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Resources from Financial Series 2016 | Session 4 - Multi-Year Planning: Thinking Beyond the Annual Budget

Publication date: 
07/2016
In this workshop, Program Officers discussed how key drivers of an organization’s business model are used to develop long-term financial plans.
01 Nov 2017

Crack the Capacity Building Nut: Fresh Breakthroughs from Chicago

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
November 1, 2017 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Trying to do right by grantees hasn’t always worked out the way it’s intended. Why do philanthropy’s well-meaning capacity building efforts so often result in scowls, or worse, wasted time for the grantees and wasted money for funders? Learning for...
08 Jun 2017

Collaboration Gone Right: 9 Funders and 69 Nonprofits Make Regional Change Work

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 8, 2017 -
11:00am to 1:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Foundations often extol the virtues of collaboration but it can be difficult to conceptualize, manage, and execute. The San Joaquin Valley Health Fund offers a blueprint for how to engage a variety of funders and partners from multiple sectors to...

Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy

Publication date: 
10/2011
Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy examines the role of the arts in engaging, educating, and building communities and addressing social, economic, environmental, and other injustices

NCG Welcomes our Newest Members | Part 3

Release Date: 
06/15/2015
2015 has been a busy year for NCG! This year we decided to expand our membership qualifications, and in doing so have some great members who are new to our community.
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Member News

Resources from Financial Series 2016 | Session 2 - So What If You Don’t Have an Audit?

Publication date: 
04/2016
Participants in this workshop gained an understanding of how to assess a nonprofit organization’s financial health when no audited financial statements are available.

Resources from Measuring Success in Addressing Childhood Adversity

Publication date: 
10/2018
On September 25th, the Funder Network on Trauma & Resilience hosted a forum to discuss successes and challenges in measuring the effectiveness of different approaches to addressing trauma and building resilience, across a variety of practice settings. Through panel and group discussion, attendees had a chance to reflect on a common question in this space: how do we define success in addressing childhood adversity, and what might success look like?
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Collaborative
Topic(s) 
Trauma & Resilience
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
14 Jan 2020

Fireside Chat Part 1 | Liberate Yourself: How to Bring Your Full Identity to Your Work

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
January 14, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Registration for this event is now closed. Have you ever been a room full of people who don’t look like you? Do you code switch at work because you know you can’t be real in certain environments? You’re not alone. The norms in...
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Briefing Program
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

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25 Mar 2015

How To Change The World! Philanthropy & Movement Building

March 25, 2015 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Health Reform. Immigrant Rights. Marriage Equality. Climate Change. What do these (and many other movements) have in common? The answer is the significant role of philanthropy in fostering, nurturing, and supporting their progress and successes...

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

Resources from A Case of Uncertainty: The 2017 California State Budget

Publication date: 
03/2017
This year’s the Governor’s proposed budget presents a significantly different tone than those of the last few years. It reflects lower revenues, a $1.6 billion projected shortfall, an expected economic downturn and deep uncertainty about what the federal government will do regarding the Affordable Care Act(ACA) and other federal programs. In fact, the proposal is based on current federal policy and doesn’t account for possible cuts to the estimated $20 billion or more that California relies on for health insurance subsidies and expanded Medi-Cal coverage.

Get Out the Count 2020

This paper provides the draft plan for the third priority, the GOTC campaign, and then outlines the related second priority, expanding resources.
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Working Group
Topic(s) 
2020 Census
22 Apr 2015

Financial Workshop Series Part II | So What If You Don’t Have an Audit?

April 22, 2015 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
In this second workshop from NCG's Financial Workshop Series, funders will gain an understanding of how to assess a nonprofit organization’s financial health when no audited financial statements are available.
01 Nov 2018

The New Normal: Capacity Building During a Time of Disruption II

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
November 1, 2018 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
“We believe this is a moment of reckoning in our sector— a moment of both crisis and opportunity. If this moment of disruption has a silver lining, it’s that we’ve effectively broken the old social-change model and now have an opportunity to invent...
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Event type 
Briefing Program
Topic(s) 
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Geographic Location 
Peninsula and South Bay
Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community

Resources from California Philanthropy Forum: Should Californians Welcome Social Impact Bonds?

Publication date: 
05/2013
On May 10th Northern California Grantmakers, San Diego Grantmakers and Southern California Grantmakers—and the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits) presented a special statewide webinar briefing on this emerging trend in social innovation.

Resources from Addressing Displacement of Nonprofit Organizations

Publication date: 
11/2014
Presentations regarding the displacement of nonprofit organizations resulting from the effects of rising rents in San Francisco and an exploration of the strategies being implemented by the City in partnership with foundations

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