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Resources from Financial Series 2016 | Session 3 - Strategic Financial Management: “Thinking like a Finance Person”

Publication date: 
09/2016
In this workshop, Program Officers will gain an understanding of how to engage in a dialogue with grantees to identify their capacity for fiscal strategy around complex issues.

Advancing Human Rights: The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

Publication date: 
07/2014
The Foundation Center and International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) have produced two new resources that facilitate strategic decision making in human rights philanthropy: An interactive website that animates funding flows and a report analyzing $1.7 billion in grants.

Resources for Collective Impact: From Common Goals to Uncommon Results

Publication date: 
10/2018
Collective Impact is one of those buzzwords that you often hear in our sector. Since the publication of the article Collective Impact in the winter 2011 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this framework for successful cross-sector collaboration has been used to address a plethora of complex issues. But while many collective impact efforts have reported achieving positive results through their work, and have a personal, intuitive understanding of why this approach to collaboration has enabled positive progress in communities, there has not until recently been a methodologically...
30 Oct 2018

Informing the National Perspective on Immigration Reform

October 30, 2018 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Immigration issues have attracted significant attention over the past few years as changes in federal policies have ignited debates across the political spectrum. In July 2018, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and BPC Action published a new report...
11 May 2021

Survival & Strength: COVID-19 Recovery & Nonprofit Sustainability

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 11, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
For more than a year now, we’ve relied on our nonprofit partners to help us manage the multitude of impacts from COVID-19. They’ve fed, housed, healed, educated, inspired us, and fought for our rights. They’ve stepped up and stepped in to care for...
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Event type 
Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Human Resources
Strategic Philanthropy
Geographic Location 
Statewide
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
03 Aug 2021

Community Driven Narrative Power

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
August 3, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
California’s 2020 election presented voters with the opportunity to weigh in on critical propositions that had the potential to advance racial equity and social justice. While there was a strong voter turnout in California, the aftermath of the 2020...

Report: North Bay Fires and the Arts, One Year Later

Publication date: 
09/2018
October 2018 marks the one-year anniversary of the Northern California firestorm. With funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Northern California Grantmakers commissioned Learning for Action, an independent San Francisco-based research firm, to conduct this study to understand the extent of the fires’ impact on the arts community in the three most affected counties: Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino. The study, North Bay Fired and the Arts, One Year Later , draws upon quantitative and qualitative data collected in each of the three counties from individual artists...

Making Meaningful Connections

Publication date: 
07/2014
Part of The James Irvine Foundation's Arts Engagement Focus series, Making Meaningful Connections: Characteristics of Arts Groups that Engage New and Diverse Participants is a report authored by Helicon Collaborative. This research points to eight recognizable, definable attributes present across these organizations---attributes that are widely transferable and applicable in the field.

2012 Tracking Report: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations

Publication date: 
12/2013
This annual publication produced by Funders for LGBTQ issues provides an in-depth analysis of foundation funding for LGBTQ issues in calendar year 2012. This 11th annual edition of the tracking report captures data on 4,068 grants awarded by 399 foundations, making it the most comprehensive assessment of LGBTQ funding.
25 May 2021

CCJFG: My Life Is Not A Game: The Movement to Repeal California’s Three Strikes Law

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 25, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Join us for a presentation and discussion about the movement to end California’s Three Strikes law. Since 1994, California’s Three Strikes law has exponentially increased the state’s prison population and devastated communities of color and poor...
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Event type 
Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Legal
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Building Power Through Data-Sharing: Issues and Opportunities for Environmental Health and Justice Funders

Publication date: 
08/2014
This Health & Environmental Funders Network paper is intended to provide environmental health and justice funders with background information that may be helpful in considering investments to increase data-sharing.

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