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Social Services: Homelessness

October 13, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Zoom Webinar

Across the country, communities are working to end homelessness and address housing challenges by shifting policy to transform systems. In order to do that and achieve housing justice, strong political and public will must be built. However, gaining...

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National

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Health: Health Access & Care

NCG Interim President and CEO David Greco: Working Together…We Can Be The Change

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05/06/2014

Van Jones shouted it. Robert Reich stated it. Carol Larson emphasized it. Numerous panelists and speakers demonstrated it. The conference itself could not have been possible without it.

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Income Inequality

Announcing Our 2015 Annual Conference PhilTalks

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05/07/2015

Earlier this year NCG put out a call for PhilTalk proposals. What’s a PhilTalk? A PhilTalk is a 15-minute presentation that explores an idea, solution or approach to a challenge we are confronting in our philanthropic work. Think TedTalk, but for...

Thank You for an Amazing Conference!

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06/02/2015

Wow! What an exhilarating day. Thank you for spending a day with us. Thank you for bringing your curiosity, your passion, and your intelligence to the conversations, plenaries, and sessions throughout the day. Thank you for your investing in our...

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First-in-the-Nation "Real Cost" Funding Approved

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11/09/2015

Last week Los Angeles County nonprofits received some ground-breaking news–the Board of Supervisors approved support for the administrative costs of nonprofits that are contracted for government services.

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After the Tragedies. Where Do We Go From Here? A Message from James W. Head

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08/01/2016

James W. Head is President and CEO of The East Bay Community Foundation . Read his message below discussing the recent tragedies and the role philanthropy needs to play.

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Trump’s Tax Plan Would Only Help Wealthy Parents

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08/15/2016

NCG member Surina Khan is the CEO of the Women's Foundation of California. Check out her Op-Ed in Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle for a host of solutions to make childcare affordable in the Bay Area.

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Our bi-weekly magazine Together For Good offers deeper-dive stories about news-making people and institutions in our community, resources to help us do our work better, and up-to-the-minute info about the latest jobs and...

Resilience: Not Your Parents’ Disaster Plan

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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...

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Disaster Preparedness

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Disaster Resilience Relief and Recovery

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Ideas Fest: 30 Ideas to Change the World

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03/15/2018

This year, NCG is creating a new kind of space adapted from the tech sector’s ‘un-conference’ and tracing its origins to indigenous practices of creating open space for differing views. This ‘new space’ which, for our purposes, we’ll call ...

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Leadership, Culture and Community

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SF Bay Area

01 Jun 2018

Why Is Everyone Talking about Stockton? A Reinvention Tour with Mayor Michael Tubbs

June 1, 2018 -

10:00am to 4:00pm

University Waterfront Hotel

The City of Stockton, California, has experienced a sea change around the new confluence of community leadership, innovation, and political will to address what many thought were intractable issues. Please join us for a full-day funders convening...

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Children & Youth

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Greater Northern California

What We're Reading: March Equity & Social Justice Edition

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03/07/2019

In the March edition of What We’re Reading , we’re breaking the rules by centering under-represented communities all year long. While Black History Month has ended and Women’s History month has begun, we believe the work of equity and social justice...

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A Way Forward: Addressing Mobile Segregation in the Bay Area

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04/25/2019

How can we turn the tide to become a region of economic opportunity for everyone—especially members of our communities who’ve been locked out of asset-building by decades of discriminatory policies and investments? Our future housing and land use...

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What We're Reading: March Equity & Social Justice Edition

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03/05/2020

March is about “springing forward” and with the daylight savings time, we’ll have more light to read articles that help us understand and interrogate systems that keep people from educational materials, financial capital, and basic care and support...

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28 Oct 2020

How to Keep Form 990 Consistent with Your Financial Statements

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Economic & Community Development

October 28, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Webcast

Do your audited financial statements and Form 990 tell a consistent story about your organization? Where might they differ and why? During this webcast, we’ll compare and contrast some potential differences to help you understand how to complete the...

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Beyond Screening: Achieving California’s Bold Goal of Reducing Exposure to Childhood Trauma

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11/12/2020

As California philanthropies committed to advancing equitable health, safety, and wellbeing across the state, we’re excited to share Beyond Screening: Achieving California’s Bold Goal of Reducing Exposure to Childhood Trauma , a new report that...

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From the Field

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Trauma & Resilience

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Children & Youth

01 Dec 2020

Impact Investing: Investing to Create Equitable Jobs

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December 1, 2020 -

10:30am to 12:00pm

Webinar

As we rebuild our economy in the wake of COVID-19, we are left with an opportunity to make inclusive growth a new cornerstone of American economic progress. Join our Philanthropy CA peer, San Diego Grantmakers, to learn about San Diego Workforce...

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About | Nonprofit Displacement Project

Creation and Purpose What began as a funder briefing on displacement evolved into a research project and now an effort to address the issue of displacement. A multi-stakeholder group including nonprofits, funders, philanthropy, and private interests...

Resources from Measuring Success in Addressing Childhood Adversity

Publication date:

10/2018

On September 25th, the Funder Network on Trauma & Resilience hosted a forum to discuss successes and challenges in measuring the effectiveness of different approaches to addressing trauma and building resilience, across a variety of practice settings. Through panel and group discussion, attendees had a chance to reflect on a common question in this space: how do we define success in addressing childhood adversity, and what might success look like?

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Collaborative

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Trauma & Resilience

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