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Outcome Focused Grantmaking: A Hard-Headed Approach to Soft-Hearted Goals
Publication date:
03/2012
Outcome Focused Grantmaking is the approach the Hewlett Foundation uses to guide its strategic and grantmaking decisions. This document is a practical and philosophical guide to the OFG process.
Resources from Financial Workshop Series Part I | Understanding the Full Cost of Programming
Publication date:
03/2015
The first part of a three-part financial workshop series in partnership with Fiscal Management Associates (FMA). All three workshops in this series are designed to help funders support your grantees in building financial management practices, strengthen your partnership with grantees for financial sustainability and inform your own grantmaking practice.
2020 Census: Current Situation and Philanthropic Response
This presentation by The Bauman Foundation explores the background of the Census, Challenges and how philanthropy is taking action.
Communications Toolkit: A Guide to Navigating Communications for the Nonprofit World
Publication date:
01/2005
This toolkit by Hershey Cause Communications is a guide to navigating communications for the nonprofit world.
For Generations to Come: Chinese American Philanthropy in the Bay Area
Publication date:
03/2015
NCG members the Chinese American Community Foundation and Silicon Valley Community Foundation partnered to publish this report to better understand and celebrate the Chinese American community in the Bay Area, including the many contributions made to the Bay Area.
Impact Playbook: Best Practices for Understanding the Impact of Media
Publication date:
04/2013
Building on existing impact frameworks with applied strategies, concrete metrics, and suggested workflows, this guide that synthesizes best practices for media makers to understand the impact of their work.
Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys
Publication date:
04/2015
This report analyzes U.S. funding trends for Black men and boys and describes recent initiatives in the field of Black male achievement. The brief shows a distinct trend toward increased U.S. foundation funding for organizations and programs that are working to improve the life outcomes of Black males.
Influencing Public Policy in the Digital Age: The Law of Online Lobbying and Election-Related Activities
Publication date:
09/2011
With new online tools popping up all the time, questions like these are becoming more and more frequent. This Alliance for Justice guide helps you navigate the web of rules and regulations to empower your organization to engage in online advocacy!
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...
The Urgency of Now: Foundations’ Role in Ending Racial Inequity
Publication date:
04/2014
This Foundation Review article explores the multiple approaches that foundations can use to advance racial equity, focusing on a specific set of approaches used by the Minnesota-based Northwest Area Foundation. The article also gauges the depth of the challenge that communities face in racial disparities, the long history of racialization of institutions and systems, and the evolution of the role of philanthropy in addressing poverty.
NCG Members Speak Up
Release Date:
06/05/2020
NCG's members are speaking up, some for the first time, about the protests, the killings, and the structural racism behind them. Several point toward organizations we can fund right now to fuel this movement. We are proud to share all of them here.
Systematic Review of Evaluations of Trauma-Informed Organizational Interventions That Include Staff Trainings
Publication date:
08/2018
Enthusiasm for trauma-informed practice has increased dramatically. Organizational interventions that train staff about trauma-informed practice are frequently used to promote trauma-informed systems change, but evidence about these interventions’ effects has not been integrated. A systematic review was conducted of studies that evaluated the effects of organizational interventions that included a “trauma-informed” staff training component.