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21 Apr 2021

Moving to Racial Equity: What’s Getting in the Way!?! | A Conversation with Funders

April 21, 2021 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Private funders in the Bay Area and across the nation have long acknowledged the need to increase attention to racial equity. Many funding leaders and organizations have made progress over recent years. Yet Latinx and other nonprofit leaders of...

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Briefing Webinar

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Statewide

10 Nov 2021

Engaging the Next Generation | National Center for Family Philanthropy

Areas of Focus

Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

November 10, 2021 -

9:00am to 10:15am

NCG recently announced a partnership with NCFP. Members can now have free access to NCFP's webinars and resources. You can learn more about it here . The promise of family philanthropy is fulfilled by its members—often across...

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Briefing Webinar

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Strategic Philanthropy

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Keeping Partner Trust: A Support System for Nonprofit Arts Organizations

Release Date:

05/12/2022

I found myself, one day, along with my colleague Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, now the ED of MACLA, facing a nine-month delay for a significant grant that supported the work. MACLA was subsidizing the work with no funds. The intermediary was not...

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NCG Blog

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Arts Loan Fund

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Arts and Culture

Development Operations Manager

Position:

Development Operations Manager

The Development Operations Manager is a development professional who is skilled at using data and research to drive fundraising strategy. As part of the Development team, you will be responsible for maintaining and leveraging Tipping Point’s donor database and online fundraising platform to...

Giving Officer

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Giving Officer

The Giving Officer plays a key role on Tipping Point’s development team, building strong relationships with a portfolio of existing donors and helping to expand Tipping Point’s donor base across the Bay Area. This is an opportunity for an emerging or aspiring development leader with strong...

Children's Health Programs in California: Promoting a Lifetime of Health and Well-Being

Publication date:

05/2015

California Budget & Policy Center's report looks at our state’s health care system for children and their families, including both public health care coverage and public health programs.

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Affordable Healthcare Act

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Youth Organizing and Youth Power

Health

2014 State of the Arts & Culture Sector

Publication date:

09/2014

This Nonprofit Finance Fund report focuses on systemic barriers within the arts funding system—as well as the actions and strategies that arts organizations are taking to cope with those barriers, while adapting to a world in artistic flux.

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19 NCG Members Honored at Corporate Philanthropy Awards

Release Date:

07/23/2015

This morning, The San Francisco Business Times presented the NCG sponsored, Corporate Philanthropy Awards & Summit. NCG is proud to announce that 15 of our corporate members were on the list and three of them were in The Fab Five.

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Spotlight on New Grantmakers

Release Date:

10/15/2015

This year, Kate Seely designed NCG's 2015 New Grantmakers Institute, a two-day workshop welcoming people to the field. Hear what attendees had to say.

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NCG Blog

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Community Foundation

Emerging Practitioners

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Leadership Development

New Grantmakers Institute

Next Gen

22 Mar 2017

Leadership for Equity and Opportunity (LEO) | Rise Together Institute

Areas of Focus

Leadership, Culture and Community

March 22, 2017 - 8:00am to June 16, 2017 - 5:00pm

Nile Hall

Leadership for Equity and Opportunity is a learning-in-action program that builds the capacity of a diverse group of community leaders to produce extraordinary results for equitable individual, organizational and community change. Hosted by Rise...

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Professional Development Program

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Leadership Development

Areas of Focus

Leadership, Culture and Community

Using Knowledge to Improve Funder Practice

Release Date:

03/02/2017

Read the piece originally published on the SSIR by NCG members Lindsay Louie and Fay Twersk y from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. You can hear from Fay when she leads and interviews the panel of the...

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Leadership, Culture and Community

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:...

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NCG Blog

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Disaster Preparedness

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Disaster Response and Resilience

Areas of Focus

Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Hurricane Dorian: How to Help

Release Date:

09/04/2019

Hurrican Dorian devastated the Bahamas and is currently threatening the southeastern United States. Check out strategic giving resources, learn how to help, and get information on how Philanthropy California can support your giving.

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NCG Blog

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Disaster Preparedness

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Disaster Response and Resilience

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Kincade Fire and Other Northern California Fires: How to Help

Release Date:

10/25/2019

The Kincade Fire broke out on the night of Wednesday, October 23, 2019, in rural Sonoma County. Since then, the fire has forced thousands of people to evacuate in the county.

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NCG Blog

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Disaster Preparedness

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Disaster Response and Resilience

Areas of Focus

Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Geography

SF Bay Area

What We're Reading: Operationalizing Racial Equity Edition

Release Date:

02/02/2022

The lunar new year of the tiger began on February 1, so it's still a new year which means we have an opportunity for a fresh start. Leaders and staff in organizations from different sectors use the phrase “racial equity” or “diversity, equity, and...

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NCG Blog

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Equity and Social Justice

Five Opportunities for Philanthropy to Protect and Expand Abortion Access in a Post-Roe v Wade World

Release Date:

06/29/2022

In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court of the United States’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization struck down both Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). This landmark decision eliminated a person’s constitutional...

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NCG Blog

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Equity and Social Justice

Public Policy

LUCA resource, An Effective Strategy To Reduce Census Undercount: Results from California Pilots of Community-Based Address Canvassing (March 2018)

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Collaborative Efforts We Love

Release Date:

09/26/2016

Collaboration - it’s been on our minds a lot lately. Across the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors many organizations are throwing aside the “go-it-alone” mentality in favor of working together to address complex problems.