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Planting Roots in the South: Announcing a New Home for GSP at the Southern Education Foundation

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/08/2017
... deepen its impact by planting organizational roots in the South . Grantmakers for Southern Progress had its genesis in 2009. In its early years, GSP and Neighborhood Funders Group decided to formally ... last four years, both entities have benefitted greatly. GSP ’s national profile has become well-established, and ...
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As the South Grows

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, June 12, 2018
As the South Grows is an initiative of Grantmakers for Southern Progress ( GSP ) and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy ... to partner effectively with visionary leaders across the South . The initiative will produce a four-part investigative ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

GSP 2017 Regional Convening

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Charleston, SC
April 5 - 7, 2017 | Charleston, South Carolina In April 2017, NFG's Grantmakers for Southern ... supporting structural change and advancing progress in the South . Registration is now open! Click here to RSVP and pay ... contact Dani Johnson at dani@aspecialgathering.com . GSP 2017 Regional Convening .....
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Webinar
... Foundation and Funders for LGBTQ Issues' Out in the South Initiative , are co-hosting a conference call for ... the current national narrative about what happened in the South and what is needed as we move forward. Partners from ... LGBTQ, people of color and immigrant communities in the South . We will also explore what we know about the impacts of .....
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Little Rock, AR
American Dreams in the South : Immigrants, Philanthropy and Opportunity for All ... is in a moment of great change and great opportunity. The South is home to the fastest growing foreign-born population ... changing population and collaborative organizing in the South . The tour will delve into: Recent demographic shifts, ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, April 15, 2015
... chains and in workplaces throughout the Global North and South . The leverage transnational corporations exert over ... Rights: Emerging Strategies from the Global North and South ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Financialization
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/01/2014
Grantmakers for Southern Progress ( GSP ) and Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), are pleased to ... 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 philanthropy and her life-long ...
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Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, May 05, 2017
... hollers, cities, and small towns across the American South , visionary leaders have long pioneered cutting edge, ... Progress hosted a funder gathering in Charleston, SC, for GSP members, national and regional foundations, and regional ... Grows: On Fertile Soil During the three-day gathering, GSP launched its long-awaited As the South Grows research ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building

Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, January 09, 2017
... 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 ... LGBTQ, people of color, and immigrant communities in the South . We also explored what we know about the impacts of the ...
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Topic: 
Gender Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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

Event type: 
Other
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Webinar
... take to win successful economic justice campaigns in the South ? With many families facing chronically low wages and ... and attention to the political economy of the South can help funders and field organizations develop ... economic indicators affecting quality of life in the South and examines corporate strategies that are driving ...
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Topic: 
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Funders for a Just Economy - Alabama Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Virtual
... Day 3 — Wednesday 11/8 Economic Policies in the New South : Power Building through Litigation, Leadership ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Tue, October 03, 2017
... take to win successful economic justice campaigns in the South ? With many families facing chronically low wages and ... and attention to the political economy of the South can help funders and field organizations develop ... economic indicators affecting quality of life in the South and examines corporate strategies that are driving ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

JAG Unity Summit 2014

Event type: 
Convening
Friday, June 6, 2014 - Sunday, June 8, 2014
Washington, DC
... 20001 Hear about grassroots movements taking place in the South in response to recent attacks on social justice, such ... response to these attacks on social justice in the South , and some of the ways we are looking to respond ... and Stephanie Guilloud (@ProjectSouth), Project South What is a Justice Funder? Saturday, June 7, 2014 at ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
... racist murders of nine Black members of the Emanuel AME in South Carolina, nine Black churches were burned to the ... in the Black community. There is a long history in the South of Black churches being attacked by racial hate groups ... Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School Bernie Mayzek, South Carolina Association for Community Economic ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Racial Justice

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Fri, December 30, 2011
... of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

United Against the Muslim Ban

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, March 13, 2017
... policies threaten more than Muslim, Arab, Black, and South Asian communities. They threaten our Constitution. They ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Stephanie Guilloud

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/20/2018
... with Stephanie Guilloud, Co-Director of Project South . Read our interview below to learn more about how ... and extreme punishment in Alabama and other parts of the South . They got big investments. Google partnered to make ... to my mother’s hometown with eight folks from Project South , some who were born after I graduated from high school ...
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Funder Coalition Calls for Building a Just and Resilient New Orleans

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
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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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Economic Justice

Selma Funder Delegation

Event type: 
Convening
Friday, March 6, 2015 - Sunday, March 8, 2015
Selma, AL
... Hotel : The room rate is approximately $190 per night. GSP /NFG will make all hotel arrangements, and participants ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Racial Justice

Transformative change, rooted in place: NFG's July 2021 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
07/20/2021
Can you imagine what New York would look like if private equity funds weren’t evicting low-income renters? What about, if in the Washington, DC area, historically Black neighborhoods were not being gentrified by wealthy white people and behemoth-tech corporations like Amazon? What if, in Southern California, essential workers had the power to set policies that limit the environmental and health & safety impacts of warehousing? These aren’t just dreams — Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led movements in New York, the DC area, Southern California, and beyond have imbued these visions...
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Topic: 
Building Power in Place

Lifting up how Black communities are reclaiming land ownership & addressing the racial wealth gap: NFG's February 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
02/28/2020
... and organizations in Charleston and Edisto Island, South Carolina — one of Amplify’s eight sites. Both ... Communities , Carolina Youth Action Project , and South Carolina Association for Community and Economic ...
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Welcome Manisha Vaze, Sr. Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/02/2017
... barriers to social and economic barriers for residents of South L.A. There, Manisha helped build replicable job ...
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Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
Member News
... LGBTQ people and people of color. It focuses on the South because of the many powerful multi-issue organizations ...
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Topic: 
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
Criminalization

California bans grand juries in fatal shootings by police

News type: 
News from the Field
... with cops turned deadly in Baltimore, Cincinnati and South Carolina." What the governor's decision says is, he .....
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Community Safety & Justice

Grant Makers Should Seize the Moment to Seek Racial Justice Solutions

News type: 
NFG Blog
... are also affecting America’s Muslim, Sikh, Arab, and South Asian communities. As grant makers who serve those ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

The Police Are Killing One Group at a Staggering Rate, and Nobody Is Talking About It

News type: 
News from the Field
... into Allen Locke, a 30-year-old Lakota man living in South Dakota. In a tragic bit of irony, it was later revealed ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

NFG Colorado Funders Happy Hour

Event type: 
Reception
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 -
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Denver, CO
... available in The Colorado Health Foundation's lot directly south of the building, in addition to free two hour street .....
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Strike Watch, Labor Day: Vonda McDaniel on Workers Redefining “Nash-Vegas” and Taking on Power in Tennessee

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/04/2020
... across the US. There’s been a lot of attention to the South in regards to re-opening and the effects of COVID-19. ... for firing by the company .] One of the big issues in the South (and the Midwest) is the way conservative state ... at this moment? You know there's a saying that however the South goes so goes the nation. Whatever is really bad in the .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Inclusive Development
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

I Did What I Was Paid to Do': Race Control and America

News type: 
News from the Field
... days of slavery, law enforcement officers in the North and South were paid to protect the peculiar institution of ... of African Americans. And most white clergy in the South , and throughout the country, kept "politics" out of the .....
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

FFJ Call Recap: Policing and Criminalization in the Trump Era

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Wed, February 15, 2017
... ; Muslim people and communities with a travel ban; South Asian folks walking down the street ; Black activists ... / Movement for Black Lives Fahd Ahmed, DRUM – South Asian Organizing Center B. Loewe, Mijente ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

How to Creatively Fund Social Movements

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Webinar
... is founder and executive director of Equality Labs, a South Asian American human rights start-up working at the ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

For Love of Humankind: A Call to Action for Southern Philanthropy

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/10/2019
... calls on fellow funding organizations based in the South to respond to the federal government's anti-immigrant ... North Carolina Congress of Latino Organizations Project South Southeast Immigrant Rights Network Southern Partners ... more about the organizations on the ground across the South – or think about ways we can do more together – .....
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/15/2018
... rights, youth and multi-generational organizing, South Asian migrant and worker justice, power-building in the South , bail reform, Black organizing and power-building, ... Gali , Native Justice Now Stephanie Guilloud , Project South Kris Hayashi , Transgender Law Center Mary Hooks , ...
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Funders for Justice Announces Inaugural Advisory Committee of Field Leaders

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/05/2017
... , Black Youth Project 100 Stephanie Guilloud , Project South Kris Hayashi , Transgender Law Center Mary ... in St. Louis. Charlene was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago where she currently resides and ... charlene@byp100.org Stephanie Guilloud, Project South Stephanie Guilloud is originally from Houston, Texas ...
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Black Churches Are Burning Again in America

News type: 
News from the Field
... Glover Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Warrenville, South Carolina, which caught fire on Friday, and College Hill ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

From the Front Lines of Ferguson

News type: 
Member News
... the April 7 shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, and several similar tragedies—including ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter — The Hashtag That Became a Civil Rights Movement

News type: 
News from the Field
... the police killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, TIME Magazine hit newsstands with a cover ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Power-Building

Shifting Gears for Racial Justice

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
03/08/2016
... collaborative specifically supporting Muslim, Arab and South Asian (MASA) communities. Following five years of ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

No Pride in Deportation: From Vice to ICE Toolkit

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Thu, June 29, 2017
... of our communities, focused on winning liberation in the South ,” said BreakOUT! Youth Organizer and Congreso member, ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Gender Justice
Racial Justice

Webinar Recap: How to Creatively Fund Social Movements

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, February 24, 2017
... is founder and executive director of Equality Labs, a South Asian American human rights start-up working at the ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

Statement on President Trumka's Passing

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
08/12/2021
... of America, to global solidarity efforts with workers in South Africa, and through his leadership over the past 12 ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/03/2017
... move money together to support work in the American South . The Solutions Project named the American South as a region of focus, in part due to the relationships ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/21/2019
... resources to four new places - Pittsburgh, Nashville, South Carolina and Nevada. Everywhere Amplify works, we ... different, and tailored to the local context: Nevada and South Carolina will join North Carolina, Puerto Rico and ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Amplify Fund

Connect & co-conspire with us: NFG's 2021 September Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
09/27/2021
... Philanthropy, Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ Out in the South Fund, Justice Funders, and Native Americans in ... and serving organizations. Examples span the Gulf South , Black Belt, Midwest, and Long Island. Featuring ...
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Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just Economy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/01/2017
... First as a community organizer in Chicago’s near south side, and now as a program officer, I have witnessed ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Minneapolis repeals lurking, spitting laws that criminalize people of color

News type: 
News from the Field
... "In many ways Minnesota and Wisconsin have become the new south . The disparities we're seeing rival anything in the Jim .....
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

The criminalization of Muslim students must end

News type: 
News from the Field
... During the 14 years since 9/11, young people who are South Asian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Arab have reported that ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

We will not be silenced.

News type: 
News from the Field
... PICO Network Southerners on New Ground TransAfrica Project South Audre Lorde Project Hello Racism Youth United for ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

A Pivotal Moment for Racial Justice

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/05/2015
... to nationalize the 1960s civil rights movement in the South . Like Ella, this emerging leadership is also ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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

Event type: 
Committee Meeting
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... Generalist graduate certificate from the University of South Florida and a Masters in Health Administration from the ...
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Topic: 
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Funders for Justice - National Funder Organizing Meeting

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 -
9:00am - 5:00pm
NoVo Foundation
... of color, including Black migrants, Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, transgender folks, and Native ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Gender Justice
Racial Justice

In Defense Of Black Lives — How NFG's Amplify Fund is Supporting Power Building in Black Communities

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/08/2020
... works — Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico and in California in ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Amplify Fund

Maximizing the Moment: Strategies & Successes in Power Building from Metro Washington, DC

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 11:00am
Webinar
... DMV's Maximizing the Moment report. Supporting the South . Resourcing Black-led organizing. Shifting to .....
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Topic: 
Building Power in Place
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Charlene Carruthers

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
... politicized as an 18 year old while studying abroad in South Africa, her passion for developing young leaders to ... in St. Louis. Charlene was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago where she currently resides and ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Healthy Communities

Racial Capitalism, Power & Resistance: Keynote Videos & Highlights for 2020

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/15/2020
... by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Boston: South End Press, 2009). ...
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Topic: 
Financialization
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Strike Watch 2020 Review: Defund the Police to Build Worker Power

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
... City and with chronically un- and underemployed people in South Los Angeles. My political education is rooted in the ... our fight against surveillance and violence against Arab, South Asian, and Muslim communities. We organized to address ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Organizations Addressing Police Accountability and Racial Justice

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
... Arizona PolicyLink National Project NIA National Project South Southern U.S. PROS Network New York PRYSM Rhode Island ... working to promote human rights in Downtown and South Los Angeles. We engage in community organizing, ... performed rolls calls and smoke out on our west side and south side communities. We have also discussed in our monthly ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

Announcing FFJ’s Latest Field Advisor Cohort

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/13/2020
... and led-intergenerational social movements across the South . She serves on the governance council of the Southern ... and Respect" focused on Black domestic workers in the South , in partnership with IPS. Before joining NDWA Celeste ... Within DRUM, Fahd co-led the work with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian immigrant detainees before, and immediately after .....
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

Post-Election Resources

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Tue, November 22, 2016
... and Rights Collaborative: Supporting Muslim, Arab, South Asian Communities The Security and Rights Collaborative ... money and other resources to support Muslim, Arab, and South Asian community organizing and safety. Post-Election ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Funding Opportunity

St. Louis Young Black Leaders Cohort Design Process Consultant Search

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/26/2019
... is a supporting organization of the Missouri Mid- South and Illinois South Conferences of the United Church of Christ. Additional ...
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Topic: 
Inclusive Development
Racial Justice
Program: 
Amplify Fund

Community Ownership and Land Trusts: Power-building Solutions for America’s Housing Crisis

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/08/2019
... renters. Shoshana spoke about the lack of funding in the South for tenant organizing among residents who are ... for city leaders to create policies that would protect South LA residents and ensure they have equitable access to ...
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Topic: 
Healthy Communities
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
02/04/2021
... is intersectional and is just as important as work in the South and countless others winning democratic seats in ...
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Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Indigenous-led Funding Opportunities

Resource type: 
Other
... is Lakota of the Kul Wicasa Oyate located in Lower Brule, South Dakota. Let us know what other Indigenous-led groups ... people. Rural America Initiatives RAI serves Rapid City, South Dakota, and partners with the whole family for ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Funding Opportunity

Lessons for Ferguson from 4,000 Miles Away

News type: 
Member News
... and Reconciliation Commission that arose 20 years ago in South Africa to investigate the effects of apartheid as one ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Safety & Justice

Statement: Do Not Militarize Our Mourning: Orlando and the Ongoing Tragedy Against LGBTSTGNC POC

News type: 
News from the Field
... US occupation and militarization of Puerto Rico and Latin/ South America due to US sanctioned economic violence. They ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Gender Justice
Criminalization

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... to their own devices. They were terrorized. In the Deep South , a second slavery ruled. In the North, legislatures, ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Economic Justice
Community Power-Building

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
NFG Report
Fri, March 13, 2015
... case studies from West Oakland to Minneapolis to the Deep South , discussed the differences between funding in urban and ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Chicagoland Raise the Floor Site Visit September 24 – 25, 2015

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Chicago, IL
... 8am - Noon United Electrical Workers Hall 37 South Ashland, Chicago 60607 Main Site Visit About ...
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Topic: 
Workers' Rights

Boston - New York City Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - Thursday, April 3, 2014
Boston, MA
... be taking the 2173 Acela Express train departing Boston South Station at 4:15pm, arriving in New York at 7:45pm; as ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development

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

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
03/30/2017
... to examine disproportionate impact of HIV in the U.S. South with a focus on criminalization and incarceration of ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Healthy Communities
Philanthropic Practice

Funding the Ecosystem: Organizing to Build Housing and Community Ownership Opportunities

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, September 17, 2020 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
... lawsuit against the landlord, thirty-eight families in South Minneapolis will eventually gain ownership of their ...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Racial Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

IRSG 2021 Multiracial Rural Equity Summit

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, December 9, 2021 -
11:00am - 1:30pm
Virtual
... of rural food systems workers in New York State and the South Dialogue on racial justice and climate justice ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/21/2020
... of institutions have not moved many resources in the deep South . It’s a good chance to be able to demystify what I ... are incredibly important and organizations in the South have been building for a long time, with few resources. ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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
... Pre-K in Colorado. Fight for 15 Breaks Through in the South Florida surprised many when it passed a minimum wage of ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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
... will feature leaders of organizations working in Deep South , the Midwest, the Southwest, and nationally to share ... Matt Hildreth grew up on a small farm in eastern South Dakota and is a graduate of Bethel University in St. ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... to me as a former fundraiser and organizer for Project South , an organization whose work for racial and economic ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice

For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... to me as a former fundraiser and organizer for Project South , an organization whose work for racial and economic ...
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For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... to me as a former fundraiser and organizer for Project South , an organization whose work for racial and economic ...
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Strategies to Address How Amazon’s HQ2 Will Impact Workers and Local Economies

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Webinar
... in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) based in South Los Angeles. Her work at SCOPE helped advance an agenda ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program
Funders for a Just Economy

CHANGE Philanthropy Convening

Event type: 
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Oakland, CA
... invest/divest project Stephanie Guilloud , Project South Norris Henderson , Voice of the Experienced ( VOTE) ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Webinar
... in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) based in South Los Angeles. Her work at SCOPE helped advance an agenda ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Catalyzing a Movement for Health and Housing

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2019
... communities in the greatest need of support. Working in South Seattle, the Foundation engaged with community members ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Healthy Communities
Housing Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Baltimore Uprisings

Resource type: 
Other
Tue, April 28, 2015
... phone cameras and social media. As in Ferguson, New York, South Carolina and many other regions, funders in Baltimore ...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/09/2019
... that one of the fastest growing multiracial unions in the south — SEIU Florida Public Service Union – was born. ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, July 19, 2016
... BYP100, Black Lives Matter Network, Project South and Ferguson Action. Along with the collective call to ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization
Racial Justice

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... to scale up voter mobilization campaigns in the Deep South , like those that supported the 1964 Mississippi Freedom ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Community Power-Building

Strike Watch: San Francisco Foundation's Jidan Terry-Koon on Finding our (Philanthropic) Front Lines

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/21/2020
... from the historic efforts of Black communities in the South to establish the first land trusts where civil rights ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, September 15, 2014
... is on local advocacy within America’s Muslim, Arab and South Asian (MASA) communities, and supporting their ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

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

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - Thursday, June 7, 2018
St. Louis, MO
... Program at Shelter Rock Marjona, a native of Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. ...
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COVID-19 Funds: Where to Donate to Support Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Sat, March 28, 2020
... Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and California. Amplify Fund is ...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program
Funders for a Just Economy
Amplify Fund
Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Philanthropy Forward

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