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06 Nov 2019

New Grantmakers Institute Alumni Happy Hour

November 6, 2019 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Remember how fun NGI was?! We've heard directly from you that we should bring you all back together again, with other graduates of the program over the years! We hope you'll join us and your fellow NGI alumni to reconnect and continue building...

Resources for Gender, Power, Race, Money: #MeToo and Philanthropy

For two years, the #MeToo Movement has dominated the news headlines as women who’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted continue to step forward to tell their stories. #MeToo momentum was quickly followed by the Time’s Up Movement for workplace equity for women and people of color. With power and equality in the news, philanthropies across the Bay Area have begun inward conversations about their organizations’ culture. Gender, power, race and money give us plenty to consider when it comes to barriers to good policies and best practices for creating safe cultures. As it turns out, lenient...

Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency

A new GrantCraft guide released in collaboration with Glasspockets provides practical advice for funders to publicly share various aspects of their operations, work, and knowledge. Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency presents real-world case studies that demonstrate the value of foundation transparency in strengthening credibility, improving grantee relationships, facilitating greater collaboration, increasing public trust, reducing duplication of effort, and building communities of shared learning. Grantees, funding partners, the public, and philanthropy professionals themselves all...

Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits

Publication date: 
09/2014
This new D5 report confirms that foundations can, in fact, facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through their grantmaking processes and their partnerships with nonprofits—and identifies eight specific practices for foundations to emulate.
18 Apr 2018

The Power of Arts & Culture

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
April 18, 2018 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
CEL Education Fund
Arts and culture are the drivers, and simultaneously expression, of a society’s values. Artists and culture makers play a critical role in creating moments and sharing stories in a compelling way that connects to our emotions - art can evoke empathy...
25 Oct 2018

A Conversation with Mayor Michael Tubbs & Lateefah Simon

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
October 25, 2018 -
3:30pm to 5:30pm
Northern California Grantmakers
Mayor Michael Tubbs was elected in 2016 in a landslide victory with 70% of the vote. Since being elected at the age of 26, the youngest mayor in the history of a mid-size American city, he has raised the visibility of Stockton in the California here...

Resources for California Fires Webinars

Publication date: 
11/2018
Philanthropy California held two urgent webinars to offer funders an up-to-the-minute briefing on local and state agency responses to the fires in Butte, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties. Our speakers provided an overview of the current situation on the ground and how it could develop in the coming weeks; perspectives on immediate and anticipated community needs that are being addressed by local community foundations (with a focus on the people who have the least access to resources); and information on how funders accross the national can help most effectively. On this page, you will find...

MacArthur Genius Ai-Jen Poo to Speak at NCG Program

Release Date: 
02/03/2015
This month NCG members have the opportunity to hear from 2014 MacArthur genius and work activist Ai-Jen Poo on a transformative leadership process used to develop leadership skills for organizing and building power.

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