Post-Election Resources

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Tue, November 22, 2016
... find ourselves in. NFG has pulled together a short list of post - election readings and tools you may find useful. We all have ... Bolder Advocacy Initiative has several resources on post - election advocacy during this transition period. AFJ has ...

Charlottesville Funder Briefing

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Webinar
... , a program of Neighborhood Funders Group, to host a briefing on recent developments and increasing threats from white nationalist groups. The briefing will also cover how funders can support the needs ... Animates White Nationalism Charlottesville Funder Briefing ...

December First Monday + Election Series Discussion

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, December 4, 2017
Webinar
... divisions. Join us for this installment of FCCP 's 2018 Election Series, co-sponsored by Neighborhood Funders ... in the 2017 elections and how those have shifted since 2016 . Review coordinating efforts by both funders and ... Forum, Women Donors Network December First Monday + Election Series Discussion .....

Strategize with NFG in the lead up to the election & beyond: NFG's October 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
10/29/2020
... gender, and climate injustice do not exist only in election cycles. Neighborhood Funders Group is a place for ... for Building a Funding Response to Scenarios after the Election , where we will discuss possible election outcomes ... the Moment webinar series — Pivoting Forward : a post - election deep dive on rural and small-city America as we ...
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Funders for a Just Economy 2020 Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, March 23, 2020 - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Webinar
... in response to COVID-19 including FJE’s upcoming Policy Briefing in Washington, D.C. on March 23-24. NFG cares ... about COVID-19, we have decided to move the FJE Policy Briefing to a fully virtual event via Zoom. We hope that the ... shift. If you have already registered for the Policy Briefing , you will receive a confirmation email and a revised ...

Strike Watch - Election 2020: Workers Redefine the Map, as Corporate Tech Pours Millions to Undermine Rights

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/13/2020
... public eye (rightfully) centered on the US presidency this election , worker-led organizing made tremendous waves across ... worker proposition. While the full significance of the election is still unfurling, the results point to the power ... to company unions of the pre-New Deal era and the 1947 post -Taft Hartley “business unionism” era targeting labor ...

The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open!

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
10/12/2015
... worker justice organizing campaigns. The winner of the 2016 Discount Legacy Award will be honored at the Jobs With ... Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration on February 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. To learn more about the ... the word about this special leadership opportunity. The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open! ...

Funder Briefing: The Future of Work and the Workforce

Event type: 
Briefing
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 9:00am - Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 5:30pm
Baltimore, MD
... mark your calendars for this invitation-only funders briefing on what work and working will look like in the ... needs given demographic and labor force shifts. This briefing is jointly hosted by NFG's Working Group on Labor ... 401 W Pratt Street / Baltimore, MD 21201 Funder Briefing : The Future of Work and the Workforce .....

WGLCP Annual Policy Briefing 2014

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - Thursday, April 24, 2014
Washington, DC
... rights in the offing? Join us for the annual policy briefing of NFG's Working Group on Labor and Community ... Email: reservations@beaconhotelwdc.com WGLCP Annual Policy Briefing 2014 .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

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

Event type: 
Briefing
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Los Angeles, CA
... 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 ... RSVP to Nicole Winzey at nicole@rosenfound.org Funders Briefing and Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Dignity & ...
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Funder Briefing call with Senator Al Franken on Forced Arbitration

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Webinar
... Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships A Tele- Briefing for Funders July 22 @ 1:15pm PT / 2:15pm MT / 3:15pm ... financial industry fights back? Questions about this briefing ? Contact RShull@publicwelfare.org . Please note that this briefing is for funders only. Register in the form below. ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice

FJE 2017 Policy Briefing: The Road Ahead for Worker Justice

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Friday, May 19, 2017
Washington, DC
... power map, Funders for a Just Economy ’s annual policy briefing will update our most current understanding of the ... and explore litigation strategies, this urgent and timely briefing will build hope about where we can lean in for ... Litigation, Organizing, and Narrative 2017 Policy Briefing Host Committee: William Cordery, Surdna Foundation ...

2018 Affinity Equity Summit and Solidarity Defense & Action Funder Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, February 12, 2018 - Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Oakland, CA
... Equity Summit and Solidarity Defense & Action Funder Briefing on February 12th and 13th at the Scottish Rite ... those joining the Solidarity Defense & Action Funder Briefing . Connect with funders from sectors as varied as ... 13 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Solidarity Defense & Action Funder Briefing Open to All Funders The goal of this Solidarity ...

Trends + Building Power in the AAPI Community

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, November 6, 2017
Webinar
... a priority. Join us for this installment of FCCP 's 2018 Election Series, co-sponsored by Neighborhood Funders Group, where you will hear: How recent data from the 2016 elections provides new insights into trends in turnout ... funders should be considering when looking at election -cycle grantmaking that can promote increased .....
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Meeting the Moment: 2020’s New Civic Engagement Landscape in Rural and Small-City America

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:15am
Webinar
... important fights and campaigns in rural communities as the election approaches. The third webinar (November 18) briefed ... Part 3: Pivoting Forward — November 18, 2020 Post - election deep dive on what happened in rural and ... Tamieka served as a member of the Host Committee for the 2016 Facing Race Conference. She has a Bachelor's in .....

Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, September 15, 2014
... brewing: inequality is rising; more money is coming from post -Citizens’ United sources; and state and local ... surveillance, hate crimes and discrimination in the post -9/11 security environment of the United States. Our ... and participating organization. Ferguson in Focus : A briefing paper, including historical context, from the NAACP ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Announcing the 2019 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/01/2019
... by many community organizations and elected officials. In 2016 , she received the Grinnell College Innovator for Social ... makers throughout the world. Learn more about Adhikaar. 2016 Awardee: Alfred Marshall Organizer with the New Orleans ... organizing campaigns, he has helped win local hiring on post -Katrina public construction and development projects, a ...

From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, May 03, 2016
... - A Blog of the Movement Strategy Center January 26, 2016 One morning last December, I found myself at the Ford ... set of issue priorities, mobilization, policy change and election campaigns that are pursuing structural reforms. Too ... Let’s take our path, together. Read the original blog post on Let's Talk: At the Heart of Movement-Building - A .....

Strike Watch: Solidago Foundation's Rebecca Greenberg on Funding Democracy Defense from Georgia to Arizona

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/21/2020
... co-governance; they see electoral defense pre- and post - election as inseparable from this mission. We are grateful ... focusing when it comes to election defense, protection and post - election support, and what you’re hearing from the ...

Is Democracy Funding Undemocratic? Funding Civic Engagement in an Era of Protest

News type: 
News from the Field
By Austin Belali Nonprofit Quarterly - March 22, 2016 This piece is part of our ongoing Equity, Diversity, ... NPQ and YNPN will be using the hashtag #EDISeries, so post about the series along with us. To stay informed of the ... Rates Lowest Ever Recorded; Changes Essential in 2016 .” Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s ...

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sun, June 14, 2015
From the Center for Popular Democracy and PolicyLink . www.justiceinpolicing.com 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 young leaders, planned...

Ferguson to Geneva

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
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.

Agenda to Keep us Safe

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
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 ...

Organizations Addressing Police Accountability and Racial Justice

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
... Trans Queer Pueblo Trans Queer Pueblo, formed in 2016 as a merger between Arcoiris Liberation Team and the ... surveillance, hate crimes and discrimination in the post -9/11 security environment of the United States. The ... Tribeca for Change grows out of the progressive grassroots election campaign of Barack Obama and Organizing for America. ...

On Earth Day, Empowering Allies for the Year Ahead

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/22/2015
... equity and sustainability in Puerto Rico, with a follow-up briefing last week with Philanthropy New York . This ... equity and diversity. At EGA’s recent Federal Policy Briefing , for example, we learned about the potential impact ... Latino electorate could grow to more than 13 million by 2016 , representing a 34 percent increase from 2008. New ...

Webinar Resources from Hope in the Heartland: Racial Justice and the White Working Class

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Thu, May 18, 2017
... America that everyone’s ignoring" — The Washington Post , March 2017 "Revenge of the rural voter" — Politico, November 2016 "It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class" — The Washington Post , June 2017 Philanthropic Resources "Is Rural America .....

HIV is not a crime! (except in 32 states and 72 countries)

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
03/30/2017
By John Barnes, Executive Director, Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA) Even many AIDS advocates and people living with HIV are surprised to learn that HIV IS a crime in 32 US states and 72 countries around the world, with new laws being enacted every year. Since these laws have begun to appear, at the beginning of the epidemic, over 600 prosecutions of people with HIV, more than half of those in the United States. In fact, just this week the Utah House of Representatives passed HB 369 , which, if enacted, will make sexual contact by an HIV+ person without disclosure of status a first-degree...

Discount Foundation Legacy Award

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
01/13/2021
... by many community organizations and elected officials. In 2016 , she received the Grinnell College Innovator for Social ... makers throughout the world. Learn more about Adhikaar. 2016 Awardee: Alfred Marshall Organizer with the New Orleans ... organizing campaigns, he has helped win local hiring on post -Katrina public construction and development projects, a ...

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

News type: 
Member News
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...

Philanthropy’s Role in Holding Tension

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... Group - they are your people”. I had just missed the 2016 convening in Oakland and learned I had to wait another ... movement before us for a more just and equitable society. Post -conference I’m still ruminating and a couple key ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

More is required of us

News type: 
Member News
by Vanessa Daniel, Groundswell Fund August 5, 2016 - Health & Environmental Funders Network “I think we ... for those who would bury their heads in the sand of a “ post -racial America” that doesn’t exist. Difficult for ... the Health and Environmental Funders Network . View blog post on the Health and Environmental Funders Network site, ...

Strike Watch: From Food to Fashion, Workers are Countering Corporate Talking Points with Organizing for Economic Security and Protection

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/21/2020
... banners of established labor (including in the first union election since the pandemic ), worker advocacy and organizing ... in Memphis voted to unionize this week in the first union election since the pandemi c, frustrated with issues ... and a lack of pay increases (except for management) post -COVID-19. Newer to the supply-chain strike lines are ...

Reports from the Movement Strategy Center

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, November 01, 2016
Reports from the Movement Strategy Center

The Movement Strategy Center offers a plethora of resources that speak on transformative practices, collective impact, intersecting issues, and building progressive power. Below is a curated list.

Practices of Transformative Movement Building We need transformative strategies to generate exponential change. But how do we accomplish this? How do we achieve...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building

Relatives of fallen press Cuomo for special prosecutor

News type: 
News from the Field
by Casey Seiler, Capitol Confidential (Casey Seiler, Times Union) Relatives of New Yorkers who died at the hands of law enforcement returned to Albany to push the Legislature to reject anything short of the appointment of a special prosecutor to review such cases — a stance that makes Gov. Andrew Cuomo their ally and an unlikely opponent. Gwen Carr, whose son Eric Garner died last summer after police put him in a chokehold as he was arrested for selling loose cigarettes on a Staten Island street corner, spoke during the advocates’ session-ending return visit. “We need someone to look at the...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

CampaignZERO Launched

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Fri, August 21, 2015

CampaignZERO presents a comprehensive package of policy reforms to end police violence in America. It encourages people to petition their elected representatives to implement 10 policy solution areas at the local, state, and federal level of government to achieve an America where police do not kill people.

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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

Philanthropy Moving Forward a Bolder Approach to America’s Housing Crisis

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
02/04/2021
This blog was written by Nile Malloy, Director of NFG's Democratizing Development Program to urge philanthropy to propel a bold approach to the housing crisis. Housing advocates and grassroots groups from across the country continue to organize elected officials at the local, state, and federal level for another eviction moratorium, rental assistance, and foreclosure delay relief to slow the rate of some families from being pushed towards the cliff of homelessness. National groups like Right to the City Housing is the Cure; People’s Action Home Guarantee , National Low-income Housing...
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Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/09/2019
... anti-slavery uprisings were launched from these enclaves. Post -reconstruction, this blossoming of freedom was repressed ... progressive possibility and conservative ideology. Every election is won or lost by 1%, but a Republican stronghold ... Florida for disaster response or to swing the state during election years, focused on numbers, not depth or long-term ...

Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Results by Funding Policy and Community Engagement

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sat, January 28, 2012
By Lisa Ranghelli, January 2012. This report distills findings from more than 400 pages of research amassed over three years as part of NCRP’s Grantmaking for Community Impact Project (GCIP). The project documented $26.6 billion in benefits for taxpayers and communities in 13 states, and found that every dollar grantmakers and other donors invested in policy and civic engagement provided a return of $115 in community benefit ...read more.
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Following Ferguson

News type: 
Member News
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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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

California Funders’ Convening on Gentrification and Displacement

Resource type: 
Event Recap
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...

Living Resource Systems: A New Approach for Supporting Movement Networks

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, November 01, 2016
Living Resource Systems: A New Approach for Supporting Movement Networks

article and photo provided by the Movement Net Lab

In tandem with the many movement networks of the last decade, innovative funding channels and configurations have emerged to support them. These changes are part of the shift from foundation-centered funding to a broader conceptualization of resources we call a living resource system . A living resource system provides a relationship-based approach to resources: resources are...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Webinar
WHEN: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 TIME: 10:00 - 11:00 am (PST) | 1:00 - 2:00 pm (EST) ... the Ford Foundation Please register by Friday, April 29, 2016 . On Monday, May 2, 2016 , we will send out call-information and additional ...

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
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 social movement, what...

Philanthropy Isn’t Doing Enough to Support Youth-Led Voter-Mobilization Efforts

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/20/2020
... and Georgia. These states are in play in the upcoming election thanks in large part to years of persistent ... mobilize hundreds of thousands of voters for the November election — and beyond. If we value a just and functioning ... racial, and ethnic makeup of voters from previous election years. Young voters of color can wield tremendous ...

Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Wed, April 08, 2015
... to the Organization for Black Struggle . To fully fund a 2016 statewide ballot initiative , the Missouri Organizing ... Suburban Journal and a regular section in the St. Louis Post -Dispatch dedicated to North County events. As of 2011, ... engagement in the Ferguson area include The Huffington Post and the St. Louis Beacon partnering to support a ...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity

Countering State Preemption and Protecting the Power of Local Government

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, July 10, 2017
Webinar
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...

Eroding the Power of Police Unions

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, September 3, 2020 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
Across the nation, divest/invest campaigns and calls for police accountability are being blocked, and successes rolled back, by the political power of police unions. Join NFG's Funders for Justice for this webinar, to hear from movement leaders in Texas, California, and Arizona, on strategies and learnings to erode police union power. They will also share funding needs and opportunities to significantly move the needle. Campaigns that will be covered include preventing the renewal of a detention center contract, cutting the police union contract in half, cutting $150 million from the police...

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Sat, June 24, 2017
... Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) has held a yearly policy briefing to engage its members on specific policy issues that ... shifting political and power map, this year’s policy briefing updated members with our current understanding of ... The Opportunity Agenda . Participants left the policy briefing energized and ready for the road ahead! FJE will be ...

Race and Policing - A Resource from IssueLab

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
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 this chronic...

Freedom Side Open Letter

News type: 
News from the Field
To Whom It May Concern; This is an open letter from frontline leaders engaged in the struggle for justice in Ferguson and the larger fight against police brutality and Black dehumanization, to request real solidarity. This is a moment recorded for the future and we are writing this letter to open up ways for people to stand in solidarity. This is a historical moment that young people are leading, but that should come as no surprise because young people have always been the fuel of social movements. Youth leaders recruiting, planning, living and creating the change we want to see and the world...

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

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, July 23, 2018
Conference Call
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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After Ferguson: Conference Call looking at the role of the faith community in mobilizing around racial justice

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Sat, April 11, 2015
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’...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Friday, October 26, 2018
Webinar
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...

Staff Transitions at NFG

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/29/2017
... a half years, Yolanda has spearheaded NFG's successful 2016 National Convening , helped to launch the California .....
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Ohio Student Association: Justice for John Crawford

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/18/2014
From Ferguson to LA, New York to Beavercreek, the story is becoming clearer and clearer. We need a fundamental shift between our communities and law enforcement. Will you join us for “What is Justice? – Rally at the Statehouse” a t 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH at 12pm this Sa turday October 18th? John Crawford was a young black man who picked up a toy gun from a shelf at the Beavercreek, Ohio Wal-Mart. After 911 caller Ronald Ritchie made false accusations about his behavior, Officer Sean Williams responded to the...

8 Lessons from Our Southern Grantees in the Fight for Equity and Justice

News type: 
Member News
8 Lessons from Our Southern Grantees in the Fight for Equity and Justice By Miabi Chatterji , Senior Program Officer at Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice My colleagues and I at the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund (RJF) have been thinking hard about how our institutions need to respond to the changes the Trump administration will make to our national culture and policies. Particularly for those of us who support vulnerable communities such as immigrants; refugees; Latinx, Muslim and black people; incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals; sex workers; LGBTQ people; youth of color and...

Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/29/2016
Earlier this month, House Republicans released a new plan to fight poverty and social immobility. However, there is little mention of the role that place plays in perpetuating poverty or shaping economic opportunity. Growing research shows that geography plays a powerful role in determining life outcomes in the United States. This article from the Urban Institute discusses the importance of place on poverty and makes several policy recommendations. By Solomon Greene, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and former NFG board member Earlier this month, House Republicans released a new plan to...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Housing Justice

Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/15/2018
... publications including the New York Times, Washington Post , Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony and Essence ... Public Interest Award in 2015, and is a member of the 2016 class of the Levi Strauss Foundation's Pioneers of .....
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Building Trust Between Communities and Local Police

News type: 
News from the Field
David Hudson December 01, 2014 08:25 PM EST Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country have grabbed the attention of the nation and the world, and have highlighted the importance of strong, collaborative relationships between local police and the communities that they protect. Today, the Administration announced new steps we’re taking to strengthen the relationships between law enforcement agencies and the communities they are obligated to protect and serve, including: Advancing the use of body worn cameras and promoting proven community policing initiatives Creating a new...

We will not be silenced.

News type: 
News from the Field
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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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

USHRN Statement on the State of Emergency of Anti-Trans Hate Violence

News type: 
News from the Field
August 21, 2015 The US Human Rights Network's Coordinating Center extends our thoughts and prayers to the families and loved ones of the 18 transgender women, - primarily women of color, and specifically Black, - whose lives have been taken this year due to hate violence. Along with our members, we raised this issue as a human rights crisis in March and have since seen the numbers increase at an alarming rate. These numbers are likely on the conservative end as they are only the reported cases. When we include Mya Hall, a Black trans woman who was killed by the NSA, the number jumps up to 19...

The Road Ahead

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
11/11/2020
... of the road ahead There is much to grapple with this election cycle and all that has come with it. Our democracy ... the effects of such grassroots resistance are evident in election results across the country: from an unprecedented ... an eye on long-term change to sustain movements beyond election cycles. Organize philanthropy to make use of both ...

Ferguson: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Movement That Won't Give Up

News type: 
News from the Field
by Marisa Franco, lead organizer of the #not1more campaign for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network Originally posted on the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) website "Last night completed a circle of tragedy and travesty. Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown in broad daylight, but his protectors used the thick of night to announce their decision to not indict. While the St. Louis prosecutor’s explanation rang empty and hollow, the clamor for justice in the streets of Ferguson was once again clear, resounding, and this time nationwide. Our hearts were...

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
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 Rights...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

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

Event type: 
Convening
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,...

Funder Meeting on Government Alliance on Race and Equity

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Minneapolis, MN
The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) , the Neighborhood Funders Group , and the Government Alliance on Race and Equity invite you to a special funders learning/strategy meeting in advance of the Convening on Racial Equity, co-hosted by Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges and St Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. The funders meeting will be followed by an informal networking session with a light dinner. The convening begins at 7 pm. August 5, 2014 3:30 - 5:30pm The McNamara Alumni Center University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus...

Funder Delegation to AFL-CIO Quadrennial Convention

Event type: 
Convening
Sunday, September 8, 2013 - Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Los Angeles, CA
You're invited to the Funder Delegation to the AFL-CIO Quadrennial Convention! September 8-10, 2013 Los Angeles, CA This September, the AFL-CIO—the federation uniting more than 12 million working people—will convene in Los Angeles to discuss the future for America’s workers and our movement. Delegates representing working families from all over the country will be prepared to make big decisions about new ways to help working people gain a voice—new forms of representation for workers, new approaches to politics and...

Raising expectations & creating community in philanthropy: NFG's November 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
11/23/2020
On October 1, I enthusiastically moved into the role of Vice President of Programs for Neighborhood Funders Group after being on our staff team since January 2019 and a former NFG member leader. I am proud to continue NFG’s 40-year legacy of mobilizing philanthropy to redefine what is possible for this sector and our communities. Being part of a team that is creating inspiring spaces to shift power and money towards justice and equity is an honor, and doing so as part of a community of funders, is of great personal and political importance to me. NFG’s mission is to organize philanthropy to...
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A Community-Centered Response to Louisiana Flooding

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
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...

Support Protesters in Chicago

News type: 
News from the Field
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 2015 Contact: Camesha Jones 240-533-2876 chicago.chapter@byp100.org OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE BYP100 ON THE FIRING OF CPD POLICE SUPERINTENDENT GARRY MCCARTHY BYP100 calls for resignation of Mayor Emanuel and States Attorney Alvarez, defunding of policing and investment in Black futures The Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is pleased to learn that Mayor Rahm Emanuel has taken one necessary step towards holding himself and the city of Chicago accountable for its promotion and...

State of Black Worker Conference

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - Friday, October 11, 2013
Washington, DC
**For funders and philanthropic advisors only.** ""The two most dynamic and cohesive liberal forces in the country are the labor movement and the Negro freedom movement. Together we can be architects of democracy."" – Martin Luther King, Jr., at the AFL-CIO National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, December 11, 1961 The Discount Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Neighborhood Funders Group are partnering to organize a day-long meeting on black worker organizing. The meeting will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 10. In the morning...

OBS Launches Quality Policing Initiative

News type: 
News from the Field
In December 2014, Organization for Black Struggle launched their Quality Policing Initiative : The killings of Mike Brown, Kajieme Powell, Vonderrit Myers and others are not the result of abnormal incidents resulting in accidents, nor do these killings reflect “one bad apple” police officer. It is a manifestation of a system of policing that is unaccountable, out of control and acts from its worst impulses of racism and aggression. It sees black and brown citizens as individual targets and whole communities as collective threats. The existing situation means that too frequently there will be...

Response to Eric Garner's Case: A Deeper Conversation

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
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...

From Bail Reform to Closing the Jail: Organizing Wins for Divestment

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, July 30, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Webinar
Hosted by the Bail Reform Strategy Group of Funders for Justice . In recent months, as hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets to demand that elected leaders #DefundPolice and #DefendBlackLives, bail funds have been flooded with millions of dollars. People across the country donated anywhere from a few dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yet, as we know, contributing bail money for protesters is both critical and only the beginning of a larger understanding of the US carceral system. We must all do more to end the pre-trial incarceration of people —...

I cried like a baby, I swore like a sailor: NFG's December 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
At Neighborhood Funders Group’s final board meeting of 2020, the toll of the year hit me — suddenly. While saying farewell to Mary Sobecki (Executive Director of the Needmor Fund) as she ended her term on NFG’s Board of Directors, I found myself crying like a baby. I have known Mary since NFG’s National Convening in Cleveland in 2007: the conference I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kevin Ryan (my fellow New York Foundation colleague at the time), Frank Sanchez (then at Needmor Fund) and my adopted tio Victor Quintana (then at the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter...
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2020 Nashville Virtual Site Visit

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, September 21, 2020 - Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Virtual
Welcome! NFG’s Amplify Fund and Funders for a Just Economy were excited to host a virtual learning visit in Nashville, Tennessee with our partners Stand Up Nashville and The Equity Alliance . On this site, you can learn about the learning visit events and access videos, readings, and resources. Catch highlights and quotes shared by participants in our Twitter moment recap . Virtual Visit Dates: September 21-23, 2020 Background Located in middle Tennessee, Nashville has now become one of the fastest growing cities in the last decade since...

The criminalization of Muslim students must end

News type: 
News from the Field
Ahmed Mohamed’s treatment by teachers and police show us the extent to which Islamophobia has spread to schools September 17, 2015 by Deepa Iyer, for Aljazeera America The experience of Ahmed Mohamed — a Sudanese Muslim high school freshman who was suspended and arrested in Irving, Texas, after his teachers and administrators believed that a clock he made was a bomb — has caught America’s attention. Even President Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg weighed in, inviting Mohamed to the White House and Facebook , respectively. But these gestures, as sincere as they are, cannot by themselves...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, June 19, 2017 - Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Pittsburgh, PA
Photo by Matthew Field / CC Neighborhood Funders Group, The Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh United, Ford Foundation, and The Colorado Trust are pleased to invite you to the Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. After decades of disinvestment and loss of manufacturing, Pittsburgh’s economy is resurging, bringing new opportunities and threats to low-income communities of color. With aligned progressive strength across the organizing community, elected leadership, and philanthropy, Pittsburgh is striving to be...

I Am the Black Woman Who Interrupted the Netroots Presidential Town Hall, and This Is Why

News type: 
News from the Field
by Tia Oso Identities.mic, July 21, 2015 I am Tia Oso, the black woman who took to the stage and demanded a microphone on July 18 at the Netroots Nation Presidential Town Hall in Phoenix, Arizona. I did this to focus the attention of the nation's largest gathering of progressive leaders and presidential hopefuls on the death of Sandra Bland and other black women killed while in police custody, because the most important and urgent issue of our day is structural violence and systemic racism that is oppressing and killing black women, men and children. This is an emergency . Sandra Bland and I...

Boston - New York City Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - Thursday, April 3, 2014
Boston, MA
Registration is full and is now closed. We have reached our maximum capacity for tour participants. If you would like to fill out the registration form below, we would be happy to add your name to our wait list. From Boston to New York: Is a More Just City Possible? Two Cities Two Historic Transitions Two Days Funder Learning Tour, April 2-3, 2014 Join the Neighborhood Funders Group for a two day, northeast learning tour in Boston and New York City...

Project Phoenix

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, February 1, 2016 - Monday, January 30, 2017
Overview Project Phoenix: Connecting Democracy, Economy, and Sustainability (Phoenix) was a year-long cohort collective learning program for funders. This project adds to several conversations that have emerged in philanthropy over the past few years 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.” For Phoenix, the term “new economy” described intersectional activities with an intention to support: a democracy that works for all an...

A Multiracial Rural Equity Summit: Why Now

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/16/2020
As part of Neighborhood Funders Group’s virtual convening series , NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) will host its first ever Multiracial Rural Equity Summit on July 1. As Americans across the country rise up in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, IRSG calls on philanthropy to: Uplift the voices of rural communities demanding economic and environmental justice. Uplift the voices of Black, Indigenous and people of color in rural places. Uplift racial solidarity and shared prosperity. IRSG’s Multiracial Rural Equity Summit will explore how systemic racism is harming rural...

Five Things President Obama Could Do to Stop the Killing

News type: 
News from the Field
By Gordon Whitman, Deputy Director, PICO National Network If my son - who is 14 years old, has Autism and is hearing impaired - were African-American I would be worried every time he left the house to walk to school or the library, worried that he'd have a failed encounter with a teacher, school administrator or police officer that would result in him being hurt, psychologically or physically. That anxiety - which I know many parents of African-American and Latino children have - is by no means irrational. Whites bring a host of unthinking stereotypes into their encounters with African-...

Standing in Our Power Together

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
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...

Reimagining How We Fund and What We Fund

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
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, Dr. Carmen Rojas , NFG Board Member and Co-Founder & CEO of The Workers Lab , reflects on reimagining the role of philanthropy in these pressing times. The NFG conference could not have come at a better time. We are at a critical juncture as a country, and the field of philanthropy has a number of hard truths to face if it hopes to realize a better tomorrow for everyone in the U.S. We are living...
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Philanthropic Practice

Answering the Call from Movement Leaders

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
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, Julia Beatty , Program Officer for the Black-Led Movement Fund and the Communities Transforming Policing Fund at Borealis Philanthropy , reflects on philanthropy's accountability to grassroots movements. “Uprising creates the authorization for funding movements.” These words, spoken by Reverend Starsky Wilson, Executive Director of the Deaconess Foundation in St. Louis, are some of...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
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, Amoretta Morris , — Director of National Community Strategies at The Annie E. Casey Foundation , NFG Conference Co-Chair, and NFG Board Member — reflects on the theme of her opening plenary address. Recently, a trusted social justice leader called me a philanthropic gatekeeper . And hearing those words stung — a lot. But once I got over my initial defensiveness, I realized it was true. Gatekeepers,...
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Philanthropic Practice

Bringing Our Whole Selves to Philanthropy and Our Grantmaking

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
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, Ryan Li Dahlstrom , Program Officer for the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy , reflects on ways funders can live their values in their work. Often times in philanthropic spaces we are not encouraged to bring our whole selves—to share and reflect on how our identities and values as people and as funders intersect. This year, during my first time attending the Neighborhood Funders...
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Philanthropic Practice

Facing and Recovering from Soul Trauma

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/09/2018
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, Andrea Dobson , NFG Board Member and Chief Operating & Financial Officer of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation , reflects on the realities of philanthropy's role in building community change. “Soul trauma: when who you thought you were runs smack into the realities of your life.” I’ve experienced plenty of soul trauma as I’ve watched communities disintegrate and people polarize, as poverty has...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Towards a More Resilient Place: Voices from the Convening

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Wed, October 18, 2017

Last month, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened 100 local, regional, and national funders for Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising Practices in Place-Based Philanthropy . This convening builds on our 2014 Towards a Better Place convening and our 2015 convening with the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation,...

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Philanthropic Practice

Say Their Names: Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Dion Johnson

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/29/2020
This piece was written by NFG's Funders for Justice program leadership. We say their names: Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, George Floyd in Minneapolis , MN, Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, GA, Tony McDade in Tallahassee, FL, Dion Johnso in Phoenix, AZ. Black Lives Matter, today and every day. Fund Black lives, Black futures, Black organizing. We Stand in Solidarity: Funders for Justice stands in solidarity with protestors in Minneapolis, Louisville, Phoenix, New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other cities across the country, fighting for the lives and freedom for all Black people...

Local Housing Solutions: Tackling a national problem on a local scale

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/14/2019
A growing number of places are grappling with housing affordability. As the problem spreads from famously high-cost areas like New York and San Francisco, it is becoming a more pressing concern for middle-income households. These trends have pushed housing affordability onto the national stage in an unprecedented way, with several presidential candidates releasing detailed policy plans, and speaking about housing frequently on the campaign trail. Yet despite its national prominence, housing remains an issue where local governments play an enormous role. As Neighborhood Funders Group's...

Announcing FFJ’s Latest Field Advisor Cohort

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/13/2020
... Equity fellow, Funders for Justice fellow 2018-2021 and a 2016 -2018 Rosenberg Foundation Leading Edge Fellow, focusing ... juvenile justice systems on Native Americans. Between 2012- 2016 , Ms.Gali previously worked as the Tribal Historic ... Public Interest Award in 2015, and is a member of the 2016 class of the Levi Strauss Foundation's Pioneers of .....

Highlights from Amplify this July

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/23/2020
... (@CLOSEWorkhouse) July 20, 2020 View this post on Instagram We did it!!! ... a jail. We are proving that another world is possible. A post shared by ClosetheWorkhouse (@closetheworkhouse) on Jul ...
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Amplify Fund

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Stephanie Guilloud

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
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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Baltimore Uprisings

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Other
Tue, April 28, 2015
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Funding Opportunity

Support Minneapolis Protesters

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
11/27/2015
Last updated December 2, 2015. Please check back regularly for updates. DONATE to Black Lives Matter Minneapolis : Please donate to help support their efforts with bail, legal support, and other supplies. November 27, 2015 Dear Community, In the past 10 days Minneapolis has experienced horrific acts of violence, first with the shooting of Jamar Clark, a 24 year old unarmed black man, who was killed by the Minneapolis police just over a week ago. Then, on Monday night, in the wake of an ongoing peaceful occupation demanding justice for Jamar Clark outside of Minneapolis’ 4th...

Strike Watch: Workers refuse to relent for Black lives, as COVID-19 workplace dangers expand

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/26/2020
If there is an image that encapsulates the continued expansion of worker-led direct action in the last few weeks, it is Angela Davis on Juneteenth. With her fist raised high and face mask tight, Dr. Davis stood strong out of a roof of a car moving through a massive strike linking dockworkers and community to shutter the Port of Oakland for 8-plus hours. Led by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) shipping and transport workers, 29 ports were shut down as tens of thousands came together, and drew connections by featuring speakers such as fired Amazon warehouse worker Chris...

COVID-19 Funds: Where to Donate to Support Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Sat, March 28, 2020

In this new moment of growing uncertainty brought by the outbreak of COVID-19, we are seeing the intersection of health care, public health, and community care in this critical time of physical distancing, economic crisis, and social solidarity. We are seeing that health care, housing, social protections, water, electricity, and wireless internet for all is possible, when people are put ahead of profits for even a moment. Yet this will be only a temporary glimpse of what’s possible if philanthropy does not step up in this moment and in the months to come to fund both basic life...