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Join CCJFG in Welcoming Our Newest Steering Committee Member

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11/03/2020

California Criminal Justice Funders Group is honored to welcome our newest Steering Committee member: Karren A. Lane, Director of the Youth Organizing Capacity Building Initiative from the Weingart Foundation . We are grateful for her experience and...

Meet the Moment: Bridging the Gap Between Rhetoric and Action

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12/09/2021

Ed, I appreciate the hand off, and the question: How do we bridge the gap that often exists between rhetoric and action within our institutions ? I believe we can bridge the gap by living our purpose. Why does philanthropy exist? Why is it necessary...

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Grieving Loss + Embodying Solidarity

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01/31/2023

To honor the lives taken this past week, we must understand and disrupt structures that make violence like this the norm. We uplift the leadership of API movement groups who have been naming the importance of undoing patriarchy ,...

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

27 May 2015

NCG 2015 Annual Conference

May 27, 2015 -

7:30am to 5:00pm

Hotel Nikko

Join us on for the 2015 NCG Annual Conference as we explore how the philanthropic sector can move discussion of ideas and challenges to developing real-world solutions to cultivate healthier, thriving communities here in northern California.

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Nine Ways to Do What Needs Doing

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08/24/2017

Racial tensions in many parts of the country have again reached a boiling point. The recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia are only the latest in a pattern of violence that is at once alarming and increasingly commonplace. Even in so-called...

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Finding MLK's Daybreak: Racial Healing for Philanthropy

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01/16/2018

“ I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality .” Martin Luther King, Jr. gave these remarks in 1964 when he...

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Greater Northern California

21 May 2018

Philanthropy in Sacramento Day

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Public Policy

May 21, 2018 - 7:00pm to May 23, 2018 - 12:00am

Sacramento, CA

Join Ellen and the NCG team as we embark on a day of learning, policy, and community – with lots of laughter sprinkled in – at our state capitol. Philanthropy California’s annual Philanthropy in Sacramento Day is a special event bringing together...

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The Full Cost of Reducing Frustration

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11/02/2017

Recently, over tea, I found out how a friend makes it through the cash crunch when his nonprofit is between payments for government contracts: he stops paying himself. His story is the same as countless others.

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NCG's Summer Reading List

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07/13/2017

We asked NCG's board and staff to give us recommendations for this summer reading list. See what they had to say - there are still five weeks left to fit in some reading!

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Meet the Moment Series: 6 Philanthropic Leaders Share their Perspectives

Meet the Moment Blog2.jpg We wanted to explore some key questions for the sector and created a series fueled by curiosity and questions, not answers. We spent some of 2021 talking with leaders about racial equity, the strategies and practices we...

10 Sep 2015

Arts Loan Fund Meeting

September 10, 2015 -

9:30am to 12:30pm

San Francisco Foundation

NCG's Arts Loan Fund (ALF) committee is made up of Bay Area funders that are committed to the Arts. The ALF meets several times a year to review loan applications and determine awards to artists and nonprofits that support the Arts in the Bay Area.

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Greater Northern California

Leadership Culture Community

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09/21/2016

Today we are announcing that NCG is embracing three areas of focus: Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability, Equity and Social Justice, and one I am honored to steward, Leadership, Culture, and Community.

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Our bi-weekly magazine Together For Good offers deeper-dive stories about news-making people and institutions in our community, resources to help us do our work better, and up-to-the-minute info about the latest jobs and...

A Way Forward: Addressing Mobile Segregation in the Bay Area

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04/25/2019

How can we turn the tide to become a region of economic opportunity for everyone—especially members of our communities who’ve been locked out of asset-building by decades of discriminatory policies and investments? Our future housing and land use...

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Healing Humanity | A Poem and Performance by Ayanna Albertson

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06/09/2021

We were grateful for Ayanna Albertson to write a custom piece for the NCG community at the 2021 Annual Conference. Read her poem and watch her performance here.

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What We're Reading: Vaccine Justice Edition

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04/08/2021

The COVID-19 vaccine will help keep communities healthy and safe and holds promise to bring an end to the pandemic that has had the most severe impacts on Black, Latinx, Indigenous, AAPI, immigrant, and low-income people. Systemic racism created the...

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16 Mar 2022

Empower 2022: Policy Pathways Toward Guaranteed Income in California

March 16, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Online Event

To ensure economic securityfor Californians, our public safety net needs to evolve, and that means getting serious about unrestricted cash support at the state level.During this legislative cycle, there are many proposals to provide groups of...

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Loma Prieta Anniversary: What All Funders Need to Know

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10/16/2014

Twenty five years ago today the biggest earthquake since the great quake of 1906 hit the Bay Area. These days most Bay Area citizens know they should have an earthquake preparedness kit. But how are grantmakers preparing for the next big quake?

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