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The Full Cost Project: Funding for Impact

Release Date: 
08/03/2017
This should be obvious, but it’s key for our sector: To deliver on their mission and sustain their good work over time, nonprofit organizations require the right mix of financial resources. Resources to pay the right people to get the job done well.
11 Oct 2017

Mindful Messaging: The Science to Getting Inside the Brain of Your Audience

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
October 11, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Every day brings new insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and the social sciences that help us better understand how people think and why they do what they do. The brain is a bit like a pinball machine. Messages go in. Sometimes they hit...
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Briefing Program
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Communications Staff
Program Staff
Topic(s) 
Communications
Storytelling
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
09 Jun 2020

Trust-Based Philanthropy Practice: Be Transparent & Responsive

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
June 9, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Zoom Meeting
Philanthropy California and the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project invite you to join us for a monthly webinar series for funders. Each month, we’ll explore each of the six trust-based principles that, when practiced together, help alleviate power...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Philanthropy CA
Geographic Location 
Statewide
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
18 Jun 2021

CCJFG Membership Meeting | Session 3

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
June 18, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
This meeting will focus on strategies and practices for funding healing justice and was designed in collaboration with Melanie Havelin, Executive Director of the John M. Lloyd Foundation . What would change about our funding practices if we operated...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Leadership Development
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

Reflection on Black Futures, Black Freedom, and Democracy

Release Date: 
03/08/2023
More than anything, this event was also an opportunity to be in community. Many were seeing colleagues outside a Zoom square for the first time or in a long time. But the collective power is what truly energized the room. We heard...
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NCG Blog

Resources from Funding Bolder Advocacy

Publication date: 
03/2017
Advocacy is often the most effective—yet misunderstood—strategy in the philanthropy toolbox. This event helped participants to better understand their foundations' rights to fund or engage in public policy, which was led by advocacy law expert Sara Matlin from Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy project . This document is the slides from the March 9, 2017 workshop titled Funding Bolder Advocacy.
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Resources from Charting a Course Toward Financial Resilience: Building the Planning Muscle

Publication date: 
03/2018
In uncertain times, it’s important for nonprofit organizations to plan for contingencies and anticipate both short- and long-term needs. Financial planning, which ranges from annual budgeting to multi-year projections, is about connecting programmatic goals to resource decisions. And while a strong financial planning function is critical, many organizations struggle to assess and refine strategy on an ongoing and “adaptive” basis. In this session, we explored the skills and tools nonprofits must develop if they are to build their financial planning “muscle” and how funders can support them in...
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Presentation
Topic(s) 
Facts, Figures, Trends
Finance

Disaster Philanthropy Playbook

The Disaster Philanthropy Playbook is a compilation of philanthropic strategies, best practices, innovative approaches and lessons learned in order to guide the philanthropic community in responding to future disasters. It is designed as an interactive website which your organization can use to personalize your future disaster strategies.
23 Mar 2016

Working Smarter with Data: Foundation Maps California Training

March 23, 2016 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Foundation Center
Understanding who is funding what and where has never been easier or more fun! Join us for an interactive tutorial on how to use NCG’s powerful new data tool Foundation Maps: California.

The Time is Now for Justice Reform In California

Release Date: 
11/16/2017
Our criminal justice system is broken. It disproportionately impacts and targets communities of color and poor communities, and costs California taxpayers billions a year, money that could otherwise be directed towards more fruitful investments in...

Southern California Wildfires

Publication date: 
12/2017
Our Philanthropy California colleagues are responding as they can to the wildfires in Southern California. We are lending our expertise where it is needed. Wildfires in Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties are forcing thousands of people from their homes and destroying millions of dollars in property. We will keep this page updated with information that could be helpful in responding appropriately to these disasters.
17 Sep 2021

CCJFG Membership Meeting | Session 5

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
September 17, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
This two-part member meeting series will address how funders can sustain long-term statewide policy work, while being accountable to local grassroots movements. We will consider the following questions: what is our role to not only fund statewide...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Leadership Development
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
30 Jun 2022

Ensuring Equitable and Sustainable Public Funding: Philanthropy’s Critical Role

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
June 30, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Communities across the country – especially those continuing to struggle with economic and health impacts from the pandemic – are hoping to access part of the billions of dollars in economic recovery dollars deployed to support economic recovery...
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Briefing Webinar
Topic(s) 
Philanthropy CA
Geographic Location 
Statewide
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

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