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Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens
A focus on racial equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grantmaking process. Blending experience and candid advice from grantmakers, this guide explores how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation.
The Foundations of Racial Equity
Release Date:
05/14/2021
As the movement moment that emerged in 2020 continues to expand in its breadth and importance, the entirety of the philanthropic sector wrestles with a fundamental question: what can we do that will make meaningful change in the conditions that have...
Racial Equity Action Institute
Learn more about the Racial Equity Action Institute here.
Geographies of Opportunity: Ranking Well-Being by Congressional District
Publication date:
04/2015
This report by Measure of America is an in-depth look at how residents of America’s 436 congressional districts are faring in three fundamental areas of life: health, access to knowledge, and living standards.
Building a Beloved Community: Strengthening the Field of Black Male Achievement
Publication date:
08/2014
This report by BMAfunders (Black Male Achievement), a project of the Open Society Foundations and the Foundation Center is more than your typical philanthropic research analysis.
JSI Report | Integrating Housing Strategies with Health: An Opportunity to Advance Whole-Person Care in California
Publication date:
06/2015
A report prepared by JSI Research & Training Institute, titled Integrating Housing Strategies with Health: An Opportunity to Advance Whole-Person Care in California.
Honoring Mayor Edwin Lee
Release Date:
12/12/2017
Our community notes with sorrow the untimely death of Edwin Lee, the first Asian American mayor of San Francisco. We will remember him as a champion of the rights of those whose voices often go unheard.
07
Jul
2020
Building Wildfire Resilience in the West: The Convergence of COVID-19 and Wildfire | Session 1
Areas of Focus
July 7, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Zoom Webinar
About this Series Western landscapes have always burned and always will. The more we suppress fire and change the climate, the more catastrophic wildfires become. How can we make communities and wild lands more resilient in the age of megafire?...
28
May
2020
Labor and Employment: Supporting Legal Services in the Time of COVID-19
May 28, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Join the LSFN as we delve into the impact of COVID-19 on labor and employment. Our featured speaker will be Joan C. Williams, an American feminist legal scholar whose work focuses on issues faced by women in the workplace, the beneficial impact of...
Resources from the 2013 California Budget Project Analysis
Publication date:
02/2013
For more than a decade, Northern California Grantmakers has partnered with the California Budget Project to inform members about the annual budgets that impact underserved communities and grantees they serve.
07
Feb
2019
Silicon Valley Nonprofit Displacement Briefing | Thrive's Philanthropy Matters
Areas of Focus
February 7, 2019 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
Sobrato Center for Nonprofits
Please join NCG and Thrive, the Alliance of Nonprofits for San Mateo County, for a joint nonprofit and funder briefing to share the findings from the Silicon Valley Nonprofit Space and Facilities Report and discuss their implications for our...
26
Jun
2018
Public Charge: The Policy that Could Change Everything for Immigrant Families
Areas of Focus
June 26, 2018 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
A new policy change is coming in under the radar with the potential to affect immigrants in a way that would be more dramatic than the ban for Muslims entering the country and ending DACA for young people. Given the breadth and scope of this...
NCG Welcomes our Newest Members | Part 2
Release Date:
06/08/2015
2015 has been a busy year for NCG! This year we decided to expand our membership qualifications, and in doing so have some great members who are new to our community.
Resources from Strengthening Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework
Publication date:
09/2017
In this September 26 workshop, we explored how companies tell a strong CSR Impact story, reviewed the process for clarifying priority program goals, and learned how to build a framework for identifying and collecting the signature program information and data necessary to tell that story.
26
Jun
2018
Innovations in Nonprofit Capacity Building with a Regional Approach
Areas of Focus
June 26, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
The San Francisco Foundation
How can foundations address the targeted capacity building needs of nonprofits, at scale, throughout a region? The San Francisco Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation are mobilizing resources and acting as catalysts for change to build...
For Generations to Come: Chinese American Philanthropy in the Bay Area
Publication date:
03/2015
NCG members the Chinese American Community Foundation and Silicon Valley Community Foundation partnered to publish this report to better understand and celebrate the Chinese American community in the Bay Area, including the many contributions made to the Bay Area.
25
Feb
2021
Bay Area Regional Homelessness: A Data Sharing System to Accelerate Impact
Areas of Focus
February 25, 2021 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Regional approaches are essential to addressing the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis, but without a system for sharing data across jurisdictions, our counties operate in siloes. A regional data-sharing system would transform the Bay Area’s ability to...
11
Sep
2014
Social Change, Advocacy, and Movement Building: The Role for Funders
September 11, 2014 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
NCG is excited to partner with Alliance for Justice to present an encore of the most popular session from our 2014 NCG Annual Conference.