Resources from NCG's 2015 Annual Conference
Publication date:
05/2015
Resources from NCG's 2015 Annual Conference
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Trend or Tipping Point: Arts & Social Change Grantmaking
Publication date:
10/2013
Trend or Tipping Point: Arts & Social Change Grantmaking assembles a first-time portrait of arts funders, social change funders, and others supporting civic engagement and social change through arts and cultural strategies.
27
May
2020
CCJFG | 2020 Funder Education Series Part 2: Healing Justice
Areas of Focus
May 27, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Webinar
Healing is a critical aspect of the movement against criminalization, prisons, and policing and yet, it is rarely prioritized within funding. Without a healing justice framework, we are more likely to reinforce and replicate the oppressive systems...
04
Feb
2020
Fireside Chat Part 2 | Liberate Your Foundation: Lessons from POC, Queer, and Allied Foundation Leaders
Areas of Focus
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...
It's Great to Be Here
Release Date:
05/06/2015
Hello! I am delighted to be joining Northern California Grantmakers at this moment in time. NCG has a long and distinguished pedigree. Many of the leading thinkers in philanthropy founded and have helped shape our organization over the years. We...
Resources from How Can Foundations Work With Their Grantees to be Effective Communicators?
Publication date:
07/2012
How Can Foundations Work with Their Grantees to be Effective Communicators is part of NCG's 2012 Communications Series.
23
May
2019
A Better Measure of Need: The Real Cost Measure in California
Areas of Focus
May 23, 2019 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Creating widespread economic opportunity in the Bay Area, especially for communities of color, requires a better understanding of what a decent standard of living actually costs in our region. The commonly used federal poverty measure vastly...
Benchmarking 2012: Trends in Education Philanthropy
Publication date:
06/2012
Grantmakers for Education's annual Benchmarking series helpers funders understand how the field is evolving, where and how funders are working, and what we are learning from this work.
Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits
Publication date:
09/2014
This new D5 report confirms that foundations can, in fact, facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through their grantmaking processes and their partnerships with nonprofits—and identifies eight specific practices for foundations to emulate.
Resource from Building the Bench: How Philanthropy Can Sustain Nonprofit Leaders
Publication date:
10/2014
This interactive briefing, co-sponsored by Northern California Grantmakers and Bay Area Justice Funders Network, provided a three-way look at how the leadership bench is being built. Research from Rusty Stahl of Talent Philanthropy and Margi Clarke of RoadMap Consulting grounded our conversation as we examined how funders support and build internal benches of leadership within social justice organizations, as well as looked at what organizations are doing internally to sustain themselves for the long haul.
08
Nov
2018
Arts Education Policy Update: Successes, Challenges, the Fight Ahead
Areas of Focus
November 8, 2018 -
10:30am to 11:45am
Northern California Grantmakers
Arts education has enjoyed some key policy wins in recent years, among them formal recognition that federal Title I funds may be used to support arts education, passage of legislation that created teaching credentials in dance and theater in...
Resources from NCG's 2013 Annual Meeting
Publication date:
05/2013
At the 2013 NCG Annual Meeting we hosted a conversation with FSG Founder and Managing Director Mark Kramer about the latest learnings and progress on Collective Impact.
18
Sep
2019
Evaluation as a Tool for Equity: A Primer on Equitable Evaluation
Areas of Focus
September 18, 2019 -
11:00am to 12:15pm
Webinar
Join us for this exciting opportunity to advance your knowledge of equity in evaluation practice! This webinar will introduce equitable evaluation (EE), an emerging evaluative paradigm guided by a set of core principles grounded in equity. We will...
Post-Election Special: What Did We Learn? What’s Next? | 11/30/2016
Publication date:
12/2016
After a long and ugly ride, what are the key takeaways from the election? Where will these results take us? And what are the long-term strategies that will fuel the growing movement for a direct and participatory democracy?
20
Sep
2016
California Policy Webinar | From Marijuana to the Death Penalty: What Nonprofits & Philanthropy Need to Know About California's Ballot Propositions
September 20, 2016 -
10:30am to 11:30am
Online Webinar
With 17 State propositions to vote on this November, the idea of studying them all is pretty daunting. So instead, you can listen to some of the smartest nonprofit policy folks in the state discuss the ones most relevant to nonprofits. If you’re...
Building a Beloved Community: Strengthening the Field of Black Male Achievement
Publication date:
08/2014
This report by BMAfunders (Black Male Achievement), a project of the Open Society Foundations and the Foundation Center is more than your typical philanthropic research analysis.
Bay Area Homelessness Funders Network
Bay Area Homelessness Funders Network aligns philanthropy to advance racial equity and regional coordination in preventing and ending homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Resources from What’s next for California? The Immigration Agenda after the Supreme Court Decision
Publication date:
08/2016
Participants learned the latest on the Supreme Court ruling and its impact in the state of California, and explored how philanthropy in California can strengthen and support the immigrant community.
21
Jul
2020
Building Wildfire Resilience in the West: Catastrophic Wildfire - Opportunities for Intervention | Session 3
July 21, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Zoom Webinar
About this Series Western landscapes have always burned and always will. The more we suppress fire and change the climate, the more catastrophic wildfires become. How can we make communities and wild lands more resilient in the age of megafire?...
26
Apr
2023
Guaranteed Income: A Roadmap to Policy Solutions for California
April 26, 2023 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual Event
In 2019 Stockton SEED was the first ever Mayoral led city-wide guaranteed income pilot in the country, eventually leading to the creation of Mayor’s for Guaranteed Income (MGI). Now numbering over 100+ cities around the country MGI helped catalyze...