Opening the Door to Opportunity: NCG Moves into Public Policy
Release Date:
08/10/2017
Sometimes, opportunity knocks. Other times it opens the door and lets itself in. This is the case with NCG’s recent expansion into the public policy arena.
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11
Oct
2017
Mindful Messaging: The Science to Getting Inside the Brain of Your Audience
Areas of Focus
October 11, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Every day brings new insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and the social sciences that help us better understand how people think and why they do what they do. The brain is a bit like a pinball machine. Messages go in. Sometimes they hit...
Kenneth Rainin Foundation Awards $3 Million to Game-Changing Arts Real Estate Organization
Release Date:
11/09/2017
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced $3 million in additional funding for the Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), a game-changing organization that protects San Francisco Bay Area arts and cultural organizations from displacement. This...
Listening to Data: NCG’s Analytics Story
Release Date:
01/03/2018
It’s an open secret in philanthropy: visitors to our websites ignore our lovingly curated stories and head straight to our job listings. Northern California Grantmakers is no exception. A look at our website data last year showed our job board...
Good Intentions Made Better: Making Fixes to SF Anti-Corruption Proposal
Release Date:
03/01/2018
It is a truth universally acknowledged that corruption in politics is bad. Few will argue against stronger anti-corruption laws or more transparency on the flow of money through city hall. An important policy has been making its way through San...
Kathryn Tucker on Cultural Taboos
Release Date:
05/10/2018
It has long been a cultural taboo to talk about dying. But there is an important cultural shift taking place.
17
Sep
2018
2018 Southern California Grantmakers Annual Conference
September 17, 2018 -
7:30am to 5:30pm
InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown
The country is more divided politically and culturally than ever before and there are a dizzying number of conversations - often times conflicting - taking place over multiple channels and platforms. Yet, there is one thing that binds us together:...
Honoring our Full Humanity: Never Again for All of Us
Release Date:
01/21/2019
History is told through multiple, sometimes competing, narratives. Earlier this month, walking through downtown Montgomery, Alabama with folks from NCG, posted plaques told stories in the way official histories often do, highlighting founders and...
If It Doesn’t Bring You Joy... Lessons from Our Meeting Redesign Process
Release Date:
03/19/2019
I just hosted a staff meeting filled with laughter and storytelling. Howling, wipe-your-eyes laughter, and good, around-the-dinner-table connection. How did we get here? Partly by recognizing that our meetings weren’t, in many cases, places we...
07
May
2020
Trust-Based Philanthropy Practice: Simplify & Streamline
Areas of Focus
May 7, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Zoom Meeting
Philanthropy California and the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project invite you to join us for a monthly webinar series for funders. Each month, we’ll explore each of the six trust-based principles that, when practiced together, help alleviate power...
09
Jun
2020
Trust-Based Philanthropy Practice: Be Transparent & Responsive
Areas of Focus
June 9, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Zoom Meeting
Philanthropy California and the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project invite you to join us for a monthly webinar series for funders. Each month, we’ll explore each of the six trust-based principles that, when practiced together, help alleviate power...
16
Sep
2020
Dodging Democracy Doomsday Before November 3: How To Support a Freer, Fairer, Safer Election
Areas of Focus
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...
18
Jun
2021
CCJFG Membership Meeting | Session 3
Areas of Focus
June 18, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
This meeting will focus on strategies and practices for funding healing justice and was designed in collaboration with Melanie Havelin, Executive Director of the John M. Lloyd Foundation . What would change about our funding practices if we operated...
08
Mar
2022
Budgets and Bills: An Inside Look at the 2022 California Legislative Session
March 8, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:15am
Zoom Webinar
What does 2022 have in store for public policy in California? As we enter the third year of the COVID pandemic, relief and stimulus funds continue to flow from state and federal coffers. New redistricting lines are reshaping legislatures as...
What We're Reading: Workplaces of Belonging
Release Date:
03/31/2022
My invitation to you, as you explore these resources, is to interrogate the role urgency plays in your life and work. Urgency, a feature and symptom of white supremacy culture, especially stands as a major obstacle to centering relationships and...
Senior Advisor, The Family Office of Philanthropy
Position:
Senior Advisor, The Family Office of Philanthropy
Position Purpose
The Senior Advisor, Family Office of Philanthropy (SA-TFO) manages relationships with a portfolio of individuals and families who have philanthropic vehicles at MCF with assets of $5M or more.
This position is responsible for providing...
Assistant to the CFO
Position:
Assistant to the CFO
ORGANIZATION RESULT AND OVERVIEW
Founded in 1948, the San Francisco Foundation is one of the nation’s largest community foundations — a grantmaking public charity dedicated to improving life within a specific local region. We are committed to racial equity and economic...
09
Mar
2015
Seize the Moment: Immigration Relief and Bay Area Communities
March 9, 2015 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Bechtel Conference Center
The President's Executive Order on immigration promises to be the largest immigration reform in contemporary American history. Join funder colleagues for a special briefing on this policy milestone, learn about the momentum built by undocumented...
Where is the Arts Loan Fund Heading?
Release Date:
05/31/2016
Have you and your grantees heard of the Arts Loan Fund (ALF)? It has been a key part of NCG's history for the past 29 years. Read the Q&A with our own Michelle Bermudez, Manager of Collaborative Philanthropy and the newest ALF leader, Allison...
Risky Real Estate
Release Date:
03/15/2017
This feature article by Inside Philanthropy reminds colleagues in the sector of the ongoing pressures caused by nonprofit displacement. NCG, together with The San Francisco Foundation and other partners, established the nonprofit displacement crisis...