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Seattle Learning Tour
Learning Tour in Puerto Rico
Sister Cities Learning Tour
Baltimore Housing Justice Learning Tour
Pittsburgh Learning Tour: Lessons Learned, Discussion, and Moving Our Work Forward
Funders for a Just Economy Florida Learning Tour
Boston - New York City Learning Tour
Funders for a Just Economy - Alabama Learning Tour
Funders for a Just Economy's Alabama Learning Tour Resources
Building Power in the Sunshine State: Lessons from FJE’s Florida Learning Tour
Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Recapping the Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Tour Reflections from a Native New Yorker
Amplify Fund Learning and Evaluation Partner RFP
2018 Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE)
Funders for a Just Economy - Network Meeting & Florida Tour Review
Community Learning Partnership: A Model in Phoenix, New York, and Detroit
What Have We Learned about Place-Based Investments?
National Dialogue: Community Land Trusts
Equity, Environment and Democracy in Puerto Rico - Funder Briefing in NY
Celebrating 20 Years of Leadership on Labor and Economic Justice
American Dreams in the South: Immigrants, Philanthropy and Opportunity for All
Leading with Power: #NFG2016 Conference Recap
Funding the Ecosystem: Organizing to Build Housing and Community Ownership Opportunities
From Boston to New York: Is a More Just City Possible?
Lead on Leave
Puerto Rico: A Philanthropic Sneak Peak
Building a Funding Response to Scenarios after the Election
Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just Economy
Funder Strategy and Discussion: New Data on Policymakers’ Views on Low-Wage Workers
Protecting Assets: Developments in Payday Lending Reform and the Role of Faith-Based Organizations
Funder Briefing on Advancing Housing Justice and Health Equity
“Advancing Together” the Democratizing Development Program
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Stephanie Guilloud
Chicagoland Raise the Floor Site Visit September 24 – 25, 2015
EPIP Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement
Power Building and Equity: Rural Electric Cooperatives
Empower Philanthropy! ABFE’s Annual Conference
#NFG2016 Conference Recap from Native Americans in Philanthropy
The Roots of Injustice in Our Agricultural System
Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource transformative solutions to the US housing crisis
New York State Rural Equity Summit
NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Get It Together: How the Amplify Fund Supports Black-led Power Building and Organizing
Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening
City of Pittsburgh, The Heinz Endowments, and the p4 Sustainability Model: People, Planet, Place, and Performance
Power Research
Standing in Our Power Together
The LA Teacher Strike and Movement for the Common Good
Housing Justice Solutions: Field & Funder Webinar
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
On Earth Day, Empowering Allies for the Year Ahead
Development Without Displacement in Opportunity Zones
Countering State Preemption and Protecting the Power of Local Government
Moving the South Forward in the New Reality: A Post-Election Funder Briefing
Game Changing Advancement in Fostering Access to Opportunity: HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
Briefing: Freedom Side, on the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer
Eradicating Gender Based Violence Outside of the Carceral System Institute
A Place to Call Home: Housing Policy Roundtable
Philanthropy & the Case for Reparations
Health, Housing, Race, Equity and Power Funders Convening
Selma Funder Delegation
Annual Policy Briefing of the Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships
Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper
A Letter from IRSG Members in Honor of Isabel Arrollo
Webinar: Fueling the Movement - How Foundations Can Support the Fight for Racial Equity
National Dialogue: Local Strategies for Wall Street Accountability and Community Control of Capital
Facing and Recovering from Soul Trauma
Funders for a Just Economy 2021 Policy Briefing
Movement Portfolio Theory (MvPT)
Beyond Recovery: A People's Plan
Philanthropy Isn’t Doing Enough to Support Youth-Led Voter-Mobilization Efforts
New opportunities to connect & co-conspire with us: NFG's July 2020 Newsletter
Strike Watch, Labor Day: Vonda McDaniel on Workers Redefining “Nash-Vegas” and Taking on Power in Tennessee
Speak Out: Social Justice Advocacy for Public Foundations
GSP 2017 Regional Convening
Immigrant Youth in NYC: Programs, Practices and Policy
2019 Budget and Policy Briefing
Energy and Equity in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: From Relief to Equitable Recovery
Native Voices Rising: National Funder Briefing Webinar
Is This a Better Place? The Art & Science of Place-Based Evaluation
Funder Briefing: The Future of Work and the Workforce
Funding a Radically Just Response to COVID-19
Peer Coaching Training Webinar
Homecoming: Housing Justice is Racial and Economic Justice
Protestor Progress
This project tracks movement victories that have happened to date as a testament to the power of protest to change the systems and institutions that perpetuate police violence in our communities.
Project Phoenix Outcomes and Evaluation
Funder Briefing call with Senator Al Franken on Forced Arbitration
JAG Unity Summit 2014
Healing Justice Institute - 4-Part Series
Innovative community land trust from Puerto Rico wins 2015-16 UN World Habitat Award
Join the Inaugural Philanthropy Forward Leadership for Change Fellowship
Is Democracy Funding Undemocratic? Funding Civic Engagement in an Era of Protest
Highlights from Amplify this July
Welcome to the new NFG website!
Governance, Participatory Budgeting and Grantmaking
Speak Out: Social Justice Advocacy for Private Foundations
NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Youth of Color Taking the Lead: Collaborative Leadership and the Path to Power
NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Philanthropy is Embedded in the Paradox of Capitalism
NFG's 2020 Convening Series — We Keep Us Safe: Advancing Community-led Solutions to Neighborhood Violence
NFG's 2020 Convening Series — Technologies for Liberation: Moving Toward Abolitionist Futures
2020 Nashville Virtual Site Visit
Working Better Together to Further Advance a Midwest Funders Strategy for Equity and Opportunity
Grantmakers for Girls of Color - Watch the National Funders Convening
Watch the REPLAY of the livestream from the Grantmakers for Girls of Color National Funders Convening.
Originally aired: May 19, 2016, 8:45am to 12:15pm ET
See the morning program, speakers, and their twitter handles below the video. Join the conversation using #G4GC
Learn more about the convening...
LA-Area NFG Member Happy Hour
NFG Bay Area Member Happy Hour
December First Monday + Election Series Discussion
#BlackLivesMatter Philanthropic Action for Racial Justice
Video: Funder Briefing on Policing Reform – Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement
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
Towards a Better Place: Promising Practice in Place Based Philanthropy
Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement
How not to only fund the loudest voices in the room: NFG's September 2020 Newsletter
NFG's 2020 Virtual Convening Series
2020 National Convening update & more: NFG's April 2020 Newsletter
2016 Post-Election Briefing: Politics, Policy and Philanthropy
Integrating Immigrant Workers into the U.S. Economy
COVID-19 and Indigenous Communities: A Call to Action and Relationship for Philanthropy
Strategize with NFG in the lead up to the election & beyond: NFG's October 2020 Newsletter
Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy
Applications Now Open for 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward Leadership Fellowship
NFG Member Spotlight: Tremaine Foundation
FJE Funder Call on Forced Arbitration
EPIP Webinar Recap- Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement
United Against the Muslim Ban
California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement
NFG Midwest Equity Funders Meeting
Eroding the Power of Police Unions
Can place-based grantmaking help turn the tide of inequality?
Project Phoenix
Funders for Justice Meeting in New York City
Trends + Building Power in the AAPI Community
And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter
National Dialogue
California Renter Power Assembly: Funder Track
NFG's 40 Years Strong convening continues with 6 new sessions & more: NFG's August 2020 Newsletter
Why We Move Money for Justice
Announcing the 2019 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner
Our Work Today: A Statement from FFJ Leadership
Black Lives Matter: We Say Their Names
Time to Invest for Justice
NFG Member Spotlight: The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation
Funder Briefing: Freedom Cities
In Defense Of Black Lives — How NFG's Amplify Fund is Supporting Power Building in Black Communities
Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making
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...
Voices from the Field: Rural Organizers on What They Need from Funders
Shifting Gears for Racial Justice
A Community-Centered Response to Louisiana Flooding
Resilient Places Require Intentional Strategies
Meet the First Philanthropy Forward CEO Leadership Cohort
Decriminalization and Community-Led Safety and Justice Models in Communities of Color
Administrative Relief and Philanthropy Webinar Series
Funder Meeting on Government Alliance on Race and Equity
Raising expectations & creating community in philanthropy: NFG's November 2020 Newsletter
Lifting up how Black communities are reclaiming land ownership & addressing the racial wealth gap: NFG's February 2020 Newsletter
Healing Justice Guidance to Philanthropy During COVID-19, the Uprisings, and Beyond
Welcome Manisha Vaze, Sr. Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy
CPR Statement re: Deaths of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu & Rafael Ramos
Police arrest protesters as St. Louis awaits grand jury decision
PolicyLink
A Ferguson Syllabus: Reading a Movement
Webinar Recap: Why Should Social Justice Funders Care About Impact Investing?
NFG Announces LaTosha Brown as Project Director for Grantmakers for Southern Progress
Welcome Faron McLurkin, Sr. Program Manager of the Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Democratizing Development Program Opportunity Zones Strategy Call
NFG Colorado Funders Happy Hour
Disrupt the System: How Labor and Philanthropy can Build Worker Power in a New Era
Removing Barriers to Transformational Philanthropy in Response to COVID-19 & Beyond
Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy
Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.
Strike Watch 2020 Review: Defund the Police to Build Worker Power
What It's Going to Take to Change Philanthropy
How Philanthropy Can Promote Equity through Community Engagement
Reports from the Movement Strategy Center
Webinar Recap: Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking
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
Strike Watch: San Francisco Foundation's Jidan Terry-Koon on Finding our (Philanthropic) Front Lines
After Ferguson Grand Jury Failure, Federal Government Must Act for Justice
Ferguson: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Movement That Won't Give Up
Youth on the Move: How Funders Can Support the Growing Movement of Young People of Color in 2015
Key Insights from #BaltimoreUprising
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
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!
The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open!
Homes for All Funder Alignment Gathering
Native Communities, Policing, and Mass Criminalization
Systems Changes Towards Equity and Inclusion in the Midwest: Vision and Practical Grantmaking Steps
How to Creatively Fund Social Movements
The Innovations and Independence of OUR Walmart
Healing Justice Institute
Hate is Not Charitable: Three-Part Webinar Series, Part 3
Be vigilant and move the money: NFG's January 2021 Newsletter
Rural Rising: Supporting Equity, Sustainability, and Resilience in Rural & Small-Town America
How NFG is Disrupting Funder-Grantee Dynamics
Lessons for Ferguson from 4,000 Miles Away
Answering the Call from Movement Leaders
Towards a More Resilient Place: Voices from the Convening
Project Phoenix Readings
A Multiracial Rural Equity Summit: Why Now
Funders for a Just Economy 2020 Policy Briefing
Meeting the Moment: 2020’s New Civic Engagement Landscape in Rural and Small-City America
Local Housing Solutions: Tackling a national problem on a local scale
Right To The City and Neighborhood Funders Group 2018 Field & Funder Convening
DIVEST/INVEST: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities
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
Building Strong, Healthy, and Resilient Communities in Ferguson and Beyond
Families of people killed by Albuquerque police campaign to hold the police accountable
Funding Opportunity: Protesters in Cleveland
Third Wave Fund Launches Mobilize Power Fund for Urgent Gender Justice Activism
No Pride in Deportation: From Vice to ICE Toolkit
BreakOUT! and NOWCRJ ’s Congress of Day Laborers recently released the Vice to ICE Toolkit , a resource on organizing across intersections of identities, including race, sexual orientation, gender identity,...
Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap
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
Project Phoenix Grantmaking Tools
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
Rapid Response Conference Call: Current Attacks and Burning of Black Churches
Weathering the Storm: Building Resilience Against Opposition Attacks
NFG Announces Transition of President Dennis Quirin
The Results are In: An Open Letter from Protestors on the Grand Jury Decision
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Mary Hooks
Jews for Racial Justice Moving the Conversation About Police Brutality Into White Communities
Five Principles for Engagement on the Future of Work(ers) and Two Big Ideas
White People and Activism in the Trump Era
Bringing Our Whole Selves to Philanthropy and Our Grantmaking
Roses Along A Journey: My Transformative Experience in NFG’s Project Phoenix
Supporting Transformative Change with NFG
The Amplify Fund is Expanding Support for Power Building and Equitable Development in 2019
Racial Capitalism, Power, and Resistance Movements Convening
For Love of Humankind: A Call to Action for Southern Philanthropy
NFG at the 2019 CHANGE Philanthropy Unity Summit
HIV is not a crime! (except in 32 states and 72 countries)
"Intersections of Justice in the Time of Coronavirus" by Cara Page & Eesha Pandit
NFG speaks with place-based funders on how they are using impact investing to further justice and equity
I Did What I Was Paid to Do': Race Control and America
LGBTQ Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Letter to President Obama and US Attorney General Eric Holder
Changing Foundation Culture to Support Place-Based Change
A Pivotal Moment for Racial Justice
Just and Equitable Rebuilding of Cities After Disasters
New Southern Strategies Webinar: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence
FFJ Webinar on Gender, Race, and Criminalization
Board Transitions at NFG
Funders for Justice - National Funder Organizing Meeting
Amplify Fund's Response to COVID-19
NFG Announces New President: Adriana Rocha
Safe and Just Return to Work
From Bail Reform to Closing the Jail: Organizing Wins for Divestment
A Warm Farewell & A Warm Welcome
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Charlene Carruthers
Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson
JPMorgan Chase, Detroit Development Fund and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Announce $6.5 Million Loan Fund for Detroit’s Minority-Owned Small Businesses
CHANGE Philanthropy Convening
Webinar: Building Movements with Narrative Change Strategies
NFG Member Spotlight: The Libra Foundation
Discount Foundation Legacy Award
OBS Launches Quality Policing Initiative
Building the Road to Belonging: Three Ways Philanthropy Can Help End Mass Criminalization
St. Louis Young Black Leaders Cohort Design Process Consultant Search
Feature: Freedom Inc.’s Creative Response to the Criminalization of Black Communities in Madison, Wisconsin
Statement: Do Not Militarize Our Mourning: Orlando and the Ongoing Tragedy Against LGBTSTGNC POC
Support Protesters in Chicago
Sustaining a movement for fair and just policing: Accelerating the pace of real change
How to Fund the Revolution: Part 1
How White Foundation Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice
Philanthropy’s Role in Holding Tension
Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance
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?
2018 Affinity Equity Summit and Solidarity Defense & Action Funder Briefing
$50million for M4BL - See You There
Building Power in Place - Nashville: Reshaping the City Towards an Economy for All
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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...