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Why Philanthropy Must Do More on Climate Change

Release Date: 
03/16/2017
By Larry Kramer | History is replete with examples of societies that vanished when the local climate changed. But the threat we face from climate change today is much greater than that, because it’s not local, it’s global. Human activity is changing...

Director of Finance and Operations

Position: 
Director of Finance and Operations

About the Asian Pacific Fund 

The Asian Pacific Fund is a community foundation with a mission to strengthen the Asian American and Pacific Islander (API) community in the Bay Area by increasing philanthropy and supporting the organizations that serve our most vulnerable...

Director of Human Resources

Position: 
Director of Human Resources

The Opportunity

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is seeking a strategic Human Resources leader to serve as the organization’s next Director of Human Resources and to lead the organization’s Human Resources, People and Culture...

Director of Finance & Administration (DFA)

Position: 
Director of Finance & Administration (DFA)

Company Name

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)

Company City

Oakland

Company State

CA

Job Location

Fully Remote, with occasional travel

Company Information

Established in 1990, AAPIP is a...

Disasters Don’t Care About Your Funding Focus

Release Date: 
10/07/2014
You may not fund disaster preparedness, but that won’t matter when the next big earthquake hits the Bay Area. The fact is, disasters are everyone’s problem when they hit.
29 May 2020

Equitable Disaster Planning: A New Online Tool for Philanthropy

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 29, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Zoom Meeting
Natural hazard events increasingly threaten communities across the state. Frontline communities – communities of color, renters, low-income communities, older adults, people with disabilities, Native communities, and others – have often been most...
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Event type 
Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Disaster Preparedness
Funding Area 
Disaster Resilience Relief and Recovery
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
25 Feb 2020

Two Years In: Moving Toward Community Resilience

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
February 25, 2020 -
1:00pm to 4:30pm
Vintners Inn
The ongoing reconstruction of Sonoma and Napa Counties has laid bare key issues still facing our communities two years after the Fall 2017 fires, among them affordable housing, mental health, immigration, economic displacement, and community...
05 Mar 2019

Funder Network on Trauma & Resilience: Mixer with Jane Stevens

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
March 5, 2019 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Rosa Mexicano
Please join the Funder Network on Trauma & Resilience (FNTR) for a Mixer with Jane Stevens, editor of ACESTooHigh , and founder and publisher of ACEs Connection! Launched in 2018, FNTR aims to foster a vibrant, engage funder learning community...
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Event type 
Briefing Program
Topic(s) 
Trauma & Resilience
Funding Area 
Children & Youth: Youth Development
Health
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Resilient San Francisco: Stronger Today, Stronger Tomorrow

RESILIENT-SF is a strategy that seeks to tap into our city’s trademark tenacity by laying out our most pressing challenges and demanding that City government partner with the community to make bold and lasting progress on these challenges. When we think about San Francisco, we think of a city of unwavering strength, a city that is prepared to not only respond but to recover, and a San Francisco of strong and unified neighborhoods, ready to continue reimagining, and striving for the strong and resilient San Francisco of tomorrow.

2015 Executive Directors Compensation Survey

In March of this year, the Chinese American Community Foundation authored a survey to learn about organizational practices regarding executive compensation. The survey is an attemp to zoom in on and look specifically at the trends in organizations serving the Asian American Community.

Senior Program Officer, Climate -- Yellow Chair Foundation

Position: 
Senior Program Officer, Climate -- Yellow Chair Foundation

Founded 22 years ago, Yellow Chair Foundation (YCF) is a Palo Alto-based family foundation that funds local, national and global organizations tackling problems at their roots, and shifting systems toward a more equitable and just future. Yellow Chair Foundation’s grantmaking and the family’s...

Key Lessons Learned for Philanthropy about Disaster Response and Recovery

Our nation’s philanthropic and nonprofit leaders, in cooperation with first-responders and government personnel, have amassed a wealth of knowledge on disaster response and recovery. These are some of the key lessons learned by the contributors to The Disaster Playbook.

Creating Order from Chaos: Roles for Philanthropy in Disaster Planning and Response

When the Jessie Ball duPont Fund went beyond its traditional disaster relief support after two devastating tornadoes struck Alabama in 2011, staff realized that they did not know enough about how public and private systems work, about where, when and how they intersect, or about organized philanthropy’s proper role. Through this document, they share their lessons and reflections.

Ford Foundation Announces Support for Disaster Relief and Recovery in Nepal

Release Date: 
05/04/2015
NCG member the Ford Foundation announced recently it was making $500,000 in grants to support disaster relief and recovery in Nepal, where the foundation has supported development work for over 60 years.

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