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08 Dec 2021

Emerging Initiatives to Build Equitable, Affordable Housing

December 8, 2021 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Webinar
An estimated 161,000 unhoused individuals live in California, more than a quarter of the nationwide total (580,000) according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. While the state's acute housing affordability crisis is decades in...
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Briefing Webinar

Partisan Politics and the Nonprofit Sector

Release Date: 
03/29/2017
"Our charitable and philanthropic communities are neither partisan nor bipartisan; we are nonpartisan in law and in practice. And to protect the common good, we must keep it that way."

2014 Holiday Party Recap

Release Date: 
12/10/2014
Last night NCG co-hosted the philanthropy party of the year! With a record number of partner organizations and attendees, the Bay Area Philanthropy Holiday Party is one for the record books. If you missed it, be sure to check out the photos from...
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Just for Fun
07 Dec 2017

End Well Symposium | Design for the End of Life Experience

December 7, 2017 -
8:00am to 8:00pm
InterContinental San Francisco Hotel
End Well is a first of its kind gathering of design, tech, health care and activist communities with the goal of generating human-centered, interdisciplinary innovation for end of life care. This single-day symposium's fast-paced agenda of...

FMA Financial Management Series 2018

This workshop is part of a four-part series delivered by FMA . You can register for the entire series, or register for the individual session that fits your needs best. Learn more about each session by clicking on the links below.

Areas of Focus

To maximize the collective power of our community for greatest effect, NCG is pleased to announce that we will be partnering more deeply with our members in three areas moving forward.
03 Oct 2019

Fair Courts: The Threat to Judicial Independence in Polarized Times

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Public Policy
October 3, 2019 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Judicial independence may be the most consequential — though least visible and discussed — long-term threat to a well-functioning American democracy. The partisan political climate in the U.S. has emboldened lawmakers to undermine the role of an...
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Policy
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Public Policy & Social Justice
PubPolicy/Social Justice:Law/CivilRights
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SF Bay Area
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Public Policy
10 Jun 2020

Protecting Access to California’s 2020 Election and Beyond

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Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 10, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual Meeting
As our nation grapples with a global health emergency, our democracy and elections remain uncertain. Concerns regarding voter turnout, physical distancing, and the resurgence of the virus are moving state leaders to an all-mail voting system...

A New Generation of Girl Philanthropists Inspires

Release Date: 
03/14/2016
On Friday, Philanthropy News Digest published a piece by NCG Member Surina Khan. As the CEO of the Women's Foundation of California, Surina writes about one of the Foundation's giving circles, a group of high school girls in LA who are emblematic of...
19 Jul 2017

2017 Corporate Philanthropy Awards and Summit

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
July 19, 2017 -
7:00am to 11:45am
Hilton Union Square
It's that time of year again when the San Francisco Business Times honors the generosity of corporate philanthropists by hosting an awards presentation that unveils the ranks of companies who gave the most cash to Bay Area causes. NCG is proud to...
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Peer Network
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Corporate Giving
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SF Bay Area
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
16 Nov 2021

Engaging Indigenous Leadership in Climate & Disaster Resilience

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
November 16, 2021 - 12:00pm to December 9, 2021 - 1:30pm
Increasing impacts from climate change are testing the resiliency of Native peoples and cultures throughout the West. This is exacerbated by more than a century of forced displacement and wealth extraction, marginalization through discriminatory...
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Briefing Program
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Disaster Preparedness
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
19 Aug 2020

Rent is Due: Developing Solutions for California’s Rental Cliff

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
August 19, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Zoom Webinar
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, California was struggling with a deep housing affordability crisis. Now hundreds of thousands more renters are at risk of eviction and homelessness as eviction moratoria and unemployment insurance benefits expire, and...
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Briefing Webinar
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Economic/Community Development:Housing
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SF Bay Area
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
28 Jul 2021

Incarcerated Firefighters: At the Intersection of Abolition, Workforce Development, and Wildfire Resilience

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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
July 28, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
As California wildfires devastate communities throughout the state, significant financial, material and human resources are deployed to support recovery and reduce their threats on communities. Despite the well-publicized socioeconomic and health...
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Briefing Webinar
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Philanthropy CA
Funding Area 
Health
Geographic Location 
Statewide
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Can You Put a Price On That?

Release Date: 
05/19/2015
When Dan Pallotta’s 2013 TedTalk,“The Way We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong” first made the rounds, with it came a resurgence of a familiar conversation about how to cultivate healthy nonprofit organizations and avoid the nonprofit starvation...

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