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22 Jul 2016

Culture Matters

July 22, 2016 -
9:30am to 10:45am
Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Join this conversation about how to initiate a conversation about culture and culture change in your own organization and hear some initial findings from GEO’s new work on culture.
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About Philanthropy
07 Aug 2019

Sacramento Funders Meeting on Wildfire Preparedness

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
August 7, 2019 -
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Governor's Office, State Capitol
Please join us in the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom to learn about our efforts to build disaster resiliency and philanthropy’s role in wildfire preparedness, featuring a presentation by California's Chief Service Officer, Karen Baker, on...
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Disaster Preparedness
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Disaster Response and Resilience
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SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
26 Mar 2020

3/26 | Weekly Funder Roundtable | Supporting Legal Services in the Time of COVID-19

March 26, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Webinar
Each week the LSFN will host a funder roundtable to facilitate funder-specific discussions around the ways in which COVID-19 is impacting the populations served by legal services organizations, and the legal aid organizations themselves...
02 Apr 2020

4/2 | Weekly Funder Roundtable | Supporting Legal Services in the Time of COVID-19

April 2, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Webinar
Each week the LSFN will host a funder roundtable to facilitate funder-specific discussions around the ways in which COVID-19 is impacting the populations served by legal services organizations, and the legal aid organizations themselves...
09 Apr 2020

4/9 | Weekly Funder Roundtable | Supporting Legal Services in the Time of COVID-19

April 9, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Webinar
Each week the LSFN will host a funder roundtable to facilitate funder-specific discussions around the ways in which COVID-19 is impacting the populations served by legal services organizations, and the legal aid organizations themselves...

Closing Performance + Plenary: Nonprofit Leader Conversation

Nonprofits are central to impacting the issues we care about. How do we ensure they are strong, resilient, and continue to have impact? Join us for a conversation to hear from local nonprofit leaders with Vu Le and Fatima Angeles about what they’ve faced in the last year, how they’ve been able to manage and survive and what they need from us to be strong going forward and impact the region’s most pressing issues. 

Date & Time: 
10/13/2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
08 Oct 2021

2021 New Grantmakers Institute: Grantmaking for the 21st Century

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
October 8, 2021 - 10:00am to November 12, 2021 - 12:30pm
Virtual Training
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. Please contact Kate Seely (kseely[at]ncg[dot]org) with questions. Target Audience NCG's New Grantmakers Institute (NGI) is created for those who are new to philanthropy, want to renew their skills, or...
23 Jul 2015

Corporate Philanthropy Awards 2015

July 23, 2015 -
7:15am to 11:45am
Hilton Union Square
The Bay Area is home to some of the most generous and caring companies in the world. To honor the work of our local corporate philanthropists the San Francisco Business Times is hosting its annual Corporate Philanthropy Awards on July 23rd in San...
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Corporate Giving
10 May 2021

2021 Communications Institute

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 10, 2021 (All day)
6-Month Institute
Application Deadline: May 7, 2021 Are you a mid-career communications professional in philanthropy, eager to build professional knowledge, skills, and networks? Are you looking to foster peer support, share best practices, and create a long-lasting...

Everything Wrong with The Verge’s Article, “What to Expect from the 2021 Fire Season in the West”

Release Date: 
08/04/2021
As fire season sets in, the stream of well-meaning articles entering our news feed is on the rise. They’re intended to help us make sense of and respond to the threat of wildfire and smoke. What worries me though, is what’s missing from these pithy...
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
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Impact Investing
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Resources for #MoreThanMoney

Ableism: a social attitude that having a disability makes someone a less valued member of society. It assumes that the ways able–bodied people live are the best ways to live. In addition to grantmaking, advocacy funders play a critical role in advancing social justice: agenda-setting and shifting narratives. But while more and more disabled people are being included in philanthropy, funders often overlook ableism as an area of structural discrimination, even here in the Bay Area where disability civil rights were born. Because many funders' understanding of ableism continues...
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Equity and Social Justice
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SF Bay Area

Resources from An Optimist’s Guide to Benefits in the Gig Economy

Publication date: 
03/2017
Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) and the Asset Funders Network (AFN) invited funders to hear from the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, the Indy Worker Guild , and the National Domestic Workers Alliance to develop an understanding of the opportunities and challenges of the gig economy. We also explored potential policy and other solutions that might support the particular needs of low-wage workers in this new area of the economy.
12 Sep 2019

Belonging in Practice: How to Be Antiracist

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
September 12, 2019 -
3:00pm to 6:00pm
UC Berkeley
Borealis Philanthropy, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) are excited to invite you to a special afternoon with Ibram X. Kendi, one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist...
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SF Bay Area
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Equity and Social Justice
10 Jun 2021

The Cultural, Historical, & Political Foundations of Racism | 2021 Foundations of Racial Equity Session 1

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 10, 2021 - 9:30am to June 22, 2021 - 12:00pm
About the Series Anti-Black racism and white supremacy are embedded in philanthropy and in our institutions, often invisible to the majority of us, even as we work with intention towards equity and justice. As change agents within philanthropy, we...

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