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How Philanthropy Can Promote Equity through Community Engagement

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01/22/2018

When NFG members Nexus Community Partners and The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota heard that there was a light rail extension planned to connect Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park, they knew there was an opportunity to leverage their resources to support community power in the process. Many of the neighborhoods that the light rail extension would pass through are home to a population of majority people of color and immigrants who would likely be left out of the conversation if traditional planning processes were followed. As Patrick Troska, Executive Director of the Phillips...

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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Mary Hooks

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04/27/2018

Next up in FF J’s series of interviews with our Advisors : Mary Hooks , Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground (SONG ) and a leader of the National Bail Out . Make sure to check out the new Until Freedom Comes Bail Out Toolki t , from the National Bail Out. We asked Mary to tell us about a recent win on bail reform with the Atlanta city council, what visionary organizing looks like, and what funders can do in this moment. Congratulations on th is week’s win on bail reform in Atlanta, Georgia! What type of organizing and coalition work did it take...

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National Mama’s Bail Out Day

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07/11/2018

The week before Mother’s Day, organizations in Oakland, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Montgomery, Memphis, Minneapolis, Durham, Atlanta, and beyond will bail out as many mothers as possible who otherwise would spend Mother’s Day in a cell simply because they cannot afford bail. Everyday an average of 700,000 people are condemned to cages and separated from their families simply because they can not afford to pay bail. National Mama’s Bail Out Day will give incarcerated mothers an opportunity to spend Mother’s Day with their families and build community through gatherings that highlight the...

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FJE Funder Call on Forced Arbitration

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Friday, June 1, 2018 -

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On May 21, 2018, the Supreme Court made a 5-4 decision in the Murphy Oil vs. NLRB case, allowing corporations to include arbitration clauses in employee contracts that effectively force employees to settle any disputes through arbitration. The decision on this case delivers a major blow to workers’ ability to deal with any workplace violations with their employer. Funders for a Just Economy discussed this case, along with several other upcoming labor issues, during this year's Policy Briefing & Labor Strategy Session in March 2018. Join us to continue this conversation, learn about the...

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As We #SayHerName, 7 Policy Paths to Stop Police Violence Against Black Girls and Women

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Tue, July 19, 2016

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...

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Funders Briefing and Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Dignity & Power Now

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Los Angeles, CA

John M. Lloyd Foundation, Liberty Hill Foundation, Rosenberg Foundationand Reinvent Communications invite you to a special funders briefing about how funders can best support Black-led movement building. The briefing will feature the work of Dignity and Power Now, a grassroots organization based in Los Angeles founded by Patrisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of #BlackLivesMatter. Dignity and Power Now fights for the dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families and communities. The organization is currently working on a campaign to ensure a civilian review board for the Los...

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Funder Briefing on Policing Reform – Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement

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Wed, July 18, 2018

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...

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After Ferguson: Conference Call looking at the role of the faith community in mobilizing around racial justice

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Monday, July 23, 2018 - 11:15am

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Social justice non-profit Sojourners has been working on racial reconciliation and economic justice organizing since the early 1970s, and this past fall Sojourners has been working closely with Ferguson leaders, at their request, as well as with national partners, to achieve a bold agenda—to help America, and particularly communities of faith to listen across racial lines and build a multi-racial and bipartisan movement to achieve racial reconciliation and transform our criminal justice system. Listen to the following conference call with Lisa Sharon Harper, Sojourners’...

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Announcing the 2018 Discount Foundation Legacy Awardee

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07/11/2018

Enrique Balcazar Community Organizer and Leader at Migrant Justice Enrique "Kike" Balcazar immigrated to the United States from Tabasco, Mexico when he was 17 years old. He joined his parents on a dairy farm in rural Vermont and worked for years on farms across the state. Enrique joined Migrant Justice and became a leader in the successful campaign to expand access to driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants in Vermont. He became part of the organization's Farmworker Coordinating Committee and is now an organizer and spokesperson. Enrique is one of the...

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City Rising

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Mon, July 09, 2018

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.

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Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just Economy

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09/01/2017

Alejandra L. Ibañez, Chair of NFG's Funders for a Just Economy and Lead Program Officer at Woods Fund Chicago, urges colleagues to defend the past achievements for workers' rights that are now being threatened by unprecedented attacks, and to be bold in pushing towards a more just economy. As we prepare for the Labor Day weekend, which celebrates the strength, resilience, and achievements of workers in this country, I am reminded of the history of organized labor in shaping progressive social movements. And where organized labor has not gone, we see a flourishing of worker centers and the...

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Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities

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Fri, May 05, 2017

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.

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NFG 2018 National Convening — Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice

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Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - Thursday, June 7, 2018

St. Louis, MO

Photo by Hcontreras98 on Wikimedia Commons We welcome our network members along with new funders and partners to connect, organize, and mobilize at the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice. Find more information on the conference schedule, sponsorships, and more at raiseupconference.org . It’s both an exciting and critical moment for philanthropy. Funders are grappling with how to re-prioritize and step up to meet the needs of these times. With this sense of urgency and need to evolve, we are seeing funders acting on the need to join...

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Funders for Justice Announces Inaugural Advisory Committee of Field Leaders

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07/05/2017

Since we were founded three years ago, a pillar of Funders for Justice has always been close partnership and guidance from field partners. We are incredibly proud to announce our inaugural cohort of FFJ Advisors. These nine leaders were selected in recognition of their expertise and leadership in movements for racial and gender justice, in police accountability campaigns and anti-criminalization movements, and efforts to inform more impactful grantmaking for community power-building. The Funders for Justice Advisors for 2017-2018 are: Jenny Arwade , Communities United...

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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Stephanie Guilloud

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06/20/2018

Our discussion series with FFJ’s Field Advisors continues with Stephanie Guilloud, Co-Director of Project South . Read our interview below to learn more about how the Legacy Museum and Lynching Memorial can be “a tool and weapon of truth in our long-term struggle to defeat white supremacy and win freedom and justice for us all.” If you could stop a lynching today, would you? “Thank you for taking our case,” Anna Deavere Smith told the 2,000 person crowd at the Grand Opening of the Legacy Museum and Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama...

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Mapping the Field

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Fri, August 14, 2015

Organizations Addressing Police Accountability and Racial Justice

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Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors

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05/15/2018

FFJ is proud to announce our 2nd cohort of FFJ Advisors – 12 powerhouse leaders from cities across the US. These leaders organize in multiple racial and gender justice movements to end criminalization of communities of color, including: organizing in Native nations, Latinx migrant justice, transgender rights, youth and multi-generational organizing, South Asian migrant and worker justice, power-building in the South, bail reform, Black organizing and power-building, community-determined safetyand a world without prisons, an end to the public health crisis of incarceration, and an end to...

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Ways to Support Organizers in North Carolina

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10/07/2017

Check out these three ways to support organizers in North Carolina: Freedom Fighter Bond Fund , at the Durham Solidarity Center, is accepting donations to support legal costs for people demonstrating against the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, NC. The Freedom Fighter Fund is governed by a Rapid Response Team composed of a 5-8 people who are representative of the people and communities organizing in support of racial, social, gender, economic, and environmental justice. #CharlottteUprising Fund by the Charlotte Queer and Trans People of...

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Statement from Within Our Lifetime

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10/07/2016

This rapid response statement on police killings in September 2016 was originally released by Within Our Lifetime on September 29, 2016 at http://www.withinourlifetime.net/ . Within Our Lifetime (WOL) supports the families of Alfred Olango, Keith Scott, Terence Crutcher, Terrence Sterling, and Tyre King (among many others) and all the people grieving, organizing and protesting for justice in El Cajon, Charlotte, Tulsa, Washington, D.C Columbus, (and beyond) in the wake of the rampant police killings of Black people across America. These tragic losses lay bare the urgent need for substantive...

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Foundation for Louisiana Supports Baton Rouge Organizing with Rapid Response Fund

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09/12/2016

This press release was originally released by Foundation for Louisiana on July 21, 2016 at https://www.foundationforlouisiana.org/news/75/rapid-response-fund . Baton Rouge, LA — Foundation for Louisiana (FFL) stands in solidarity with the Baton Rouge community and people across Louisiana and across the nation who are outraged, hurt and engaged by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling, Deputy Brad Garafola with East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and officers Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson of the Baton Rouge Police Department — as well as the three other injured police...

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Native Voices Rising: A Case for Funding Native-led Change

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Mon, June 10, 2013

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.

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Webinar: Fueling the Movement - How Foundations Can Support the Fight for Racial Equity

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

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A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

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" By Nat Chioke Williams August 27, 2015, Chronicle of Philanthropy On Saturday, people from around the world will commemorate the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Although many people will tout the city’s recovery, few people in black working-class neighborhoods will be celebrating. After all, they have been mostly left behind . But that is hardly the only poignant and painful reminder of the inequities facing blacks in America and how far the nation still must go to end them. On August 4, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the crowning...

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A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

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By Alicia Garza , The Feminist Wire, October 7, 2014. I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for Black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was post-humously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed. It was a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society and also, unfortunately, our movements. Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and...

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After Ferguson Grand Jury Failure, Federal Government Must Act for Justice

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Communities United for Police Reform, November 24, 2014. Today, Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) released the following statement in response to the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who fatally shot unarmed Michael Brown in August: "We are outraged that the grand jury failed to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown. From Ferguson to Brooklyn, communities of color face hyper-aggressive policing and lack of meaningful or timely accountability for officers who use excessive and deadly force. The double...

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AG Holder announces first six pilot sites for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice

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March 18, 2015 View full press release. The National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is honored to be leading this effort, under which National Network Director David Kennedy and John Jay College President Jeremy Travis will collaborate with a consortium of national law enforcement experts to assess the police-community relationship in each pilot site and develop a detailed site-specific plan that will enhance procedural justice, reduce bias, and support reconciliation in communities where trust has been harmed. We are...

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An Open Letter from Ferguson Protesters and Allies

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By DeRay Mckesson, Brittany Packnett, and Johnetta Elzie, Huffington Post, November 11, 2014. Originally published October 17: In Ferguson, police met our protesting of police brutality with the disgusting irony of greater brutality, the likes of which Americans have rarely seen on our own soil. In this American town, officers tapped their batons, pointed guns in our faces, kneed our women's heads, threw our pregnant mothers to the ground, jailed our peaceful clergy and academics, and tear gassed our children. We are living an American Horror Story. But it...

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Arizona Citizens Speak Out Against "Secret Police Bill"

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By Miriam Wasser Wed., Mar. 18 2015 at 1:37 PM Phoenix New Times Update 3/17/15 7:30 p.m.: SB 1445 passed in the House Wednesday afternoon. The vote was 44 to 13, with three members not voting. ( View the full voting breakdown here ) It will now advance to Governor Doug Ducey’s office. Original story follows: Community leaders and members of the ACLU gathered on the capital lawn this morning to speak out against SB 1445, a controversial bill that “limits the release of the name of a peace officer who is involved in a use of deadly physical force incident for 60 days.” Read...

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As We Mourn Charleston's Victims, Philanthropy Must Act

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By Nakisha M. Lewis, Tynesha McHarris, and Allen Kwabena Frimpong The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 26, 2015 As we face the latest violent assault on black people — the nine black parishioners who were shot dead in their church in Charleston — those of us in philanthropy must think hard about our role in supporting the movement for black lives. We have returned yet again to the kind of vigilante violence that also took the life of Trayvon Martin. We are constantly reminded of the culture of violence in our country that continues to take the lives of black people. The volatile stream of...

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California bans grand juries in fatal shootings by police

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By Tracey Kaplan, San Joe Mercury News 08/11/2015 Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday making California the first state in the nation to ban the use of grand juries to decide whether police officers should face criminal charges when they kill people in the line of duty. The ban, which will go into effect next year, comes after grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, made controversial decisions in secret hearings last year not to bring charges against officers who killed unarmed black men, sparking protests across the country. Calls for transparency also have...

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Chicago Has Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Police Brutality Cases—And It’s Impoverishing the Victims’ Communities

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By Carrie Sloan and Johnaé Strong March 11, 2016 - The Nation Mayor Rahm Emanuel, State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, and the Chicago Police Department are under intense scrutiny for covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald, the unarmed Black 17-year-old who was shot 16 times by a police officer in October 2014, just four months before Chicago’s mayoral election. As part of this cover-up, the City of Chicago paid McDonald’s family $5 million if they agreed not to publicly share the video of the murder. But the McDonald settlement was just a drop in the bucket: Chicago has spent $642 million on...

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CPR Statement re: Deaths of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu & Rafael Ramos

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DECEMBER 20, 2014 Communities United for Police Reform released the following statement tonight on the deaths of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos: “Today, it was reported that two NYPD officers were killed by a man who earlier in the day seriously injured a young woman in Baltimore, and who killed himself after shooting the officers. We express our condolences to the families of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, as well as to the woman reported to be his former girlfriend who was shot earlier today. “As the details of today’s shootings...

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Cuomo Appointed A Special Prosecutor For New York Killings Involving Police

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by Christopher Mathias, Huffington Post New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed an executive order Wednesday appointing a special prosecutor to handle cases involving civilians who die at the hands of police. "We have seen this all across the country where there's a lack of trust in the criminal justice system, triggered by a particular case," Cuomo had told reporters on Tuesday, according to Capital New York . "And the basic argument is always the same. That they don't trust the prosecution because of the connections with the police. And a criminal justice system doesn't work without trust."...

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Dear Mr. President: A Letter From Tef Poe

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By Tef Poe Originally published in the Riverfront Times , December 1, 2014. Editor's note: Tef Poe is an artist from the St. Louis area. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine . His project The Hero Killer was released on January 2 and was followed up this year by a full-length with DJ Burn One entitled Cheer For the Villain . Follow him on twitter @...

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Donate to the Legal Support Fund for Justice for Mike Brown

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In support of those people arrested during protests this week, on the one-year anniversary of the police murder of Michael Brown, please consider donating to the legal support fund . Since August 9, over 800 people have been arrested in Ferguson while protesting Mike Brown's death and the epidemic of police violence facing Black and Brown communities in the United States.The Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) legal support team aims to provide accessible, democratic and accountable legal support to a wide range of people participating in the struggle for social change...

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Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter & Ferguson Reps Take Historic Trip to Palestine

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Leaders from American racial justice movements connect with Palestinians living under occupation By Kristian Davis Baile, Ebony.com Representatives at the forefront of the movements for Black lives and racial justice have taken a historic trip to Palestine this week to connect with activists living under Israeli occupation. Black journalists, artists and organizers representing Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), and more have joined the Dream Defenders for a 10-day trip to the occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. The...

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Families of people killed by Albuquerque police campaign to hold the police accountable

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Families of people killed by the Albuquerque police department are campaigning for systemic reforms to the APD and to hold police officers accountable for their actions. The following email is from Ken Ellis, the father of a man killed by the police. To learn more about the campaign, contact Adriann Barboa of Strong Families, New Mexico at adriann@forwardtogether.org . From: Ken Ellis II via Strong Families, New Mexico Reply to: communications@forwardtogether.org Subject: Holding police officers accountable Four years ago, my son Kenneth – an Iraq war...

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Feature: Freedom Inc.’s Creative Response to the Criminalization of Black Communities in Madison, Wisconsin

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Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice has been supporting Freedom Inc. (FI) for 4 years. FI was founded in 2003, is based in Madison, WI and has used particularly creative and inspiring strategies to respond to oppression, racism and violence. FI works to end violence within and against low and no income communities of color. They work at the intersection of prison abolition, LGBT rights, education rights, and reproductive justice. FI aims to challenge the fundamental root causes of violence through leadership development and community organizing in Black and Southeast Asian, particularly...

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by Eric Ward, Program Officer, Advancing Racial Justice and Minority Rights, Ford Foundation August 22, 2014 In Ferguson, Mo. protests are in their 13th day. And while a governor-imposed curfew has been lifted and National Guard units have been withdrawn, a “state of emergency” remains in place. Amid a flood of related reading, these articles and resources have stood out to me. I hope their insights will fuel your own discussions about Ferguson and the larger systems at play. Via: Ford Foundation Equals Change

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Funding needs in Ferguson, MO

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Funding needs in Ferguson, MO, as compiled by Rev. Starsky D. Wilson, President & CEO of the Deaconess Foundation and Robert Hughes, PhD, President & CEO of the Missouri Foundation for Health. Funders engaged community-based leaders to delineate current efforts aimed at meeting the needs in the Ferguson area, as well as to identify gaps that present opportunities for additional investment. This document provides a snapshot of our environmental scan captured in the beginning of December 2014. It represents a broad spectrum of activity and ideology from a diverse set of local funders...

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Funding Opportunity: Protesters in Cleveland

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It's not too late to donate! Click here for more information and to donate . A Message from the Third Wave Fund : In July 2015, over 1600 people from across the country gathered at the Movement for Black Lives meeting in Cleveland to reflect, grow, fellowship, and remember our fallen. Three months later, there has been no justice in the city of Cleveland or in the state of Ohio for those who have been brutalized and killed at the hands of the state. Rather, the violence experienced by Black folks in Cleveland has escalated with the murders of trans women, the de-funding of health clinics such...

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Gay Marriage to Ferguson

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By Caitlin Breedlove , Huffington Post, October 20, 2014. An interview with Serena Sebring, SONG 's North Carolina organizer, by Caitlin Breedlove, SONG Co-Director. Click here to read more.

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Grant Makers Give Money Fast to Challenge Trump Policies

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03/13/2017

February 24, 2017 By Rebecca Koenig, The Chronicle of Philanthropy The unprecedented sums individual donors have given to progressive nonprofits since the presidential election have drawn ample attention. The American Civil Liberties Union alone raised $24 million in one weekend after it took on Donald Trump’s travel ban, earning the venerable charity headlines in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Politico. Foundation responses to the new administration’s policies have flown under the radar. But grant makers worried about how the change in leadership might affect the...

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Grant Makers Should Seize the Moment to Seek Racial Justice Solutions

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by Shireen Zaman, Director, Proteus Fund's Security & Rights Collborative and Laila Mehta, Former Director, Asian Amiercans and Pacific Islands in Philanthropy Civic Engagement Fund This post originally appeared as a "Letter to the Editor" in the September 21 issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy To the Editor: The Chronicle’s article " After Ferguson, Grant Makers Are Seeking Fresh Solutions to Racial-Justice Problems " (September 11) clearly expresses the need for funders to address underlying causes of racial tensions in this country. In addition to the recent deaths...

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Thursday, 02 July 2015 By Chris Crass, Truthout | Interview As New York City erupted in December 2014 in mass, nonviolent, disruptive direct action after the non-indictment of the officer who murdered Eric Garner and the officers who were accomplices in this brutal crime, one of the actions that grabbed national headlines and many a heart, was organized by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) . Over 400 members of JFREJ, including Rabbis and other leaders in the Jewish community, took to the streets of the primarily white, wealthy and Jewish, Upper West Side. This civil disobedience...

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LGBTQ Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jennifer Houston, Director, External Affairs jhouston@outfront.org LGBTQ Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter December 3rd, 2015 (Minneapolis) — Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities know that liberation is not a given; it is fought for. We remember it was trans women of color who led the riots at Stonewall, catalyzing a national movement. Before Stonewall, trans people who were getting arrested spurred the Compton Cafeteria Riots in 1966. We remember the White Night Riots...

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Outrage Over Garner and Brown Cases Should Keep Philanthropy Focused on Criminal Justice

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By Vincent Stehle, The Chronicle of Philanthropy. December 17, 2014 The streets of Ferguson, Mo., New York City, and many other cities across the nation have been overflowing with protests for the past month in reaction to grand-jury decisions not to indict police officers responsible for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The anger and frustration many people feel over those deaths and many others involving the excessive use of force by police is understandable, particularly when it comes to encounters with African-American men and boys. ProPublica, an investigative journalism...

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Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson

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The Deaconess Foundation seeks to shift public policy, mobilize community members, and strengthen advocacy efforts related to children and youth. By Rev. Starsky D. Wilson Standford Social Innovation Review - Spring 2016 Few moments in life are filled with the hope and promise of a high school graduation. Marked by celebration and anticipation of the future, commencement is one of the most important milestones in a young person’s life. For students in Normandy High School’s class of 2014, though, graduation was also a stark reminder of the deep inequities facing many of...

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Police Reform Organizers Pitch Net Neutrality To FCC

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by Matt Sledge, Huffington Post. January 9, 2015. Police reform organizers traveled to Capitol Hill and the Federal Communications Commission on Friday to push for open access to the Internet, which they say is an increasingly vital organizing tool in the wake of the controversial deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. The delegation met with black members of Congress including Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). They also met with one commissioner and staffers from the FCC, which will decide in February whether to classify broadband Internet as a public utility, a step...

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She was only a baby': last charge dropped in police raid that killed sleeping Detroit child

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by Rose Hackman, The Guardian. January 31, 2015. Final charges against Joseph Weekley, a police officer who shot dead a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in Detroit in May 2010, were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized –police force. In an echo of deaths at police hands that rocked the US last year, including those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York, Officer Weekley is white and Aiyana Stanley-Jones was black. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekley’s...

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Shifting Gears for Racial Justice

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We Can’t Win a Right To The City Unless #Black Lives Matter

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Right to the City Alliance - March 2015 Wall Street, the financial center of the most powerful city in the world, was built and maintained through slave labor. The massive profiteering of big banks and private equity firms that prevails, rides on the backs of black and brown families. Movements across America confronting the crisis of foreclosure, gentrification and displacement, need to have black leaders who help define the vision for our right to the city. Here in the United States, the recent momentum built in the fight against state violence and for a world where #blacklivesmatter has...

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We will not be silenced.

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ACTIVISTS BLAST NYPD ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE New York, NY — Activists issued a scathing statement this afternoon in response to recent attempts by the NYPD to silence the efforts of citizens seeking justice for victims of police violence. The letter, drafted by Ferguson Action, and cosigned by over a dozen grassroots organizations takes aim at PBA president Patrick Lynch and Commissioner Bratton for their reckless attempts to conflate constitutionally protected protest activities with the tragic murders of officers Ramos and Liu: “The events...

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What We’ve Gained And Lost Since Stonewall

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Black trans people have been struggling for acceptance for 50 years. And we’re not even close to getting it. By Miss Major There is no because of this or that — Stonewall just happened. There was a tendency at that time for white people to think, well, she’s a junkie or she’s an alcoholic or she’s a drug addict. She’s anything but human, so why listen to her? That was the basic attitude towards us trans women in the 60s. And it just happened to be everywhere. Some of the girls back then, like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, tried to speak up for us, but just got laughed at. Everyone,...

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Why Ferguson Burns

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The Nation, November 25, 2014. Ferguson is on fire. Immediately after St. Louis prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that a grand jury had failed to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, waves of unrest roiled the city. A dozen buildings were torched and looted, and two police cars were set ablaze. As President Obama appeared on TV urging calm, cops in Ferguson fired rounds of tear-gas canisters into crowds and deployed armored vehicles with gun turrets that were built for our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They...

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Youth on the Move: How Funders Can Support the Growing Movement of Young People of Color in 2015

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Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing , Jan 9, 2015 As we begin 2015, we at the Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) have been re-inspired by the undeniable potential for young people of color to play a transformative role in advancing social justice. Young people of color are demonstrating a readiness to organize that has not been seen in many years. For funders and others who care about youth leadership and social and racial justice, it is an important time to support the actions taking place across the country to help them coalesce into a sustained movement. For funders...

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A Ferguson Syllabus: Reading a Movement

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Mon, August 10, 2015

By Darnell L. Moore

Identities.mic

August 07, 2015

Sunday will mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Mike Brown Jr., the 18-year old black teenager who was fatally shot by 28-year old Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's killing — and the subsequent public display of his lifeless body left bloodied and uncovered on a tiny street before his family and neighbors — was a fulcrum igniting a sustained uprising.

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After Ferguson: Conference Call looking at the role of the faith community in mobilizing around racial justice

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Sat, April 11, 2015

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Agenda to Keep us Safe

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Tue, September 30, 2014

Originally posted at byp100.org

The Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is dedicated to the long-term fight to end the criminalization of Black youth. We believe that strategies to achieve this goal and ultimately transform our lives and communities require grassroots organizing and public policy advocacy at the local, state, and federal level.

Thus BYP100 wants decision makers, elected officials, and law enforcement agencies to implement and enforce our ...

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Tell us what inequality means to you. Join the conversation using #InequalityIs .

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Building a Beloved Community: Strengthening the Field of Black Male Achievement

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Tue, May 13, 2014

Building a Beloved Community: Strengthening the Field of Black Male Achievement is a newly released report that maps the landscape of work in the area of black male achievement and offers recommendations for what it will take to strengthen the field moving forward. Based on interviews with 50 leaders in the social, academic, government, and business sectors, the report takes stock of the major sectors engaged in the field and examines opportunities for other constituencies to become more involved. Read the report.

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Building Momentum From The Ground Up: A Toolkit For Promoting Justice In Policing

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www.justiceinpolicing.com

Sun, June 14, 2015

From the Center for Popular Democracy and PolicyLink .

The killing of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, John Crawford III, and Ezell Ford over just four weeks last summer, and the subsequent failure to hold any officers involved responsible, spurred a national conversation about police violence and systemic racism. Community members, often led by tenacious...

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Control, Disruption and Democracy: Philanthropy's Role in Inclusive Civic Engagement

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Mon, February 29, 2016

"By Gara LaMarche

The following is adapted from the keynote speech at the Funders Committee for Civic Participation conference in Washington, D.C., on October 6, 2015.

In Citizen , the poet Claudia Rankine, writing about the abandonment of Black lives after Hurricane Katrina – a signal event in the shift toward the current political moment – says “the fiction of the facts assumes innocence, ignorance, lack of intention, misdirection; the necessary conditions of a certain time and place.”

To overcome the fictions we tell ourselves requires us to acknowledge that the...

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EPIP Webinar Recap- Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement

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Tue, May 05, 2015

The tragedies of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, John Crawford, Jessie Hernandez and others have ignited a national movement around police reform and racial justice. How can grassroots groups capitalize on the increased attention to organize and build coalitions that will impact policy and create sustainable change? In this webinar, we were be joined by representatives of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), a New York City based coalition, to learn about their local work and how it fits into a larger national and historical context. We discussed how to maintain momentum and make this...

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Expanding Sanctuary: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now?

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Mon, March 13, 2017

Expanding Sanctuary: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now?

The term “sanctuary” most recently refers to local policies that limit when and if local law enforcement communicates with, or submits to, (often unconstitutional) requests from federal immigration agents. But in a country where over-policing results in 1 in 3 people being arrested at least once by the age of 23, during a time when evolving technology places fingerprint scanners in the palm of every law enforcement officers’ hand, and as we anticipate the growth in...

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Ferguson Action Demands

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Sat, November 01, 2014

from Ferguson Action

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...

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Ferguson Commission Report Examines Issues Behind Mike Brown Uprising, Proposes Action

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Mon, September 14, 2015

Mon, Sep 14, 2015

Today, the Ferguson Commission—a group of regional...

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Ferguson in Focus

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Mon, October 13, 2014

A new NAACP LDF report, Ferguson in Focus, looks at Ferguson through the lenses of educational inequality, political disenfranchisement, economic inequality, and the criminal justice system.

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Ferguson Solidarity: Ways to Support the Fight

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Tue, August 19, 2014

" Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) , Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) have identified several critical ways for allies outside of Ferguson to support OBS's organizing efforts: financial resources, legal support, and solidarity actions in localities across the country.

Ferguson Solidarity: Ways to Support the Fight

All eyes are on the fight for justice for Michael Brown and the growing movement against the systematic targeting of...

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Ferguson to Geneva

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Sat, November 01, 2014

The family of Michael Brown, HandsUpUnited, Organization for Black Struggle (OBS), and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) submitted a brief to the United Nations and will present it in Geneva November 12-13, 2014. They aim "not only to achieve justice in Ferguson, but to unite governments around the world against the human rights violations that result from racial profiling and police violence."

Read the brief.

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From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns

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Fri, December 16, 2016

Grassroots Racial Justice Funding Opportunities

Rapid Response Funds - foundations and donors can contribute support to these funding efforts

National public foundations and intermediaries:

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How to Fund the Revolution: Part 1

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Tue, March 01, 2016

Key Insights from #BaltimoreUprising

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Mon, May 18, 2015

Austin Thompson, director Youth Engagement Fund

Understanding Baltimore’s Uprising...

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L.A. RISING: The 1992 Civil Unrest, the Arc of Social Justice Organizing, and the Lessons for Today’s Movement Building

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Sat, April 28, 2012

By Manuel Pastor and Michele Prichard , April 2014.

“This report is our attempt to unravel at least part of the story. It is a long and complicated tale, which partly explains the many pages we take to tell it. Even at this length (and the full report on which this summary is based is even longer), our telling is necessarily incomplete. There were so many actors, so many turning points, and so many skirmishes in the fight for justice. But we try to capture parts of the puzzle, offering key lessons to activists, social movement observers, and funders from our...

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Making Black Lives Matter

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Wed, February 25, 2015

Nat Chioke Williams, Executive Director, Hill-Snowdon Foundation

The tragic killing of an unarmed African American teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri gave a new energy and national platform to the issue of police brutality and excessive force in the Black community. Indeed, in the months surrounding Mike Brown’s killing, there was a wave of killings of unarmed Black men, boys and women by white police officers across the country including Ezell Ford in Los Angeles; John Crawford, Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson in Ohio; and Eric Garner and Akai...

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Making Black Lives Matter Initiative Website Launch

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Tue, March 01, 2016

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...

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Making Change: How Social Movements Work - and How to Support Them

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Mon, November 07, 2016

Making Change: How Social Movements Work - and How to Support Them

by Manuel Pastor and Rhonda Ortiz, originally published in March 2009

Social movements are a hidden underpinning of the American story. Using the tools of relationship building, community mobilization, and symbolic protest, they have helped bring us civil rights, labor protections, and even a healthier environment, sparking people’s aspirations, imaginations, and actions for a better nation.

This document seeks to provide a guidepost to both funders and the field by detailing what makes for a successful...

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Mapping Police Violence

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Tue, March 03, 2015

MappingPoliceViolence.org , a project of WeTheProtesters.org , is the most comprehensive analysis of police killings and their impact on black people in the US. We've mapped 302 black people killed by police in 2014, disaggregated the data by race/gender/age/place, established national trend data to monitor police violence over time, and identified the States and Police Departments most likely to threaten black life. We intend to update the tool and continue to refine it to support activist...

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Mapping the Field: Racial Justice and Police Accountability

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Sat, August 15, 2015

Organizations Addressing Police Accountability and Racial Justice

Select "Visible Layers" to filter organizations by geographic scope.

Data compiled by Resource Generation and Funders for Justice.

Please note that this list is in formation and is regularly expanded based on recommendations from the field and from funders. If you would like to suggest an organization for this list, or you are part of an organization that you think should be on this list, please write to us at...

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Moving Forward on Racial Justice Philanthropy

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Fri, November 28, 2014

Moving Forward on Racial Justice Philanthropy is the fifth volume of Critical Issues Forum series, which aims to deepen the discourse around important progressive racial justice issues within philanthropy. As PRE celebrated our 10th anniversary last year and engaged allies within the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors to mark the occasion with us, we heard "Have you seen any progress?" repeatedly and knew it was important to take stock of what many of us have been collectively aiming to move for decades. Through focus groups, webinars and direct interviews, our team has sought to get a...

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Moving Money, Making Change: Funding the Movement for Black Lives

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Thu, November 05, 2015

By Amoretta Morris

Fall 2015 - Responsive Philanthropy, the blog of National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

The Movement for Black Lives Convening took place on July 24–26, 2015 at Cleveland State University. It was co-convened by Black Lives Matter , Blackbird and Black Youth Project 100 in partnership with many regional and local organizing groups. For a full list, see http://movementforblacklives.org .

Emmett Till. Kerry Baxter....

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National and Local Recommendations for Police Accountability

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Wed, December 10, 2014

The Center for Popular Democracy

The killing of unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson created a moment of moral outrage and mobilization that reverberated around the country. Unfortunately, we understand that the harassment and killing of black and brown women and men through excessive use of force by law enforcement is not uncommon in the United States. According to a report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Project, in 2012 an average of one black person was killed by law enforcement or vigilantes every 28 hours. For the families...

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No Pride in Deportation: From Vice to ICE Toolkit

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Thu, June 29, 2017

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,...

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Philanthropy OUTlook: LGBTQ Criminalization and Criminal Justice Reform in the U.S.

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Mon, March 13, 2017

Philanthropy OUTlook: LGBTQ Criminalization and Criminal Justice Reform in the U.S.

LGBTQ people— especially LGBTQ people of color and trans people—are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. Biased policing and aggressive sentencing make LGBTQ people more likely to face time in prison, where they often face poor treatment and abuse.

Funders for LGBTQ Issues released a new infographic that...

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Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

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Mon, March 06, 2017

Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

February 5, 2017

By Edgar Villanueva , VP of Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education

These first two weeks in Trump's America have been chaotic and stressful, but already emblematic of the dire needs philanthropy must step up to. From those who could be left out of affordable health care to those bandied about in an educational...

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Press Release from Amnesty International

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Fri, October 24, 2014

Amnesty International , October 24, 2014.

Following the initial protests in Ferguson, Missouri sparked by the shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, Amnesty International USA dispatched a human rights delegation which included observers to monitor the protests and police response.

Today, the human rights organization has released a new report, On the Streets of America: Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson ,documenting the human...

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Race and Policing - A Resource from IssueLab

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Mon, August 15, 2016

Again and again the data show that people of color in the U.S. are disproportionately, and systematically, stopped, frisked, arrested, and exposed to the use of force by police. Police departments and communities across the U.S. are struggling with these realities and with what has become a glaring divide in how Americans experience and relate to policing.

This special collection includes research from nonprofits, foundations, and university based research centers, who have not only described and documented the issue but who also provide much-needed recommendations for addressing...

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We need transformative strategies to generate exponential change. But how do we accomplish this? How...

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Resourcing the Movement for Black Lives

Fri, June 03, 2016

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,...

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Response to Eric Garner's Case: A Deeper Conversation

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Wed, December 03, 2014

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...

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Response to Ferguson: Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions

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Mon, November 24, 2014

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...

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Seven Ways That Funders Can Support Racial Justice

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Fri, June 27, 2014

By Julie Quiroz , Senior Fellow, Movement Strategy Center

A few months ago I spoke to Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society , who described “disturbing trends in some national foundations; a pulling away from race where they seem to be adopting the notion of post-racial America.”

“What,” asked Patterson, “is going on?”

How far have we come from 1993 when — a year...

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Fri, December 30, 2011

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...

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The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights Project: August 2015 Report

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Mon, August 31, 2015

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...

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The Making of Ferguson

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Fri, September 05, 2014

by Alexandra Moffett-Bateau Originally published in RH Reality Check

This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project.

On Saturday, August 9, Michael Brown became one of several U.S. Black men in recent weeks to die violently at the hands of a law enforcement officer. Within days, Ferguson, and along with it Black-American hearts and minds everywhere, seemed to implode...

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Thinking About the Safety of Black Lives Beyond Policing

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Wed, February 25, 2015

February 25, 2015 Huffington Post By Marbre Stahly-Butts , Soros Justice Fellow, Dante Barry, Executive Director of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice

After a string of high profile police killings over two-hundred communities across the country erupted in massive protests and sustained acts of civil disobedience. People flooded the streets demanding an end to police brutality and a recognition that black lives matter.

The state response to this growing movement has been anemic. Task forces were formed and body cameras funded, but the conversations in mainstream media and the...

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Thoughts on Ferguson

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Mon, September 08, 2014

by Alicia Walters, Movement Building Coordinator, Forward Together Originally published on Beyond the Picket Fence: The Strong Families Blog .

On August 9th, 2014, unarmed teenager Michael Brown was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. In the weeks after his death, protests ensued and a national dialogue began about police brutality, the over policing of communities of color, the militarization of our police forces, and...

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Time to turn protests into change

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Wed, December 10, 2014

By Eric Lui

Originally published on cnn.com , December 4, 2014.

(CNN) -- More than a week after the grand jury's decision in Ferguson, protests continue nationwide. On campuses, in malls, on streets and in stadiums, Americans young and old are voicing their anger about the non-indictments in the deaths of Michael Brown and now Eric Garner in New York -- and about the rigged system that makes such results all too common.

This proliferation of...

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Timeline of Race, Racism, Resistance and Philanthropy 1992-2014

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Sat, May 31, 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...

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United Against the Muslim Ban

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Third Wave Fund Blog, Dec 11, 2014

Mon, March 13, 2017

United Against the Muslim Ban

Visit United Against the Muslim Ban to learn more about the policing of Muslim communities through the travel and migration ban. Now is the time to take a stand, regardless of your faith, ethnicity or cultural heritage. These policies threaten more than Muslim, Arab, Black, and South Asian communities. They threaten our Constitution. They threaten our vision of America. They threaten our core values and ideals.

This site will provide resources...

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Thu, December 11, 2014

Outrage and heartbreak. Direct Action. Civil Disobedience. People are responding to the murder of Mike Brown and Eric Garner and the subsequent lack of indictment of the white police officers who killed them. People all over the place are declaring #BlackLivesMatter, and demanding justice. There’s been a proliferation of important writing on how state violence and racial injustice impacts the lives of women of color and LGBT people of...

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Five Principles for Engagement on the Future of Work(ers) and Two Big Ideas

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10/11/2018

In these videos, Sarita Gupta (Jobs with Justice) talks about collective bargaining and the future of work and Michelle Miller (Coworker.org) describes the concept of “surveillance capitalism” and data generated by workers. Please watch and share these videos! Below, Emma Oppenheim (Open Society Foundations) and José García (Ford Foundation) share how they're thinking about the future of workers. The future of work is everywhere. Between the two of us, we’ve attended countless conferences, meetings, report releases, or other future of work-themed events. In philanthropy,...

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Are funders ready to fight for our freedom?

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09/04/2018

By Manisha Vaze , Senior Program Manager of NFG's Funders for a Just Economy This Labor Day weekend, as we celebrate the last days of summer with barbeques and back-to-school preparation, I am thinking about how the labor movement is facing some of the most serious threats to its future. Well-funded efforts are shutting down public sector unions and workers’ ability to collectively bargain , while corporations are using their lobbying power to lock contingent and informal workers out of basic labor protections . Companies are worming out of providing basic benefits such as...

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Standing in Our Power Together

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08/16/2018

In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice . Here, Manisha Vaze , Senior Program Manager of NFG's Funders for a Just Economy , reflects on funder strategy discussions for building worker power. These days, between the news cycle and continued attacks on working families, it can feel overwhelming to push forward our agenda for justice. This feeling isn’t a new one – movement work comes with big ups and downs, especially as the political landscape...

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White People and Activism in the Trump Era

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07/19/2018

In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice . Here, Caitlin Duffy , senior associate for learning and engagement at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) , reflects on leveraging privilege and dissent in the face of fear. People in the United States are scared. Some white people fear the loss of dominant social status, and they worry about the loss of good jobs or falling victim to terrorism and crime. Donald Trump has spread and...

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As the South Grows

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Tue, June 12, 2018

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...

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Post-Election Resources

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Tue, November 22, 2016

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

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Mon, June 12, 2017

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...

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California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement

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10/12/2016

The California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement (CA FWGGD) is a working group of funders committed to addressing gentrification and displacement issues in California and nationally. It is now moving into a new phase of work that will result in the creation and capitalization of a collaborative fund. The fund is being designed in consultation with community leaders to advance racial and economic equity and community health in California’s cities, with a focus on supporting community-driven policy solutions to the crisis of gentrification and displacement while...

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Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy

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Fri, March 13, 2015

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:

lessons shared by experienced place-based funders;
key challenges and

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Can place-based grantmaking help turn the tide of inequality?

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03/19/2015

By Dennis Quirin and Steve Patrick Today we see many local communities – urban, suburban and rural - swamped by historic disinvestment and the growing tide of economic and social inequality in our country. Place-based grantmaking can play an important role in turning this tide, but not without addressing the core structural barriers that have produced and propelled it. In local communities, addressing the lived experiences of people who are marginalized by racism, poverty, immigration status, gender discrimination, homophobia and disability will require many funders to retool their approaches...

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Webinar Recap of Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment

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Fri, April 21, 2017

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...

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Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance

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Tue, March 21, 2017

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...

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Webinar Recap: How to Creatively Fund Social Movements

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Fri, February 24, 2017

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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California Funders’ Convening on Gentrification and Displacement

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Thu, December 03, 2015

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...

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The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open!

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10/12/2015

The nominations are now open for the first annual Discount Legacy Award. Jobs With Justice Education Fund and the Neighborhood Funders Group recently launched the Discount Legacy Award Program to honor and support an exemplary individual from the worker justice movement. The selected awardee will be granted a $20,000 stipend, providing them with the flexibility to expand on their work. The Discount Legacy Award Program is supported by the Discount Foundation, a foundation founded on making economic opportunity an achievable reality for all, especially underpaid Americans and...

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Uprisings and Funding Needs

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Thu, September 22, 2016

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

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A Community-Centered Response to Louisiana Flooding

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08/26/2016

The recent flooding disaster in Louisiana is responsible for loss of life, major destruction of property, and significant impacts on safety in a region already struggling with disinvestment. Over 10,000 people are in shelters, and thousands more will return to damaged homes, neighborhoods, and communities. Thankfully, government’s response to this disaster has been much better than its response to Hurricane Katrina. First responders have saved lives and served evacuees, and disaster agencies are assessing the recovery landscape. Meanwhile, philanthropic organizations—like NFG partner...

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Backing Protests: Funders for Justice Members Answer Activist Movements' Call

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07/19/2016

Groups that emerged after Ferguson are mobilizing thousands of people for protests that develop with lightning speed and have dramatic impact. Their approach appeals to some grant makers. (The following is an excerpt from The Chronicle of Philanthropy 's article " Police Shootings Since Ferguson Put Foundations to the Test ". Published on July 19, 2016 and written by Drew Lindsey.) Backing Protests If helping design police reform represents one philanthropic response to the shootings, activist movements that swelled following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., offer another...

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Roses Along A Journey: My Transformative Experience in NFG’s Project Phoenix

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10/03/2017

Tyler Nickerson, NFG Member and Director of Investments and State Strategy at The Solutions Project , was one of 33 funders selected to participate in NFG’s Project Phoenix . He shares his reflections on the year-long collective learning program developed for funders to explore philanthropy’s role in supporting a “just transition to a new economy” that promotes good jobs, local economic prosperity, ecological sustainability, and re-prioritization of capital in society. Pausing and appreciating the important moments around me is something I’m intentionally trying to get better at doing. With a...

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Funders: Let's Stop Fixating on Our Issues and Start Supporting our Values

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02/15/2017

Dimple Abichandani, NFG member and Executive Director of the General Service Foundation , encourages colleagues to move from business as usual toward new practices of solidarity, including increased funder alignment and greater support of cross-issue movement building efforts that often struggle to raise funds. This post originally appeared in Inside Philanthropy here . As I think about where we go from here, I can’t stop thinking about the election. The 2010 election. In 2010, there were two dozen states that had anti-Sharia law ballot measures and/or legislation pending. In fact, Sharia law...

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Funder Coalition Calls for Building a Just and Resilient New Orleans

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09/01/2015

August 29, 2015, Philanthropy News Digest - While challenges such as entrenched poverty and overincarceration remain, funder collaborations, cross-sectoral partnerships, and community-based leadership and participation have helped transform New Orleans in the decade since Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the city, a paper from the Greater New Orleans Funders Network argues. The paper, Fulfilling the Promise, Making New Orleans a Just and Resilient City (16 pages, PDF), outlines the progress made and challenges that remain in areas where philanthropy has played an important role...

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VICTORY: HUD Program Changes to Reduce Foreclosures and Increase Affordable Housing

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04/30/2015

April 24, 2015 - Exciting news from our partners at Right to the City, Center for Popular Democracy, and Alliance for Community Empowerment: Following a six month campaign led by the community groups working with the Right to the City Alliance (RTC) and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) of HUD announced significant changes to the Distressed Asset Stabilization Program (DASP). Following the changes announced today, the DASP’s new plan will include: A commitment to selling more loans through special pools that require investors to achieve a certain...

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5 Hot Causes for Donors in 2015

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02/04/2014

Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 15, 2015 The Battle for Racial Justice: Grant makers are uniting to address racial-justice issues as tensions remain high following the failure of grand juries to indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City. Funders for Justice, a new group of about 30 foundations and other groups affiliated with the Neighborhood Funders Group, has set up a website to publicize activities and promote giving to community organizers working on issues like police accountability. Lori Villarosa, executive director of the...

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A Pivotal Moment for Racial Justice

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01/05/2015

Eric Ward, Program Officer of Ford Foundation 's Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice program, reflects on emerging opportunities for the racial organizing movement. This post originally appeared on Ford Foundation’s Equals Change Blog, which you can find here . On December 3, a New York grand jury announced that no indictment would be delivered in the police killing of Eric Garner. Following the grand jury decision not to indict the police officer who shot another unarmed black man, Michael Brown , in Ferguson, Missouri in August, this news set off protests across the country. But these deaths...

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Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies

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Mon, September 15, 2014

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...

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Unions, Activists Align on Affordable Housing

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Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment

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Fri, April 21, 2017

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Project Phoenix Readings

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Mon, March 06, 2017

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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Just Transition Framework — Movement Generation

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Project Phoenix Outcomes and Evaluation

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Wed, March 08, 2017

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...

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Welcome Manisha Vaze, Sr. Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy

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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Charlene Carruthers

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04/27/2018

Next up in our discussion series with FFJ ’ s Field Advisors , staff interviews Charlene Carruthers , Founding National Director of BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) . Read our interview below to learn more about their work on nationalizing the invest/divest demand, Black queer feminist (BQF) lens as an organizing framework, and the importance of leadership training and political education. Don’t forget to also check out BYP100 ’ s Agenda to Build Black Futures and Charlene’s forthcoming book “Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements” which will be published...

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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris

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04/27/2018

In the spring of 2017, Funders for Justice (FFJ) launched its inaugural cohort of Advisors – nine field leaders recognized for their leadership in community power-building, racial and gender justice, police accountability campaigns, and anti-criminalization movements. We asked them to share their insights on the current political climate, how we can build a vision for the world we want, and what funders can do in this moment. This month, FFJ staff interviewed Zachary Norris , Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights . (The Ella Baker Center is a leader in the Freedom...

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Webinar Recap: Why Should Social Justice Funders Care About Impact Investing?

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Fri, July 14, 2017

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.

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Supporting Transformative Change with NFG

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01/14/2019

Alex Desautels, Program Manager for Strategy Development and Dissemination with The California Endowment, remembers her first encounter with Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), just after entering philanthropy from the field of public health: I have been in philanthropy now for 4 years. When I was first assigned to go and sit in on an NFG strategic planning conversation, for me it was like ‘Wow, this is the conversation I want to have!’ It focused on the root causes of what we want to solve and grounded everything from there, which is not the typical way that these conversations happen. I felt...

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Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap

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Mon, January 09, 2017

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...

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NFG Announces LaTosha Brown as Project Director for Grantmakers for Southern Progress

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12/01/2014

Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) and Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), are pleased to announce that LaTosha Brown will become the Project Director for Grantmakers for Southern Progress. Grantmakers for Southern Progress is a funder working group of NFG, comprised of Southern and national funders who are committed to advancing progress in the outcomes, conditions, and opportunities for those who are least well off socially, economically, and politically in the South. Ms. Brown is a native of the south and currently resides in Atlanta, GA. She brings to GSP deep experience in...

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Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening

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Fri, May 05, 2017

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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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

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Monday, November 6th — Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 Access recorded sessions from the Alabama Learning Tour on NFG's Facebook page! Alabama can be described for many reasons as ground zero for historic and influential grassroots organizing, movement building, and successes in civil rights and economic policy. Decades of disinvestment and economic discrimination, changes in growth industries from agriculture to iron, steel and coal, to the auto, retail and service sectors, and deep structural racism and gender-based bias in the labor market has resulted in major challenges...

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CHANGE Philanthropy Convening

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Committee Meeting

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Oakland, CA

Neighborhood Funders Group is proud to be a collaborative partner of CHANGE Philanthropy and a member of the planning committee for the 2017 UNITY Summit . We hope you'll join us for these learning and networking opportunities. Tuesday, September 19th » Session: What Keeps Communities Safe? Divesting from Mass Criminalization 10:00 - 11:30 am | Salon D, Third Floor » Workshop: Practicing Philanthropic Solidarity 10:00 - 11:30 am | Salon A, Third Floor » Luncheon Plenary: Funding Power 11:30 - 1:00 pm |...

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Pittsburgh Learning Tour: Lessons Learned, Discussion, and Moving Our Work Forward

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Learning Tour

Thursday, September 7, 2017

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Pittsburgh Learning Tour: Lessons Learned, Discussion, and Moving Our Work Forward Thursday, September 7, 2017 | 10 am PT / 11 am MT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET On June 19-21, Neighborhood Funders Group’s Democratizing Development Program, The Heinz Endowments, and Pittsburgh United held our Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Our speaker line-up and discussions were focused on local, regional, and statewide strategies, challenges, and opportunities that intersect issues of economic...

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Countering State Preemption and Protecting the Power of Local Government

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Monday, July 10, 2017

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Monday, July 10th | 12 - 1 PM PT / 1 - 2 PM MT / 2 - 3 CT / 3 - 4 PM ET American cities have historically been places of innovation and incubation when it comes to advancing equity and inclusion. Today, however, they face a fast-growing threat. Since the 2010 midterm elections, state lawmakers have become more aggressive in their use of preemption to stop local lawmaking across a broad and expanding range of issues, including labor standards, civil rights, broadband, environmental protection, and public health. Preemption is now being used to negate...

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Democratizing Development Program Monthly Meetings

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Committee Meeting

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Conference Call

Upcoming WGPBCC and DemDev Program Monthly Meetings: Thursday, June 8, 2017 Meeting Times: 10:30 - noon PT / 11:30 - 1 pm MT / 12:30 - 2 pm CT / 1:30 - 3 pm ET NFG's Working Group on Place-Based Community Change (WGPBCC) and Democratizing Development Program (DDP) will be holding monthly calls on the second Thursday of each month. Join in for program updates and strategic discussion about funder interests and needs. Please contact Nile Malloy, Senior Program Manager of the Democratizing Development Program, at nile@nfg.org for more information on how to participate.

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Decriminalization and Community-Led Safety and Justice Models in Communities of Color

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Thursday, June 8, 2017

New York, NY

Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:30am - 5pm | Union Loft Square , New York, NY Decriminalization and Community-Led Safety and Justice Models in Communities of Color This event has now passed. Please check back in August for a convening recap. If you have questions, write to us at fundersforjustice@nfg.org . What makes communities safe? What models exist for creative, transformative solutions for community-based justice and safety? How can restorative justice transform communities and block the school-to-prison pipeline? And how are these all connected? These conversations, the evolving organizing,...

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GSP 2017 Regional Convening

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Charleston, SC

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Native Voices Rising: National Funder Briefing Webinar

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Thursday, December 8, 2016

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Thursday, December 8, 2016 11 am PT / noon MT / 1 pm CT / 2 pm ET Please register here for call-in information. Join Native Voices Rising for a web briefing that will highlight the critical need to strengthen support for indigenous community organizing and leadership development. The discussion will feature a diverse range of organizers and community leaders, and it will highlight the Native Voices Rising grant making initiative that is working to model Native-led grant making and bolster support for...

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CANCELED: NFG Conference Call on Funder Responses to the Moment

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016 11 am PT / noon MT / 1 pm CT / 2 pm ET THIS CALL HAS BEEN CANCELED. Please stay tuned for more programming and analysis from NFG soon. In the meantime, you might be interested in a list of post-election resources we have curated here: http://www.nfg.org/post_election_resources . NFG members are invited to a post-election conference call to discuss funder responses to the moment. We will invite members to share their analysis of the urgency of the moment and its impact on vulnerable communities, key issues, and particular...

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2016 Post-Election Briefing: Politics, Policy and Philanthropy

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Washington, DC

Registration is now open! Click here to register. For more details, please visit the event page . The Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce (GIST) and NFG's Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) invites you to attend the 2016 Post-Election Briefing: Politics, Policy and Philanthropy , on November 16-17, 2016 in Washington, DC. This meeting is free of charge and open to foundation representatives and philanthropic advisors. The 2016 elections are a sign of changing times--in terms of political participation, dialog on the direction of the country, and directions for social and...

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Game Changing Advancement in Fostering Access to Opportunity: HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

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WHEN: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 TIME: 10:00 - 11:00 am (PST) | 1:00 - 2:00 pm (EST) Every year, billions of federal dollars are allocated to local governments to foster economic opportunity for low-income people. Yet data shows that concentrated poverty is on the rise, with people of color disproportionately affected. Why are there so many disinvested neighborhoods filled with blight and low-performing schools? Why is it so challenging to place affordable housing in opportunity rich communities? Redlining and other discriminatory practices are now illegal, yet...

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Hawaii Learning Tour

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Learning Tour

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Honolulu, Hawaii

Register now for the Hawaii Learning Tour! Registration Deadline: October 17th In the popular imagination, Hawaii is thought of as a tropical paradise, but it is also a state that is struggling to overcome centuries of colonialism, environmental degradation and displacement of its Native communities. What can we learn from Hawaii’s unique history, culture and geopolitical location and how communities there are overcoming challenges to forge equitable economic opportunities for its diverse residents? What are the attributes of Hawai‘i that...

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American Dreams in the South: Immigrants, Philanthropy and Opportunity for All

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Learning Tour

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Little Rock, AR

American Dreams in the South: Immigrants, Philanthropy and Opportunity for All Arkansas Place-Based Learning Tour October 6-8, 2015 Register today and reserve your hotel now - before the special hotel room rates end next Friday, September 11th! Scroll down for updated agenda overview. The Southeast region of the United States is in a moment of great change and great opportunity. The South is home to the fastest growing foreign-born population in the country, with newcomers invigorating communities and spurring growth. Policies like DACA...

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The Innovations and Independence of OUR Walmart

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Monday, August 24, 2015

New York, NY

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Neighborhood Funders Group, Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships, we would like to invite you to a funder briefing on The Innovations and Impact of OUR Walmart . OUR Walmart’s campaign to change Walmart is an effort that began in 2011 and has made a deep mark on how to build worker power and paved the way for new forms of organizing. Join us to learn more about this effort and how recent developments are continuing to innovate the field of worker rights and movement building. The Innovations and Impact of OUR Walmart...

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Funder Briefing call with Senator Al Franken on Forced Arbitration

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter

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Monday, May 11, 2015

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Couldn’t make it to the State of Black of Workers in America Conference last Friday? Here’s your chance to hear directly from the authors of the reports featured via webinar: Highlights, Recommendations, and Opportunities from the And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter Reports Marc Bayard, Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, and Kimberly Freeman Brown May 11th, 1:00 – 2:00pm EST/10:00am – 11:00am PST To register for the webinar, please fill out the form below. The first report, And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’...

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Honoring the Discount Foundation

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Reception

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Washington, DC

Following the policy briefing, we will gather at Carmine's restaurant to honor the Discount Foundation’s key role in funding community and worker organizing, as well as founding the WGLCP and organizing philanthropy to support this work. RSVP below to let us know if you'll be joining us to celebrate Discount’s legacy over dinner.

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Annual Policy Briefing of the Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships

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Thursday, April 23, 2015 - Friday, April 24, 2015

Washington, DC

Please join us for a timely conversation about opportunities to advance economic justice and security for all. April 23 – 24, 2015 Public Welfare Foundation Washington, DC Updated Agenda HERE! This is an opportunity for us to learn about key policy developments for workers and working families over the past year, continue our discussion on the future of work, focus on exciting gains in black worker organizing, examine the progress, challenges, and opportunities for policy and organizing in immigration, and look ahead to Election Year 2016...

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Equity, Environment and Democracy in Puerto Rico - Funder Briefing in NY

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Monday, April 13, 2015

New York, NY

Join Environmental Grantmakers Association and Neighborhood Funders Group for a Funder Learning Breakfast in New York: Intersection of Equity, Environment and Democracy in Puerto Rico When: Monday, April 13, 9:00-11:15 am ET Where: Philanthropy New York, 79 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003 As in many places in the United States, economic, social and environmental degradation in Puerto Rico disproportionally affects the island's most vulnerable populations. Investments that build community and ecological resilience can be key to ensuring that...

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Puerto Rico: A Philanthropic Sneak Peak

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Webinar

Webinar Sneak-Peak of the Tour! Friday, October 10, 2014 1pm-2:15pm eastern/ 10am - 11:15am pacific Register Now Many people on the US mainland, including the philanthropic sector, are familiar with Puerto Rico due to a large Puerto Rican population and cultural presence in the US. However, despite Puerto Rico's proximity and strong relationship with the United States, there has been a limited presence of US mainland philanthropy in Puerto Rico. The island is managing great economic, environmental, and social challenges...

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National Dialogue: Community Land Trusts

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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This month's National Dialogue webinar will focus on community land trusts – how they work and the grassroots organizing that make CLT's a powerful tool for residents in combating displacement and blight. This will also serve as a learning in preparation for our funder learning tour, From Boston to New York: Is a More Just City Possible?, April 2nd - 3rd . The National Dialogue series is open to all funders and our partners in the field. Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:30pm - 3pm eastern/ 10:30am - 12noon pacific Welcome by Christopher Sun, Open Society...

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Economies of Inclusion: Building Strong Local Businesses and Communities

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Webinar

Can Philanthropy Help Shape the Next Economy? A Workshop Series for a Just Transition Inaugural Workshop March 5, 2014, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.  Economies of Inclusion: Building Strong Local Businesses and Communities  Organized by Surdna Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation Future Workshops The Nature of Work, with Solidago Foundation , Ford Foundation and the Neighborhood Funders Group/Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships (scheduled for April...

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Families Impacted by Incarceration: Practice and Policy Issues for Funders to Consider

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

New York, NY

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Funder Briefing: Freedom Cities

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Webinar

October 26, 2017 Recognizing the need for a visionary approach to the challenges facing all communities under attack by the new political regime, Enlace , Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , and Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)—organizations with decades of experience organizing and advocating for women, Black and immigrant families, and poor and low-wage workers—have come together to initiate the Freedom Cities Movement . Launched on inauguration day by multiracial immigrant workers and allies, this emerging movement has articulated an innovative, intersectional...

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Rapid Response Conference Call: Current Attacks and Burning of Black Churches

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Rapid Response Conference Call Current Attacks and Burning of Black Churches Tuesday, July 28, 2015 8am PT/ 9am MT/ 10am CT/ 11am ET Hosted by NFG's Grantmakers for Southern Progress In the immediate aftermath of the racist murders of nine Black members of the Emanuel AME in South Carolina, nine Black churches were burned to the ground. Arson is suspected in several of these fires and many have drawn the reasonable conclusion that these were attacks not just against Black churches, but against Black...

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Systems Changes Towards Equity and Inclusion in the Midwest: Vision and Practical Grantmaking Steps

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Thursday, May 25, 2017

Webinar

Building safe, inclusive, and more equitable communities for low-income and communities of color becomes even more critical as cities and regions continue to develop and expand. In places like Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit, large populations of low-income black communities, immigrant communities, and others continue to be plagued with problems ranging from poor schools, low quality housing, and lack of job opportunities. Community groups continue to work towards solutions that will improve lives in these places. Navigating the deep history of exclusionary and racially charged polices that...

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2018 Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE)

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018 - Thursday, May 10, 2018

Chicago, IL

Join Woods Fund Chicago , The Field Foundation , The Annie E. Casey Foundation , and Neighborhood Funders Group for the 2018 Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE) on May 9-10, 2018 in Chicago, IL. This iteration of CCLE will highlight the philanthropic journey and process of Woods Fund Chicago and the Field Foundation in moving the needle to address structural racism and shifting their grantmaking to support racial equity and community organizing. We will also learn more about local challenges and opportunities in Chicago, provide a space for funders to share lessons...

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How NFG is Disrupting Funder-Grantee Dynamics

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12/04/2018

Helen Chin has just led the Surdna Foundation’s Sustainable Environments Program through a strategy refinement process. “Now,” she says, with satisfaction, “We are able to connect more robustly with what’s bubbling from the ground up in the field, as well as center racial equity in our work!” The outcome of this effort was a commitment to actively partner directly with the communities most vulnerable and impacted by climate change in order to build their capacity and power to self-determine the ownership, control and stewardship of land and infrastructure. This refinement distills the Program...

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Amplify Fund Learning and Evaluation Partner RFP

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03/11/2019

Photo by Jo Szczepanska on Unsplash The Amplify Fund is in search of a Learning and Evaluation Partner. We would like the L&E Partner to begin as soon as possible and commit to serving in this role through the end of the Fund’s lifespan. We plan to make final grants in 2021 and expect the learning and evaluation work to continue through and possibly beyond the final grant cycle. Housed at the Neighborhood Funders Group, the Amplify Fund is a national pooled grantmaking and capacity building fund focused on building the power, influence, and decision-making authority of people of color and...

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LA-Area NFG Member Happy Hour

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Reception

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 -

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Los Angeles, CA

Kick-off 2019 with NFG! Join us as we gather NFG staff and members in the LA area. Non-members wanting to learn more and connect with the NFG network welcome to join! Arts District Brewing Company 828 Traction Ave Los Angeles, CA 90013 Cash bar. Light appetizers will be served. Thank you to NFG member Liberty Hill Foundation for sponsoring this event!

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NFG Bay Area Member Happy Hour

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Reception

Thursday, November 15, 2018 -

4:30pm - 6:30pm

Oakland, CA

If you'll be in the Bay Area on Thursday, November 15, join the staff and members of Neighborhood Funders Group for a fun happy hour in Uptown Oakland! Connect with your peers in social justice philanthropy gathering from around the Bay Area. This is your chance to re-energize with like-minded folks and strengthen your network! Feel free to bring a colleague who might be interested in learning more. Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided thanks to our co-sponsor and NFG member The California Endowment. Have any questions? Get in touch with us at membership@nfg.org .

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The LA Teacher Strike and Movement for the Common Good

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Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 12:00pm

Webinar

A powerful movement of educators, parents, students and community allies is taking rise across the country to demand that public schools serve all students regardless of race, immigration-status, class and ability. Increased privatization and perpetual underfunding have created an epidemic where too many schools, particularly those that serve low-income families, families of color and immigrants, are being starved of needed resources. Public school educators, staff, administrators nationwide are barely making a living wage. In response, community-educator partnerships, whether in Los Angeles...

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Development Without Displacement in Opportunity Zones

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 -

10:00am - 11:30am

Webinar

To register for this event, please log in to your account or create a new account . For any registration issues, contact support@nfg.org . Photo by Blake Wheeler on Unsplash Last month, NFG's Democratizing Development Program held two separate meetings with funders and community leaders to learn, network, and strategize about the impacts, implications, and potential actions we can take to ensure that Opportunity Zones are more equitable in cities across the country. The Opportunity Zones designation, a provision nested within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, presents significant...

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Prisons/Detention Centers, Racial Justice, and the Environment in Rural Places

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Integrated Rural Strategies Group

Monday, January 28, 2019 -

10:00am - 11:30am

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Rural towns are increasingly used as sites for prisons and detention centers, and supported by some city leaders as an economic driver. However, prisons and detention centers funnel residents into low-wage service jobs, pollute the land, and ultimately rely on increasing the number of people in prison in order to grow. This often means heavier policing of youth, migrants, homeless folks, and families. Neighborhood Funders Group's Integrated Rural Strategies Group and Funders for Justice invite you to a webinar in which you’ll hear from leaders who organize for local investment in thriving...

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Peer Coaching Training Webinar

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Monday, November 5, 2018 - 1:00pm

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"In the midst of continual change and development, people rarely struggle because they lack some key piece of information or some precise procedure from a course or a book. Rather, they often get stuck in how they think and feel about themselves or their situations." — Carter McNamara, Authenticity Consulting Our work with our members has taught us that peer support to work through goals and challenges is a powerful tool to move our work towards justice forward. Neighborhood Funders Group is excited to announce the launch of a new offering this fall: peer coaching circles model based on work...

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Working Better Together to Further Advance a Midwest Funders Strategy for Equity and Opportunity

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Friday, October 26, 2018

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Come join your peers in philanthropy for a strategy discussion that will highlight the potential for a collaborative effort of building a Midwest learning community committed to advancing racial justice, powerbuilding, and opportunity for all people. This discussion aims to: deepen connections with and among Midwest funders working on increasing equity and opportunity engage funders in the process of developing a Midwest scan of grantmakers and nonprofit institutions interested in building shared equity and opportunity Over the last two years, Neighborhood Funders Group has brought together a...

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Housing Justice Solutions: Field & Funder Webinar

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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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On July 18 – 22, 2018 more than 325 residents; 101 non-profit-institutions, organizers, and activists; and 30 funders from across the country converged for the Homes For All Member Assembly in Atlanta, GA. Participants included program officers and staff from the New York Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, Kendeda Fund, The Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Solidago Foundation, Resist Inc., Hill Snowdon Foundation, Neighborhoods First Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Family Housing Fund, McCune...

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Grant-making with an Intersectional Lens

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Thursday, May 24, 2018 -

11:00am - 12:30pm

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The current economic system and laws were not designed for Black people, indigenous peoples, people of color, women, people who identify as LGBTQI, and migrants to thrive. As we consider the implications of this economic system, and philanthropy as a sector within that system, what will it take to truly integrate a historical and intersectional analysis in our grant-making of the economic policies that have led to systemic poverty, structural racism, and patriarchy in order to resource the movement to shift power and seed change? Over the last few years, Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) has...

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Moving the South Forward in the New Reality: A Post-Election Funder Briefing

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Saturday, December 16, 2017

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NFG's Grantmakers for Southern Progress working group, along with the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation and Funders for LGBTQ Issues' Out in the South Initiative , are co-hosting a conference call for funders to explore the impact of this year's election results in Southern communities. Friday, December 16, 2016 8 am PT / 9 am MT / 10 am CT / 11 am ET RSVP HERE As we know, Southern communities have been navigating challenging political climates for decades. Leaders and practitioners will offer their insights about the challenges and opportunities of the current national narrative about what...

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Strategies to Address How Amazon’s HQ2 Will Impact Workers and Local Economies

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 While tax and other incentives are often used to attract corporations to cities, there is little evidence that these mechanisms improve employment rates and spur economic growth. In fact, these public policies can advance a concentration of power and a monopolization of the market. These then drive geographic and racial inequality and force local communities to bear the brunt of revenue loss without reaping the benefits. The frenzy surrounding Amazon’s new headquarters’ bidding process sheds light on how corporate incentives are used for more profit under the...

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Energy and Equity in Puerto Rico

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Thursday, November 9, 2017

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Trends + Building Power in the AAPI Community

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Monday, November 6, 2017

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Monday, November 6, 2017 12 - 1 pm PT / 1 - 2 pm MT / 2 - 3 pm CT / 3 - 4 pm ET — REGISTER HERE — The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community will enter 2018 with significant growth in their engagement in elections as the fastest growing population in the country, continuing a strong trend in increased turnout, and a record of seventeen AAPI Members of Congress now serving in office. Despite this growth, participation by communities of color in midterm elections have remained disproportionately low in past cycles and, with a political climate fueled by hate and xenophobia, the...

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Puerto Rico: From Relief to Equitable Recovery

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 10 am PT / 11 am MT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET The conditions in Puerto Rico are dire. Hurricanes Irma and Maria have destroyed homes, crops, and key transportation, electrical grid and communications infrastructure across the island. Millions lack power and access to clean drinking water. An impending health crisis, with hospitals either running on generators or not running at all, ensues throughout the island. As the community awaits a federal government response, citizens, funders, and grassroots organizations have been organizing to support Puerto Rico's communities...

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Power Research

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12 pm PT / 1 pm MT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET — REGISTER HERE — Power research is a key strategy used by the most effective grassroots organizers and movements in the struggle for justice. By definition, this strategy utilizes research, mapping and analysis to connect the dots between regressive policies and the corporations, powerful individuals, organizations, and policy makers who benefit both financially and politically from their enforcement. As an offensive tool, power research guides the development of strategic campaigns that target and expose the drivers of...

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Native Communities, Policing, and Mass Criminalization

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Monday, September 25, 2017

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Hosted by NFG's Funders for Justice . Co-sponsored by Common Counsel Foundation , Criminal Justice Initiative , Native Americans in Philanthropy , and Native Voices Rising . Native Americans and Black communities are the two populations most impacted by mass criminalization and incarceration in the US. The criminalization of indigenous people on this continent began with genocide and slavery on the Spanish missions in California and the forced removal of Native people onto reservations. Today, Native people have the highest percentage of people shot by the police annually...

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What's Next in the Movement for Working Families: Opportunities for Offense and Building Power in the States From Oregon to New York City – Winning a Family-Sustaining Workweek.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

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From Oregon to New York City – Winning a Family-Sustaining Workweek Wednesday | August 2, 2017 | 12:00-1:00pm ET A webinar for funders sponsored by GIST , Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation , Ford Foundation , Funders for a Just Economy , Open Society Foundations , and Wyss Foundation . Register Here Across the country, working people struggling on the frontlines of America’s service economy are standing up for jobs that deliver stability and respect. Millions of working people scramble with ever-changing workweeks that cause volatile incomes and...

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Pathways to Effective State Funding Strategies

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Monday, February 5, 2018

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Join this installment of the First Monday + Election Series Discussion, hosted by Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) and co-sponsored by NFG. We will share insights and data points uncovered from our first State Funding Survey. We’ll also drill down and look at one state as a case study to understand how coordinating bodies, intermediaries, national and in-state funders are all operating from the lens of that one state. In this conversation, you will hear key highlights of the state funding landscape, how funders are approaching longer-term power-building investments in states...

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Just and Equitable Rebuilding of Cities After Disasters

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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

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Months after evacuating from catastrophic storms, millions of Americans from Puerto Rico, Houston, Florida, and other places are still figuring out how they can get back home. In Puerto Rico alone, tens of thousands of people are displaced, with their homes destroyed and no relief in sight. Even before Hurricane Maria struck, Puerto Ricans were already overwhelmed by austerity policies and the economic crisis, which created barriers to accessing water, food, housing, healthcare, education, and other basic human rights. With the looming threat of privatization, city officials are developing...

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December First Monday + Election Series Discussion

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Monday, December 4, 2017

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In November, elections around the country provided us with some of our first insights into how voters are responding after a year of political polarization and deep divisions. Join us for this installment of FCCP 's 2018 Election Series, co-sponsored by Neighborhood Funders Group, for a debrief on the 2017 elections and what we can learn from the results to help inform our work as we look towards 2018. Hear perspectives and see initial data on who turned out for the 2017 elections Learn which issues were salient to voters in the 2017 elections and how those have shifted since 2016. Review...

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Strategies to Address How Amazon’s HQ2 Will Impact Workers and Local Economies

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

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While tax and other incentives are often used to attract corporations to cities, there is little evidence that these mechanisms improve employment rates and spur economic growth. In fact, these public policies can advance a concentration of power and a monopolization of the market. These then drive geographic and racial inequality and force local communities to bear the brunt of revenue loss without reaping the benefits. The frenzy surrounding Amazon’s new headquarters’ bidding process sheds light on how corporate incentives are used for more profit under the guise of economic development...

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New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers' Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence

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Tue, October 03, 2017

The New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers’ Rights...

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New Southern Strategies Webinar: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence

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Sunday, October 1, 2017

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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. The New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence report assesses economic indicators affecting quality of life in the South and examines corporate strategies that are driving these changes. It presents some of the efforts...

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The Road Ahead for Worker Justice: Where to Lean In, Pull Up, Push Back and Pivot

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Sat, June 24, 2017

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...

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FJE 2017 Policy Briefing: The Road Ahead for Worker Justice

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Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Friday, May 19, 2017

Washington, DC

Check out our recap of this event In a fundamentally shifting political and power map, Funders for a Just Economy ’s annual policy briefing will update our most current understanding of the major forces and players that impact worker justice; explore the offensive opportunities and defensive needs on federal, state and local levels; and identify how funders can best support them. With exciting keynote speakers and discussion-based panels that unpack corporate power and offensive campaigns, run down the policy fights on the move on the state level, dig into migrant and...

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Transnational Workers Rights: Emerging Strategies from the Global North and South

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Wed, April 15, 2015

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.

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New Reports: And Still I Rise, #BlackWorkersMatter

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Thu, May 07, 2015

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-...

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Right To The City and Neighborhood Funders Group 2018 Field & Funder Convening

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Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - Friday, July 20, 2018

Atlanta, GA

Neighborhood Funders Group and the Right To The City Alliance will be hosting a Funder and Field Convening on July 18-20. This gathering will be a dynamic peer-learning and sharing environment with both philanthropic and field practitioners working at the intersections of health, housing, land use, community development, and place-based and community power building strategies. The gathering will coincide with the Homes For All Member Assembly in Atlanta, GA. The HFA Member Assembly will bring together over 300 impacted residents, community organizers, and organizations from across the country...

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Real Talk on Police Reform

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Member Event

Thursday, April 7, 2016

New York, NY

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR AND THE ACTIVISTS WHO WORKED TO GET HIM APPOINTED Please join us for a conversation with Alvin Bragg, New York's first special prosecutor for police-related civilian deaths, and the organizers and victims’ families who campaigned to create his position. Moderated by Kai Wright of The Nation, we’ll get an inside look at the special prosecutor’s role and what work lies ahead. This summer, families who have lost loved ones to police violence, working with members and partners of Communities United for Police Reform (including the Justice Committee,...

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Welcoming Two New FJE Coordinating Committee Members

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03/21/2019

The Funders for a Just Economy welcomes Andre Oliver and Marissa Guananja to its Coordinating Committee, the leadership body of the program. Andre Oliver was appointed senior program officer at the James Irvine Foundation in 2014. He played an instrumental role in developing –and now manages –the Foundation’s Fair Work initiative, which aims to expand the voice and influence of low-wage workers on the issues that affect their lives and livelihoods. Andre also led the Foundation’s Leadership Awards program from 2014 to 2018. He brings more than two decades of experience in...

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The Amplify Fund is Expanding Support for Power Building and Equitable Development in 2019

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03/21/2019

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Midwest Community Organizing Panel Discussion with the Needmor Fund

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Member Event

Friday, May 3, 2019 -

9:00am - 11:30am

Chicago, IL

On behalf of the Needmor Fund , members of Neighborhood Funders Group are invited to participate in a panel discussion featuring the leaders of several national organizing networks. This conversation, facilitated by Frank Sanchez, will offer a deep analysis of the Midwest and the opportunities that exist for promoting a broad social justice agenda throughout the region. The panel will also explore how the networks and their grassroots affiliates will be working to engage their members in the democratic process in the upcoming 2020 election cycle. Panelists will include: Jen Epps Addison,...

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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris

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04/02/2019

Zachary Norris, FFJ Field Advisor and Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , tells us about his vision for change and the need to invest in building the foundation for marginalized communities to thrive. What’s happening for Ella Baker Center in this moment? It's a very exciting time for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights as we move to a new, permanent home in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood: a community advocacy and training center called Restore Oakland . At Restore Oakland, community members will have access to a wide range of resources -...

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NFG Midwest Equity Funders Meeting

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 -

9:00am - 4:00pm

Milwaukee, WI

Photo by Towpilot on Wikimedia The Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Ford Foundation, Needmor Fund, and the Neighborhood Funders Group invite you to a Midwest equity project meeting in deepening our shared practice towards equity and justice in the region. Originally planned for January 2019, this meeting was rescheduled due to extreme weather conditions. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together a core group of Midwest funders working on issues of equity, justice, and economic inclusion to learn, share, and identify ways to engage others in philanthropy committed to working toward equity...

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NFG speaks with place-based funders on how they are using impact investing to further justice and equity

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04/10/2019

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash An increasing number of foundations are embracing impact investing as a powerful strategy to potentially make use of all of their assets — not just 5% — to advance their place-based and justice-oriented missions. Last month, several Neighborhood Funders Group members attended Confluence Philanthropy’s 9th Annual Practitioners Gathering to explore how the philanthropic and investment sectors can accelerate movement-building for equity. In reflection, a few folks from NFG’s funder network share their perspectives on, and experience in, mission-related...

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Board Transitions at NFG

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04/19/2019

Neighborhood Funders Group is steered by a passionate and talented board of directors who help fulfill our mission of organizing philanthropy to support grassroots power building so that communities of color and low-income communities thrive. This year, we will sadly bid a fond farewell to Andrea Dobson , Chief Operating & Financial Officer of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, as she finishes her term serving as Treasurer of the board. Fortunately, we are also welcoming three new NFG members to the board: Cory Anderson, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; Judith Bell, The San Francisco...

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St. Louis Young Black Leaders Cohort Design Process Consultant Search

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03/26/2019

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Photo by Brittney Butler on Unsplash In late 2018, the Amplify Fund engaged with a group of local advisors in a strategy development process to determine its grantmaking priorities in Missouri. Through that process there was a clear ask from local strategy advisors to invest in young Black leadership in the St. Louis region to deepen relationships, develop trust, and align around a shared political analysis and plan. Specifically, the funding strategy calls for Amplify to support the leadership primarily of Black and youth leaders and names several strategies as pre-...

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11/02/2016

In September 2016, 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 . Here, Raquel Gutierrez of Vitalyst Health Foundation reflects on where the culture in foundations needs to evolve to match developments in the field. By Raquel Gutierrez, Vitalyst Health Foundation The Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group chose an inspiring setting for their convening, Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising...

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“Advancing Together” the Democratizing Development Program

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10/13/2016

We launched NFG’s new Democratizing Development Program this summer with the goal of supporting our network to help create a shift in how development happens in cities and towns across the country. We are working toward a vision where low-income people and communities of color have actual decision-making ability to say what development looks like in their neighborhoods, and to define where and how they want to live. Here is a short list of what we have been up to. We also have lots of great programming planned for the rest of the year: Online 2017 Program Planning Survey As...

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Webinar Recap: Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking

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Fri, November 03, 2017

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

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Celebrating 20 Years of Leadership on Labor and Economic Justice

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09/01/2016

This Labor Day, we are celebrating a milestone—the 20 th anniversary of the Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships (WGLCP). What a feat! Since 1996, the working group has kept a revolving circle of funders engaged, informed, and organized around funding strategies that expand access to quality employment with higher wages, better working conditions, comprehensive benefits, organizing opportunities, and financial stability for working families. Check out this fabulous 10-minute video recounting the working group’s history and impact, and how the funder/field landscape has changed...

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NFG 2016 National Convening: Philanthropic Strategies for People, Place, and Power

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - Thursday, June 16, 2016

Oakland, CA

On June 14-16, over 300 national and place-based funders gathered from around the country for Neighborhood Funders Group's biennial convening Philanthropic Strategies for People, Place, and Power. This year's conference created a space for funders and field leaders to understand the dynamic moment we are living in and rethink grantmakers’ role in building long-term community power. It highlighted the issues our communities are facing, and community-based strategies for economic, social, and racial justice. For more information about this year's conference, please look at our program booklet...

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Staff Transitions at NFG

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06/29/2017

It's an exciting time here at Neighborhood Funders Group, and our staff team is growing and shifting. We are sad to say goodbye to Yolanda Hippensteele as our Director of Member Engagement, but delighted to welcome Adriana Rocha as NFG's new Vice President of Programs, and Lindsay Ryder as our new Membership Manager as well as congratulate Sarita Ahuja into a new role as Vice President of Operations. Adriana has worked in the social justice field for over 20 years, bringing great expertise in organizational and network capacity building. Prior to joining NFG, she led a variety of...

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NFG moves into grantmaking with a multimillion-dollar collaborative fund

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12/11/2017

Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) steps into the role of collaborative grantmaker with The Amplify Fund—a new, multimillion-dollar pooled fund focused on investing in equitable, community-led development. The fund, which is seeded by Surdna Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, is an opportunity for funders to support work to shift local power structures and put decisions about local development in the hands of residents. “Neighborhood Funders Group’s core purpose is to build philanthropy’s capacity to move more resources more effectively to low-income communities and...

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Funders for a Just Economy - Network Meeting & Florida Tour Review

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Committee Meeting

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 -

10:00am - 11:30am

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The Funders for a Just Economy invites you to a meeting featuring Brittney Frazier (Alleghany Franciscan Ministries) and José García (Ford Foundation) who will share a recap and review of the recent FJE and Florida Philanthropic Network Learning Tour. They will provide an overview of the tour and their experience, and then we’ll open it up for other participants to share and answer questions. Check out this recap of the learning tour on the NFG blog. In addition, we are excited to hear how network members are developing their strategies toward workers’ rights and racial, gender, and economic...

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Housing Solution: Community Voice, Land Trust, and Empowerment Webinar

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Thursday, May 30, 2019 -

10:00am - 11:30am

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Amidst gentrification and displacement challenges facing communities across the country, communities want to preserve their identities while building wealth. Innovative models in community organizing, policy, and land use — including ownership and community land trusts (CLTs) — are powerful levers for immediate stabilization, self-determination, and long-term transformation. In this webinar, geographically diverse communities employing similar strategies to address land and community ownership will put forth alternative visions for equitable development. We will explore questions including:...

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Building Power in the Sunshine State: Lessons from FJE’s Florida Learning Tour

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05/09/2019

In April 2019, NFG's Funders for a Just Economy and Florida Philanthropic Network brought together funders from across the country and community organizing leaders in Florida to explore how diverse communities in the state are building power and political infrastructure for workers’ rights, migrant justice, women’s rights, and more. Sienna Baskin , Director of the Anti-Trafficking Fund at NEO Philanthropy , shares her experience from the learning tour. You can follow Sienna at @SiennaBaskin and NEO at @NEOPhilanthropy Would you be able to come from the frozen Northeast to a resort in Ft...

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Healing Justice Institute

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019 -

9:00am - 5:00pm

Seattle, WA

Pre-Conference Event at the Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy Hosted by NFG’s Funders for Justice Registration Cost: $250 Presented with support from The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation, Third Wave Fund, and Urgent Action Fund The Healing Justice Institute is an opportunity for grantmakers to engage in a day-long learning and strategy institute about supporting healing justice at the intersections of racial justice and health justice. Participants will: Build new relationships...

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