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07 Aug 2019

Sacramento Funders Meeting on Wildfire Preparedness

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
August 7, 2019 -
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Governor's Office, State Capitol
Please join us in the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom to learn about our efforts to build disaster resiliency and philanthropy’s role in wildfire preparedness, featuring a presentation by California's Chief Service Officer, Karen Baker, on...
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Disaster Preparedness
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Disaster Response and Resilience
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SF Bay Area
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Resources from Reimagining Service: Investing in Human Capital to Drive Greater Impact

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07/2013
Emerging research conducted by the TCC Group , a national program and evaluation firm, shows that nonprofits that strategically leverage volunteers outperform their peers on all measures of organizational effectiveness and have greater impact. But less than 15 percent of nonprofits nationwide demonstrate these characteristics. Are your grantees among the 15%? This special briefing presented new data reveals on a key factor driving impact and nonprofit success.
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Resources for COVID-19: Impact on the Need for and Delivery of Legal Services

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03/2020
lsfn-logo-revised.png This webinar addressed the ways in which COVID-19 is impacting the populations served by legal services organizations, the legal aid organizations themselves, legislation being considered to help highly impacted communities and funder opportunities. Speakers Tiela Chalmers, Chief Executive Officer, Alameda County Bar Association & Legal Access Alameda, CEO & General Counsel Oakland, CA Liz Keith, Program Director, Pro Bono Net James J. Sandman, President Emeritus, Legal Services Corporation Watch the webinar
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Legal
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
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National
12 May 2015

Mapping the Landscape of California Legal Services

May 12, 2015 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Farella, Braun + Martel
Join the Legal Services Funders Network (LSFN) as Julia Wilson, Executive Director of OneJustice, sheds light on where and how legal services organizations attempt to meet the needs of individuals and communities throughout California.
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Legal
06 Apr 2017

Legal Services Funders Network: 2017 Signature Event

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Equity and Social Justice
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
April 6, 2017 -
2:30pm to 5:00pm
Milton Marks Auditorium
Each year the Legal Services Funders Network (LSFN) puts on several events to help educated the community and bring together those with a shared interest in supporting legal services, as they believe these organizations are a critical tool to use to...
19 Mar 2020

COVID-19: Impact on the Need for and Delivery of Legal Services

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
March 19, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Webinar
This webinar will address the ways in which COVID-19 is impacting the populations served by legal services organizations, the legal aid organizations themselves, legislation being considered to help highly impacted communities and funder...
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Briefing Webinar
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Legal
Legal Services Funders Network
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
24 Sep 2020

Legal Services Funders Network 2020 Signature Event

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
September 24, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:15pm
Zoom Meeting
Each year in March, Legal Services Funders Network's annual LSFN Signature Event brings together over a hundred individuals from the funder, academic, government, and legal services fields who are passionate about improving access to justice. Like...
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Policy Advocacy
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SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice

Webinars and Resources

We Draw the Lines: What California Nonprofits and Funders Need to Know About Redistricting When: June 2021 What is redistricting? Why is it important? Hint: it determines much of the fate of our communities for the next 10 years,...

Resources from the 2013 California Budget Project Analysis

Publication date: 
02/2013
For more than a decade, Northern California Grantmakers has partnered with the California Budget Project to inform members about the annual budgets that impact underserved communities and grantees they serve.

Access to Justice | Q&A with our Legal Services Funders Network

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03/14/2016
Funders of legal services bring their best thinking on how to use law to better the lives of everyone who’s got it the hardest in the region. NCG provides a home for this thinking. Members of the LSFN steering committee answered questions about...

Resources from NCG's 2015 Annual Conference

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05/2015
Resources from NCG's 2015 Annual Conference

Resources for California Fires Webinars

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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...

Resources for Foundation Endowments...Activate!

Given the scale of social, economic and environmental crises our communities are facing, it is hopeful to see foundations making bold shifts to their grantmaking. Yet funders committed to justice recognize that grant dollars alone are not enough to manifest the kind of transformation needed to create a better future for people experiencing systemic oppression. In recent years, the philanthropic field has begun to reckon with the reality that most foundations’ endowments are invested in ways that are out of alignment with their values, exacerbating the very problems that their grant dollars...

Resources from 25 Years After Loma Prieta and Days After Napa

Publication date: 
11/2014
Using the lens of Loma Prieta, Napa, Katrina, Sandy and other disasters this program explored the role of philanthropy and nonprofits in preparing for, responding to, and mitigating disasters and how we can help communities get back to "normal."

Belly of the Beast Resource Guide

Publication date: 
04/2021
BELLY OF THE BEAST.png This guide is designed to help you lead a discussion of Belly of the Beast, to engage more deeply with issues in the film, and to present options for further learning, discussion, and action. Belly of the Beast offers an entry point into conversations around reproductive justice, medical ethics, human rights, and the law. Today’s focus on institutional racism and the criminal justice system makes now an especially relevant time to engage in conversations about the systemic denial of the rights of people who are incarcerated.
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Resources for From Me to We

How do we move a cross-racial set of voters toward believing in and fighting for racial and economic justice? How can narrative change bring us closer to advancing shared opportunity and prosperity for all Californians? Nationally-recognized researcher and communications strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio has reframed the debate, leading to progressive victories on a wide range of issues from clean energy to criminal justice reform. Join us for this special session to hear findings from the empirically tested Race Class Narrative and how it’s been applied to win social justice victories across...
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Communications
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Economic Justice
Policy Advocacy
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
Public Policy
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SF Bay Area

Resources for California for All: What’s in Governor Newsom’s First Proposed Budget?

Just three days into office, Governor Newsom offered a bold vision for the state rooted in a commitment to a “California for all." In his proposed 2019-2020 budget, the Governor calls for a series of bold and smart investments intended to broaden economic security and opportunity for Californians, while continuing to strengthen the state’s underlying fiscal health. With significant expansions in support of low- and middle-income Californians who are struggling to make ends meet and access greater economic opportunity, Governor Newsom has begun to lay the groundwork for significant investments...
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