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

Event type: 
Learning Tour
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Webinar
Pittsburgh Learning Tour : Lessons Learned, Discussion, and Moving Our Work Forward ... and Pittsburgh United held our Strategy in Action Learning Tour : Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in ...

Funders for a Just Economy Florida Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Tour
Monday, April 8, 2019 - Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Fort Myers, FL
... and abuse at the workplace. Planning Committee: The tour is co-planned by: Cheri Wright Jones (Allegany Franciscan Ministries), ... to Florida-based funders who cannot join us for the full tour ) April 9, 2019 | All Day 8:00am: The Fair Food Program, ... Funders for a Just Economy Florida Learning Tour ...

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, August 28, 2017
... family-supporting benefits, and affordable housing. Tour Highlights: Building power from the local to state level takes ... suburban areas. Recapping the Strategy in Action Learning Tour : Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in ...

Community Learning Partnership: A Model in Phoenix, New York, and Detroit

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Webinar
... 12noon eastern Length: 90 minutes The Community Learning Partnership is a national network of Community Change Studies programs ... include new certificate and degree programs, experimental learning and internships, new courses in community change studies, new ...

NFG Midwest Equity Funders Meeting

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 -
9:00am - 4:00pm
Milwaukee, WI
... work to discuss various ways of strengthening funders' learning exchanges focused on racial justice, equity, and opportunity for ... support building Midwest funders and non-profit issue-based learning networks committed to equity, justice, and inclusion? Who .....

Native Voices Rising: National Funder Briefing Webinar

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

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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Funders for Justice

Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... grantmaking when I joined the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The learning curve was steep. My colleague introduced me to NFG’s ... then. And, by taking advantage of NFG’s network calls, learning tours and the annual conference, I’m becoming what we want more of: ...
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Philanthropic Practice

Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource transformative solutions to the US housing crisis

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Wed, August 01, 2018
... on investing in long-term narrative shift, a funder tour through Atlanta with the Housing Justice League , and deep discussion ... being collected. Funders who are interested in the webinar, learning more about the work happening on the ground, future funder ...

Project Phoenix

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, February 1, 2016 - Monday, January 30, 2017
... Sustainability (Phoenix) was a year-long cohort collective learning program for funders. This project adds to several conversations that ... the goals above. Phoenix advanced a three-part learning agenda: What are the core elements of a full-scale vision of ...

Protecting Assets: Developments in Payday Lending Reform and the Role of Faith-Based Organizations

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Webinar
In the next several months, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is poised to issue a new national rule aimed at curbing high-cost payday and car title loans across the country. These new rules could preserve billions of dollars for low-income families and borrowers of color. Moreover, they indicate possible directions for future financial reform efforts involving the CFPB. Faith-based advocacy has played a critical role in local, and now national, campaigns to end payday lending abuses. Funders will learn about recent policy developments, how faith-based organizations have successfully...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Webinar
NFG's Grantmakers for Southern Progress working group, along with the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation and Funders for LGBTQ Issues' Out in the South Initiative , are co-hosting a conference call for funders to explore the impact of this year's election results in Southern communities. Friday, December 16, 2016 8 am PT / 9 am MT / 10 am CT / 11 am ET RSVP HERE As we know, Southern communities have been navigating challenging political climates for decades. Leaders and practitioners will offer their insights about the challenges and opportunities of the current national narrative about what...
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Philanthropic Practice

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

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Mon, June 10, 2013

This is a pivotal time in Native America. Opportunities are opening up as the result of improving economic standards, higher levels of educational attainment, and better health outcomes in certain regions; however, many of the challenges that have long faced our population still persist. For every major challenge and issue there are also efforts to make positive changes.

Native Voices Rising is a joint research and re-granting project of Native Americans in Philanthropy and Common...

Lead on Leave

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Webinar
... Lead on Leave-Empowering Working Families Across America Tour Building on the President’s State of the Union announcements ... events focused on working family issues. The tour will kick off on April 1 st with the Secretary of Labor Tom ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

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

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - Thursday, June 7, 2018
St. Louis, MO
Photo by Hcontreras98 on Wikimedia Commons We welcome our network members along with new funders and partners to connect, organize, and mobilize at the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice. Find more information on the conference schedule, sponsorships, and more at raiseupconference.org . It’s both an exciting and critical moment for philanthropy. Funders are grappling with how to re-prioritize and step up to meet the needs of these times. With this sense of urgency and need to evolve, we are seeing funders acting on the need to join...
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Statement from Within Our Lifetime

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/07/2016
This rapid response statement on police killings in September 2016 was originally released by Within Our Lifetime on September 29, 2016 at http://www.withinourlifetime.net/ . Within Our Lifetime (WOL) supports the families of Alfred Olango, Keith Scott, Terence Crutcher, Terrence Sterling, and Tyre King (among many others) and all the people grieving, organizing and protesting for justice in El Cajon, Charlotte, Tulsa, Washington, D.C Columbus, (and beyond) in the wake of the rampant police killings of Black people across America. These tragic losses lay bare the urgent need for substantive...

2019 Budget and Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - Friday, February 22, 2019
Washington, DC
Economic Opportunity Funders (formerly GIST) and Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) are joining together to hold a combined 2019 Budget and Policy Briefing as a way to streamline programming, highlight intersections, eliminate duplication, reduce travel burdens on membership, and economize on meeting expenditures. This two-day meeting will focus on federal and state budget and tax policy, work and job quality issues, and organizing and power building strategies. Sessions will explore how the current policy landscape will impact struggling families, workers and communities and the role funders...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Webinar
Featured Speakers: Alicia Garza , Special Projects Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Creator, #BlackLivesMatter Tynesha McHarris , Director of Community Leadership, Brooklyn Community Foundation Zachary Norris , Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Rev. Starsky Wilson , President & CEO, Deaconess Foundation and Co-Chair of the Ferguson Commission Aaron Dorfman , Executive Director, NCRP (moderator) Join NCRP and our esteemed panelists as we explore what foundations can do in response to recent events in Ferguson, New York City and across the country. Hear...
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Funders for Justice

After #Ferguson

News type: 
News from the Field
By Steven Hsieh and Raven Rakia, The Nation, October 8, 2014. When Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed Michael Brown on August 9, King D. Seals, age 27, was at the crime scene within the hour. He lives just a few blocks away from Canfield Green, the predominantly black apartment complex where the unarmed teenager was shot. He saw Brown's body, which would lie on the street for an additional three hours. "It wasn't even a protest yet," Seals said about the gathering when he first arrived. "It was a black boy being shot in the community. It was about ten...

More is required of us

News type: 
Member News
by Vanessa Daniel, Groundswell Fund August 5, 2016 - Health & Environmental Funders Network “I think we all know, deep down, that something more is required of us now. This truth is difficult to face because it’s inconvenient and deeply unsettling. And yet silence isn’t an option. And I’m sure that many who refused to ride segregated buses in Montgomery after Rosa Parks stood her ground wished they could’ve taken the bus, rather than walk miles in protest, day after day, for a whole year. But they knew they had to walk. And so do we.” – Michelle Alexander What more is required of...

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...

Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.

News type: 
News from the Field
Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will. January 26, 2017 By Alicia Garza I’ve been grappling with how to challenge cynicism in a moment that requires all of us to show up differently. On Saturday, I joined more than a million women in Washington, D.C., to register my opposition to the new regime. Participating in the Women’s March — if you count satellite protests around the country, the largest one-day mobilization in the history of the United States — was both symbolic and challenging. Like many other black women, I was conflicted about participating. That a group of...

Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Wed, April 08, 2015

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Funding Opportunity
Program: 
Funders for Justice

From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, May 03, 2016

By Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, Let's Talk: At the Heart of Movement-Building - A Blog of the Movement Strategy Center

January 26, 2016

One morning last December, I found myself at the Ford Foundation watching Anna Galland , Ai-jen Poo and Heather McGhee share a stage at an event called The Future of Organizing: Contesting for Power in a...

How to Fund the Revolution: Part 1

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, March 01, 2016

By Mary Joyce, Movement Net Lab

In Part 1 of this two-part series I argue why new social movement funding infrastructure is necessary. In Part 2 I’ll suggest how to do it.

Q : Why is new financial infrastructure needed?

There’s a big disconnect between how social change is happening and how resources for change-makers are distributed. Unless changes occur in the activist funding system the most effective activists will be starved of resources and change will not occur.

A : Social movements look different…

...

Our Work Today: A Statement from FFJ Leadership

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
08/14/2017
Just several days ago, the city council of Charlottesville, VA, voted to sell the Robert E. Lee statue and to create a reparations fund for Black residents , or an “equity package” which will invest $4 million in Black people of Charlottesville. Among those investments were funding for a heritage center, public housing, and GED programs. White nationalist leaders called for a national mobilization to protest the city’s historic move towards structural equity. We all watched on Friday night as hundreds of white nationalists from around the country, marched on the University of Virginia ,...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for Justice

Welcome to the new NFG website!

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/10/2018
Thank you for visiting Neighborhood Funders Group's new website! We've completely redesigned and improved how it works to make it easier than ever for our members to use as an online resource. What new features can you find on the site? Search the entire website for news, events, and resources using the search bar at the top of every page See where all of the members of our national network are based, right on our member map Discover more related content, tagged by topic and format, at the bottom of every page Look up NFG member organizations in our member directory Log in to get member...
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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...

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 Progress working group is hosting a regional gathering of its members, funder partners, and practitioners to share and discuss the opportunities, challenges, and best strategies for supporting structural change and advancing progress in the South. Registration is now open! Click here to RSVP and pay for registration. Registrants will receive a schedule-at-a-glance as well as hotel and meeting information in a confirmation email. If you have any questions, please contact Dani Johnson at dani@...

2016 Post-Election Briefing: Politics, Policy and Philanthropy

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

Governance, Participatory Budgeting and Grantmaking

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Webinar
DATE: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 TIME: 11:00 - 12:30 pm PST / 12:00 - 1:30 pm MST / 1:00 - 2:30 pm CST / 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST This Neighborhood Funders Group webinar will examine democratic and participatory models where community stakeholders help decide how public and philanthropic resources should be allocated. We will explore different ways participatory resource sharing can deepen democracy, form stronger communities, and build trust. Our discussion will also examine equitable and effective ways funders and community partners can collaborate. Speakers...

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) Every year, billions of federal dollars are allocated to local governments to foster economic opportunity for low-income people. Yet data shows that concentrated poverty is on the rise, with people of color disproportionately affected. Why are there so many disinvested neighborhoods filled with blight and low-performing schools? Why is it so challenging to place affordable housing in opportunity rich communities? Redlining and other discriminatory practices are now illegal, yet...

Is This a Better Place? The Art & Science of Place-Based Evaluation

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, October 5, 2015
San Diego, CA
Register Now The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions, and Neighborhood Funders Group invite you to a national convening on effective practices and new approaches to evaluating place-based initiatives. Connect with evaluators, funders, and community partners who are using evaluation to support positive change in a place. Explore metrics, methods, and approaches to place-based initiatives at different stages of development Deepen connections with others working in the field Encourage an ongoing community of practice...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Funder Briefing call with Senator Al Franken on Forced Arbitration

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Webinar
Please join the Neighborhood Funders Group Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships A Tele-Briefing for Funders July 22 @ 1:15pm PT / 2:15pm MT / 3:15pm CT / 4:15pm ET Register now in the form below. Special guests: Senator Al Franken (D-MN) Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen Lisa Donner, Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform Hosted by Robert Shull, Program Officer for Workers Rights at Public Welfare Foundation Student debt collections, bad car loans, and...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice

And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, May 11, 2015
Webinar
Couldn’t make it to the State of Black of Workers in America Conference last Friday? Here’s your chance to hear directly from the authors of the reports featured via webinar: Highlights, Recommendations, and Opportunities from the And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter Reports Marc Bayard, Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, and Kimberly Freeman Brown May 11th, 1:00 – 2:00pm EST/10:00am – 11:00am PST To register for the webinar, please fill out the form below. The first report, And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’...

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

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

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
The NFG Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships cordially invites you to The Future of Work and the Workforce Baltimore, MD December 2-3, 2014 Please mark your calendars for this invitation-only funders briefing on what work and working will look like in the future, the potential impact of key trends on low-income workers, families and communities, and the role of philanthropy in shaping better outcomes for the workplace and workers. Join us for interactive discussions on: The impact of technology on jobs, the nature of work and...

Immigrant Youth in NYC: Programs, Practices and Policy

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
New York, NY
When: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 8:45am to 11:00am Where: Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC Join us for a discussion that will focus on immigrant youth issues in New York City. We will hear from the NYC Commissioner for Immigrant Affairs, the Department of City Planning Commission and youth leaders from several organizations serving diverse immigrant communities. We will explore the local policy landscape, as well as specific issues in particular immigrant communities. Funders will leave the session with a richer understanding of...

Integrating Immigrant Workers into the U.S. Economy

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Webinar
September 17, 2014 2:00 - 3:30 PM EDT/11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT Living Cities invites you to join a webinar exploring promising approaches to integrate immigrants into the U.S. workforce. While many immigrants come to the U.S. in search of greater opportunity, they face many barriers in accessing quality jobs and participating in the local economy. As the U.S. faces a growing skills gap in which production of skilled labor is falling short of projected demand, we can better harness our growing foreign born population by better preparing...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights

Briefing: Freedom Side, on the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

Event type: 
Convening
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Washington, DC
“For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.” ― Doug McAdam , Freedom Summer In 1964, young people from around the nation converged in Mississippi to execute the Mississippi Summer Project. Their work focused on expanding the electorate to include registering voters from the Black/African American communities and combating the racist practices used to disenfranchise...

JAG Unity Summit 2014

Event type: 
Convening
Friday, June 6, 2014 - Sunday, June 8, 2014
Washington, DC
June 6-8, 2014: Washington, DC Joint Affinity Groups (JAG) aims to build upon the power of shifting demographics that are making the US a majority-minority country of diverse communities. To be effective, philanthropy must develop responses that are inclusive and equitable, especially for communities that have been historically under-resourced. Advancing Equity Together will develop a new vision and framework for aligned and collaborative action on equity among JAG groups and a broader range of stakeholders in the field during 2014. Click here for more information and to...

BE THE CHANGE: Philanthropy and a Thriving Society for All

Event type: 
Convening
Friday, April 18, 2014
San Francisco, CA
Northern California Grantmakers Annual Conference: April 8, 2014 Featured keynote speakers: Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley and Former U.S. Secretary of Labor and Van Jones, President of Rebuild The Dream —as seen on CNN Crossfire Be The Change At the end of 2013, President Obama stated that growing income inequality is the ""defining challenge of our time."" Given this reality, and if Bay Area communities offer an index for how the effects...

National Dialogue: Local Strategies for Wall Street Accountability and Community Control of Capital

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Webinar
Join us for the next installment in the National Dialogue webinar series! At the start of 2014, the stakes are high and the people are poised to win: from new leadership and real principal reduction possibilities at the federal level; to local fights and the use of eminent domain to keep people in their homes at real market values; to the use of settlement funds to reinvest in the communities most heavily impacted by predatory lending and sweeping foreclosures. We'll hear from national and local activists who remind us that the foreclosure crisis is far from over - and public pressure is on...

National Dialogue

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Webinar
October 10, 2013 1:30 - 3pm Eastern / 10:30am - 12noon pacific Please us for the next installment in the National Dialogue series. We will be discussing community benefit agreements as a tool to build vibrant neighborhoods and cities, and ensure lasting citywide infrastructure that cultivates economies of opportunity for local residents. We will hear from several local leaders who have led campaigns for community benefit agreements, while building community power across social movements. The campaigns that will be presented have achieved major wins for...

EPIP Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Webinar
Details: Wednesday, February 18th at 3pm EST Registration: Free for EPIP Members $10 for Nonmembers Register here Webinar Description: The tragedies of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, John Crawford, Jessie Hernandez and others have ignited a national movement around police reform and racial justice. How can grassroots groups capitalize on the increased attention to organize and build coalitions that will impact policy and create sustainable change? In this webinar, we will be joined by representatives of Communities United for...

Development Without Displacement in Opportunity Zones

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
To register for this event, please log in to your account or create a new account . For any registration issues, contact support@nfg.org . Photo by Blake Wheeler on Unsplash Last month, NFG's Democratizing Development Program held two separate meetings with funders and community leaders to learn, network, and strategize about the impacts, implications, and potential actions we can take to ensure that Opportunity Zones are more equitable in cities across the country. The Opportunity Zones designation, a provision nested within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, presents significant...

Energy and Equity in Puerto Rico

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Webinar
Thursday, November 9, 2017 11 am PT / 12 pm MT / 1 pm CT / 2 pm ET Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes — REGISTER HERE — Join us for this conversation, part of the ongoing Puerto Rico: From Relief to Equitable Recovery webinar series co-sponsored by Hispanics in Philanthropy, Neighborhood Funders Group, and the Environmental Grantmakers Association. This second installment will focus on energy and equity, addressing how and where funders can support local efforts to assist with the power needs for a just rebuilding of Puerto Rico's severely damaged infrastructure. It will be moderated by Jerry...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice

City of Pittsburgh, The Heinz Endowments, and the p4 Sustainability Model: People, Planet, Place, and Performance

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Webinar
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 9 am PT / 10 am MT / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET — REGISTER HERE — The City of Pittsburgh and The Heinz Endowments are spearheading a major effort to forge a new model of urban growth and development that is innovative, inclusive, and sustainable. This model is based around a central, unifying framework — p4: People, Planet, Place, and Performance . Pittsburgh is among a global community of urban areas in its pursuit of a just and sustainable future. It brings to that effort several advantages such as a growing innovation economy anchored by major research universities, a...

Trends + Building Power in the AAPI Community

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

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

Power Research

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Webinar
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12 pm PT / 1 pm MT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET — REGISTER HERE — Power research is a key strategy used by the most effective grassroots organizers and movements in the struggle for justice. By definition, this strategy utilizes research, mapping and analysis to connect the dots between regressive policies and the corporations, powerful individuals, organizations, and policy makers who benefit both financially and politically from their enforcement. As an offensive tool, power research guides the development of strategic campaigns that target and expose the drivers of...
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What's Next in the Movement for Working Families: Opportunities for Offense and Building Power in the States From Oregon to New York City – Winning a Family-Sustaining Workweek.

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

FJE 2018 Policy Briefing: Evolving Strategies for Worker Justice

Event type: 
Briefing
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Washington, DC
While there have been huge successes for workers through minimum wage increases and new paid family and sick leave policies in many states, the last few years have seen significant challenges to workers. As more industries implement precarious conditions for their employees, the ability for workers to organize and use collective bargaining strategies to improve these conditions dwindles. The continued attacks on low-wage workers in particular, the changing nature of work due to technology and automation, and the Federal Administration’s recent rollbacks of labor, health, and safety policies...

FJE 2017 Policy Briefing: The Road Ahead for Worker Justice

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Friday, May 19, 2017
Washington, DC
Check out our recap of this event In a fundamentally shifting political and power map, Funders for a Just Economy ’s annual policy briefing will update our most current understanding of the major forces and players that impact worker justice; explore the offensive opportunities and defensive needs on federal, state and local levels; and identify how funders can best support them. With exciting keynote speakers and discussion-based panels that unpack corporate power and offensive campaigns, run down the policy fights on the move on the state level, dig into migrant and...

Funders for Justice Meeting in New York City

Event type: 
Convening
Friday, June 12, 2015
New York, NY
Funders for Justice is an initiative of the Neighborhood Funders Group, and is a collaboration of private and public foundations, funder collaboratives, affinity groups, and donor networks. If you are a grantmaker, affinity group staff member, or donor network staff member, we hope you’ll join us for an all-day meeting in New York City: June 12, 2015 Atlantic Philanthropies New York, NY 9:30am - 4pm Breakfast will be served We will also come together for an informal group dinner on June 11th. At the...

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Mary Hooks

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
Next up in FF J’s series of interviews with our Advisors : Mary Hooks , Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground (SONG ) and a leader of the National Bail Out . Make sure to check out the new Until Freedom Comes Bail Out Toolki t , from the National Bail Out. We asked Mary to tell us about a recent win on bail reform with the Atlanta city council, what visionary organizing looks like, and what funders can do in this moment. Congratulations on th is week’s win on bail reform in Atlanta, Georgia! What type of organizing and coalition work did it take...
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Time to Invest for Justice

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... , reflects on the importance of investing time into learning and collaborating together. This week in Texas, ... the need to invest enough time in being smarter and learning from each other in order to succeed in our common road to social ...
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Philanthropic Practice

Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making

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NFG Report
Thu, May 24, 2018

Funders for a Just Economy started the Working at the Intersections group to create a supportive community in which funders could learn about intersectional grant-making together and create the beginnings of a central framework on economic justice grantmaking through an intersectional lens.

In late 2017, the group interviewed a dozen philanthropic leaders and key thought partners to inform their understanding of intersectional grant-making. The approach was an appreciative inquiry to affirm that there is a great deal of expertise in the field...

NFG Member Spotlight: Tremaine Foundation

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
... a national lens in niche areas of Art, Environment, and Learning Differences. One of their recent initiatives that may be of special ... to national networks or larger scale peer networking and learning . 2. Tremaine Foundation is a newer member to NFG, having ...
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Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap

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Event Recap
Mon, January 09, 2017

As we know, Southern communities have been navigating challenging political climates for decades. This briefing discussed how the election impacts social justice work supporting LGBTQ, people of color, and immigrant communities in the South. Leaders and practitioners deeply rooted in their work in the South offered their insights about the challenges and opportunities of the current national narrative about...

NFG Bay Area Member Happy Hour

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Reception
Thursday, November 15, 2018 -
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Oakland, CA
... Feel free to bring a colleague who might be interested in learning more. Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided ...
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Working Better Together to Further Advance a Midwest Funders Strategy for Equity and Opportunity

Event type: 
Webinar
Friday, October 26, 2018
Webinar
... potential for a collaborative effort of building a Midwest learning community committed to advancing racial justice, powerbuilding, and ... will highlight the potential for a collaborative effort of learning , sharing, and building a Midwest learning community committed to ...