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13 Feb 2020

Growing Dollars for Prevention: A California Wellness Trust

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
February 13, 2020 -
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
This event has been postponed. We will update registrants once we confirm a future date.

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.
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Presentation
Audience 
Program Staff
Topic(s) 
Leadership Development
Funding Area 
Infrastructure: Capacity Building

Many Voices, One Goal

Publication date: 
12/2014
Many Voices, One Goal: How an Informal Foundation Collaboration Helped Make California History is a new report produced by NCG members The Stuart Foundation and the Silver Giving Foundation on their collaborative work to influence education financing policy in California.
13 Oct 2020

The Path to Portfolio Activation

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
October 13, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Zoom Webinar
You have decided you want to start making impact investments and you need buy-in within your organization. How do smaller foundations develop the capacity to execute a strategy? Learn strategies and approaches to develop consensus from leaders that...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Impact Investing
Funding Area 
Populations & Communities
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
08 Oct 2015

South Bay | Beyond the Grant: Solutions for Building Nonprofit Operational Excellence

October 8, 2015 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
This event will showcase two funder initiatives that went beyond grantmaking to help strengthen the operations of nonprofit grantees. This event will include discussions with The Wallace Foundation and Tipping Point Community as well as grantees...
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...
08 Aug 2017

Full Cost Project One-Day Workshop: Unpacking Full Cost

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
August 8, 2017 -
9:00am to 5:00pm
Google Community Space
The Full Cost conversation is happening nationally, and funders here in California have a special opportunity to lead the way and make an impact on grantmaking practices far beyond our own region.

Resources from Legislative Briefing on Census 2020

Publication date: 
05/2018
On May 18th, Senator Richard Pan, Chair of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Census, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, Chair of the Assembly’s Select Committee on the Census, joined NCG members for lunch and had a conversation of how to best leverage our philanthropic investments to ensure a complete and accurate count of all people in California on the Census 2020.

Resources from What's on the Horizon for Health Equity in 2020?

The Bay Area Health Funders Group, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, and the California HealthCare Foundation hosted an in-depth discussion of the progress we’ve made on health equity policy priorities in 2019, what’s on the horizon for 2020, and how to help communities prepare for the many changes taking place. They explored how philanthropy can respond, and what role it can play in supporting positive policy change.
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Presentation
10 Jun 2019

An Update on the California Children’s Trust

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 10, 2019 -
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
The California Children’s Trust (the Trust) formed in 2018 to reimagine California’s behavioral health system for children. It is intended as a three-year initiative to build a broad-based coalition that advances a fundamentally different approach...
09 Jul 2020

Justice in Recovery: Building a New Economy for California

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
July 9, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Zoom Webinar
In a matter of weeks, California’s years of record-breaking economic growth were wiped out, and the state now faces a historic recession. Confronting a $54 billion budget deficit, the Governor and Legislature are making hard choices considering cuts...
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Event type 
Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Philanthropy CA
Geographic Location 
Statewide
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
21 Oct 2021

Limited Life Foundations: Lessons from CEOs | National Center for Family Philanthropy

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
October 21, 2021 -
10:30am to 11:15am
Webinar
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 . Philanthropic purpose, impact, and perpetuity are on the minds of giving families...

Beyond Five Percent

Publication date: 
10/2007
Beyond Five Percent profiles several organizations that have charted alternative paths to the traditional lifespan model for foundations. This includes foundations that are adopting a limited existence by "spending down" their resources through a variety of methods, as well as those that have adopted policies of higher or flexible payout without necessarily intending to spend down. This report is intended to aid grantmakers looking for insightful approaches to philanthropy and innovative ways to deploy their assets.
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Research
Audience 
Board/Trustees
Executive Staff
Topic(s) 
Spending Down
15 Sep 2015

San Francisco | Beyond the Grant: Solutions for Building Nonprofit Operational Excellence

September 15, 2015 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
This event will showcase two funder initiatives that went beyond grantmaking to help strengthen the operations of nonprofit grantees. This event will include discussions with The Wallace Foundation and Tipping Point Community as well as grantees...

Smarter Philanthropy for Greater Impact: Rethinking How Grantmakers Support Scale

Publication date: 
02/2014
A special supplement sponsored by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) for the Stanford Social Innovation Review Spring 2014 edition. It was created to capture the latest thinking about how nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, public funders, and social entrepreneurs can increase the impact of successful solutions to urgent social challenges. In the following pages, leaders from across the social sector offer their perspectives on “scaling what works” — what it means, what it takes to do it right, and what needs to happen to ensure that proven and promising solutions find their way...

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