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One of the biggest challenges is knowing how much to pivot to meet the myriad challenges emerging. For our part, as your regional resource for effective philanthropic practice, we are adopting a grounded yet flexible approach – staying true to the priorities that we have elevated as a community over the past three years, but finding partners and allies who can help us with emergent crises.
As we find ourselves in increasingly polarizing times, we must embrace the importance of cultural and narrative strategy in both expanding and strengthening our movements. The work of artists – whether it be visual art, theater, or the stories and characters we connect with through our favorite tv shows and films – has historically been viewed as secondary or supplemental to movement infrastructure, rather than as essential to our work. The reality is that when we invest in and integrate strategies that leverage art, stories, and culture as powerful vehicles for change, we expand what is possible.
This briefing aims to bring together philanthropists, community leaders, and business professionals for a vital discussion on how investments can be made in times of crisis to promote equitable response strategies and ensure the preservation and restoration of essential community institutions. Panelists will discuss philanthropic action to address the impacts of the wildfires in Southern California and changes to the policy landscape.
Every year, NCG provides cohort-based Institutes, trainings, and series for the philanthropic sector. Each with it's own goal, they provide opportunities for the NCG community to work together.
Since Jan. 7, Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the U.S., has been burning. Entire neighborhoods have been decimated, and Altadena, a community in L.A. County with a rich history of Black homeownership, has seen massive destruction. New fires continue destroying homes and businesses, causing families to flee and leaving loss in their wake.
Fostering resilience and driving equitable change has never been more critical or philanthropy. As a grantmaker, there are many priorities to juggle in support of equitably mobilizing resources. How are you and your organization thinking about and approaching the challenges facing northern California communities? As these communities experience profound impacts of systemic inequities, the climate crisis, housing shortages, and threats to democracy, it is imperitive NCG’s member community collaborate for collective change.
NCG's Racial Equity Action Institute centers racial equity with an intersectional framework that recognizes the ways race is shaped and informed by class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Learn more about the annual cohort and how to apply here.