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NFG moves into grantmaking with a multimillion-dollar collaborative fund
How Philanthropy Can Promote Equity through Community Engagement
NFG Member Spotlight: Tremaine Foundation
New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers' Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence
What will it take to win successful economic justice campaigns in the South? With many families facing chronically low wages and economic insecurity, an understanding and attention to the political economy of the South can help funders and field organizations develop successful intervention strategies.
Democratic Development for Thriving Communities: Framing the Issues, Solutions, and Funding Strategies to Address Gentrification and Displacement
The Democratic Development for Thriving Communities report is the result of collaboration between the California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement , field leaders, and academics. It builds on previous work from the philanthropic, academic, and organizing sectors to present a framework for philanthropy to consider in strategically addressing gentrification and displacement.
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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Charlene Carruthers
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Mary Hooks
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris
National Mama’s Bail Out Day
Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making
Funders for a Just Economy started the Working at the Intersections group to create a supportive community in which funders could learn about intersectional grant-making together and create the beginnings of a central framework on economic justice grantmaking through an intersectional lens.
In late 2017, the group interviewed a dozen philanthropic leaders and key thought partners to inform their understanding of intersectional grant-making. The approach was an appreciative inquiry to affirm that there is a great deal of expertise in the field...
FJE Funder Call on Forced Arbitration
Grant-making with an Intersectional Lens
As We #SayHerName, 7 Policy Paths to Stop Police Violence Against Black Girls and Women
In honor of the National Day of Action to End State Violence Against Black Women, Girls and Femmes, lawyer, researcher and activist Andrea J. Ritchie presents some policy ideas to eliminate police sexual violence, gendered racial profiling and other ways officers target Black girls, women and gender nonconforming people.
Andrea J. Ritchie May 19, 2016
Activists from Durham to D.C. to Detroit are gearing up for the second National Day of Action to End State...
Funders Briefing and Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Dignity & Power Now
Video: Funder Briefing on Policing Reform – Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement
In the past two years, Communities United for Policing Reform (CPR) has played a critical role in leading a campaign to pass landmark police accountability legislation in New York City and partnering with families of New Yorkers killed by police to secure executive action by Governor Cuomo to establish a special prosecutor for police killings throughout New York State.
In spite of these victories, there remains much more to accomplish to transform police systems, policies, practices, and culture to be more accountable and transparent to the communities they serve. We...
After Ferguson: Conference Call looking at the role of the faith community in mobilizing around racial justice
Announcing the 2018 Discount Foundation Legacy Awardee
Right To The City and Neighborhood Funders Group 2018 Field & Funder Convening
City Rising
City Rising is a multi-media documentary that shows how gentrification is deeply rooted in a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States. This series illuminates how gentrification is traditionally molded and dictated by those in power. City Rising follows the journey of California communities that are fighting gentrification and features a growing movement of advocates seeking responsible development across the state.
Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just Economy
Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities
On July 5, The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), Law for Black Lives , Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), and over 25 affiliates and allies released a new report examining the budgets of 12 city and county governments that reveals the extent to which local jurisdictions pour money into policing and incarceration, at the expense of community safety priorities such as infrastructure and social safety net programs.
The report,...
Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
Transnational Workers Rights: Emerging Strategies from the Global North and South
This report was commissioned by the Society for Labour and Development (based in India), the Project of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ProDESC, based in Mexico), and the National Guestworkers Alliance, three labor rights organizations developing transnational strategies for organizing workers in low-wage industries. Economic globalization has created new strains on labor forces and communities, and the increasing mobility of capital (and with it the threat of exit, disinvestment, and job loss) poses unique challenges to traditional models of labor organizing.
The substantial...
Voices from the Field: Rural Organizers on What They Need from Funders
As a first step in establishing a framework and priorities, the Integrated Rural Strategies Group commissioned a scan of rural organizing work, Voices from the Field: Rural Organizers on What They Need from Funders . From this scan, the group has gained literacy in the organizing work...
Announcing Two New NFG Projects
Rural Rising: Supporting Equity, Sustainability, and Resilience in Rural & Small-Town America
FJE 2017 Policy Briefing: The Road Ahead for Worker Justice
NFG 2018 National Convening — Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice
2018 Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE)
DIVEST/INVEST: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities
We believe that our collective investments in housing, education, health, transportation, food security, and jobs will fail if we do not also proactively work to divest this nation’s resources from criminalization. Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities , an intersectional toolkit website created by Funders for Justice , helps grantmakers connect with funder colleagues and groups or campaigns working to adress how criminalization impacts youth, civic engagement, immigrant rights, rural...
Funders for Justice Announces Inaugural Advisory Committee of Field Leaders
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Stephanie Guilloud
Our Work Today: A Statement from FFJ Leadership
Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors
Ways to Support Organizers in North Carolina
Statement from Within Our Lifetime
Foundation for Louisiana Supports Baton Rouge Organizing with Rapid Response Fund
Native Voices Rising: A Case for Funding Native-led Change
This is a pivotal time in Native America. Opportunities are opening up as the result of improving economic standards, higher levels of educational attainment, and better health outcomes in certain regions; however, many of the challenges that have long faced our population still persist. For every major challenge and issue there are also efforts to make positive changes.
Native Voices Rising is a joint research and re-granting project of Native Americans in Philanthropy and Common...
Welcome to the new NFG website!
Planting Roots in the South: Announcing a New Home for GSP at the Southern Education Foundation
2019 Budget and Policy Briefing
Recapping the Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is a “blue city," where nearly 80% of the population voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The city’s economy is booming, but gentrification is rapidly displacing low-income families of color from hot areas of the city while other neighborhoods have not seen any investment in decades.
Local anchor institutions, community organizations, labor unions, and foundations like The Heinz Endowments are playing a critical role in investing in people and community development to build an economy that includes jobs that sustain...
How NFG is Disrupting Funder-Grantee Dynamics
Funders for Justice Meeting in New York City
Real Talk on Police Reform
Webinar: Fueling the Movement - How Foundations Can Support the Fight for Racial Equity
Welcome Manisha Vaze, Sr. Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy
‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’
#Asians4BlackLives
#HandsOffTheHomeless Protest of de Blasio’s NYPD
#ReclaimMLK Actions Across the US
#SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women
8 Lessons from Our Southern Grantees in the Fight for Equity and Justice
A Chance to Rewrite America’s Racial Narrative
A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?
A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
A Message From FFJ Leadership: In Solidarity With Chicago & Minneapolis
A New Testament of Hope
Action Alert: Flush Transphobia Fund
Activists Locked Down Outside Tacoma Detention Center
After #Ferguson
After #FergusonOctober
After Ferguson Grand Jury Failure, Federal Government Must Act for Justice
AG Holder announces first six pilot sites for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice
An Open Letter from Ferguson Protesters and Allies
Arizona Citizens Speak Out Against "Secret Police Bill"
As We Mourn Charleston's Victims, Philanthropy Must Act
Baltimore Activists Occupy City Hall #CityHallShutdown #BaltimoreUprising
Black Churches Are Burning Again in America
Black Lives Matter, Today and Always: January 15 Highway Action Solidarity Statement
Black Lives Matter,' NYC Mayor Says After Grand Jury Doesn't Indict Officer
Black Panther cub on new era of civil action
Breaking: Ferguson Activists Meet with President Obama to Demand an End to Police Brutality Nationwide
Building Strong, Healthy, and Resilient Communities in Ferguson and Beyond
Building the Road to Belonging: Three Ways Philanthropy Can Help End Mass Criminalization
Building Trust Between Communities and Local Police
California bans grand juries in fatal shootings by police
Chicago Has Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Police Brutality Cases—And It’s Impoverishing the Victims’ Communities
CPR Statement re: Deaths of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu & Rafael Ramos
Cuomo Appointed A Special Prosecutor For New York Killings Involving Police
Dear Mr. President: A Letter From Tef Poe
Donate to the Legal Support Fund for Justice for Mike Brown
Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter & Ferguson Reps Take Historic Trip to Palestine
Embattled Ferguson police chief resigns
Enough
Enough is Enough: We Demand Quality Policing Now
Ensuring the Voices of Government Reflect the People They Represent
Executives' Alliance Foundation Leaders "Ban the Box"
Families of people killed by Albuquerque police campaign to hold the police accountable
Feature: Freedom Inc.’s Creative Response to the Criminalization of Black Communities in Madison, Wisconsin
Ferguson City Council Announces New Programs
Ferguson October Report
Ferguson: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Movement That Won't Give Up
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Jenny Arwade, Interviewed by Manuela Arciniegas
Five Questions with Casey: Sophie Dagenais on the Baltimore Unrest and the Way Forward
Five Things President Obama Could Do to Stop the Killing
Following Ferguson
For Philanthropy, Time to Double Down to End Injustice
Freedom Side Open Letter
From Palestine to Ferguson— Justice for Mike Brown, Justice for Gaza
From the Front Lines of Ferguson
Funding needs in Ferguson, MO
Funding Opportunity: Protesters in Cleveland
Gay Marriage to Ferguson
Grant Makers Give Money Fast to Challenge Trump Policies
Grant Makers Should Seize the Moment to Seek Racial Justice Solutions
Headwaters Foundation for Justice Launches Emergency Fund For Black Lives
Headwaters Foundation for Justice Relaunches Emergency Fund for Black Lives
I Am the Black Woman Who Interrupted the Netroots Presidential Town Hall, and This Is Why
I Did What I Was Paid to Do': Race Control and America
In ‘Moral Monday,’ activists protest Brown shooting with acts of civil disobedience
Is Democracy Funding Undemocratic? Funding Civic Engagement in an Era of Protest
Jews for Racial Justice Moving the Conversation About Police Brutality Into White Communities
Justice Dept. to investigate NYC chokehold death
Lawyers descend on Ferguson ahead of grand jury decision
Lessons for Ferguson from 4,000 Miles Away
LGBTQ Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Mall Of America Protest A “Decoy” Says Black Lives Matter
Many organizers at the forefront of protests are women, despite men taking center stage
Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter — The Hashtag That Became a Civil Rights Movement
Million Hoodies Chapter Grant Fund
Minneapolis Protestors Occupy Police Precinct, Shut Down Highway After Police Kill Jamar Clark
Minneapolis repeals lurking, spitting laws that criminalize people of color
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Grand Jury Decision
More is required of us
No more fake budgets?! Exploring Equity-Based Approaches to Financial Review
Obama Calls for Changes in Policing After Task Force Report
OBS Launches Quality Policing Initiative
Oct 22-24 in Chicago: Confronting the International Association of Chiefs of Police
One year after Eric Garner’s death, we still are not safe
Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.
Outrage Over Garner and Brown Cases Should Keep Philanthropy Focused on Criminal Justice
Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson
Police arrest protesters as St. Louis awaits grand jury decision
Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses: Amnesty report
Police In Ferguson Stock Up On Riot Gear Ahead Of Grand Jury Decision
Police Reform Organizers Pitch Net Neutrality To FCC
Police Shootings Since Ferguson Put Foundations to the Test
Policing the Homeless: Broken Windows ‘On Steroids”
PolicyLink
Private University Police Patrol Off-Campus (and Off the Record)
Protesters Demand Action From Ohio Attorney General Over Police Use Of Force
Questions Linger for LGBT Community After Police Kill Jessie Hernandez
Rapid Response Racial Justice Fund
Relatives of fallen press Cuomo for special prosecutor
She was only a baby': last charge dropped in police raid that killed sleeping Detroit child
Shifting Gears for Racial Justice
Solutions Emerging from the Movement for Black Lives
Spotlight: Justice Committee, North Star Fund Grantee
St. Louis rapper: In U.S., police murder of blacks legal in all but name
Statement from Center Social Inclusion
Statement: Do Not Militarize Our Mourning: Orlando and the Ongoing Tragedy Against LGBTSTGNC POC
Stop the War on Baltimore
Support Chicago Protesters
Support Minneapolis Protesters
Support Protesters in Chicago
Sustaining a movement for fair and just policing: Accelerating the pace of real change
The criminalization of Muslim students must end
The long, halting, unfinished fight to end racial profiling in America
The National Bar Association Responds to the Grand Jury's Decision Not to Indict Police Officer Darren Wilson in the Shooting Death of Michael Brown
The Police Are Killing One Group at a Staggering Rate, and Nobody Is Talking About It
The Power of the People – SB1445 is a Strategic Victory With Lessons for Alliance Building
The Religious Effort in Ferguson
Third Wave Fund Launches Mobilize Power Fund for Urgent Gender Justice Activism
Trans Delegation to the Movement for Black Lives Convening
Updates on Ferguson, Cleveland, and NYC
Urgent Funding Needs and Opportunities
USHRN Statement on the State of Emergency of Anti-Trans Hate Violence
We Call it the "American Dream"
We Can’t Win a Right To The City Unless #Black Lives Matter
We will not be silenced.
What We’ve Gained And Lost Since Stonewall
Why Ferguson Burns
Youth on the Move: How Funders Can Support the Growing Movement of Young People of Color in 2015
A Ferguson Syllabus: Reading a Movement
After Ferguson: Conference Call looking at the role of the faith community in mobilizing around racial justice
Agenda to Keep us Safe
Baltimore Uprisings
Behind the curtain: one theory of social change
Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement
Bryan Stevenson on inequality, mass incarceration and criminalization
Building a Beloved Community: Strengthening the Field of Black Male Achievement
Building Momentum From The Ground Up: A Toolkit For Promoting Justice In Policing
Control, Disruption and Democracy: Philanthropy's Role in Inclusive Civic Engagement
EPIP Webinar Recap- Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement
Expanding Sanctuary: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now?
Ferguson Action Demands
OUR VISION FOR A NEW AMERICA
WE WANT JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
We Want an End to all Forms of Discrimination and the Full Recognition of our Human Rights
The United States Government must acknowledge and address the structural violence and institutional discrimination that continues to imprison our communities either in a life of poverty and/or one behind bars. We want the United States Government to recognize the full spectrum of our human rights and its...Ferguson Commission Report Examines Issues Behind Mike Brown Uprising, Proposes Action
Ferguson in Focus
Ferguson Solidarity: Ways to Support the Fight
Ferguson to Geneva
From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns
From Protest to Power - Behind the scenes of disruptive social movements
From Protest to Power is a convening hosted by the Ford Foundation and the Solidaire Network on February 26, 2016. We live in a political era defined by crisis, but also great promise. The effects of climate change, economic inequality, and racial injustice threaten our future. Yet in the face of these challenges, there’s a vibrant, visible resurgence of popular movements, of communities rising up against entrenched economic and political power. And it’s working. Four years after the start of the...
Grantmakers for Girls of Color - Watch the National Funders Convening
Watch the REPLAY of the livestream from the Grantmakers for Girls of Color National Funders Convening.
Originally aired: May 19, 2016, 8:45am to 12:15pm ET
See the morning program, speakers, and their twitter handles below the video. Join the conversation using #G4GC
Learn more about the convening...
Grassroots Racial Justice Funding Opportunities
Rapid Response Funds - foundations and donors can contribute support to these funding efforts \
National public foundations and intermediaries:
How to Fund the Revolution: Part 1
How White Foundation Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice
Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk
Key Insights from #BaltimoreUprising
Austin Thompson, director Youth Engagement Fund
Understanding Baltimore’s Uprising ...
L.A. RISING: The 1992 Civil Unrest, the Arc of Social Justice Organizing, and the Lessons for Today’s Movement Building
Letter to President Obama and US Attorney General Eric Holder
Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Results by Funding Policy and Community Engagement
Living Resource Systems: A New Approach for Supporting Movement Networks
article and photo provided by the Movement Net Lab
In tandem with the many movement networks of the last decade, innovative funding channels and configurations have emerged to support them. These changes are part of the shift from foundation-centered funding to a broader conceptualization of resources we call a living resource system . A living resource system provides a relationship-based approach to resources: resources are...Making Black Lives Matter
Making Black Lives Matter Initiative Website Launch
Dear Colleagues, In recognition of Black History and Black Futures month, the Hill-Snowdon Foundation is launching a brand new website for our Making Black Lives Matter Initiative (MBLM) . The Making Black Lives Matter Initiative site will provide background on Hill-Snowdon’s MBLM Initiative that is focused on supporting Black-led organizing in order to help revitalize and strengthen the institutional and political power of the Black community. The website describes Foundation’s framework for supporting...
Making Change: How Social Movements Work - and How to Support Them
Mapping Police Violence
Moving Forward on Racial Justice Philanthropy
Moving Money, Making Change: Funding the Movement for Black Lives
National and Local Recommendations for Police Accountability
No Pride in Deportation: From Vice to ICE Toolkit
BreakOUT! and NOWCRJ ’s Congress of Day Laborers recently released the Vice to ICE Toolkit , a resource on organizing across intersections of identities, including race, sexual orientation, gender identity,...
Philanthropy OUTlook: LGBTQ Criminalization and Criminal Justice Reform in the U.S.
Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age
Press Release from Amnesty International
Race and Policing - A Resource from IssueLab
Race Files
Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation
Reports from the Movement Strategy Center
The Movement Strategy Center offers a plethora of resources that speak on transformative practices, collective impact, intersecting issues, and building progressive power. Below is a curated list.
Practices of Transformative Movement Building We need transformative strategies to generate exponential change. But how do we accomplish this? How do we achieve...
Resourcing the Movement for Black Lives
Above: America Wake Up is scrawled on an I-beam in the burnt out rubble that once was Beauty Town. The store was burnt down during the protest on Nov. 24, 2014. Photo by Shawn Escoffery shawnescoffery.com & distantdreams.me By William Cordery - March 17, 2016 Grassroots Fundraising Journal - editorial board THE POLICE BRUTALITY AND IMPUNITY that led to the deaths of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray,...
Response to Eric Garner's Case: A Deeper Conversation
Eight days after thousands took to the streets in protest, grief, and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager, we are faced with the reality that a New York grand jury, tasked with determining whether to hold another white police officer accountable for the publicly witnessed and video recorded death of an unarmed black man, reached the same decision: no indictment.
We are faced with the reality of a...Response to Ferguson: Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions
Dear friends,
Last night, like many across the world who were watching, we experienced deep disappointment in the decision by the St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson, MO police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenage boy, on August 9. Our thoughts are first with the family of Michael Brown and the community of Ferguson. It’s important to note that this case has never been about just one police officer. The spotlight on Ferguson has revealed with a renewed, sharper focus a deep divide in our society highlighting...Seven Ways That Funders Can Support Racial Justice
St. Louis Activist: Decades After 1968 Urban Uprisings, Key Economic & Race Issues Remain Unresolved
Stop and Frisk Info
Sustaining Racial Justice Action in Philanthropy: Ferguson & Beyond
The Black Philanthropic Resource Library
The Black Scholar: Ferguson, the Black Radical Tradition and the Path Forward
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change
Why focus on anti-Black racism?...
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By Khalil Gibran Muhammad Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Following the 1890 census, the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery, crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic references to America as the promised land of opportunity were woven into a cautionary tale about the exceptional threat black people posed to modern urban...
The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights Project: August 2015 Report
NIJC Freedom of Information Act Litigation Reveals Systemic Lack of Accountability in Immigration Detention Contracting
(August 2015) — The National Immigrant Justice Center’s (NIJC’s) three-year Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation resulted in the most comprehensive public release to date of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration detention center contracts and inspections. With The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights...The Making of Ferguson
Executive summary
In August 2014, a Ferguson, Missouri, policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Michael Brown’s death and the resulting protests and racial tension brought considerable attention to that town. Observers who had not been looking closely at our evolving demographic patterns were surprised to see ghetto conditions we had come to associate with inner cities now duplicated in a formerly white suburban community: racially segregated neighborhoods with high poverty and...The New Jim Crow
The Real Crime: Mass Criminalization of our Communities
Everyday,...
The Violence Happening in Ferguson Is More Than Physical
Thinking About the Safety of Black Lives Beyond Policing
Thoughts on Ferguson
Time to turn protests into change
Timeline of Race, Racism, Resistance and Philanthropy 1992-2014
By Larry Raphael Salomon, Julie Quiroz, Maggie Potapchuk and Lori Villarosa
This historical timeline attempts to capture, in one place, many significant moments, events, controversies and victories that have defined the racial landscape since the turbulent days following the LAPD/Rodney King beating verdict over two decades ago. When communities in Los Angeles rebelled, "race riots" exploded the commonly held myth that our nation had progressed from the explicitly unjust conditions that had defined earlier generations. And in the decades since, the...United Against the Muslim Ban
Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People
We didn’t start a movement. We started a network.
WeTheProtesters.org: A Resource Hub for the Movement
What President Obama told me about Ferguson's movement: think big, but go gradual
Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families
Women of Color on #BlackLivesMatter, Gender, and Racism
Five Principles for Engagement on the Future of Work(ers) and Two Big Ideas
Are funders ready to fight for our freedom?
Standing in Our Power Together
Why We Move Money for Justice
Reimagining How We Fund and What We Fund
White People and Activism in the Trump Era
Philanthropy’s Role in Holding Tension
Answering the Call from Movement Leaders
Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper
Time to Invest for Justice
Bringing Our Whole Selves to Philanthropy and Our Grantmaking
Facing and Recovering from Soul Trauma
As the South Grows
As the South Grows is an initiative of Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) to give philanthropists the tools they need to partner effectively with visionary leaders across the South. The initiative will produce a four-part investigative research and resource report series around place-based strategies for supporting structural change in the South. Through timely...
Post-Election Resources
Social justice organizers, advocates, and the funders who support their work are all grappling with how to move forward in the new social and political moment we find ourselves in. NFG has pulled together a short list of post-election readings and tools you may find useful. We all have a responsibility to go deeper in the weeks, months and years ahead. If you’d like to share information or analysis with us, please write to nfg@nfg.org .
Readings: Role for Funders
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Democratic Development for Thriving Communities Report
The Democratic Development for Thriving Communities: Framing the Issues, Solutions, and Funding Strategies to Address Gentrification and Displacement report is the result of collaboration between the California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement , field leaders, and academics. It builds on previous work from the philanthropic, academic, and...
California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement
Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy
In response to a resurgence of interest in place-based grantmaking, the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened over 100 funders and leaders from the field in September 2014 for Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy. This conference report provides an overview of the discussions that took place at this conference, including:
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lessons shared by experienced place-based funders;
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key challenges and
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Can place-based grantmaking help turn the tide of inequality?
Webinar Recap: Why Should Social Justice Funders Care About Impact Investing?
Funders who have long provided grants to seed social change efforts are becoming interested in fundamental shifts in traditional corporate accountability and disinvestment strategies to consider developing strategies for more values aligned and socially impactful investment alongside grantmaking. These strategies have the potential to help the philanthropic sector invest at scale to change the economy regionally and contribute towards community renewal, power building, and seeding systemic change.
NFG's Project Phoenix and...
Webinar Resources from Hope in the Heartland: Racial Justice and the White Working Class
The current debates within progressive circles about the importance of “winning over” the white working class often fail to directly address the need for honest conversations about race, racism and xenophobia. It is tempting for many political strategists and funders to think that we can find and fund a short cut—better candidates, better field canvassing, better television ads, better framing etc... And, that these solutions will influence white, working class voters to (re)align with progressive candidates and causes.
These interventions are doomed from the start because they...
Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening
In bayous, hollers, cities, and small towns across the American South, visionary leaders have long pioneered cutting edge, successful strategies to build lasting change in their communities and beyond. These leaders have the skills and expertise necessary to navigate an inclusive way forward for everyone in this era of unprecedented political, economic, and demographic shifts. Yet philanthropy—for reasons both mundane and profound—hasn't kept up. How can Southern and national philanthropists alike change this trend and help advance progress in the region and the nation overall?
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Webinar Recap of Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
Across the country, resident-led institutions and their allies continue to build organizing strategies that address housing, displacement, and gentrification at the local, regional, and state level. Strategies and solutions to gentrification and displacement like rent control measures, passing local ballot initiatives for renter protections, developing community land trusts, and financing affordable housing has had some success, but the demographics of many communities are still rapidly changing.
At the center of these shifts, philanthropy continues to play a critical role...
Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance
While the frame of sanctuary cities is designed as protection for undocumented and migrant residents, it also offers an opportunity to engage us all in critical questions about how we shape our democracy and local places: What makes a city a sanctuary? Sanctuary for whom and from what?
Immediately after the presidential election, mayors across the country took a bold public stance, declaring their cities to be “sanctuary cities,” and vowing to protect their cities' residents against the potential harsh policies that are anticipated to come from the new federal administration and...
Webinar Recap: How to Creatively Fund Social Movements
Neighborhood Funders Group and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) co-hosted "How to Creatively Fund Social Movements," a webinar that explored how foundations can be more flexible in supporting grassroots groups and leaders. Experienced grantmakers and organizers shared strategies for responding to this movement moment's critical need for resources to frontline social change actors.
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FFJ Call Recap: Policing and Criminalization in the Trump Era
“This is a time for you and for us to be fearless; to find ways and resources to fund organizing and base building.” — Marielena Hincapie, National Immigration Law Center
Over the course of these past few weeks, marginalized communities have been relentlessly targeted and criminalized by the new federal administration. These include immigrants, with an executive order to begin building a wall along the southern...
Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap
As we know, Southern communities have been navigating challenging political climates for decades. This briefing discussed how the election impacts social justice work supporting LGBTQ, people of color, and immigrant communities in the South. Leaders and practitioners deeply rooted in their work in the South offered their insights about the challenges and opportunities of the current national narrative about...
Webinar Recap: Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking
Last week, Neighborhood Funders Group held a webinar on Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking to plant a seed and spark a conversation amongst funders about democratic and participatory models where community stakeholders are involved in deciding how public and philanthropic resources should be allocated. Here is a recap of the lessons learned, along with the video recording and slides from the webinar.
By Nile Malloy, Senior Program Manager, Democratizing Development Program
Throughout the country,...
Towards a More Resilient Place: Voices from the Convening
Last month, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened 100 local, regional, and national funders for Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising Practices in Place-Based Philanthropy . This convening builds on our 2014 Towards a Better Place convening and our 2015 convening with the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation,...
Tour Reflections from a Native New Yorker
Stacey Millett, Senior Program Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation and a Native New Yorker, writes about putting people first when considering investment decisions.
I joined Neighborhood Funders Group for the learning tour in early April; we spent day two in New York City for an interactive, information-packed trip that took us by bus from Midtown to East Harlem to the Bronx and back. These were places I had not seen since leaving my native city years ago. But I was struck by how the patterns of...
From Boston to New York: Is a More Just City Possible?
Kevin Ryan, Program Director at New York Foundation , discusses his biggest takeaways from NFG's latest learning tour.
On April 2 and 3, Neighborhood Funders Group hosted From Boston to New York: Is a More Just City Possible?, a two-day learning tour that focused on the promise of both cities’ new mayoral administrations to be more transparent and accountable, and to develop strategies that bridge the income gap between the wealthy and the poor. More than 40 grantmakers joined us for the tour, as well as over 40 organizers, activists, community...
California Funders’ Convening on Gentrification and Displacement
On July 20, 2015, NFG partnered with the California Endowment, Ford Foundation, Common Counsel Foundation, and Smart Growth California to convene a day-long meeting for 70 funders and practitioners working on gentrification and displacement issues in California.
Our goal was to deepen a shared understanding of the problems and solutions to the crisis of displacement affecting residents and small businesses in many cities in California due to gentrification. We also sought to lay the foundation for potential alignment on strategies addressing these issues.
We developed a...
Peer Coaching Training Webinar
NFG 2018 Award for Excellence & Discount Foundation Legacy Award
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Staff Transitions at NFG
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for
“Advancing Together” the Democratizing Development Program
Nominate Labor Movement Leaders for the 2017 Discount Foundation Legacy Award!
The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open!
2017 Discount Legacy Award Reception
Uprisings and Funding Needs
The past several days have brought more police killing of black people, more unjust court rulings, and more cities and communities rising up in collective power to demand justice. Say their names:
- Keith Lamont Scott , Charlotte, NC
- Terence Crutcher , Tulsa, OK ...
Celebrating 20 Years of Leadership on Labor and Economic Justice
A Community-Centered Response to Louisiana Flooding
Backing Protests: Funders for Justice Members Answer Activist Movements' Call
NFG Member Spotlight: The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation
Roses Along A Journey: My Transformative Experience in NFG’s Project Phoenix
No Time for Business as Usual
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Resilient Places Require Intentional Strategies
Changing Foundation Culture to Support Place-Based Change
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
#NFG2016 Conference Recap from Native Americans in Philanthropy
Leading with Power: #NFG2016 Conference Recap
Last month, over 300 funders and field leaders joined Neighborhood Funders Group in Oakland, CA, making it NFG's largest convening ever. Grounded by frontline leaders and organizers in social movements for racial and economic justice, the conference provided a dynamic space where funders listened deeply and talked frankly about how best to resource meaningful social change with community power building and innovative partnerships in the heart of these discussions.
“People were not afraid to be real. In other funder convenings, there are lots of layers to the truth. People were...
Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?
Innovative community land trust from Puerto Rico wins 2015-16 UN World Habitat Award
JPMorgan Chase, Detroit Development Fund and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Announce $6.5 Million Loan Fund for Detroit’s Minority-Owned Small Businesses
Funder Coalition Calls for Building a Just and Resilient New Orleans
New Reports: And Still I Rise, #BlackWorkersMatter
Two new cutting edge and groundbreaking reports looking at the nexus of work, race, gender, and class were recently released at the conference State of Black Workers in America at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. The first report, And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voices, Power, and Promise is a photo-...
VICTORY: HUD Program Changes to Reduce Foreclosures and Increase Affordable Housing
On Earth Day, Empowering Allies for the Year Ahead
Water Works: Building Partnerships to Create Jobs and Transform Communities
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Asks: What is NFG?
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A Pivotal Moment for Racial Justice
Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies
The uprisings in Ferguson, MO, in response to the police killing of Michael Brown, have awakened national attention to racially biased policing. This has occurred amidst a growing national consciousness that the criminalization of people of color and low-income communities is a mechanism of the racial and economic injustice that prevents the full civic participation of communities of color in their communities – in education, jobs, housing, and elected representation.
Following are resources that might be helpful when considering how your philanthropic institution might support...
Unions, Activists Align on Affordable Housing
NFG Announces LaTosha Brown as Project Director for Grantmakers for Southern Progress
Project Phoenix
Project Phoenix Grantmaking Tools
Project Phoenix convened a group of funders from a broad range of issue perspectives (climate, civic engagement, worker rights, local economies, etc.) and a broad range of institutional types and positions (size, mission, geography, approach, level of risk-taking, etc.). We realized we often meant very different things by the terms “just transition” or “new economy” or “solidarity economy” and found it difficult to understand each others’ work and the possibilities at the intersection in a shared framework. Learn more about...
Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource transformative solutions to the US housing crisis
In July 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group and the Right To The City Alliance hosted a Funder & Field Convening alongside the Homes For All Member Assembly in Atlanta, GA. Grantmakers met with grassroots leaders to strategically align and move more resources to support housing justice efforts happening throughout the country. The convening included workshops on investing in long-term narrative shift, a funder tour through Atlanta with the ...
The Road Ahead for Worker Justice: Where to Lean In, Pull Up, Push Back and Pivot
For many years, Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) has held a yearly policy briefing to engage its members on specific policy issues that affect middle and low-income workers. In a fundamentally shifting political and power map, this year’s policy briefing updated members with our current understanding of the major forces and players that impact worker justice. FJE members engaged in strategic conversations about the decline of organized labor, economic discrimination based on migration status and gender, the future of work, emerging...
Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
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Across the country, resident-led institutions and their allies continue to build organizing strategies that address housing, displacement, and gentrification at the local, regional, and state level. Strategies and solutions to gentrification and displacement like rent control measures,...
Project Phoenix Readings
Below are several of the reports and readings that supported our learning in Project Phoenix, a year-long cohort collective learning program for funders exploring fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or “solidarity economy” or “economic resiliency” or “new economy.” Learn more about it here.
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Project Phoenix Outcomes and Evaluation
Project Phoenix: Connecting Democracy, Economy, and Sustainability was a year-long cohort collective learning program for funders exploring fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or “solidarity economy” or “economic resiliency” or “new economy.” Learn more about it here.
What emerged from our year of learning together? What paths have we found for cross-sector philanthropic engagement around a broad set of interventions that are commensurate to...