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It’s Time to Decriminalize our Education Systems for Youth of Color

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11/12/2020

All children deserve to have access to a quality education. They deserve to feel safe and supported in a place that exists to prepare them for their futures. Yet, for Black youth and other youth of color, this is far from the reality. Every day,...

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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...

Resources from NCG's 2012 Annual Meeting

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03/2012

The 2012 NCG Annual Meeting brought lead scholars and philanthropic experts, Lucy Bernholz and Rob Reich, to share their thinking about the changing landscape, what it means to #ReCodeGood and what the possible effects are for the philanthropic field.

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Just for Fun: Q&A with Tabitha Tapia

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08/11/2015

This Just for Fun blog features NCG member: Tabitha Tapia, Multicultural Fellow for Community Development at The San Francisco Foundation. Tabitha truly understands the value of community and having a good time. We sat down with Tabitha to learn...

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International Women's Day by Roger Doughty

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03/09/2017

International Women’s Day happens every March 8 and every year it’s important, focusing us on women’s innumerable contributions, as well as the progress and setbacks in ending discrimination and violence against women worldwide. Hundreds of...

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Populations & Communities: Women & Girls

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Community Foundation

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Corporate Contributions Roundtable

22 NCG Members Honored at the Corporate Philanthropy Awards

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07/21/2017

Wednesday, NCG once again partnered with the San Francisco Business Times to present their 2017 Corporate Philanthropy Awards & Summit . The event honored the Top 83 Bay Area Corporate Philanthropists, 22 of which were NCG members. These 22...

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18 Jun 2020

When the World Tilts: Compassion and Resilience in the Time of COVID-19

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June 18, 2020 -

2:00pm to 3:15pm

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Social change leaders around the globe are facing systemic, operational, and strategic challenges related to COVID-19 that are testing the limits of their own and their organizations’ capabilities. In a volatile time like this, compassion is a...

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16 Jun 2020

Nonprofit Resilience: Purpose & Relational Power

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June 16, 2020 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

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Today, especially, as the Uprisings and COVID-19 pandemic serve up a meal of uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity, and volatility, social sector leaders are called to invoke resilience as critical to organizational survival. At their best, resilient...

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Our Best Light: Rising Leaders Inaugural Cohort Explores New Self-Assessment Tool

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02/11/2021

In preparation for the first meeting, we each completed the Reflected Best Self Exercise (RBSE). So often, as a society, we focus on what needs improvement. This personal development tool is meant to help us see ourselves in our best light. Unlike...

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21 Apr 2021

Moving to Racial Equity: What’s Getting in the Way!?! | A Conversation with Funders

April 21, 2021 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Private funders in the Bay Area and across the nation have long acknowledged the need to increase attention to racial equity. Many funding leaders and organizations have made progress over recent years. Yet Latinx and other nonprofit leaders of...

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Resources from Communications Salon Series | How to Communicate about Poverty - (Hint: Don’t use that Word!)

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09/2015

When we advocate for change, frame issues, and describe our work, how do we steer clear of problematic metaphors and language that unintentionally reinforces poverty as beyond our control—or places blame on the individual?

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Announcing Our 2015 Annual Conference PhilTalks

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05/07/2015

Earlier this year NCG put out a call for PhilTalk proposals. What’s a PhilTalk? A PhilTalk is a 15-minute presentation that explores an idea, solution or approach to a challenge we are confronting in our philanthropic work. Think TedTalk, but for...

Voicing Your Inner Socrates: 50 new grantmakers, 10 big questions, 2 days

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09/15/2015

NCG’s New Grantmakers Institute is coming up, and I’ve been doing a lot of work gearing up to it. In prepping the presenters, my frame for these two days is becoming really clear.

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NCG's Resource HUB

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09/27/2015

NCG publishes post-program resources regularly, but recently many of our members are publishing their own resources and toolkits–we wanted to share! Below is a collection of resources including emerging leader best practices, impact investing,...

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Corporate Philanthropy Reality Check

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11/23/2015

In my 6 years working with corporations at FSG, I’ve come to realize that being in charge of your company’s foundation or CSR is reason to both celebrate and weep with frustration. What do I mean? Consider the fictional yet all-too-familiar story of...

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President and Trustee of Haas Jr. Fund Stepping Down after 28 Years of Leadership

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01/19/2016

NCG member, The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, announced that its President and Trustee Ira Hirschfield will be stepping down in December 2016. Ira leaves a legacy of a historic win for marriage-equality among his many other accomplishments with...

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KQED and the SF Homeless Project

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06/28/2016

Starting Wednesday, June 29th, KQED will be hosting community conversations on air and online to introduce you to homeless voices and stories of those living on the edge of homelessness in the Bay Area. Engage in the conversation online ; hear, read...

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03 Mar 2017

Promoting Ethics and Accountability in the New Political Era

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

March 3, 2017 -

11:30am to 1:00pm

Northern California Grantmakers

Americans have a right know that their representatives are serving their interests and not profiting off their positions in government. Join us as we explore the historical roots of corruption, define and identify conflicts of interest and ethics...

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