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04 Aug 2016

San Francisco Bay Area Local Engagement Group: Build Your Capacity to Practice Capacity Building

August 4, 2016 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Metta Fund
Do you want to learn about effective capacity building practices, both from the perspctive of grantees and funders? Join the San Francisco Bay Area Local Engagement Group (LEG) for a peer-to-peer conversation on capacity building. You will have the...
14 Sep 2017

New Grantmakers Institute: Grantmaking for the 21st Century (2017)

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
September 14, 2017 - 9:00am to September 15, 2017 - 5:00pm
Google Community Space
The learning curve for new grantmakers can be considerable! Even grantmakers with a few years of experience may still be unclear on the legal aspects of grantmaking or how to assess nonprofit financial sustainability and resilience, not to mention...
11 Dec 2017

Building, Sharing and Wielding Power: How Foundations Can Assess and Grow their Impact

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
December 11, 2017 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
The San Francisco Foundation
How can your foundation engage in effective feedback and reflection processes to improve impact? In this intimate roundtable discussion, co-hosted by Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) and the Bay Area Justice Funders Network (...

You're New? Me Too!

Release Date: 
02/19/2018
These past few months have been a fun whirlwind of making as many professional and personal connections as I can, which is (in my opinion) one of the best opportunities NCG offers – the chance to be part of the largest philanthropic community in the...
08 Mar 2018

Immigrant Families in America Today: How Fear and Toxic Stress Are Affecting Daily Life, Well-Being, and Health

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
March 8, 2018 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Webinar
New restrictions on immigration and increased immigration enforcement under the Trump Administration are having a profound impact on our nation, reaching from the dinner table to the board room, from courtrooms to classrooms. Few groups are facing...
27 Jun 2018

Where Are the Children? Family Separation Becomes U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Public Policy
June 27, 2018 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Since October 2017, the U.S. government has forcibly separated at least 2,400 children—including hundreds who are under four years old—from their parents as they arrive on our southern border seeking refuge. Attorneys and other humanitarian aid...
24 Oct 2018

Decolonizing Wealth: A Conversation with Edgar Villanueva & Courtney E. Martin

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
October 24, 2018 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Google Community Space
On October 24th, we invite you to a special Decolonizing Wealth book event featuring an in-depth conversation between Villanueva and Award-Winning Journalist Courtney E. Martin about the book and how institutions that control access to money can...
25 Feb 2019

Not-for-Profit Education Series: Financial Accounting Standards Board Update

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
February 25, 2019 -
11:30am to 2:00pm
City Club Los Angeles, Harbor Room
Join Moss Adams, RBC Wealth Management and Philanthropy California for a Not-for-Profit Education Series event featuring Rick Cole, Supervising Project Manager for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Join us to: Get an overview of the...
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Audience 
Nonprofits
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

Resources for A Grantmaking New Year’s Resolution: A Values-Based Grantmaking Practice

Publication date: 
02/2019
Values-aligned grantmaking is becoming every day parlance in our field, with good reason: foundation professionals are increasingly conscious of the role they play in social change. Similarly, the challenges we face seem ever more difficult to solve, and the injustices individuals, communities, and the planet face are heartbreaking. Making highly effective grants across a portfolio and even across an entire foundation is the nut we are all trying to crack. Given the current moment in philanthropy, in our country, and across the world, grantmakers are looking more intentionally at their own...
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
09 Nov 2022

Advancing Equity through Organizational Culture and Operations | 2022 Foundations of Racial Equity Session 4

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
November 9, 2022 - 1:30pm to November 16, 2022 - 4:00pm
About the Series Anti-Black racism and white supremacy are embedded in philanthropy and in our institutions, often invisible to the majority of us, even as we work with intention towards equity and justice. As change agents within philanthropy, we...

Cohorts and Peer Learning

Each year NCG provides training institutes curated for specific groups of those in our sector. The Communications Institute, Racial Equity Action Institute, and the Rising Leaders Cohort. These are 6-7 month in-depth workshops with your peers and...

Areas of Focus

To maximize the collective power of our community for greatest effect, NCG is pleased to announce that we will be partnering more deeply with our members in three areas moving forward.
04 Feb 2020

Fireside Chat Part 2 | Liberate Your Foundation: Lessons from POC, Queer, and Allied Foundation Leaders

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
February 4, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
How was philanthropic wealth created in the first place? Who should lead foundations? Who gets to decide how wealth is distributed? Philanthropy is undergoing a moment of reckoning, with many inside and outside the sector questioning the way that...
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Briefing Program
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

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