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13 Apr 2017

NCG Book Club | Discussion of The Sellout

April 13, 2017 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Join NCG Book Club for a discussion of The Sellout by Paul Beatty. Bring your lunch and an appetite for conversation.
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Social
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Book Club
29 Jun 2017

NCG Book Club | Discussion of An Unnecessary Woman

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 29, 2017 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Join NCG Book Club for a discussion of An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine. Bring your lunch and an appetite for conversation.
20 Jul 2017

Celebrate "the New" at NCG's Summer Open House!

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
July 20, 2017 -
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
We recently revamped our brand, welcomed new team members , and expanded and remodeled our offices . We are now thrilled to invite you to our Summer Open House during which you can see all the exciting new changes and meet the new additions to our...

Toward New Gravity: Charting a Course for the Narrative Initiative

The field of narrative change is both emerging and eternal. From mythology to marketing, the human impulse – no, necessity – to make sense of the world, to justify values and bolster beliefs, is innate and immutable. We build, inherit and rely on schematic shortcuts for our own cognitive comprehension and physical survival. We learn codes and internalize signals meant to protect us: which colors and sounds represent safety or danger, whose authority we trust or reject, whose lives and dreams matter. Humans, as pattern-seeking social creatures, assemble collections of mutually-reinforcing...
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Report
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Communications Staff
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Communications

Reflecting on Charlottesville: A Statement from Philanthropy California

Release Date: 
08/14/2017
Like all of you, we are appalled by the displays of racism-fueled violence perpetuated by the KKK, Neo-Nazis, and similar groups that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend. We want to reiterate to our members across California that in...
27 Nov 2017

NCG Book Club | Tracks by Louise Erdrich

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
November 27, 2017 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Join NCG Book Club for a discussion of Tracks by Louise Erdrich. Bring your lunch and an appetite for conversation!
12 Jul 2018

2020 Census California Complete Count Regional Convening | San Francisco

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
July 12, 2018 -
9:00am to 12:30pm
The Women's Building
The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research California Complete Count team for Census 2020 invites you to the July 12th San Francisco regional convening to help build our community’s capacity to achieve a complete count during the 2020 Census.

Resources for A Grantmaking New Year’s Resolution: A Values-Based Grantmaking Practice

Publication date: 
02/2019
Values-aligned grantmaking is becoming every day parlance in our field, with good reason: foundation professionals are increasingly conscious of the role they play in social change. Similarly, the challenges we face seem ever more difficult to solve, and the injustices individuals, communities, and the planet face are heartbreaking. Making highly effective grants across a portfolio and even across an entire foundation is the nut we are all trying to crack. Given the current moment in philanthropy, in our country, and across the world, grantmakers are looking more intentionally at their own...

News | Youth Power Fund

Youth Power Fund_thumbnail.jpg California Funders Announce Second Phase of Youth Power Fund Wednesday, September 8, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO -- Following a co-design process with youth leaders, youth organizing staff, and funders, a...

Resources from Fires: Post-Program and Community Support

Publication date: 
10/2017
On October 17th, we were joined by over 150 participants on our funder call with leaders of local community foundations and disaster experts located in the areas most affected by recent Northern California wildfires. We heard a firsthand report of the situation, and learned what funders, nonprofits, and government are doing to assist at this stage of the emergency.

Announcing a New Five-Year Initiative: Building Community-Led Real Estate Infrastructure

Release Date: 
06/17/2021
We are now excited to announce the launch of the California Community-Owned Real Estate (CalCORE) Program – a five-year, state-wide initiative to increase community-controlled and mission-driven real estate for Black communities, Indigenous...

Bay Area: Closing the Women's Wealth Gap

Publication date: 
02/2017
Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap—What It Is, Why It Matters, and What Can Be Done About It aims to inform a national discussion about the women’s wealth gap, and to catalyze movement towards policy and practical solutions that build wealth for low-income women and women of color.
12 Jul 2018

Philanthropy’s Response to the Addition of a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Public Policy
July 12, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Webinar
On June 8, the Commerce Department (which oversees the Census Bureau) invited the public to comment on the paperwork associated with the 2020 Census. The public has 60 days – until August 7 – to submit comments.
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Briefing Webinar
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Philanthropy CA
Policy
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Populations & Communities
Geographic Location 
National
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Public Policy

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