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Informal Child Care in California: Current Arrangements and Future Needs

NCG member the David & Lucile Packard Foundation recently engaged with three research teams compiling information in an effort to broaden understanding of caregivers’ motivations and experiences, and to provide a more nuanced depiction of the adults who are caring for California's youngest children.

An Interview with James W. Head | Solutions for Sustainability

Release Date: 
10/24/2016
James W. Head is President and CEO of The East Bay Community Foundation . Read his interview — conducted by Constance J. Walker , President of Walker and Associates Consulting — discussing his commitment to enhance the growth, sustainability, impact...
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NCG Member Takes on Gender Disparities in Science

Release Date: 
10/05/2017
Although women make up almost 50% of the physics students in high school, physics and astronomy have the lowest percentages of women professionals out of all STEM fields. The Heising-Simons Foundation is helping to increase the percentage - hear...
21 Feb 2019

Young People Driving Social Change through The Ballot Box and Beyond

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
February 21, 2019 -
10:00am to 12:30pm
The San Francisco Foundation
In the November 2018 elections, 31 percent of youth (ages 18-29) voted - the highest level of participation among youth in a mid-term election in the past three decades. Simultaneously, the country is in the middle of a massive demographic shift...

Why We’ve Stopped Saying ‘Natural Disaster’ and You Should Too

Release Date: 
08/01/2019
Not so long ago, I used the term "natural disaster" in a manuscript for a publication. My PhD supervisor shot back, “There's nothing natural about disasters.” Decades of hazard research and our frontline communities are concluding the same thing:...
19 Apr 2021

Seeking to Soar: A Call for Collective Action

April 19, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Seeking to Soar Webinar_ Banner.png We are proud to co-sponsor AAPIP’s upcoming webinar, Seeking to Soar: A Call for Collective Action . In the midst of heightened anti-Asian violence, AAPIP released Seeking to Soar , a new report which revealed...
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Curriculum | 2022 Communications Institute

Session 1: Interdependence with Ourselves, Each Other, and Movements Faculty Lead: Sonia Guiñansaca Goal: Gain awareness of the needs, values, and support you need while leading values-based communications in...

Get on the Map: What, Why, How?

Release Date: 
01/28/2015
Learn more about the "Get on the Map" campaign and the new tool Foundation Maps—a highly interactive and searchable mapping platform—at the upcoming February 3rd webinar hosted by the Foundation Center.

Progress in Millions

Release Date: 
09/08/2015
It’s a seemingly simple strategy—company thrives, company delivers more earnings, company has more to give back. The Levi Strauss Foundation began its giving strategy years ago and just recently hit an awe inspiring milestone of $300 million in...

Announcing Powerhouse Workshops | NCG's 2016 Annual Conference

Release Date: 
05/12/2016
Choose your lunch breakout sessions and get strategies, tools, and methods to bring your own Power of Now back to the office. Apply big ideas on culture, technology, race and gender equity, and wealth concentration into your own work.
22 Jun 2016

Webinar - The California Women’s Well-Being Index: A Resource for Helping All Women Thrive

June 22, 2016 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Webinar
When women thrive, our families and communities prosper. To provide a look at how women are faring across the state, the California Budget & Policy Center, in partnership with the Women’s Foundation of California, has created the ...

California Foundation Data—Now Available At-a-Glance

Release Date: 
09/29/2016
Not surprisingly, the most frequent questions we get from grantseekers and grantmakers alike relate to getting a lay of the overall philanthropic landscape. Getting key statistics for California institutional philanthropy just got a lot easier with...
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Addendum | Nonprofit Displacement Report

Over the course of four briefings with funders and nonprofits we gathered tremendous input toward solutions on the issue of displacement. On behalf of the working group who has guided this effort, we are pleased to provide this summary of many of the good ideas participants contributed.

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