Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact: Part I, II & III
Publication date:
05/2014
Practical guidance for planning and implementing evaluations of collective impact initiatives.
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Business Consultant/Analyst Lead, Community Health
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Business Consultant/Analyst Lead, Community Health
What is the work?
The Business Consultant/Analyst Lead, Community Health will be responsible for program management of a broad array of our Housing for Health portfolio, including our portfolio of grants, communications and impact reporting, and internal coordination...
Resources for the Census 2020 RFP Information Sessions
The United States Census is conducted every 10 years in accordance with the U.S. Constitution. It is the most expansive peacetime exercise of the federal government as it aims to count every single resident living in the entire country. A fair and accurate census is essential to numerous aspects of civic life, from allocation of billions of dollars in federal funds to political representation at all levels of government. Unfortunately, history has repeatedly shown that certain groups – including people of color, immigrants, low-income communities, and children – are statistically more likely...
Disrupting Poverty: Coming Together to Build Financial Security for Individuals and Communities
This report found that integrating efforts which support individual capability can improve the overall success of U.S. organizations working to disrupt the cycle of poverty.
Pam David's Next Play
Release Date:
04/26/2018
NCG President and CEO, Ellen LaPointe, interviewed our Senior Fellow, Pam David, on her next play in philanthropy and baseball.
28
Jan
2020
Gender Justice and Women’s Leadership in the Climate Justice Movement: A Roundtable Discussion
Areas of Focus
January 28, 2020 -
10:00am to 1:00pm
Oakstop 14
Women are at the forefront of cutting-edge climate justice movement work at the local level and across California , nationally , and globally . Yet, women are disproportionately impacted by the effects of and bare unique burdens...
Resources for Collective Impact: From Common Goals to Uncommon Results
Publication date:
10/2018
Collective Impact is one of those buzzwords that you often hear in our sector. Since the publication of the article Collective Impact in the winter 2011 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this framework for successful cross-sector collaboration has been used to address a plethora of complex issues. But while many collective impact efforts have reported achieving positive results through their work, and have a personal, intuitive understanding of why this approach to collaboration has enabled positive progress in communities, there has not until recently been a methodologically...
Five Ways Funders Can Support Movements Building True Multiracial, Feminist Democracy
Release Date:
11/12/2020
What role can philanthropy now play to restore some guardrails and resource these movements? We offer some reflections on the current moment as well as a few recommendations to guide social justice, human rights, and democracy funders.
Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration
Publication date:
12/2006
Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration , published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees in 2006, is a succinct, easy-to-understand guide that describes how grantmakers at all levels can play an important leadership role on this issue. This toolkit for grantmakers draws on extensive research and interviews with hundreds of foundation, community, business, and government leaders. It incorporates academic research as well as policy and community-based concerns into a resource that also can inform the work of practitioners in the nonprofit, public, and...
Special Performance + Shift Happens: A Conversation with Taj James and Kat Taylor
This year brought about changes that before seemed unthinkable. And yet, in a matter of weeks, we shut everything down. And just a few months later, we took to the streets in the country’s largest uprising. In this historic moment, we know shift needs to happen. This is philanthropy’s moment to dream even bigger and move even more boldly. This is our moment to shake things up.
Date & Time:
05/20/2021 -
9:30am to 11:00am
Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together
Publication date:
02/2015
This GrantCraft guide tackles many topics, including investment approaches, appraisal of funding opportunities from the standpoints of opportunity assessment and funder capacity, funder-grantee power dynamics, and assessing impact.
29
Jul
2020
Holding Multiple Truths: Challenges and Calls to Actions for AAPI Communities in the Pandemic and Uprising for Racial Justice
Areas of Focus
July 29, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Zoom Meeting
We are in a crisis within a crisis. We are facing a pandemic of COVID-19 within systemic racism, which has always been with us. Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities are facing a particular set of experiences in the pandemic that...
Resources from Full Cost Project Two-Day Workshop: Asking For and Funding Full Costs
Publication date:
10/2017
In our two-day Full Cost workshop, funders and nonprofits worked together to explore some of the Full Cost tips and strategies that can work for them. This hands-on training provided a unique space for leaders and staff on both sides of the funding equation to break down barriers and learn together. Over the course of the workshop, participants followed a case study organization and learned to analyze financial statements with a Full Cost mind-set in order to arrive at a Full Cost assessment for the case study.
New Disaster Czar Takes the Helm at NCG
Release Date:
10/17/2016
Northern California Grantmakers is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrea Zussman as the Manager of Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability. Andrea will take the lead in setting forth a framework for disaster preparedness and response around...
13
Apr
2020
Discussion on Funder Collaboration for COVID-19
Areas of Focus
April 13, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is far reaching, including major implications for non-profits and the communities that they serve. Philanthropy has an important role to play in supporting their non-profit partners during this challenging time in...
What Donors Value: How Community Foundations Can Increase Donor Satisfaction, Referrals, and Future Giving
Publication date:
04/2014
To better understand how community foundations can best respond to the current environment, The Center for Effective Philanthropy asked donors about how satisfied they are with the community foundations with which they work.
Resources from The Dramatic Discovery of Solano County: How One Bay Area County Fell Off the Funder Map and What We Can Do About It!
Publication date:
09/2016
Rewind Back to 2006 . A report from the Irvine Foundation on Foundation Giving in California found that Solano County received substantially fewer foundation dollars compared to eight other Bay Area counties. Fast Forward to 2016 . Ten years later and according to a recent study , Solano County continues to receive the least amount of dollars per capita despite having the highest percentage of families living in poverty. The study points out that between 2006 and 2012, almost half of the grant dollars invested in the Bay Area went to San Francisco‐based...
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...
Affirmative Action Slammed Shut Behind Me: Prop 16 Reopens Opportunity
Release Date:
10/01/2020
The places we call home, their streets, smells, sounds, and sights, shape our opportunity for a fair shot at a long and healthy life. I grew up in the shadows of greatness, in the city of pride and purpose, Richmond, California. During WWII, it was...
Resources for April 6th COVID-19 Discussion on Funder Collaboration
Publication date:
04/2020
The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is far reaching, including major implications for non-profits and the communities that they serve. Philanthropy has an important role to play in supporting their non-profit partners during this challenging time in which there will be an increase in demand for their services. Through-out the next month, NCG will host a funders coordination meeting (via Zoom) every Monday from 11:00 am - 12:00 noon. During these calls, participants will hear from other local funders on what they see their role is and share about specific needs they are hearing about in the...