Learning Tour in Puerto Rico

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - Friday, November 14, 2014
San Juan, PR
... Association and Neighborhood Funders Group on a two-day learning tour of the areas surrounding San Juan, during which funders ... Grantmakers Association will host a bio-diversity learning tour in Vieques, on Saturday, November 15th. The ...

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

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Webinar
Pittsburgh Learning Tour : Lessons Learned, Discussion, and Moving Our Work ... 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 Visit
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 ... to Florida-based funders who cannot join us for the full tour ) April 9, 2019 | All Day 8:00am: The Fair Food ... Funders for a Just Economy Florida Learning Tour ...

Boston - New York City Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - Thursday, April 3, 2014
Boston, MA
... is now closed. We have reached our maximum capacity for tour participants. If you would like to fill out the ... Two Cities Two Historic Transitions Two Days Funder Learning Tour , April 2-3, 2014 Join the Neighborhood Funders Group for a two day, northeast learning tour in Boston and New York City. With historic ...

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

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, June 19, 2017 - Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Pittsburgh, PA
... Trust are pleased to invite you to the Strategy in Action Learning Tour : Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in ... decisions that affect their lives. Strategy in Action Learning Tour : Equitable Revitalization and Regional ...

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
... jobs, family-supporting benefits, and affordable housing. Tour Highlights: Building power from the local to state level ... and suburban areas. Recapping the Strategy in Action Learning Tour : Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in ...

Amplify Fund Learning and Evaluation Partner RFP

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/11/2019
... on Unsplash The Amplify Fund is in search of a Learning and Evaluation Partner. We would like the L&E ... We plan to make final grants in 2021 and expect the learning and evaluation work to continue through and possibly ... philanthropic effectiveness. This is not a traditional Learning & Evaluation (L&E) engagement. We are seeking a ...

2018 Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE)

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 - Thursday, May 10, 2018
Chicago, IL
... Neighborhood Funders Group for the 2018 Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE) on May 9-10, 2018 in Chicago, IL. ... in community change work. This one and a half day peer- learning exchange will include: Shared learning conversations ... Race: Are We So Different? (optional self-guided tour ) Pre-Reading Materials A Letter from Angelique Power, ...

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

Event type: 
Committee Meeting
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... review of the recent FJE and Florida Philanthropic Network Learning Tour . They will provide an overview of the tour and their ... share and answer questions. Check out this recap of the learning tour on the NFG blog. In addition, we are excited to ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Webinar
... central/ 12noon eastern Length: 90 minutes The Community Learning Partnership is a national network of Community ... include new certificate and degree programs, experimental learning and internships, new courses in community change ... St. Luke’s Health Initiatives Ken Rolling, Community Learning Partnership Kevin Ryan, New York Foundation ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, September 17, 2020 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
... urban/suburban/rural divide. September 21-23 | Nashville Learning Visit DDP members can join NFG's Amplify Fund and Funders for a Just Economy on a unique virtual learning tour to learn how Black women-led organizations Stand Up .....

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 ... of regional events focused on working family issues. The tour will kick off on April 1 st with the Secretary of ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

Funder Strategy and Discussion: New Data on Policymakers’ Views on Low-Wage Workers

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, October 22, 2020 -
11:30am - 12:30pm
Webinar
Low-wage workers are in crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has only magnified long-term trends carving away at the already sparse economic security, social protections, and safety of low-wage workers, most especially who identify as Black, Latinx, immigrant, women, or transgender. For those without work, the situation is even more dire, with the ranks of unemployed only growing, particularly among Black and Latinx populations. While one may assume such a crisis would have ushered in political unity, decision-makers from the Hill have struggled to meet the needs of workers and provide real relief...

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...

Funder Briefing on Advancing Housing Justice and Health Equity

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, February 18, 2021 -
10:30am - 12:00pm
Virtual
Register Button.png NFG's Democratizing Development Program invites you to participate in Human Impact Partners and Right To The City Alliance 's Funder Briefing on Advancing Housing Justice and Health Equity. Health and housing stability have always been closely intertwined. But when our collective health depends on our ability to stay home, we all have a stake in ensuring that millions of us do not lose the roofs over our heads. This is an opportunity for health funders and housing funders to strengthen the connection between our sectors and learn about opportunities to fund power-building...

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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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...

Power Building and Equity: Rural Electric Cooperatives

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, January 25, 2021 -
9:00am - 10:00am
Virtual
Want to fuel rural communities of color building power? Access to electric utility infrastructure is about more than getting power to rural communities when the utility is a cooperative. It actually holds massive potential for building power in these communities – particularly in rural communities of color as well as low-income communities in rural areas. Join NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group in partnership with Clean Energy Works to learn how rural communities of color are using democratic participation strategies to drive Rural Electric Coops (RECs) toward more...

Empower Philanthropy! ABFE’s Annual Conference

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
12/10/2014
Each year, ABFE hosts an annual conference, convening more than 250 members, stakeholders and partners to advance a collective agenda of increasing public and private investments in Black communities. We offer attendees a set of informational and professional development workshops, and members of ABFE have come to look forward to this time of networking, engagement around shared interests in supporting Black communities, and recognition of our colleagues in the field. The 2015 conference will spotlight individuals who are leading philanthropy as well as contemporary cutting-edge philanthropic...

#NFG2016 Conference Recap from Native Americans in Philanthropy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/04/2016
... of Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Learning tours gave participants a chance to explore Oakland ... The Arts and Culture for Community and Power Building tour that I went on highlighted for us how arts and culture ... activism in the downtown area. We were treated to a tour and panel in the Malonga Casquelourd Center for The ...

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 ... collected. Funders who are interested in the webinar, learning more about the work happening on the ground, future ...

NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Get It Together: How the Amplify Fund Supports Black-led Power Building and Organizing

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 -
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Virtual
For 40 years NFG has been bringing funders who believe in the power of people to transform communities together to exchange ideas and build relationships. Since 2018 we have honed in on our core purpose of moving more money to grassroots organizations in partnership with 11 NFG members through our first pooled grantmaking fund, the Amplify Fund. Driven by the belief that community power is the key driver of just and equitable development, Amplify makes flexible general operating support grants in 8 places across the US and today directly supports more than 45 grantees, the majority of which...

Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, May 05, 2017
... progress in the South. The gathering created a mutual learning opportunity for national funders and regional ... and best practices for achieving equitable outcomes. Learning from the field and each other to help inform and ... and the region. To learn more about the plenaries, learning circles, and community learning tours that were held ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building

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...

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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Standing in Our Power Together

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/16/2018
... investors instead of Puerto Ricans. The conference’s learning tours also provided an opportunity for grounding ... context of St. Louis, MO. I joined many FJE members on a tour that was led by the Organization for Black Struggle and ... the LIFT Fund organized a Labor Strategy session on the learning tour to discuss upcoming challenges to labor unions ...

NFG's 2020 Convening Series — What’s Land Got to Do with It? The Role Land Plays in Our Social Movements: Past, Present, and Future

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 -
9:00am - 11:00am
Virtual
This session seeks to make space and learn from frontline leaders working at the intersection of climate justice, sovereignty and land justice. The conversation will acknowledge the history and current work of the Land Justice Movement while exploring the relationships on the ground that are paving the way for future generations to advocate for transformative change as we face systemic racism and the dire realities of climate change. The Civil Rights Movement and other struggles for racial justice never ended. Today, climate change is exacerbating the existing and growing inequities and...

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...

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...

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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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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...

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...

Eradicating Gender Based Violence Outside of the Carceral System Institute

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Webinar
Please join us for this institute for funders, hosted by Funders for Justice 's ‘me too.’ in Philanthropy Strategy Group . The carceral system will not end sexual and domestic violence and in fact perpetuates it. Organizers, survivors, and communities have long made the call for solutions to end sexual and gender-based violence outside of the carceral system. In our current moment, there is tremendous momentum and major opportunity to defund and abolish police, and invest in community-based solutions that serve survivors. Faced with the challenge of supporting survivors in...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Gender Justice

A Place to Call Home: Housing Policy Roundtable

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Webinar
A vital discussion of how the Housing Policy Playbook & the BREATHE Act can inform federal housing policy and what the Biden-Harris administration & philanthropy can do in the short and long term to reinvigorate housing justice. Register Button.png Presented by Shelterforce, Funders Together to End Homelessness, and Neighborhood Funders Group A Place to Call Home - logos. png.png Earlier this year, the Housing Playbook Project released the New Deal for Housing Justice — a set of policy recommendations to help solve the U.S. housing crisis, which has been made worse by the pandemic...

Philanthropy & the Case for Reparations

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, March 18, 2021 -
10:00am - 11:00pm
Virtual
86d2a22b-8e8c-4e24-98c6-680bfc07536f.png As our country heals and pivots forward under a new administration, conversations and actions for reparations for Black and Indigenous communities continue to gain unprecedented momentum. Last year, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) introduced legislation that would fund the first commission to study and develop proposals for providing reparations to African Americans. It was reintroduced this year and is gaining traction with national support from leaders and supported by artists like Alicia Keys who are calling for Congress to...

Health, Housing, Race, Equity and Power Funders Convening

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Oakland, CA
All funders are welcomed to register for this event! Please create an account on our website to register. For security purposes, new accounts take 24 hours or less to be approved. You will receive an email notification when your account is approved. We look forward to your participation. Please contact neda@nfg.org with any questions! Planning Committee Across the country, community residents and institutions are collaborating, networking, organizing, and passing policies to protect renters and preserve and expand affordable housing. Yet, from rural to urban, and from hot to...

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

Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper

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

A Letter from IRSG Members in Honor of Isabel Arrollo

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/04/2020
Dear Friends, On May 16, 2020, we lost a fierce, beloved leader in California’s Central Valley, Isabel Arrollo. Isabel was the Executive Director of El Quinto Sol de America , an organization founded by her mother, Irma Medellin, based in Lindsay, California. Isabel’s passion and strong strategic lens helped grow El Quinto Sol into a driving force for change in the Central Valley. From her early teenage years, Isabel worked at her mother’s side, lifting up community voices in local and state decision-making, and supporting residents across Tulare County’s unincorporated communities by...

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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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...

Funders for a Just Economy 2021 Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - Friday, March 12, 2021
Virtual
Register for sessions below! Across the US, we are struggling with crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, the crippling racial and gender gaps in wealth, income, and political influence, rising fascism, and the deteriorating conditions for Black, Indigenous, and people of color, low-income communities and workers, rural communities, LGBTQIA people, women, and immigrants. In response, community members and workers have been increasingly organizing, demonstrating, and striking for basic protections and real solutions to bring relief in the shorter term, and a just recovery in the...

Movement Portfolio Theory (MvPT)

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, March 4, 2021 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Virtual
Register Button.png NFG urges foundations to use all of their assets to propel racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. Aimed at CEOs and CFOs interested in transforming their endowments, this webinar introduces Movement Portfolio Theory (MvPT) , a social justice investment framework and portfolio management strategy in development by the Center for Economic Democracy (CED). There is increasing consensus in the philanthropic field that foundations must make dramatic shifts to align our investment portfolios with our organizational values and programmatic goals. Yet those trying to do so...

Beyond Recovery: A People's Plan

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 10:00am
Webinar
Neighborhood Funders Group's Democratizing Development Program invites all funders to join this important conversation linked to health, housing, race, and community power during the growing coronavirus pandemic. Please join Right To The City / Homes For All for this online discussion with the network's member organizations on the impacts of and responses to the COVID-19 moment. Hear experiences from the frontlines of the grassroots housing justice movements and how the Beyond Recovery campaign is pushing to make housing a human right and to win homes for all. REGISTER HERE

New opportunities to connect & co-conspire with us: NFG's July 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
07/30/2020
Thank you to the hundreds of people who joined us online to kickoff our 2020 National Convening Series between June 29 and July 2. Our early July convening programming included the Accountability & Philanthropy's Role plenary session ( watch the recording! ), Multiracial Rural Equity Summit hosted by NFG's Integrated Rural Strategies Program, and Homecoming: Housing Justice is Racial and Economic Justice, a strategy session organized by NFG's Democratizing Development Program. As communities continue to adapt to the altered landscape created by COVID-19 and rise up to defend Black lives,...
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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@...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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: 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...

Funding a Radically Just Response to COVID-19

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30pm
Webinar
Join Neighborhood Funders Group, Solidaire Network, and other collaborators for a discussion on how to fund a radically just response to COVID-19. How can funders rewrite the rules for philanthropy to ensure long-term solutions on the other side of the crisis? Listen to movement partners from frontline communities share their perspectives and experiences on how their communities are responding to this unprecedented moment in history. Discussion will be on opportunities for philanthropy to respond united for a truly transformative destination now and beyond the crisis. Register here...

Homecoming: Housing Justice is Racial and Economic Justice

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, July 2, 2020 -
9:00am - 12:00pm
Virtual
As part of Neighborhood Funders Group’s 40th anniversary virtual convening series , the Democratizing Development Program (DDP) is hosting “HomeComing”: Housing Justice is Racial and Economic Justice, a 3-hour session for grantmakers working in partnership with groups pushing for short-term shifts and bolder strategies to address the intersections of community health, housing, community ownership, and racial justice. As communities continue to respond, repair, rebuild and heal for justice against police brutality, the coronavirus pandemic, and the ensuing economic crisis, groups that have...

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

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...

Healing Justice Institute - 4-Part Series

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - Saturday, August 15, 2020
Virtual
We are excited to invite you to join us for the upcoming Funders for Justice (FFJ) Healing Justice Institute to deepen our understanding, build relationships, & coordinate strategy to resource healing justice. This virtual series will take place over the course of July, on Wednesdays July 8, 15, 22, and 29 from 10am-12pm PT // 1pm-3pm ET. Registration is open to all funders. Please register by Friday, July 3. We encourage folks to register who have already participated in programming on healing justice with FFJ, or have already started to integrate healing justice into their funding...

Join the Inaugural Philanthropy Forward Leadership for Change Fellowship

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/18/2018
... together Build momentum with an on-going peer learning group Learn about and share systems-level analyses ... Better understand and access support around leadership learning edges Name and understand power dynamics to build ... in St Louis (Feb 2019) and Aspen, CO (June 2019) Action learning component including experiments, applied ideas, and ...

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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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...

Speak Out: Social Justice Advocacy for Private Foundations

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:15am
Webinar
Not sure how to make the case for funding advocacy for social justice or equity? Uncertain whether you can fund grantees that lobby? Wondering whether or how your foundation can speak out on a particular policy issue such as affordable housing? Private foundations have an important role to play in building power for communities of color and low-income communities beyond just project support grants. Join us to hear how Meyer Memorial Trust has approached funding their grantees to engage in advocacy – and even engage in advocacy themselves as a private foundation. Bolder Advocacy , a program of...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Youth of Color Taking the Lead: Collaborative Leadership and the Path to Power

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, September 10, 2020 -
9:00am - 11:00am
Virtual
/*--> */ /*--> */ /*--> */ /*--> */ Young people have been at the forefront of movements for liberation throughout history, advancing critical issues like climate change, reproductive rights, immigration, criminal justice, and election protection and voter engagement. Yet, only 5% of foundation funding goes to communities of color centered work, and even less than that to youth — especially youth of color — and for organizing approaches. Shifting the philanthropic landscape requires funders to expand their thinking about grantmaking and the leadership of youth of color, and we are...
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NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Philanthropy is Embedded in the Paradox of Capitalism

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 -
9:00am - 11:00am
Virtual
Philanthropy is embedded in the paradox of capitalism — benefitting from the economic system, while attempting to mitigate and ameliorate its damaging effects. In recent years, prominent thinkers like Edgar Villanueva, Rob Reich, David Callahan, and Anand Giridharadas are challenging the systems that support philanthropy. At the same time, there are larger societal trends and pressures demanding transparency and accountability across sectors, including within philanthropy. Community-based or participatory grantmaking challenges traditional power structures by centering marginalized, often...

NFG's 2020 Convening Series — We Keep Us Safe: Advancing Community-led Solutions to Neighborhood Violence

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, November 5, 2020 -
9:00am - 11:00am
Virtual
Violence is the largest of all health disparities. Black people experience violent deaths at six times the rates of whites. As we seek equitable development, we must do it in partnership with neighborhood residents who live at the intersection of both intracommunal violence and police violence. The predominant investments in safety approaches have been in law enforcement and justice systems. These strategies have been ineffective in solving the problem, while also creating new problems through mass incarceration and its impact on communities. Meanwhile, investments in community solutions for...

NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Technologies for Liberation: Moving Toward Abolitionist Futures

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 -
9:00am - 11:00am
Virtual
Funders increasingly have an analysis of how criminalization is affecting communities of color and how grassroots organizers are challenging it. What’s often missing in philanthropic analysis, however, is the role that technology is playing in deepening criminalization via new tactics of surveillance, policing and control. From the development of “digital prisons,” with electronic monitors expanding the reach of the carceral state, to tech companies colluding with ICE to expand surveillance and enable detention and deportation of migrant communities, to the FOSTA-SESTA laws that deploy...

2020 Nashville Virtual Site Visit

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, September 21, 2020 - Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Virtual
... for a Just Economy were excited to host a virtual learning visit in Nashville, Tennessee with our partners ... Equity Alliance . On this site, you can learn about the learning visit events and access videos, readings, and ... Fund and Funders for a Just Economy held a virtual learning visit in Nashville highlighting the history of race, ...

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, ... will highlight the potential for a collaborative effort of learning , sharing, and building a Midwest learning community committed to racial justice, ...

LA-Area NFG Member Happy Hour

Event type: 
Reception
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 -
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Los Angeles, CA
Kick-off 2019 with NFG! Join us as we gather NFG staff and members in the LA area. Non-members wanting to learn more and connect with the NFG network welcome to join! Arts District Brewing Company 828 Traction Ave Los Angeles, CA 90013 Cash bar. Light appetizers will be served. Thank you to NFG member Liberty Hill Foundation for sponsoring this event!
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NFG Bay Area Member Happy Hour

Event type: 
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 ...
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December First Monday + Election Series Discussion

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, December 4, 2017
Webinar
In November, elections around the country provided us with some of our first insights into how voters are responding after a year of political polarization and deep divisions. Join us for this installment of FCCP 's 2018 Election Series, co-sponsored by Neighborhood Funders Group, for a debrief on the 2017 elections and what we can learn from the results to help inform our work as we look towards 2018. Hear perspectives and see initial data on who turned out for the 2017 elections Learn which issues were salient to voters in the 2017 elections and how those have shifted since 2016. Review...

#BlackLivesMatter Philanthropic Action for Racial Justice

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
04/21/2015
#BlackLivesMatter Philanthropic Action for Racial Justice put forward an open letter to colleagues in philanthropy. They aim to have at least 100 Black practitioners in philanthropy commit to supporting the objectives of the #BlackLivesMatter Philanthropic Action for Racial Justice by signing here. Read the letter , sign here , and pass along to other Black colleagues in philanthropy to read and sign. If you have questions or want to learn more, please write to: Allen Frimpong , Nakisha Lewis , and Tynesha McHarris .

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sun, February 19, 2017

In the past two years, Communities United for Policing Reform (CPR) has played a critical role in leading a campaign to pass landmark police accountability legislation in New York City and partnering with families of New Yorkers killed by police to secure executive action by Governor Cuomo to establish a special prosecutor for police killings throughout New York State.

In spite of these victories, there remains much more to accomplish to transform police systems, policies, practices, and culture to be more accountable and transparent to the communities they serve. We...

Announcing Two New NFG Projects

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/17/2018
It's been a big year for NFG! We officially launched two new, exciting projects at our 2018 National Convening last month in St. Louis. In case you missed it, here's a preview of what's coming. Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change This fall, NFG will be launching Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change, our first ever leadership cohort for CEOs and presidents of progressive philanthropic institutions. This peer group of aligned CEOs will dig deep on power building and form an aligned bloc of philanthropic leadership. Philanthropy Forward is a strategic partnership with The Aspen...

Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Wed, April 08, 2015
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity

NFG's 2020 Virtual Convening Series

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Virtual
To register for this event, please log in to your account or create an account . For any registration issues, contact support@nfg.org . NFG's 2020 National Convening: 40 Years Strong is continuing throughout 2020 as we celebrate four decades of mobilizing philanthropy and bring funders together to explore what is possible in the current era of organized philanthropy. Our convening series features six member-led webinars taking place between September and December and will bring funders together to find co-conspirators, boldly strategize, and shift power & money so that Black, Indigenous,...

2020 National Convening update & more: NFG's April 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
04/30/2020
We hope that you are safe, supported, and healthy in this unprecedented public health and economic crisis. The NFG team has spent the last several weeks adjusting to this altered way of life — providing time off for staff, calling for social solidarity , urging funders to scale up and move money to communities of color on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking ways to highlight the particular impact of this moment on communities of color, low-wage workers, disabled, Deaf, and ill communities — and thoughtfully considering how to shift our work and programs. We had looked forward to...
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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...

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

COVID-19 and Indigenous Communities: A Call to Action and Relationship for Philanthropy

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
As the philanthropic community takes stock of the impact COVID-19 has on our operations and long-term strategies, we must act now to move resources to communities who are hardest hit by the compounding impacts of this pandemic. California Foodshed Funders, First Nations Development Institute, and Neighborhood Funders Group, with other national co-hosts invite you to join us for a conversation to make visible the people and issues facing Native American communities across the country as they endure this crisis. Taking the lead from our colleagues rooted in Indigenous...

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

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
10/29/2020
We hope that — at one of the most critical junctions in the United States in decades — you are tapping into your reservoirs of joy, strength, and nourishment: whether that’s friends and family, rest, food, music, art, plants, pets, or philanthropic community. As we all continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, its economic strain, and related and deepening racial inequities, we also hold the news of Walter Wallace Jr.’s murder by police in West Philadelphia. The media, movement leaders, and policy experts are monitoring evolving threats to democracy in next week’s elections. We are...
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Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy

Resource type: 
Event Recap
NFG Report
Fri, March 13, 2015
... on community groups, for example by developing common learning metrics. Coordinating funder efforts also creates ... The California Endowment ; and Knight Foundation . Join a Learning Community NFG’s Working Group on Place Based ... partnership, lasting resident-led community change, and to learning from the work of their funder peers. To get ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Applications Now Open for 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward Leadership Fellowship

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
02/06/2019
... together; Build momentum with an ongoing peer learning group; Learn about and share systems-level analyses ... Better understand and access support around leadership learning edges; Name and understand power dynamics to build ... The program also includes the following components: Action learning component including experiments, applied ideas, and ...

NFG Member Spotlight: Tremaine Foundation

News type: 
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 ... to national networks or larger scale peer networking and learning . 2. Tremaine Foundation is a newer member to NFG, ... of the platform. We are eager to deepen our experience and learning with NFG. 3. What is the top recent highlight of ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

FJE Funder Call on Forced Arbitration

Event type: 
Briefing
Friday, June 1, 2018 -
9:30am - 10:30am
Webinar
On May 21, 2018, the Supreme Court made a 5-4 decision in the Murphy Oil vs. NLRB case, allowing corporations to include arbitration clauses in employee contracts that effectively force employees to settle any disputes through arbitration. The decision on this case delivers a major blow to workers’ ability to deal with any workplace violations with their employer. Funders for a Just Economy discussed this case, along with several other upcoming labor issues, during this year's Policy Briefing & Labor Strategy Session in March 2018. Join us to continue this conversation, learn about the...

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Tue, May 05, 2015
The tragedies of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, John Crawford, Jessie Hernandez and others have ignited a national movement around police reform and racial justice. How can grassroots groups capitalize on the increased attention to organize and build coalitions that will impact policy and create sustainable change? In this webinar, we were be joined by representatives of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), a New York City based coalition, to learn about their local work and how it fits into a larger national and historical context. We discussed how to maintain momentum and make this issue...

United Against the Muslim Ban

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, March 13, 2017
United Against the Muslim Ban Visit United Against the Muslim Ban to learn more about the policing of Muslim communities through the travel and migration ban. Now is the time to take a stand, regardless of your faith, ethnicity or cultural heritage. These policies threaten more than Muslim, Arab, Black, and South Asian communities. They threaten our Constitution. They threaten our vision of America. They threaten our core values and ideals. This site will provide resources to help...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Eroding the Power of Police Unions

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

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 ... serve the goals above. Phoenix advanced a three-part learning agenda: What are the core elements of a full-scale ... over 12 months. Times of concentrated collective learning were at in-person convenings to learn from specific ...

Funders for Justice Meeting in New York City

Event type: 
Convening
Friday, June 12, 2015
New York, NY
On Friday, June 12, 2015, more than 70 funders gathered together at The Atlantic Philanthropies to coordinate and mobilize resources in support of organizing in response to ongoing events of police brutality and state sanctioned violence faced by communities of color across the country. The Neighborhood Funders Group, ABFE: Partnership with Black Communities, the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, and the Ford Foundation co-hosted the gathering under the Funders for Justice umbrella. The goal of this meeting was to identify concrete action steps towards mobilizing and...

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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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’...

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...

California Renter Power Assembly: Funder Track

Event type: 
Convening
Friday, October 11, 2019 -
9:00am - 4:00pm
Inglewood, CA
On Friday, October 11, 2019, Neighborhood Funders Group's Democratizing Development Program (DDP) has joined the host committee for the California Renter Power Assembly's Funder Track and is joining forces with Homes For All California, Tenants Together, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and Right To The City Alliance. This is NFG’s fourth funders track convening partnering with funders and leaders to lift up our successes, strategies, opportunities, community-based organizing solutions, and resources needed to win for low-income and communities of color to have a...

NFG's 40 Years Strong convening continues with 6 new sessions & more: NFG's August 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
08/20/2020
At NFG’s plenary session to ignite our 40 Years Strong virtual convening series, Gladys Washington, Former Deputy Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, urged philanthropy to “keep leaning in, and keep putting that money out.” As communities continue to adapt to the altered landscape created by COVID-19 and rise up to defend Black lives, we are seeing philanthropy heed Gladys’ call to action and respond in new and better ways to move more resources to racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. And we also know that there is more work ahead to ensure that...
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Announcing the 2019 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/01/2019
This International Workers' Day, Jobs with Justice Education Fund and NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy are excited to celebrate Odessa Kelly as an outstanding champion for workers' rights and economic equity, and this year's winner of the Discount Foundation Legacy Award. The Discount Foundation Legacy Award was launched in 2015 to commemorate and carry on the legacy of the Foundation’s decades-long history of supporting leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena beyond its spend down as a foundation in 2014. Created in partnership with Jobs With Justice Education Fund and the...

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

Black Lives Matter: We Say Their Names

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/02/2020
We at NFG say their names. George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN. Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY. Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, GA. Tony McDade in Tallahassee, FL. Dion Johnson in Phoenix, AZ. Black Lives Matter, today and every day. NFG stands in solidarity with Black communities as we again find ourselves anguished, angered, and compelled to action in response to the murders of George Floyd and Black people across the U.S. by police. We urge our network to continue challenging white supremacy. We call on philanthropy to divest from criminalization and invest in communities ...

Time to Invest for Justice

News type: 
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 ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Funder Briefing: Freedom Cities

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

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
... CUMBERSOME REPORTING REQUIREMENTS for grantees and instead learning about their work through conversations, attending ... key driver of equitable development. Join our community of learning and action at the Amplify Fund. Black Lives Matter, ...

Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making

Resource type: 
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...

Shifting Gears for Racial Justice

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
03/08/2016
by Lindsay Ryder Program Officer, Security & Rights Collaborative What does “acting in solidarity” mean to you? “Understanding and acting on the connections between our common struggles.” “Creating space in our field meetings, calls and events to address anti-black racism in our spaces.” “Joining direct action with other communities of color to demand reform, accountability and awareness.” These are a few of the answer that leaders of national civil rights organizations provided in response to this question, and their statements embody the intersectional and cross-...

Meet the First Philanthropy Forward CEO Leadership Cohort

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
10/12/2018
In October 2018, some of philanthropy's top leaders came together for the launch of Philanthropy Forward, a new leadership fellowship for CEOs of progressive philanthropic institutions, hosted by Neighborhood Funders Group in partnership with The Aspen Forum for Community Solutions. Over the next eight months, this cohort will build and advance a shared vision for the future of philanthropy as a financial engine for equity and social justice. Philanthropy Forward will provide opportunities to build deep relationships across foundations, learn what peers are grappling with, and work together...

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

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
11/23/2020
On October 1, I enthusiastically moved into the role of Vice President of Programs for Neighborhood Funders Group after being on our staff team since January 2019 and a former NFG member leader. I am proud to continue NFG’s 40-year legacy of mobilizing philanthropy to redefine what is possible for this sector and our communities. Being part of a team that is creating inspiring spaces to shift power and money towards justice and equity is an honor, and doing so as part of a community of funders, is of great personal and political importance to me. NFG’s mission is to organize philanthropy to...
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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
February is Black History Month and, in this newsletter, NFG honors Black resistance. Given the persistence of structural racism and the legacies of segregation, NFG has mobilized philanthropy to support POC-led organizing for equitable development since our start 40 years ago. Through our member-led and local advisor-led programming, we are lifting up how Black communities are reclaiming land ownership and addressing the racial wealth gap through grassroots power building. At the beginning of the month, NFG’s Amplify Fund staff and steering committee spent a day with local organizers, non-...
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Healing Justice Guidance to Philanthropy During COVID-19, the Uprisings, and Beyond

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Thu, July 16, 2020
... healing practice, there are others who are interested in learning about incorporating healing approaches into their ... can be a great opportunity for your foundation’s own learning . The Heising-Simons Foundation offered ... Fund , and John M. Lloyd Foundation have also been learning while doing. A great example of pooled funding is ...

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/02/2017
Manisha Vaze has joined NFG’s staff as new Senior Program Manager for our Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) program. She comes to NFG with more than 12 years’ experience in grassroots organizing. Most recently, she was the Director of Organizing at Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) in Los Angeles to help advance an agenda to eliminate structural barriers to social and economic barriers for residents of South L.A. There, Manisha helped build replicable job training and workforce models that have regional and national impact. Manisha joins Funders for a Just Economy (...
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Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

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

Police arrest protesters as St. Louis awaits grand jury decision

News type: 
News from the Field
By Scott Malone and Daniel Wallis , Reuters - November 20, 2014. (Reuters) - Police in Ferguson, Missouri, kept alert on Thursday for signs of tension after arresting five people for blocking a street the night before in a protest demanding the criminal indictment of a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in August. The St. Louis suburb has been bracing for months to learn whether a St. Louis County grand jury will charge police officer Darren Wilson in the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a case that has become a flashpoint for often-troubled U.S...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

PolicyLink

News type: 
News from the Field
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot multiple times and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. This tragic act provoked grief and outrage in Ferguson and across the country. We mourned the loss of an innocent young man, taken before his time, and recognized that his killing was the latest in a long and rapidly growing succession of cases involving police use of lethal force against unarmed people of color. The disproportionate, militarized police response to subsequent community protests in Ferguson—including the use of tear...

A Ferguson Syllabus: Reading a Movement

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, August 10, 2015
By Darnell L. Moore Identities.mic August 07, 2015 Sunday will mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Mike Brown Jr., the 18-year old black teenager who was fatally shot by 28-year old Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's killing — and the subsequent public display of his lifeless body left bloodied and uncovered on a tiny street before his family and neighbors — was a fulcrum igniting a sustained uprising. Ferguson , like Brown'...

Welcome Faron McLurkin, Sr. Program Manager of the Integrated Rural Strategies Group

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
01/22/2019
Faron McLurkin has joined NFG’s staff as the Senior Program Manager for the Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG), which brings together funders working to build long-term support for rural organizing infrastructure that centers values of racial justice and builds sustainable power in rural communities. Faron was a founding member of IRSG in his former role as Program Officer at the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock (Veatch). During his time at Veatch, Faron oversaw its New York state and Environmental Justice portfolios. He has also served as the Executive Director of...

NFG Colorado Funders Happy Hour

Event type: 
Reception
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 -
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Denver, CO
Neighborhood Funders Group is hosting a happy hour for Colorado-based funders on Tuesday, September 10 for snacks, drinks, and to learn more about NFG's mission to organize philanthropy to support grassroots power building so that communities of color and low-income communities thrive. Come say hello to NFG's members based in the Front Range and meet other friends in philanthropy — including NFG's new Director of Development and Communications, Courtney Banayad. Courtney has called Colorado home for 10 years and has deep roots in local social justice philanthropy. She currently serves as...
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Disrupt the System: How Labor and Philanthropy can Build Worker Power in a New Era

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 -
8:30am - 5:00pm
Washington, DC
This event is for invited guests only. Please reach out to Manisha Vaze, Senior Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy, at manisha@nfg.org if you are interested in this event to learn more. Over the past several decades workers have experienced severe erosions in job protections, quality, and benefits, and the ability to collectively bargain. These last few years have been particularly grim, as many protections and benefits workers have won over the years were rolled back, and constitutional changes have impacted the way that workers can collectively bargain. In spite...

Removing Barriers to Transformational Philanthropy in Response to COVID-19 & Beyond

Event type: 
Webinar
Friday, May 22, 2020 -
11:00am - 12:15pm
Webinar
JustFund and Amalgamated Foundation have built a powerful combined service designed to rapidly respond to urgent needs in the wake of COVID-19. We are supporting funders to pivot in this critical moment to move more resources, more quickly to groups on the frontlines of this pandemic. Learn about this unique, frictionless process that has already moved $25M to social justice groups since it launched in 2018. We are working with dozens of funds, including the Amplify Fund at NFG, to more efficiently respond to the growing resource gaps exacerbated by COVID-19. Together we’ll explore this new...

Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, September 19, 2016 - Wednesday, September 21, 2016
... sought to gather a broad range of perspectives to foster a learning exchange regarding behaviors, content, and practices ... and collaborative. Together we continue to develop our learning community and agenda to explore community change and ... strategies. Raquel Gutierrez , Director of Strategic Learning & Practice at Vitalyst Health Foundation, reflects ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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...

What It's Going to Take to Change Philanthropy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/06/2017
... to connect with other funders who are really interested in learning if we’re really trying to understand how we should ... supporting women and girls. We are also interested in learning how other funders are showing up in the work. Being ...
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Philanthropic Practice

Webinar Recap: Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, November 03, 2017

Last week, Neighborhood Funders Group held a webinar on Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking to plant a seed and spark a conversation amongst funders about democratic and participatory models where community stakeholders are involved in deciding how public and philanthropic resources should be allocated. Here is a recap of the lessons learned, along with the video recording and slides from the webinar.

By Nile Malloy, Senior Program Manager, Democratizing Development Program

Throughout the country,...

What's Next in the Movement for Working Families Webinar

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Webinar
Opportunities for Offense and Building Power in the States From Oregon to New York City – Winning a Family-Sustaining Workweek 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 . 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 strain families –...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/21/2020
... partnership, called ReWork the Bay , is conducting a learning community on racial capitalism this Fall – I’m ... Lastly, when and if we bring together groups for learning or other kinds of convenings or cohorts, its most ... asked the People Team for a regional worker rights learning cohort. Well, when grantees ask for that type of ...

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

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

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

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

Living Resource Systems: A New Approach for Supporting Movement Networks

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

article and photo provided by the Movement Net Lab

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

Making Black Lives Matter Initiative Website Launch

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Tue, March 01, 2016

Dear Colleagues, In recognition of Black History and Black Futures month, the Hill-Snowdon Foundation is launching a brand new website for our Making Black Lives Matter Initiative (MBLM) . The Making Black Lives Matter Initiative site will provide background on Hill-Snowdon’s MBLM Initiative that is focused on supporting Black-led organizing in order to help revitalize and strengthen the institutional and political power of the Black community. The website describes Foundation’s framework for supporting...

Nominate Labor Movement Leaders for the 2017 Discount Foundation Legacy Award!

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
09/29/2017
Nominations are now open for 2017 Discount Foundation Legacy Award ! Launched in 2015, the Discount Foundation Legacy Awards supports leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena. In partnership with Jobs with Justice and Funders for a Just Economy (a program of Neighborhood Funders Group ), the Discount Legacy Award honors and supports an exemplary individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership to the workers' rights movement in the U.S. and abroad. The 2017 Discount Foundation Legacy Award winner will be publicly recognized for their remarkable contributions to the...

The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open!

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
10/12/2015
The nominations are now open for the first annual Discount Legacy Award. Jobs With Justice Education Fund and the Neighborhood Funders Group recently launched the Discount Legacy Award Program to honor and support an exemplary individual from the worker justice movement. The selected awardee will be granted a $20,000 stipend, providing them with the flexibility to expand on their work. The Discount Legacy Award Program is supported by the Discount Foundation, a foundation founded on making economic opportunity an achievable reality for all, especially underpaid Americans and...

Native Communities, Policing, and Mass Criminalization

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, September 25, 2017
Webinar
Hosted by NFG's Funders for Justice . Co-sponsored by Common Counsel Foundation , Criminal Justice Initiative , Native Americans in Philanthropy , and Native Voices Rising . Native Americans and Black communities are the two populations most impacted by mass criminalization and incarceration in the US. The criminalization of indigenous people on this continent began with genocide and slavery on the Spanish missions in California and the forced removal of Native people onto reservations. Today, Native people have the highest percentage of people shot by the police annually...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Webinar
Building safe, inclusive, and more equitable communities for low-income and communities of color becomes even more critical as cities and regions continue to develop and expand. In places like Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit, large populations of low-income black communities, immigrant communities, and others continue to be plagued with problems ranging from poor schools, low quality housing, and lack of job opportunities. Community groups continue to work towards solutions that will improve lives in these places. Navigating the deep history of exclusionary and racially charged polices that...

How to Creatively Fund Social Movements

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Webinar
Presented by NCRP and NFG Wednesday, February 15 10:30am PT / 11:30am MT / 12:30pm CT / 1:30pm ET RSVP Here NFG and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) invite you to ""How to Creatively Fund Social Movements,"" a webinar that will explore how foundations can be more creative and flexible in supporting grassroots groups and leaders. You'll learn from experienced grant makers and organizers, including insight into internal processes for foundation staff and board. With: Molly Schultz Hafid...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

The Innovations and Independence of OUR Walmart

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, August 24, 2015
New York, NY
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Neighborhood Funders Group, Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships, we would like to invite you to a funder briefing on The Innovations and Impact of OUR Walmart . OUR Walmart’s campaign to change Walmart is an effort that began in 2011 and has made a deep mark on how to build worker power and paved the way for new forms of organizing. Join us to learn more about this effort and how recent developments are continuing to innovate the field of worker rights and movement building. The Innovations and Impact of OUR Walmart...

Hate is Not Charitable: Three-Part Webinar Series, Part 3

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Webinar
From Hate to Principled Practice: Taking Collective Action Hosted by Amalgamated Foundation and Neighborhood Funders Group Co-sponsored by National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy , Resource Generation , Solidaire , and United Philanthropy Forum In February 2019, Sludge broke the story that Donor Advised Fund platforms, including the philanthropic arm of major financial institutions – Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Schwab Charitable Fund, and Vanguard Charitable – have been making grants to more than 30 hate groups through donor-advised funds (DAFs),...

How NFG is Disrupting Funder-Grantee Dynamics

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/04/2018
... focused on the environment and climate. NFG fosters a learning culture for a lot of people working on a diversity ... It’s easier to do that through their convenings, their learning forums, and the Amplify Fund. In closing, Helen ... of the few philanthropic groups that are not just about learning and convening, NFG is about strategizing with ...

Lessons for Ferguson from 4,000 Miles Away

News type: 
Member News
November 25, 2014 by Allison Brown, Program Officer, Open Society Foundations Read the original post on the blog of the Open Society Foundations We proceeded on a country road His mother’s eyes red and swole Her child was never comin’ home Said a prayer for his soul As the coffin had closed, committed to the earth below First seed she had sown, would be a tree never grown Shade that was never known Who controls the Terrordome, the men with hearts made of stone Who love only what they own — Mos Def, “Tree Never Grown,” Hip Hop for Respect (2000), in response to the killing of Amadou Diallo...

Answering the Call from Movement Leaders

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice. Here, Julia Beatty , Program Officer for the Black-Led Movement Fund and the Communities Transforming Policing Fund at Borealis Philanthropy , reflects on philanthropy's accountability to grassroots movements. “Uprising creates the authorization for funding movements.” These words, spoken by Reverend Starsky Wilson, Executive Director of the Deaconess Foundation in St. Louis, are some of...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

A Multiracial Rural Equity Summit: Why Now

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

Funders for a Just Economy 2020 Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, March 23, 2020 - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Webinar
Over the past few weeks, NFG has been reviewing our upcoming events in response to COVID-19 including FJE’s upcoming Policy Briefing in Washington, D.C. on March 23-24. NFG cares about you, your loved ones, and the communities that you live and work in. While public health authorities have so far not prohibited domestic travel, public meetings, and gatherings, our priority is that participants and speakers are comfortable, healthy, and safe during our events. We recognize the urgency of a conversation on how to strategically build philanthropic and community and labor partnerships for worker...

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
... rural and small-city communities in 2020, share what we're learning about how new narratives and organizing approaches ... to build trust and leverage opportunities through shared learning experiences. We also produce research, analyze .....

DIVEST/INVEST: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, September 17, 2018

We believe that our collective investments in housing, education, health, transportation, food security, and jobs will fail if we do not also proactively work to divest this nation’s resources from criminalization. Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities , an intersectional toolkit website created by Funders for Justice , helps grantmakers connect with funder colleagues and groups or campaigns working to adress how criminalization impacts youth, civic engagement, immigrant rights, rural...

Action Alert: Flush Transphobia Fund

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
05/26/2016
From Third Wave Fund: Yesterday, eleven states sued the Obama Administration over their mandate that states allow transgender students to use the restroom that fits their gender identity. Today, we're announcing the #FlushTransphobia Fund to fuel the grassroots movement working to combat these horrific bills, and we invite you to join us ! Bathroom bills are about more than just bathrooms. They exploit transphobia and violence experienced by women to gain support for sweeping anti-LGBTQ bills while doing nothing to address the real causes of violence against women. If you're concerned about...

Building Strong, Healthy, and Resilient Communities in Ferguson and Beyond

News type: 
News from the Field
The recent shooting death of African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is a painful reminder of the deeply entrenched divisions and tensions that plague too many American communities fractured by decades of racial discrimination, poverty, and disinvestment. As in Ferguson, tensions often simmer just below the surface until starkly revealed by some precipitating incident. As the nation continues to grapple with the tough questions raised by the events in Ferguson, it is encouraging to recognize that philanthropy has a role to play. Michael Brown’s death and the local and...

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

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

Funding Opportunity: Protesters in Cleveland

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

Third Wave Fund Launches Mobilize Power Fund for Urgent Gender Justice Activism

News type: 
Member News
Third Wave Fund's new Mobilize Power Fund is now accepting proposals ! This fund supports urgent organizing, activism, and mobilization led by young women of color, queer, and transgender youth around the country who lead movements for justice and take on this country's most challenging issues. Mobilize Power Fund The effort to end gender, racial, and economic oppression is long-term, yet there are critical moments that call for quick action. This fund was set up to support grassroots groups who are often the first to respond to issues of state-violence, reproductive...

Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap

Resource type: 
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...

Michael Brown and Alison Corwin discuss why NFG membership is so critical for funders in this political climate

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/29/2017
In this era of political uncertainty, we as funders have one simple task: accelerate the pace of systemic change for poor communities and communities of color by taking collective action and funding grassroots efforts . NFG is the political home where funders collaborate to make this happen. As NFG members ourselves, we’ve learned how to fund just economic development , organized to move money for justice , and rolled-up our sleeves with other members to have a more powerful, collective impact. Here we have an organizing space that is not only deeply helpful in moving...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Project Phoenix Grantmaking Tools

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, March 06, 2017

Project Phoenix convened a group of funders from a broad range of issue perspectives (climate, civic engagement, worker rights, local economies, etc.) and a broad range of institutional types and positions (size, mission, geography, approach, level of risk-taking, etc.). We realized we often meant very different things by the terms “just transition” or “new economy” or “solidarity economy” and found it difficult to understand each others’ work and the possibilities at the intersection in a shared framework. Learn more about...

Organizing for Wall Street Accountability and Financial Reform: Funders’ Briefing and Discussion

Event type: 
Briefing
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Washington, DC
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:30 am – 2:30 pm | Washington, DC RSVP HERE Lunchtime Keynote by Senator Elizabeth Warren Hosted by: American Federation of Teachers, Arca Foundation, Communication Workers of America, Ford Foundation, Inclusive Economy Fund, Open Society Foundations, Solidago Foundation and See Forward Fund Co-Hosted by: Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation Money and Politics Working Group, Grantmakers’ Income Security Task Force, Neighborhood Funders’ Group Funders...

Weathering the Storm: Building Resilience Against Opposition Attacks

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, June 29, 2015
Webinar
A Webinar for Funders Hosted by Common Counsel Foundation , Funders' Committee for Civic Participation , Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees , National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy , Neighborhood Funders Group , and Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock Monday, June 29, 2015 10:30am-12:00noon pacific/ 11:30am-1pm mountain/ 12:30-2pm central / 1:30-3pm eastern Speakers Linda Meric, 9to5 Mary Ochs, RoadMap Gihan Perera, Florida New Majority Anna Wadia, Ford Foundation Moderated by...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

NFG Announces Transition of President Dennis Quirin

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/12/2019
For Immediate Release June 12, 2019 OAKLAND, CA — On July 19, Dennis Quirin will step down as President of Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) to accept a new position as Executive Director of the Raikes Foundation in September. NFG’s Vice President of Programs, Adriana Rocha, and Vice President of Operations, Sarita Ahuja, will serve as Interim Co-Directors to shepherd the organization through the executive transition. A search for NFG’s next President will begin in late 2019. “The courageous and bold leadership that Dennis exhibits is exactly what this moment requires. Today, NFG stands strong...
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Racial Capitalism, Power, and Resistance Movements Convening

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 9:00am - Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3:00pm
Brooklyn, NY
Photo by Arista Collective Join Funders for a Just Economy (FJE), grantmakers, and partners from across the US for a strategy conversation discussing racial capitalism, power, and power-building. Hear from leading academics and strategists about the various resistance movements currently tackling the concentration of wealth and power within corporations and building countervailing worker and community power. During the event, FJE will build upon our understanding of how slavery, genocide, and patriarchy has shaped—and continues to shape—our economy, while also sharing program strategies and...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/10/2019
Justin Maxson, Executive Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, calls on fellow funding organizations based in the South to respond to the federal government's anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies with three concrete actions. This post was originally published here on the foundation's website. Justin was part of the first Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change Fellowship cohort, a joint initiative of Neighborhood Funders Group and The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions. The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, which strives to help people and places move out of poverty...

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

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

"Intersections of Justice in the Time of Coronavirus" by Cara Page & Eesha Pandit

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/25/2020
In the midst of the growing COVID-19 pandemic, NFG stands with our communities and workers who are in crisis. As we help organize with frontline leaders and philanthropy to meet the immediate needs of our communities at this time, NFG also remains committed to long-term transformation towards a just and equitable society. The essay below was written by Cara Page and Eesha Pandit, who are part of the Funders for Justice community, and urges us to hold this moment for movement & philanthropists to understand what led us here and explore opportunities towards transforming our futures...

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

News type: 
News from the Field
by Troy Jackson, Director, The AMOS Project & Co-author of Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith Law enforcement, prosecutors, and clergy in this country are simply doing what we are paid to do. Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, in an interview with George Stephanopoulis, shared his belief that in the altercation with and subsequent killing of Michael Brown, "I did what I was paid to do." While there are many disputed facts around what happened between Brown and Wilson in the last few moments of Brown's life, Wilson is unquestionably telling the truth when he says he was...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Letter to President Obama and US Attorney General Eric Holder

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, November 25, 2014
Today, a St. Louis Grand Jury refused to indict Mike Brown's killer — Police Officer Darren Wilson. On Aug. 9th, the nation was horrified to learn that Mike Brown was racially profiled and brutally killed by police as he walked down the street with a friend. His family called it an execution. Now his killer may never be held accountable — unless President Obama and US Attorney General Holder take action. The Department of Justice has the power to arrest and prosecute Officer Wilson under federal criminal charges. Raise your voice today to ensure our...

Changing Foundation Culture to Support Place-Based Change

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/02/2016
In September 2016, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened 100 local, regional, and national funders for Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising Practices in Place-Based Philanthropy . Here, Raquel Gutierrez of Vitalyst Health Foundation reflects on where the culture in foundations needs to evolve to match developments in the field. By Raquel Gutierrez, Vitalyst Health Foundation The Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group chose an inspiring setting for their convening, Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

A Pivotal Moment for Racial Justice

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/05/2015
Eric Ward, Program Officer of Ford Foundation 's Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice program, reflects on emerging opportunities for the racial organizing movement. This post originally appeared on Ford Foundation’s Equals Change Blog, which you can find here . On December 3, a New York grand jury announced that no indictment would be delivered in the police killing of Eric Garner. Following the grand jury decision not to indict the police officer who shot another unarmed black man, Michael Brown , in Ferguson, Missouri in August, this news set off protests across the country. But these deaths...

Just and Equitable Rebuilding of Cities After Disasters

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Webinar
Months after evacuating from catastrophic storms, millions of Americans from Puerto Rico, Houston, Florida, and other places are still figuring out how they can get back home. In Puerto Rico alone, tens of thousands of people are displaced, with their homes destroyed and no relief in sight. Even before Hurricane Maria struck, Puerto Ricans were already overwhelmed by austerity policies and the economic crisis, which created barriers to accessing water, food, housing, healthcare, education, and other basic human rights. With the looming threat of privatization, city officials are developing...

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

Event type: 
Other
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Webinar
What will it take to win successful economic justice campaigns in the South? With many families facing chronically low wages and economic insecurity, an understanding and attention to the political economy of the South can help funders and field organizations develop successful intervention strategies. The New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence report assesses economic indicators affecting quality of life in the South and examines corporate strategies that are driving these changes. It presents some of the efforts...
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Topic: 
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

FFJ Webinar on Gender, Race, and Criminalization

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Webinar
DATE: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 TIME: 10:30 am - noon PT / 11:30am - 1 pm MT / 12:30 - 2 pm CT / 1:30 - 3 pm ET Funders for Justice (FFJ) has intentionally lifted up the work, lives, and voices of women and trans folks of color, along with gender justice and LGBTQ funders—especially in regards to policing, criminalization, and state violence. At the same time, our members, including affinity partners and new collaboratives, have started explicitly focusing gender justice. We are eager to have a conversation dedicated to gender justice, racial justice, and...

Board Transitions at NFG

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
04/19/2019
Neighborhood Funders Group is steered by a passionate and talented board of directors who help fulfill our mission of organizing philanthropy to support grassroots power building so that communities of color and low-income communities thrive. This year, we will sadly bid a fond farewell to Andrea Dobson , Chief Operating & Financial Officer of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, as she finishes her term serving as Treasurer of the board. Fortunately, we are also welcoming three new NFG members to the board: Cory Anderson, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; Judith Bell, The San Francisco...
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Funders for Justice - National Funder Organizing Meeting

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 -
9:00am - 5:00pm
NoVo Foundation
Join a hundred of your fellow funders and field leaders for FFJ's third National Member Organizing Meeting. At this political moment, with attacks on Black, Native, and other communities of color escalating every day, it is critical that we learn, build with each other, and commit to moving new resources to the field to support power-building and creative grassroots organizing. Participants will spend the morning listening to field partners and fellow funders take a deep dive into grassroots organizing strategies and victories at the intersections of racial justice, gender justice,...

NFG Announces New President: Adriana Rocha

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/21/2020
For Immediate Release May 21, 2020 OAKLAND, CA — Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), a national affinity group that organizes philanthropy to support grassroots power building so that communities of color and low-income communities thrive, is excited to name Adriana Rocha as its next leader. After a nationwide search, Rocha will become the 6th President in NFG’s 40-year history. She is a seasoned, action-oriented leader committed to social justice who brings a wealth of nonprofit and philanthropy experience to the role. Rocha has served as NFG’s Vice President of Programs since May 2017. In...
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Safe and Just Return to Work

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Webinar
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated communities across the country while revealing health and economic disparities that have existed for decades. Workers of color and immigrants are dying from COVID-19 in large numbers, as they are disproportionately represented in many of what are now recognized as “essential jobs:” caring for our families and providing us with food and other critical needs. Many of these jobs are among the lowest paid, with little or no access to quality health care, have low rates of unionization, and are among the most dangerous. Efforts to improve occupational health...

A Warm Farewell & A Warm Welcome

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/08/2020
Neighborhood Funders Group is a place for meaning-making in philanthropy. We offer funders a political home: a place to connect, strategize, and take action. A big part of how we make meaning and take action is incubating spaces for funders to organize and grow new initiatives — all toward the ultimate goal of shifting money and power in philanthropy to justice and equity. __________ These initiatives include Funders for Justice (FFJ), an NFG program that was created in 2014 to mobilize funding resources in solidarity with the uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri, and Black communities and other...
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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Charlene Carruthers

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
Next up in our discussion series with FFJ ’ s Field Advisors , staff interviews Charlene Carruthers , Founding National Director of BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) . Read our interview below to learn more about their work on nationalizing the invest/divest demand, Black queer feminist (BQF) lens as an organizing framework, and the importance of leadership training and political education. Don’t forget to also check out BYP100 ’ s Agenda to Build Black Futures and Charlene’s forthcoming book “Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements” which will be published...

JPMorgan Chase, Detroit Development Fund and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Announce $6.5 Million Loan Fund for Detroit’s Minority-Owned Small Businesses

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/12/2015
Entrepreneurs of Color Fund will provide greater economic opportunity for small businesses that lack access to credit and primarily serve Detroit’s neighborhoods. September 15, 2015 (Detroit) – The Detroit Development Fund (DDF), JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) today announced a new $6.5 million lending program for Detroit businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color and businesses that primarily hire people of color. The Entrepreneurs of Color Fund will boost economic opportunity for minority-owned businesses in Detroit by providing them with...

Webinar: Building Movements with Narrative Change Strategies

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 -
9:00am - 10:15am
Webinar
How do strategic communications and narrative change relate to organizing, power building, and movements? Join this webinar, hosted by Neighborhood Funders Group in partnership with ReFrame , to learn more about how and why social justice organizers are using narrative change strategies to challenge inequities and shift power to disenfranchised communities. Hear from grantmakers about why they fund strategic communications, along with organizing leaders on the role narratives play in movements. Discover new ideas and lessons learned around expanding communications capacity, deepening...

Discount Foundation Legacy Award

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
01/13/2021
The nominations are now open for the 2021 Discount Foundation Legacy Award! The Discount Legacy Award annually identifies, supports and celebrates an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and contributed significantly to workers’ rights movements in the United States and/or globally. Through public recognition and a $20,000 stipend, we hope to recognize and amplify the work of individuals at the intersections leading the way toward justice for low-wage workers of color. This is a one of a kind opportunity to recognize the often unheard voices of worker...

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...

Building the Road to Belonging: Three Ways Philanthropy Can Help End Mass Criminalization

News type: 
Member News
By Connie Cagampang Heller and Alexander Saingchin National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Fall 2015 Police Shooting Kills Sleeping 7-Year-Old Girl During Drug Raid. Police Kill 12-Year-Old Boy Playing with Plastic Gun. Young Man, 14 Years Old, Tried as an Adult. Woman Who Acted in Self-Defense Now Serving Life Sentence Have you found yourself thinking something urgently needs to change after seeing headlines about the latest abuses perpetrated by the criminal justice system? How did criminalization become a defining characteristic of American society? What can we in philanthropy do...

Support Protesters in Chicago

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

Sustaining a movement for fair and just policing: Accelerating the pace of real change

News type: 
Member News
National awareness of police brutality and the need for policing reform is at an all-time high. Sustained attention to horrific moments has led to the birth of a movement, and a tipping point is in sight. Tides and its sister organization, The Advocacy Fund, work closely with funders and grassroots organizers to accelerate policing reform. Since 2010, we’ve been bringing people together to find innovative solutions for safer communities. Through partnerships with several New York-based foundations, the Funds for Fair and Just Policing at Tides and The Advocacy Fund have granted over $8...

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…...

How White Foundation Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sat, March 14, 2015

By Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Since last summer, a movement has been brewing in response to the police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and many others. People across the country have taken to the streets, demanding changes in policies that contribute to government-sanctioned violence against African- Americans and Latinos. People of color are leading this movement, as they should be, but they shouldn’t be expected to move this agenda forward by themselves. White people working in...

Philanthropy’s Role in Holding Tension

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice. Here, Megan Armentrout , Program Associate at the Incarnate Word Foundation and St. Louis local, reflects on the possibilities of shifting philanthropy's focus to long-term change. When I first started in philanthropy just two years ago my boss said, “ Keep an eye out for Neighborhood Funders Group - they are your people”. I had just missed the 2016 convening in Oakland and learned I had to wait another...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Tue, March 21, 2017

While the frame of sanctuary cities is designed as protection for undocumented and migrant residents, it also offers an opportunity to engage us all in critical questions about how we shape our democracy and local places: What makes a city a sanctuary? Sanctuary for whom and from what?

Immediately after the presidential election, mayors across the country took a bold public stance, declaring their cities to be “sanctuary cities,” and vowing to protect their cities' residents against the potential harsh policies that are anticipated to come from the new federal administration and...

Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?

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

2018 Affinity Equity Summit and Solidarity Defense & Action Funder Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, February 12, 2018 - Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Oakland, CA
In partnership with several affinity groups across different sectors, we are pleased to invite our members to the 2018 Affinity Equity Summit and Solidarity Defense & Action Funder Briefing on February 12th and 13th at the Scottish Rite Center in Oakland, CA. In these whiplash times, this is a powerful opportunity to come together as affinity groups and funders across issues and identities to build a collaborative path forward. Overview Agenda Monday, February 12 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Affinity Equity Summit Open to...

$50million for M4BL - See You There

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/25/2020
Dear Donors, Funders, and Resource Mobilizers: The Movement for Black Lives mounted a significant SixNineteen Juneteenth weekend of actions in a matter of weeks. Virtually, over 185,000 people viewed M4BL-TV to celebrate, mourn, and learn. Over 650 in person and online actions took place in cities and communities across the nation, and globally. For context on the strategy behind this weekend of action we recommend the first episode of the People's Action Podcast The Next Move : Making Meaning with Maurice Mitchell . We are deeply moved by Black Leadership and now we are...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

Building Power in Place - Nashville: Reshaping the City Towards an Economy for All

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Thu, February 25, 2021

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Massive May 30th, 2020 protest for George Floyd & Black Lives at Nashville’s Legislative Plaza, led in part by The Equity Alliance & Stand Up Nashville. Photo: Odessa Kelly.

With public eyes on 2020 voter mobilizations to give voice to hundreds of thousands of Black, Latinx, and API voters in Georgia and Arizona; burgeoning union movements in Alabama; and struggles against police violence in Minnesota and Kentucky; it’s become clear to many funders that the map of transformative...

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Jenny Arwade, Interviewed by Manuela Arciniegas

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/06/2017
Next up in our discussion series with FFJ ’ s Field Advisors , Manuela Arciniegas (Associate Program Officer at the Andrus Family Fund ) interviews Jenny Arwade (FFJ Field Advisor and Co-Executive Director of Communities United ) . Read the interview below to learn more on how Communities United changing the narrative of reinvestment, leading the charge on invest/divest strategies and campaigns, and developing sustainable leadership at the helm of the social justice movement. What are some of the ways Communities United is providing national leadership in social justice movements?...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/21/2020
Updates from the Front Lines & How Funders can Support Growing Movements As mostly-conservative state governors and the federal government enforce rapid re-opening and block closures in some sectors like meatpacking, workers continue to put their livelihood on the line to protect themselves through strikes and other actions. Employees are coalescing under the banners of established labor (including in the first union election since the pandemic ), worker advocacy and organizing non-profits and a new crop of grassroots unions. These endeavors are exposing the hollowness...

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...

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...

Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, April 20, 2016

By Kavitha Surana, Bedford & Bowery

April 21, 2016

In 2013 Mayor Bill De Blasio was voted into office with pledges to reign in police violence and stop-and-frisk policing targeted at blacks and latinos. (Remember that emotional video about needing to have stop-and-frisk conversations with his son, Dante?) And since he took office, street-stops have continued on a downward...

No Time for Business as Usual

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/16/2017
Sharon Alpert, NFG member and President & CEO of The Nathan Cummings Foundation , shares an update on NCF's strategy for combatting inequality and climate change. She describes how NCF has built out its integrated framework and committed to expanding payouts in response to this political moment. These are extraordinary times. For more than 25 years, Nathan Cummings Foundation’s mission has explicitly named a commitment to democratic values and social justice, supporting the most vulnerable, respecting diversity and promoting understanding across cultures, and empowering communities. Today...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Catalyzing a Movement for Health and Housing

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2019
By Lindsay Ryder, Neighborhood Funders Group; Alexandra Desautels, The California Endowment; Michael Brown, Seattle Foundations; and Chris Kabel, The Kresge Foundation. In June 2019, Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) gathered nearly 90 funders at Grantmakers in Health’s national conference in Seattle for a panel discussion on how philanthropy can invest in community housing solutions. Despite the large number of concurrent sessions, funders filled the room to dig deep into the urgent issue of equitable housing — and what role health funders can play in addressing this critical health...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/08/2019
In June 2019, Neighborhood Funders Group's Democratizing Development Program joined grantmakers and community leaders from across the country for a three-day convening in Santa Fe, NM, at the “Nuestro Corazón” People’s Assembly, hosted by Chainbreaker Collective and Right to the City . As part of the convening, a funder track brought together key allies in philanthropy interested in taking a deeper dive on alternative land and community ownership housing models. The funder track was an impactful opportunity to engage colleagues, hear from community leaders, and discuss concrete opportunities...

A Call for Social Solidarity: COVID-19 Response from NFG's Programs

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/30/2020
In the midst of the growing COVID-19 pandemic, NFG stands with our communities and workers who are in crisis. As we help organize with frontline leaders and philanthropy to meet the immediate needs of our communities at this time, NFG also remains committed to long-term transformation towards a just and equitable society. Funders must listen and move resources to organizations that are accountable to the communities that disproportionately bear the brunt of this public health and economic disaster, now and into the future. These communities include Asian Americans and Asian immigrants who are...

Funders for Justice Announces Inaugural Advisory Committee of Field Leaders

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/05/2017
Since we were founded three years ago, a pillar of Funders for Justice has always been close partnership and guidance from field partners. We are incredibly proud to announce our inaugural cohort of FFJ Advisors. These nine leaders were selected in recognition of their expertise and leadership in movements for racial and gender justice, in police accountability campaigns and anti-criminalization movements, and efforts to inform more impactful grantmaking for community power-building. The Funders for Justice Advisors for 2017-2018 are: Jenny Arwade , Communities United...
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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 Changing World. The event,...

Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/15/2018
FFJ is proud to announce our 2nd cohort of FFJ Advisors – 12 powerhouse leaders from cities across the US. These leaders organize in multiple racial and gender justice movements to end criminalization of communities of color, including: organizing in Native nations, Latinx migrant justice, transgender rights, youth and multi-generational organizing, South Asian migrant and worker justice, power-building in the South, bail reform, Black organizing and power-building, community-determined safetyand a world without prisons, an end to the public health crisis of incarceration, and an end to...
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After #FergusonOctober

News type: 
NFG Blog
" How can philanthropy support organizing in this moment and in the long term? The Neighborhood Funders Group asked four questions – these are the responses. October 16, 2014 Thank you to the following people and organizations for their contributions: Bukky Gbadegesin, Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): oagbadegesin@gmail.com Jeff Ordower, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE): jeff@organizemo.org Rashad Robinson, ColorofChange.org: rashad@colorofchange.org Sherrilyn Ifill, Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.: sifill@naacpldf.org Please fee free...

FergusonOctober – Voices from the Ground

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/16/2014
How can philanthropy support organizing in this moment and in the long term? The Neighborhood Funders Group asked four questions – these are the responses. Thank you to the following people and organizations for their contributions: Bukky Gbadegesin, Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): oagbadegesin@gmail.com Jeff Ordower, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE): jeff@organizemo.org Rashad Robinson, ColorofChange.org: rashad@colorofchange.org Sherrilyn Ifill, Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.: sifill@naacpldf.org Please fee free to forward this to any colleagues in...