Good Intentions Made Better: Making Fixes to SF Anti-Corruption Proposal
Release Date:
03/01/2018
... her school and subsequently donates to a local afterschool program at the suggestion of a school board member would be ...
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Twenty Years of Care: Mary Gregory Announces Retirement from Pacific Foundation Services
Release Date:
04/26/2018
After twenty years of remarkable service to foundations and the local nonprofit community, NCG member Mary Gregory will be retiring this month from her role as Vice President of Community Alliance at Pacific Foundation Services . Thank you for your...
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... pm Lunch 1:15 - 3:00 pm Session Two: Linking Strategy, Program , and Proposals Faculty: Angie Chen, The Libra ...
Guidance for Philanthropic Communications in a Pandemic
Publication date:
03/2020
Philanthropy can serve as a trusted resource for actionable communications that lead with empathy and support grantees to prevent the spread of disease, preserve well-being, maintain social cohesion, and respond to economic hardship. Social Cohesion Pandemics are personal and interpersonal: we make each other sick. We must address the financial, social, and psychological conditioning that prompts us work when sick. Effective pandemic response requires isolation: create virtual connection to form the kind of social cohesion that drives effective response to other types of crisis or disaster...
Staking Out Reflective Territory: The Heart of Philanthropy
Release Date:
03/02/2016
"Philanthropy is replete with complex tensions that must be held to do it well—for example, the pressures to be objective AND be empathetic, to be polite and nice AND to speak truth, to be efficient AND transformative. We face great complexity in...
Heising-Simons Foundation: Celebrating the Giving Gene
Release Date:
10/31/2016
... to young children and working in a high school journalism program . She seems to have passed on the philanthropy bug to ... foundation and has started building up a human rights program focused on criminal...
Voting in 2020: Summary of Briefing Call 3/23/2020
Publication date:
03/2020
Read the summary of the Voting in 2020 briefing call.
Resources from Communications Salon Series | How to Communicate about Poverty - (Hint: Don’t use that Word!)
Publication date:
09/2015
When we advocate for change, frame issues, and describe our work, how do we steer clear of problematic metaphors and language that unintentionally reinforces poverty as beyond our control—or places blame on the individual?
Responding to Disease and Disinvestment: Promoting Equity in Time of Crisis
Studying public health, I learned that we are all as safe as the most vulnerable person in our communities. Viruses don’t care how rich or poor you are, or about the color of your skin: but our response to this crisis should take all of those things...
(Un)Common Passion
Release Date:
04/06/2017
This past week, the award-winning hip hop artist and actor Common went behind the scenes in Southern California to better understand our nation’s prison pipeline, and learn from people whose lives are profoundly affected by it both on the inside and...
Fostering Connection in a Time of Social Distancing
Release Date:
03/20/2020
... in roles spanning development, finance/operations, program , and executive management. Most recently, Caitlin ...
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Belonging in Practice: How to Be Antiracist
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September 12, 2019 -
3:00pm to 6:00pm
UC Berkeley
... in the Bay Area. Before joining Akonadi, she was Program Director for the San Francisco-based Rosenberg ...