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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...

Deciphering the California Budget

Release Date: 
01/16/2015
Wondering if you have the mad skills needed to make heads or tails of the 2015/2016 California budget? NCG’s annual California Budget Project program is right around the corner. And as usual, we’re bringing together experts to do the deciphering for...

Tech Entrepreneur Commits $600 Million to Establish New San Francisco Foundation

Release Date: 
06/24/2015
Napster co-founder and former Facebook President Sean Parker formally announces plans and strategies for his new $600 Million foundation, The Parker Foundation.
02 Feb 2016

Financial Analysis: Assessing Nonprofit Financial Health (2016)

February 2, 2016 -
9:00am to 12:30pm
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Come learn how to evaluate your grantee's current financial health. This training will help 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. This training...

Resources for A Grantmaking New Year’s Resolution: A Values-Based Grantmaking Practice

Publication date: 
02/2019
Values-aligned grantmaking is becoming every day parlance in our field, with good reason: foundation professionals are increasingly conscious of the role they play in social change. Similarly, the challenges we face seem ever more difficult to solve, and the injustices individuals, communities, and the planet face are heartbreaking. Making highly effective grants across a portfolio and even across an entire foundation is the nut we are all trying to crack. Given the current moment in philanthropy, in our country, and across the world, grantmakers are looking more intentionally at their own...
06 Aug 2020

CCJFG | Police-Free Schools: Dignity in Schools Campaign California Statewide Movement Building and a Framework for Abolition and Transformation

August 6, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:30pm
Zoom Webinar
Meet the Statewide organizers leading the way for Police-Free Schools, a fight at the forefront of the movement to renvision safety and belonging for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous youth in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor...
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Statewide
24 Sep 2020

Is 2020 Over? Responding to Multiple Disasters Amid COVID-19 and Climate Change

Areas of Focus 
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
September 24, 2020 - 12:00pm
Zoom Webinar
It feels like 2020 has lasted 15 years. The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) team started following COVID-19 in January while we were also responding to the Australian wildfires and the earthquakes in Puerto Rico. The beginning of the year is...
06 Oct 2020

CCJFG | Our Freedom is Tied Together: Incarceration & Immigration in California

Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice
October 6, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Zoom Webinar
Each year, thousands of noncitizens are released from state prisons and jails, often immediately detained by ICE where they face deportation, a process that the Governor and County Sheriffs have the direct power to halt. This is one of the countless...
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Briefing Webinar
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Immigration
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Immigration
Populations/Communities:People of Color
Geographic Location 
SF Bay Area
Areas of Focus 
Equity and Social Justice

Announcing Sarah Evers as Member Engagement Coordinator

Release Date: 
01/20/2022
NCG is pleased to announce NCG's membership team is growing! Sarah Evers (they/them) joins the team as the new Member Engagement Coordinator to support all things membership for the NCG community. Interested in getting to know Sarah or have...
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Breakout Session: From Climate Curious to Climate Justice

Confronting and transforming the devastating harm of a planet in crisis stands alongside reckoning with this nation’s true history of genocide, land theft, and chattel slavery as The Work of our time. We know that communities of color bear the brunt of climate breakdown and also lead in implementing solutions. However, data indicates that white-led groups –especially the nation’s largest environmental and “clean energy”-focused nonprofits -continue to receive more than90% of philanthropic funding to address the climate emergency.
Date & Time: 
05/05/2022 -
10:00am to 11:15am
21 Jul 2016

2016 Corporate Philanthropy Awards & Summit

July 21, 2016 -
7:00am to 11:45am
Marriott Marquis - Salon 1-8
It's that time of year again when the San Francisco Business Times honors the generosity of corporate philanthropists by hosting an awards presentation that unveils the ranks of companies who gave the most cash to Bay Area causes.
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Social
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Corporate Giving
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SF Bay Area
14 Jun 2017

2017 Social Impact Exchange Conference on Scaling Impact

June 14, 2017 - 8:30am to June 15, 2017 - 5:00pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Philanthropy California (an initiative of Northern California Grantmakers, San Diego Grantmakers and Southern California Grantmakers) is pleased to support the 2017 Social Impact Exchange Conference on Scaling Impact. This year’s Conference theme is...
13 Jan 2016

Dream Boldly: Lifting King's Legacy

January 13, 2016 -
3:00pm to 5:30pm
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Clarence B. Jones was a speechwriter and counsel for Martin Luther King, Jr. His work in the civil rights movement dramatically impacted the course of American history, and he has received numerous state and national awards recognizing his...

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