individuals discussing issues of resilience, over coffee (or tea if that's your preference...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Disaster Preparedness
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

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