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27 Jul 2022

Scaling the Power of Guarantees

July 27, 2022 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Join Philanthropy California to discuss the use of guarantees in impact investing and learn more about the Community Investment Guarantee Pool (CIGP). Financial guarantees are an evolving tool for philanthropies looking to back mission-aligned...

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Resources from Financial Analysis: Assessing Nonprofit Financial Health (2016)

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02/2016

Participants learned how to evaluate their grantee's current financial health. This training helps you to develop a comprehensive picture of your grantee's financial performance to better assist in times of a grantee's growth or crisis phase.

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Real Cost Project

20 Mar 2014

Health, Education and Opportunity for All: How California is Paving the Way for Immigrant Rights

March 20, 2014 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

World Affairs Council

Join NCG for a funders' dialogue on immigration policy and integration efforts in the Golden State.

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Youth Organizing and Youth Power

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Immigration

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16 Dec 2014

California Policy Forum Webinar: Local Control Funding Formula Implementation Updates and Opportunities

December 16, 2014 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Online Webinar

The LCFF is the most significant school reform California has seen in decades. In this webinar, we’ll hear updates on state-wide implementation and review the Student Need Index, used in districts across California to identify the students with the...

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06 Mar 2017

Addressing Poverty and Inequality in the Bay Area

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March 6, 2017 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

The Battery, San Francisco

As the cost of living rises in the Silicon Valley, "29.5 percent of local residents - roughly 800,000 people - rely on some form of public or private assistance in order to get by.” However, at a time when there is a growing need...

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Resources from NCG's 2017 Annual Conference

The landscape is shifting. Significant changes in policy and practice are underway that have the potential to affect the communities, nonprofits and philanthropy and people with whom we work for generations. This theme guided our conference with our policy briefs, workshops and plenaries. Take a look at some of the presentations and resources from our 2017 Annual Conference Bigger. Bolder. Stronger. and stay tuned for additions to this page. You can also view our conference plenaries and performances on our Vimeo channel here . Please note: we are continuing to update this resource...

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How Can This Leading Health Equity Funder Bolster Its Community Impact

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06/2014

This assessment of The California Endowment by NCRP's Philamplify examines how the foundation employs strategic, social justice philanthropy in its holistic approach to advancing health issues.

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27 Jul 2017

A New Twist: What’s the Latest Breakthrough in Philanthropy?

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July 27, 2017 -

11:30am to 1:30pm

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Please note that this program is at capacity. Please email mhart@ncg.org to be added to our waitlist. The Peninsula Philanthropy Network is pleased to invite you to learn from practitioners forging new approaches in philanthropy...

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Strategic Philanthropy

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17 Oct 2018

Capacity Building Support at Scale + Happy Hour

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October 17, 2018 -

1:00pm to 5:00pm

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) and Grove Foundation have partnered to provide nonprofits with high quality capacity building support at scale. Working with Catchafire, SVCF, and Grove grantees are using the power of technology to...

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SF Bay Area

Peninsula and South Bay

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09 Sep 2020

Expert Insights: Integrated Capital Approaches to Racial Equity

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September 9, 2020 -

10:00am to 11:30am

Zoom Webinar

In recent years funders have been increasingly coordinating the use of different forms of financial capital and non-financial resources to support enterprises and initiatives working to solve complex social and/or environmental problems, called...

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Innovation

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SF Bay Area

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Urgency of Now: Foundations’ Role in Ending Racial Inequity

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04/2014

This Foundation Review article explores the multiple approaches that foundations can use to advance racial equity, focusing on a specific set of approaches used by the Minnesota-based Northwest Area Foundation. The article also gauges the depth of the challenge that communities face in racial disparities, the long history of racialization of institutions and systems, and the evolution of the role of philanthropy in addressing poverty.

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05 Aug 2021

Wildfire Technology Funders Meeting | Part 1

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August 5, 2021 -

3:30pm to 4:15pm

The Wildfire Technology Funders Group seeks to identify and fund scalable solutions to extreme wildfires, including those we have been experiencing in the western United States. This group brings together philanthropists and investors in the US and...

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02 Sep 2021

Wildfire Technology Funders Meeting | Part 2

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September 2, 2021 -

3:30pm to 4:15pm

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07 Oct 2021

Wildfire Technology Funders Meeting | Part 3

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October 7, 2021 -

3:30pm to 4:15pm

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04 Nov 2021

Wildfire Technology Funders Meeting | Part 4

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November 4, 2021 -

3:30pm to 4:15pm

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16 Jul 2014

Mediacracy: Media, Policy, and Money in Politics

July 16, 2014 -

1:30pm to 4:00pm

Kaiser Family Foundation

Media policies impact everything from broadband availability to the diversity of voices we hear on the public airwaves, cable TV, talk radio and in newspapers, and the volume and types of political messaging we receive. Today, the connection between...

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