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Menus Options for Funders: Census 2020

All around the country, philanthropy is mobilizing to ensure a fair and accurate census 2020. As your foundation is considering how it may engage, the Funders Census Initiative (FCI), a working group of FCCP, and the United Philanthropy Forum have put together a menu of options for funder participation.
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2020 Census

Resources for #MoreThanMoney

Ableism: a social attitude that having a disability makes someone a less valued member of society. It assumes that the ways able–bodied people live are the best ways to live. In addition to grantmaking, advocacy funders play a critical role in advancing social justice: agenda-setting and shifting narratives. But while more and more disabled people are being included in philanthropy, funders often overlook ableism as an area of structural discrimination, even here in the Bay Area where disability civil rights were born. Because many funders' understanding of ableism continues...
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Equity and Social Justice
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SF Bay Area
13 May 2020

The Economic Moment & What Philanthropy Can Do

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 13, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
Zoom Meeting
COVID 19 is leading to an economic collapse of proportions we have not seen since the Great Depression. Leaders across sectors are acting swiftly in order to be responsive to the crisis at hand. However, we have known for many years that the economy...
20 Jun 2019

2019 Family Philanthropy Conference: Unpacking Power Dynamics with Cultural Humility

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
June 20, 2019 -
8:30am to 2:00pm
The California Endowment Center for Healthy Communities
As family philanthropists, we have the unique ability to respond nimbly to community needs and be trusted partners with our nonprofit grantees. Despite these relationships, do we always show up truly listening to what the community wants and needs?...
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About Philanthropy
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Statewide
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Leadership, Culture and Community
19 May 2020

Impact Investing: Making low risk, high impact community investments during the COVID-19 crisis

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
May 19, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Webinar
Learn from seasoned impact investors on how supporting Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) can create durable change with underserved communities and why supporting CDFIs is more important than ever to address inequities in the...
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Briefing Webinar
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Impact Investing
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Statewide
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Corporate Philanthropy's Racial Reckoning

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10/29/2020
One message stood out: we must stretch beyond what we’ve tried before. Just aligning corporate philanthropy with a company’s business interests will no longer suffice. With our nation’s health, climate, race relations, economy, and...

Resources from Funder Network on Trauma and Resilience: Kick-off Meeting

Publication date: 
04/2018
At the first meeting on March 14, 2018, Alex Briscoe, a consultant to the Zellerbach Family Foundation, presented a model developed in collaboration with experts in pediatrics, mental health, education, and youth development to frame and understand the complex and often fragmented safety net for children in California.
02 Jun 2020

Love Not Fear: Coffee and Resilience Series | Session 2

Areas of Focus 
Leadership, Culture and Community
June 2, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Zoom Meeting
"Inside the word “emergency” is 'emerge'; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters." – Rebecca Solnit This is not your typical ZOOM call. There will be...
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Briefing Webinar
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Disaster Preparedness
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SF Bay Area
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Leadership, Culture and Community

Resources from California’s Tomorrow: A Framework for Improving the Lives of Young Males of Color

Publication date: 
12/2014
A Life Course Framework for Improving the Lives of Boys and Young Men of Color provides a way to think about and conceptualize positive outcomes for this population of young men . This framework has been developed to offer foundations the ability to take the types of bold, targeted, thoughtful action required across every system that touches the lives of these children and youth from education to work to health to justice.

NCG Annual Conference: Call for PhilTalk Speakers

Release Date: 
02/23/2015
NCG invites you to submit a PhilTalk proposal. What's a PhilTalk? It's 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 philanthropy.
27 Oct 2015

Arts Loan Fund Meeting

October 27, 2015 -
9:30am to 12:00pm
Northern California Grantmakers
NCG's Arts Loan Fund (ALF) committee is made up of Bay Area funders that are committed to the Arts. The ALF meets several times a year to review loan applications and determine awards to artists and nonprofits that support the Arts in the Bay Area.

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