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What do California Counties Stand to Lose under ACA Repeal?

California saw large increases in health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 3.7 million adults enrolled in the Medi-Cal expansion. 1.2 million Californians enrolled in subsidized insurance through Covered California, with average annual premium subsidies of $3,700. Check out UC Berkeley Center Labor's fact sheet on what is at risk for California counties if the ACA is repealed.
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Research
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Bay Area Health Funders Group
Funding Area 
Health

Resources from Building Community Power: Democracy at the Local Level

Publication date: 
10/2017
In an October 4 Webinar, we introduced funders to new efforts in California to reimagine democracy at the local level. These new tools for community power and democracy are broadening political participation for traditionally disenfranchised groups, expanding civic engagement beyond elections, and creating new platforms for making government more responsive, accountable, and equitable.
25 Feb 2020

The Good, The Challenging, and The Inevitable: A Look at the Governor’s 2020 Budget

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
February 25, 2020 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
The Governor’s second budget focuses on issues facing California: housing, homelessness, healthcare, and supports for children and families. It continues the good news with revenues anticipated to be billions of dollars higher than previously...
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Briefing Program
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SF Bay Area
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

The Cultural Lives of Californians: Insights from the California Survey of Arts & Cultural Participation

Publication date: 
05/2015
A new study commissioned by NCG member The James Irvine Foundation presents new data providing insights on the critical role arts nonprofits can play in communities.
22 Aug 2017

Proof Positive: Where Next for Whole Person Care?

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
August 22, 2017 -
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
California takes pride in testing new ideas that even the odds for people who have it the hardest. While the fight over the Affordable Care Act rages in Washington, California is testing new ways to care for the most vulnerable. The results may...
18 Oct 2017

Census 2020: Uniting for a Common Cause

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
October 18, 2017 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
The Census happens just once every 10 years but its outcomes have serious ramifications: Will California lose a congressional seat? Will billions of dollars in Medicaid, SNAP, and Medicare resources be left on the table? A fair and accurate Census...
02 Sep 2020

Impact Investments That Advance Racial Equity Solutions

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
September 2, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Webinar
The confluence of anti-racist social progress and a global pandemic will forever change our nation’s vision of equitable economic development. Despite billions invested in local businesses each year, communities most impacted remain structurally...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Impact Investing
Funding Area 
Economic & Community Development
Geographic Location 
Statewide
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
08 Feb 2022

Build Back Better and the Economic Recovery of the Bay Area

February 8, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
The Build Back Better Act has the potential to help the nation grow, as framed by the White House, “from the bottom and middle-out" by providing families with funding for childcare, expanding access to affordable housing, education, and health care...
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Briefing Webinar
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National

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.

Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration

Publication date: 
12/2006
Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration , published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees in 2006, is a succinct, easy-to-understand guide that describes how grantmakers at all levels can play an important leadership role on this issue. This toolkit for grantmakers draws on extensive research and interviews with hundreds of foundation, community, business, and government leaders. It incorporates academic research as well as policy and community-based concerns into a resource that also can inform the work of practitioners in the nonprofit, public, and...

Resources from Embracing the Network Mindset: Overcoming Complex Challenges Together

Publication date: 
02/2014
Today's nonprofits and philanthropic organizations are, on average, better managed than ever. Despite that fact there still remain many social and environmental problems that have had limited improvements, or in some cases have worsened. How can grantmakers take on these seemingly intractable problems? What new approaches are actually tackling complex, systemic challenges with success?

Levi Strauss Foundation Pledges $1 Million to Protect Marginalized Communities

Release Date: 
05/22/2017
The Foundation's support of communities in the U.S. and abroad, including immigrants, refugees, religious minorities and transgender citizens begins with 13 specific organizations, five of which are right here in the Bay Area.
12 Mar 2018

SOLD OUT: Putting Wealth to Work | A Conversation with Joel Fleishman

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
March 12, 2018 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
Google Community Space
Join us for a discussion with Professor Joel Fleishman. His recently released book, Putting Wealth to Work, tells the unprecedented story of the movement of socially motivated capital, and how it may unavoidably change the American economy, and the...
31 Jan 2019

Silicon Valley Nonprofit Displacement: A Funder & Nonprofit Briefing

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
January 31, 2019 -
2:30pm to 4:30pm
Sobrato Center for Nonprofits
Please join NCG and the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits 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 community. At this...
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Briefing Program
Topic(s) 
Nonprofit Displacement Project
Funding Area 
Nonprofit Displacement
Geographic Location 
Peninsula and South Bay
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Reflections on Un-Learning

Release Date: 
10/10/2019
As a kid, I practiced all the time – piano, soccer, reading – to get better at whatever it was I was doing. I practiced. I asked questions. I got frustrated. Inevitably, with that one piece of sheet music, that soccer move, or the next chapter book...
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NCG Blog
Topic(s) 
Evaluation
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
06 Oct 2020

Feeling the Impact: Personal & Organizational Integration of Crises Part 4

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
October 6, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Zoom Meeting
In this Feeling the Impact Series , we will explore how our need for safety, dignity, and the right relationship deeply influence how we navigate crises. The past six months have brought unparalleled disruption and loss that has affected every...
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Briefing Webinar
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Consultants
Funding Area 
Health
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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