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18 Apr 2016

Powerful Grants Data at Your Fingertips: Foundation Maps Training

April 18, 2016 -
10:00am to 11:00am
Online webinar
Join us for an interactive statewide webinar to learn about our powerful new data tool, Foundation Maps: California, which displays information about more than 200,000 grants made by 260+ California grantmakers and is free to members of Northern...

Trump’s Tax Plan Would Only Help Wealthy Parents

Release Date: 
08/15/2016
NCG member Surina Khan is the CEO of the Women's Foundation of California. Check out her Op-Ed in Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle for a host of solutions to make childcare affordable in the Bay Area.
14 Jun 2017

2017 Social Impact Exchange Conference on Scaling Impact

June 14, 2017 - 8:30am to June 15, 2017 - 5:00pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Philanthropy California (an initiative of Northern California Grantmakers, San Diego Grantmakers and Southern California Grantmakers) is pleased to support the 2017 Social Impact Exchange Conference on Scaling Impact. This year’s Conference theme is...

The Other Big C: Collaboration

Release Date: 
05/01/2017
With the uncertainty of the Affordable Care Act, the ACA policy brief at our annual conference was a packed house. Jim Hickman , CEO of Better Health East Bay , moderated the panel. Hear his takeaways from the conversation and how...

Purposeful Action: Four Key Takeaways from the Corporate Philanthropy Institute

Release Date: 
02/26/2018
Bringing together over 200 corporate responsibility and philanthropy professionals, the fourth CPI ignited rich discussions around business’ responsibility to take purposeful action in our changing world. Here are four key highlights that...
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For the People: Protecting and Restoring Faith in Our Democracy | 4/18/2019

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04/2019
On March 8, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 , which is perhaps the most comprehensive political reform proposal in a generation by our elected representatives. The “For the People Act” seeks to restore faith in our republican democracy as a genuinely representative system open to broad participation and protected from corruption and the outsized influence of special interest money. The provisions of the bill would make it easier for people to vote and strengthen campaign finance & ethics laws.
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Thank You for an Amazing Conference!

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06/02/2015
Wow! What an exhilarating day. Thank you for spending a day with us. Thank you for bringing your curiosity, your passion, and your intelligence to the conversations, plenaries, and sessions throughout the day. Thank you for your investing in our...

The Volunteer "Toolkit" | KQED and the SF Homeless Project

Release Date: 
11/07/2016
As part of a collaboration with dozens of Bay Area news organizations, KQED is shining another light on the issue of homelessness and housing insecurity with the SF Homeless Project. Take a look at the "toolkit" KQED has provided for volunteer...
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Policy Update

Release Date: 
03/30/2017
As Northern California Grantmakers CEO Ellen LaPointe discussed in her January message , NCG is building capacity to engage in public policy work with our members, our partners, and our Philanthropy California colleagues.

Disaster Updates and Reflections

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09/20/2017
Yesterday’s news that a second earthquake struck Mexico and that Hurricane Maria would be bearing down on Puerto Rico today left us with heavy hearts and feelings of disbelief — how much more could possibly happen? For reflections and practical...

Ideas Fest: 30 Ideas to Change the World

Release Date: 
03/15/2018
This year, NCG is creating a new kind of space adapted from the tech sector’s ‘un-conference’ and tracing its origins to indigenous practices of creating open space for differing views. This ‘new space’ which, for our purposes, we’ll call ...

Global Chase Bank Team takes on Bay Area’s Nonprofit Displacement Challenge

Release Date: 
11/07/2019
What do you get when you set four top-performing bankers from Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, and San Francisco on a three-week sprint to map the next leg of the Bay Area’s efforts to secure space for its prized nonprofits? A welcome strategy for...

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...

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