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Governance, Participatory Budgeting and Grantmaking
Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance
Peer Coaching Training Webinar
Funder Meeting on Government Alliance on Race and Equity
Countering State Preemption and Protecting the Power of Local Government
From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns
Ensuring the Voices of Government Reflect the People They Represent
FFJ Webinar on Gender, Race, and Criminalization
Webinar: Investments that Build Wealth and Power
Administrative Relief and Philanthropy Webinar Series
After Ferguson Grand Jury Failure, Federal Government Must Act for Justice
Hate is Not Charitable: Three-Part Webinar Series, Part 1
Webinar Recap: How to Creatively Fund Social Movements
Hate is Not Charitable: Three-Part Webinar Series, Part 3
Native Voices Rising: National Funder Briefing Webinar
Housing Justice Solutions: Field & Funder Webinar
What's Next in the Movement for Working Families Webinar
Webinar: Building Movements with Narrative Change Strategies
EPIP Webinar Recap- Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement
New Southern Strategies Webinar: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence
Housing Solution: Community Voice, Land Trust, and Empowerment Webinar
Webinar: Fueling the Movement - How Foundations Can Support the Fight for Racial Equity
Webinar Resources from Hope in the Heartland: Racial Justice and the White Working Class
Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap
Webinar Recap: Why Should Social Justice Funders Care About Impact Investing?
Webinar Recap of Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
“Advancing Together” the Democratizing Development Program
Puerto Rico: From Relief to Equitable Recovery
Native Communities, Policing, and Mass Criminalization
Democratizing Development Program Monthly Meetings
Game Changing Advancement in Fostering Access to Opportunity: HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities
Grant Makers Give Money Fast to Challenge Trump Policies
From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance - Conference Call for Funders
5 Hot Causes for Donors in 2015
Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies
EPIP Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement
Grant-making with an Intersectional Lens
The Black Philanthropic Resource Library
Community Learning Partnership: A Model in Phoenix, New York, and Detroit
Philanthropy & the Case for Reparations
Speak Out: Social Justice Advocacy for Public Foundations
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris
How White Foundation Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice
Funding the Ecosystem: Organizing to Build Housing and Community Ownership Opportunities
Ferguson to Geneva
CampaignZERO Launched
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.
Eroding the Power of Police Unions
The Beat is (Back) On! Labor Reporting Reemerges
ColorofChange.org: We have a key opportunity to transform discriminatory and violent policing nationwide
Building a Beloved Community: Strengthening the Field of Black Male Achievement
Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource transformative solutions to the US housing crisis
Integrating Immigrant Workers into the U.S. Economy
Democratizing Development Program Opportunity Zones Strategy Call
Puerto Rico: A Philanthropic Sneak Peak
National Dialogue: Community Land Trusts
National Dialogue: Local Strategies for Wall Street Accountability and Community Control of Capital
Speak Out: Social Justice Advocacy for Private Foundations
Funding a Radically Just Response to COVID-19
Civil Rights Monitor
Leadership Conference Education Fund annual publication that chronicles civil and human rights issues pending before the three branches of government, and other, emerging issues like the potential for big data to supercharge discrimination against disadvantaged communities. The 2015 volume addresses police misconduct.
Weathering the Storm: Building Resilience Against Opposition Attacks
NFG's 40 Years Strong convening continues with 6 new sessions & more: NFG's August 2020 Newsletter
Moving Forward on Racial Justice Philanthropy
Beyond Recovery: A People's Plan
Power Research
Rural Rising: Supporting Equity, Sustainability, and Resilience in Rural & Small-Town America
Announcing the 2018 Discount Foundation Legacy Awardee
Ferguson: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Movement That Won't Give Up
The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights Project: August 2015 Report
NIJC Freedom of Information Act Litigation Reveals Systemic Lack of Accountability in Immigration Detention Contracting
(August 2015) — The National Immigrant Justice Center’s (NIJC’s) three-year Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation resulted in the most comprehensive public release to date of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration detention center contracts and inspections. With The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights...Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
The LA Teacher Strike and Movement for the Common Good
And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter
National Dialogue
Amplify Fund Learning and Evaluation Partner RFP
New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers' Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence
Energy and Equity in Puerto Rico
Ferguson Action Demands
OUR VISION FOR A NEW AMERICA
WE WANT JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
We Want an End to all Forms of Discrimination and the Full Recognition of our Human Rights
The United States Government must acknowledge and address the structural violence and institutional discrimination that continues to imprison our communities either in a life of poverty and/or one behind bars. We want the United States Government to recognize the full spectrum of our human rights and its...Project Phoenix
Meeting the Moment: 2020’s New Civic Engagement Landscape in Rural and Small-City America
Prisons/Detention Centers, Racial Justice, and the Environment in Rural Places
Just and Equitable Rebuilding of Cities After Disasters
NFG's 2020 Virtual Convening Series
Ways to Support Organizers in North Carolina
Building Trust Between Communities and Local Police
The Making of Ferguson
Executive summary
In August 2014, a Ferguson, Missouri, policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Michael Brown’s death and the resulting protests and racial tension brought considerable attention to that town. Observers who had not been looking closely at our evolving demographic patterns were surprised to see ghetto conditions we had come to associate with inner cities now duplicated in a formerly white suburban community: racially segregated neighborhoods with high poverty and...Funder Strategy and Discussion: New Data on Policymakers’ Views on Low-Wage Workers
Working Better Together to Further Advance a Midwest Funders Strategy for Equity and Opportunity
City of Pittsburgh, The Heinz Endowments, and the p4 Sustainability Model: People, Planet, Place, and Performance
How to Creatively Fund Social Movements
Shifting Resources Towards Permanently Affordable Housing
COVID-19 and Indigenous Communities: A Call to Action and Relationship for Philanthropy
2020 National Convening: 40 Years Strong
New opportunities to connect & co-conspire with us: NFG's July 2020 Newsletter
COVID-19 Funds: Where to Donate to Support Communities
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...
A Message From FFJ Leadership: In Solidarity With Chicago & Minneapolis
Ferguson Commission Report Examines Issues Behind Mike Brown Uprising, Proposes Action
VICTORY: HUD Program Changes to Reduce Foreclosures and Increase Affordable Housing
Identify. Describe. Dismantle. Repeat.
Safe and Just Return to Work
Statement from Within Our Lifetime
Oct 22-24 in Chicago: Confronting the International Association of Chiefs of Police
Thinking About the Safety of Black Lives Beyond Policing
2016 Post-Election Briefing: Politics, Policy and Philanthropy
Local Housing Solutions: Tackling a national problem on a local scale
Breaking: Ferguson Activists Meet with President Obama to Demand an End to Police Brutality Nationwide
The Road Ahead for Worker Justice: Where to Lean In, Pull Up, Push Back and Pivot
No more fake budgets?! Exploring Equity-Based Approaches to Financial Review
Hope in the Heartland: Racial Justice and the White Working Class
Movement Portfolio Theory (MvPT)
After #FergusonOctober
FergusonOctober – Voices from the Ground
"Intersections of Justice in the Time of Coronavirus" by Cara Page & Eesha Pandit
Applications Now Open for 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward Leadership Fellowship
Catalyzing a Movement for Health and Housing
A Community-Centered Response to Louisiana Flooding
Organizing for Wall Street Accountability and Financial Reform: Funders’ Briefing and Discussion
Strike Watch, Labor Day: Vonda McDaniel on Workers Redefining “Nash-Vegas” and Taking on Power in Tennessee
Raising expectations & creating community in philanthropy: NFG's November 2020 Newsletter
FFJ Call Recap: Policing and Criminalization in the Trump Era
Join the Inaugural Philanthropy Forward Leadership for Change Fellowship
Funders for a Just Economy - Network Meeting & Florida Tour Review
Amplify Fund's Response to COVID-19
In the face of COVID-19, Amplify is stretching from our core! We maintain our central belief that community power drives just and equitable development, and feel strongly that all funders should:
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Give more than you ever thought possible. As a time-limited pooled fund, we are reallocating budget items so we can distribute as much in direct support as possible. We hope you give at the maximum level possible even if that’s above the 5% minimum endowment payout or your current averages.
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From Bail Reform to Closing the Jail: Organizing Wins for Divestment
2020 National Convening update & more: NFG's April 2020 Newsletter
Democratic Development for Thriving Communities: Framing the Issues, Solutions, and Funding Strategies to Address Gentrification and Displacement
The Democratic Development for Thriving Communities report is the result of collaboration between the California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement , field leaders, and academics. It builds on previous work from the philanthropic, academic, and organizing sectors to present a framework for philanthropy to consider in strategically addressing gentrification and displacement.
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Five Things President Obama Could Do to Stop the Killing
Updates on Ferguson, Cleveland, and NYC
National and Local Recommendations for Police Accountability
Five Principles for Engagement on the Future of Work(ers) and Two Big Ideas
Democratic Development for Thriving Communities Report
The Democratic Development for Thriving Communities: Framing the Issues, Solutions, and Funding Strategies to Address Gentrification and Displacement report is the result of collaboration between the California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement , field leaders, and academics. It builds on previous work from the philanthropic, academic, and...
Youth on the Move: How Funders Can Support the Growing Movement of Young People of Color in 2015
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Kris Hayashi
Building Power in the Sunshine State: Lessons from FJE’s Florida Learning Tour
NFG moves into grantmaking with a multimillion-dollar collaborative fund
Activists Locked Down Outside Tacoma Detention Center
Ferguson City Council Announces New Programs
Statement from Center Social Inclusion
Support Chicago Protesters
The criminalization of Muslim students must end
We will not be silenced.
What We’ve Gained And Lost Since Stonewall
Tour Reflections from a Native New Yorker
Stacey Millett, Senior Program Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation and a Native New Yorker, writes about putting people first when considering investment decisions.
I joined Neighborhood Funders Group for the learning tour in early April; we spent day two in New York City for an interactive, information-packed trip that took us by bus from Midtown to East Harlem to the Bronx and back. These were places I had not seen since leaving my native city years ago. But I was struck by how the patterns of...
NFG 2018 Award for Excellence & Discount Foundation Legacy Award
#NFG2016 Conference Recap from Native Americans in Philanthropy
Place Based Community Change: The Time is Now
2020 Nashville Virtual Site Visit
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
Highlights from Amplify this July
Strategize with NFG in the lead up to the election & beyond: NFG's October 2020 Newsletter
Is Democracy Funding Undemocratic? Funding Civic Engagement in an Era of Protest
Strike Watch: From Food to Fashion, Workers are Countering Corporate Talking Points with Organizing for Economic Security and Protection
Strike Watch: Solidago Foundation's Rebecca Greenberg on Funding Democracy Defense from Georgia to Arizona
OBS Launches Quality Policing Initiative
Post-Election Resources
Social justice organizers, advocates, and the funders who support their work are all grappling with how to move forward in the new social and political moment we find ourselves in. NFG has pulled together a short list of post-election readings and tools you may find useful. We all have a responsibility to go deeper in the weeks, months and years ahead. If you’d like to share information or analysis with us, please write to nfg@nfg.org .
Readings: Role for Funders
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Enough is Enough: We Demand Quality Policing Now
Control, Disruption and Democracy: Philanthropy's Role in Inclusive Civic Engagement
Standing in Our Power Together
Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper
Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy
In response to a resurgence of interest in place-based grantmaking, the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened over 100 funders and leaders from the field in September 2014 for Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy. This conference report provides an overview of the discussions that took place at this conference, including:
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lessons shared by experienced place-based funders;
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key challenges and
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Towards a More Resilient Place: Voices from the Convening
Last month, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened 100 local, regional, and national funders for Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising Practices in Place-Based Philanthropy . This convening builds on our 2014 Towards a Better Place convening and our 2015 convening with the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation,...