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Creating Shared Value: A How-to Guide for the New Corporate (R)evolution

Publication date:

09/2011

Creating Shared Value (CSV) requires comprehensive and sustained efforts across a corporation. Drawing heavily on real-life examples, this FSG report identifies ten key building blocks that together form a blueprint for translating CSV into action, and explores how companies can get started on that process.

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Research

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Corporate Giving

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Shared Value

Tying the Knot: The Founding of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Publication date:

10/2011

This detailed case study outlines the candid details of a complicated merger between two, very different, community foundations (the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley serving Santa Clara County and the Peninsula Community Foundation serving San Mateo County).

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Building Power Through Data-Sharing: Issues and Opportunities for Environmental Health and Justice Funders

Publication date:

08/2014

This Health & Environmental Funders Network paper is intended to provide environmental health and justice funders with background information that may be helpful in considering investments to increase data-sharing.

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Facts, Figures, Trends

Transparency

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Environment

Health

Public Policy & Social Justice

Healthy Environments, Healthy People: A Funder Guide on Improving Environmental Conditions for Health

Publication date:

04/2014

This Health & Environmental Funders Network issue brief is an excellent "first-read" for funders newly interested in environmental health and environmental justice. It provides funders with a basic understanding of concerns about environmental impacts on health and an introduction to strategies grantmakers are pursuing to address these impacts.

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Public Policy & Social Justice

LearnPhilanthropy

Publication date:

04/2009

LearnPhilanthropy is the field-wide hub for grantmaker learning, built by professionals working in the field.

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Knowledge Centers

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Emerging Practitioners

Program Staff

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About Philanthropy

11 Sep 2014

Social Change, Advocacy, and Movement Building: The Role for Funders

September 11, 2014 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Northern California Grantmakers

NCG is excited to partner with Alliance for Justice to present an encore of the most popular session from our 2014 NCG Annual Conference.

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Professional Development Program

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Nonprofits

Program Staff

Topic(s)

Income Inequality

Funding Area

Economic & Community Development

Public Policy & Social Justice

Public Policy/Social Justice: Advocacy

Giving More, Making Change.

Publication date:

08/2013

In 2012 FACT made final grants to its portfolio of grantees. As planned, the foundation spent out its endowment as part of a strategy to have the most impact within a fixed period of time. This website, developed from the report, Giving More. Making Change. A Journey in Progressive Grant Making , is presented here to document FACT’s work, principles and its impact over almost 18 years of existence.

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PubPolicy/SocialJustice:CommOrganizing

The Northern CA Nonprofit Salary & Compensation Survey

Publication date:

04/2014

520 nonprofit organizations, reporting on over 25,000 jobs, participated in the 2014 survey, smashing the old record of 434 set just last year and making it the largest and most robust in the survey's 36-year history!

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Database

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Nonprofits

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Infrastructure: Capacity Building

Rainin Foundation Selects Winner of its Imagining Central Market Initiative

Release Date:

08/18/2014

NCG member the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today that the Luggage Store Gallery was selected as the winner of its Imagining Central Market Initiative, a $100,000 grant for a series of site-specific art installations that promote San...

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Member News

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Arts and Culture

Arts & Culture: Performing Arts

Economic & Community Development

NCG, SCG & SDG: Working Together on Behalf of California Philanthropy

Release Date:

08/25/2014

We are pleased to announce that the three regional associations of grantmakers in California—Northern California Grantmakers, San Diego Grantmakers and Southern California Grantmakers—are embarking on an exciting initiative to collaborate more...

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25 Sep 2014

Retrofitting Movements: Supporting Nonprofit Leaders in a Networked World

September 25, 2014 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

Northern California Grantmakers

In this interactive session, learn how funders can partner with pioneering nonprofit leaders to embrace technology and breakthrough forms of collaboration.

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Leadership Development

Technology/Social Media

Funding Area

Infrastructure

Infrastructure: Capacity Building

Sobrato Family Foundation Supports Economic Mobility In an Increasingly Divided Silicon Valley

Release Date:

08/25/2014

NCG member Sobrato Family Foundation has announced that its board recently approved a second multi-million grant round this year, giving more than $3.8M to a range of organizations working toward the goal of economic mobility for all residents in an...

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Member News

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Family Foundation

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Income Inequality

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Economic & Community Development

01 Oct 2014

New Grantmakers Institute Boot Camp: Essential Skills & Strategies [South Bay]

Areas of Focus

Leadership, Culture and Community

October 1, 2014 -

9:00am to 5:00pm

Micrsoft

New to philanthropy? Join us for a shortened version of NCG's popular two-day workshop that equips grantmakers with the tools and best practices needed for making sound funding recommendations.

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Professional Development Program

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Emerging Practitioners

Program Staff

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About Philanthropy

Grantmaking Skills

Areas of Focus

Leadership, Culture and Community

23 Sep 2014

Mad Hatters Network Convening

September 23, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Northern California Grantmakers

Designed for staff of small foundations who wear multiple operational hats, The Mad Hatters Network is an informal gathering offering peer-to-peer administrative support.

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Organizational Effectiveness

Technology/Social Media

Funding Area

Infrastructure

Infrastructure: Effectiveness

29 Sep 2014

San Francisco Bay Area Local Engagement Group: Facilitating Decisions Everyone Owns

September 29, 2014 -

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Arabella Advisors/ Leidesdorff Place

The San Francisco Bay Area LEG and Arabella Advisors invite you for some wine and cheese, and an afternoon program on group decision-making.

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Organizational Effectiveness

30 Sep 2014

Conversations in Philanthropy: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

September 30, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Foundation Center

We are taking the book club concept to a professional level. This group will help you get through that stack of work-related reading you’ve been meaning to do, while also helping you to connect with colleagues.

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Peer Network

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Children & Youth

Populations & Communities

Populations/Communities: Men & Boys

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Welcomes Two New Staff Members

Release Date:

08/27/2014

NCG member Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has announced the addition of Berit Ashla and and Heather Grady to their San Francisco team.

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Where Do We Go From Here: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

Publication date:

07/2014

This report examines U.S. foundation giving explicitly in support of black males by issue area, type of support, and geographic area served. The analyses explore patterns of giving by larger U.S. foundations over the past eight years, with a focus on giving from 2008 to 2010.

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Research

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Program Staff

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About Philanthropy

Funding Area

Populations & Communities

Populations/Communities: Men & Boys

Populations/Communities:People of Color

FroYo with a CEO: Interview with Cedric Brown

Release Date:

09/02/2014

FroYo with a CEO is a video interview series featuring NCG’s summer intern Carmen Ross, as she uses the persuasive powers of frozen yogurt to get foundation leaders to open up about their life both in and outside of the office.

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Impact Playbook: Best Practices for Understanding the Impact of Media

Publication date:

04/2013

Building on existing impact frameworks with applied strategies, concrete metrics, and suggested workflows, this guide that synthesizes best practices for media makers to understand the impact of their work.