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14 Oct 2021

Guaranteed Income: Moving from Pilots to Policy

Areas of Focus 
Public Policy
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
October 14, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Millions of Americans are already living paycheck to paycheck without sufficient liquid resources that can be quickly converted into cash to deal with financial shocks. In fact, prior to the pandemic, nearly 40 percent of Americans did not have...

Creating Change through Arts, Culture and Equitable Development: A Policy and Practice Primer

Across the nation, artistic and cultural practices are helping to define the sustainability of urban, rural, and suburban neighborhoods. In the design of parks and open spaces; the building of public transit, housing, and supermarkets; in plans for addressing needs for community health and healing trauma; communities are embracing arts and culture strategies to help create equitable communities of opportunity where everyone can participate, prosper, and achieve their full potential. And artists are seeing themselves — and being seen by others — as integral community members whose talents,...

New Resources for your Arts Grantees

Release Date: 
03/28/2017
Last year the Arts Loan Fund embarked on a journey to better serve the needs of the arts community. We learned that despite thirty years of loans and continuing cash-flow struggles for arts organizations, the ALF is not widely known in the arts...

Policy Update

Release Date: 
03/30/2017
As Northern California Grantmakers CEO Ellen LaPointe discussed in her January message , NCG is building capacity to engage in public policy work with our members, our partners, and our Philanthropy California colleagues.

Arts Loan Fund: Types of Loans

The ALF provides five types of loans: Bridge, Benefit/Performance, Opportunity, Quick Qualifier, and Individual Artist. Bridge Loans Amount: Up to $50,000 Must be secured by a current government contract, an approved grant or other...

Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens

A focus on racial equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grantmaking process. Blending experience and candid advice from grantmakers, this guide explores how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Equity and Social Justice

The Foundations of Racial Equity

Release Date: 
05/14/2021
As the movement moment that emerged in 2020 continues to expand in its breadth and importance, the entirety of the philanthropic sector wrestles with a fundamental question: what can we do that will make meaningful change in the conditions that have...
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NCG Blog
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Equity and Social Justice
10 Jun 2021

Foundations of Racial Equity Series

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Leadership, Culture and Community
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
June 10, 2021 - 9:30am to November 16, 2021 - 12:00pm
Anti-Black racism and white supremacy are embedded philanthropy and in our institutions , often invisible to the majority of us, even as we work with intention towards equity and justice. As change agents within philanthropy, we are...

Equity and Social Justice

NCG embraces philanthropy's role in ensuring equity in our institutions, culture, and society. Exclusionary policies and systematic discrimination have restricted access to resources and power. We are committed to creating access and opportunities...

Funders Who Care About San Francisco Communities Should Care About This Program

Release Date: 
09/22/2014
NCG member guest blogger and Vice President of Programs at The California Wellness Foundation Fatima Angeles urges funders who care about San Francisco communities to attend the October 2nd NCG program A San Francisco Neighborhood Analysis.
23 Oct 2019

“It’s Not Going to Support My Children” Results from the San Francisco Child Support Debt Relief Pilot

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
October 23, 2019 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm
The San Francisco Foundation
Every year, hundreds of thousands of California children living in poverty do not receive all of the child support payments made by their parents. Current California law requires that low-income families who receive public benefits only receive the...

CEO Message | Advancing Racial Equity: Our Journey Continues

Release Date: 
06/13/2019
When we announced a few years ago that NCG would be taking up racial equity as a central part of our work we received praise, and we also encountered some skepticism. Many cautioned us that everyone seemed to be “getting into equity” and that we’d...
04 Aug 2016

San Francisco Bay Area Local Engagement Group: Build Your Capacity to Practice Capacity Building

August 4, 2016 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Metta Fund
Do you want to learn about effective capacity building practices, both from the perspctive of grantees and funders? Join the San Francisco Bay Area Local Engagement Group (LEG) for a peer-to-peer conversation on capacity building. You will have the...

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