Resources

The Neighborhood Funders Group provides information, learning opportunities, and other professional development activities to our national membership that encourage the support of policies and practices that advance economic and social justice.

NFG works to strengthen and expand social justice philanthropy and provide specific tools and strategies for more effective grantmaking. Social justice philanthropy has evolved into several broad areas, including community organizing, community development, and economic development. The Resources section will provide an opportunity for grantmakers and other interested groups to learn more about NFG and social and economic justice grantmaking. Explore the various Resource categories on the left to lean more.

  Spotlight

 September, 2010 | A Sense of Place - Place-Based Grantmaking in Practice

In this new Special Report, NFG looked at how place-based grantmaking works in practice and asked several foundations and funding collaboratives to describe their experience in this type of grantmaking. This report collects three examples of place-based grantmaking from Nexus Community Partners, the Cleveland Foundation, and the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities that illustrate the unique challenges and rewards of community-targeted philanthropy. 

 September, 2010 | Realigning Labor - Toward a Framework for Collaboration between Labor Unions and Day Labor Worker Centers

NFG's Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships is pleased to present a new report, written by labor expert Nik Theodore. This Special Report analyzes the context that led to the development of a partnership between the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON) and the AFL-CIO, creating the National Worker Center–AFL-CIO Partnership, and examines some of the early successes of, and ongoing challenges facing, partnerships between unions and worker centers.