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Announcing Powerhouse Workshops | NCG's 2016 Annual Conference

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05/12/2016

Choose your lunch breakout sessions and get strategies, tools, and methods to bring your own Power of Now back to the office. Apply big ideas on culture, technology, race and gender equity, and wealth concentration into your own work.

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22 Jun 2016

Webinar - The California Women’s Well-Being Index: A Resource for Helping All Women Thrive

June 22, 2016 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

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When women thrive, our families and communities prosper. To provide a look at how women are faring across the state, the California Budget & Policy Center, in partnership with the Women’s Foundation of California, has created the ...

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California Foundation Data—Now Available At-a-Glance

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09/29/2016

Not surprisingly, the most frequent questions we get from grantseekers and grantmakers alike relate to getting a lay of the overall philanthropic landscape. Getting key statistics for California institutional philanthropy just got a lot easier with...

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CEO Message: Announcing Our Areas of Focus

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09/21/2016

In the dozens of meetings I have had with NCG members since my arrival, I have been struck by the vehemence with which so many of you have strongly encouraged NCG to assume more of a leadership role in our community, and – to paraphrase many – “to...

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Nonprofit Displacement Project

Addendum | Nonprofit Displacement Report

Over the course of four briefings with funders and nonprofits we gathered tremendous input toward solutions on the issue of displacement. On behalf of the working group who has guided this effort, we are pleased to provide this summary of many of the good ideas participants contributed.

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15 Mar 2017

ComNetworkSF: Meet the Reporters

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March 15, 2017 -

4:00pm to 6:00pm

The James Irvine Foundation

The ComNetworkSF Local Leadership Group and Northern California Grantmakers invites you to meet San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Page Editor John Diaz , Scott Shafer, Senior Editor for KQED’s California Politics and Government, followed by a...

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Communications

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SF Bay Area

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CEO Message: Navigating the End

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09/21/2017

In 2007 I found myself in a situation we all dread: witnessing my mother’s declining health and doing everything I could to help her in what turned out to be her last year of life. With the hindsight of ten years, I now look back on that time as one...

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08 Feb 2018

Arts Loan Fund Meeting 2/8/2018

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February 8, 2018 -

9:30am to 11:30am

Northern California Grantmakers

NCG's Arts Loan Fund (ALF) Steering Committee is comprised of a diverse range of Bay Area funders, who are committed to the Arts. The committee convenes every six weeks to discuss issues impacting the Arts in Northern California and to review loan...

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Nonprofit Displacement Project

CEO Message | From Emergency Loans to Preventing Displacement: Marking a Transition in NCG’s Support of the Bay Area’s Nonprofit Sector

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06/07/2018

More than 40 years ago, changes in federal funding practices undermined nonprofits dependent on those funds to maintain steady cash flow and financial stability. To address this, a group of local funders...

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2018 November California Fires: How to Help

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11/20/2018

As of November 20, the Camp Fire has taken 79 lives and 12,637 homes. Evacuation orders have sent tens of thousands of people in the region from their homes. We will keep this site updated with information on how to help.

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Announcing Sarah Jones as our 2019 Annual Conference Closing Performer

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02/07/2019

We are pleased to announce that Sarah Jones will close out our 2019 Annual Conference with a curated performance!

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2019 Annual Conference

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Intentions, Values, and Recommendations | Peace & Justice Trip

Intentions To begin our trip planning, our team came together to develop several intentions to clearly frame our goals and purpose. They were to: Come together in a shared experience to reflect on the legacy of 20th century racism...

What We're Reading in July: Equity & Social Justice Edition

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07/17/2019

As we reflect on Independence Day for the United States, we’re grappling with how history, culture, and the arts are written about and by whom. We’re questioning how terms are used in different ways, where we come from, and the unexpected ways in...

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Shape California’s Future: Apply to the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission

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08/01/2019

Census and redistricting – two sides of the same coin. Both take place every ten years and both are integral to determining how each Californian is represented at the federal, state, and local levels. In California, our groundbreaking independent...

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Professional Development Webinar

Public Policy

Hirsch & Associates Welcomes Annie Ulevitch as New Senior Director

Release Date:

12/19/2019

Annie will join the firm’s Senior Management Team and provide strategic leadership on numerous philanthropic portfolios. Annie joins the Hirsch & Associates team during a time of exciting growth at the firm, which has added eight new team...

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California Criminal Justice Funders Group Values & Commitments

Release Date:

03/31/2020

CCJFG’s Steering Committee recently engaged in a process to identify values and commitments to guide our work. We invite CCJFG members to review the following values, and the commitments they represent, and join us in embodying and striving towards...

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29 Jan 2021

Unconscious Whiteness for Board Members & Trustees

January 29, 2021 - 10:00am to March 12, 2021 - 12:00pm

Virtual Workshop

Are you struggling to understand how your role as a white trustee is critical to advancing transformational change and moving toward a future in which race is not a predictor of security, opportunity, access to resources, and life outcomes...

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12 Jan 2021

The Ethos of Being Trust-Based Session 2 | Interpersonal Skills: The Hardest Skill-Building You’ll Ever Do

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January 12, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

In philanthropy, we sometimes overlook or deprioritize the interpersonal skills required to do this work well. This includes the ability to connecct dots, show up in an emotionally intelligent way, listen actively and empathically, and know when to...

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