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Integrating Immigrant Workers into the U.S. Economy

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Webinar
... our growing foreign born population by better preparing immigrant workers with the skills needed to access quality ... webinar will highlight the challenges and opportunities in integrating immigrant workers in to the local economy . We ... Arias at 646-442-2218 or jarias@livingcities.org . Integrating Immigrant Workers into the U.S. Economy ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights

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

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Little Rock, AR
... Arrivals), and other forms of administrative relief for immigrant families, have crucial implications for the region. ... still alive and communities are making critical wins. Many immigrant rights organizations are partnering with civil ... of change, it is critical for grantmakers to partner with immigrant and allied communities to best understand how we ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice

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
... in the first union election since the pandemic ), worker advocacy and organizing non-profits and a new crop of ... or making conspicuous donations, while ignoring their own worker demands for basics like paid sick leave. Even ... realities converge to create a disastrous situation for immigrant and/or Black workers who, via growing women-led ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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
... workers, most especially who identify as Black, Latinx, immigrant , women, or transgender. For those without work, the ... state governments. Why have even seemingly non-partisan worker issues like universal paid sick leave faltered in the ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

FJE 2017 Policy Briefing: The Road Ahead for Worker Justice

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Friday, May 19, 2017
Washington, DC
... understanding of the major forces and players that impact worker justice; explore the offensive opportunities and ... on the move on the state level, dig into migrant and immigrant workers’ issues, and explore litigation ... Move, and What’s at Stake The Frontlines: Migrant and Immigrant Workers Staying the Course or Shifting Up Evolving ...
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Topic: 
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
... winter break. Prior to joining NFG, I organized alongside immigrant families facing deportation in New York City and ... calling to defund the police as a pathway to community and worker justice. We have an enormous opportunity in ... invested into infrastructure, social protections, housing, worker protections, and other community needs. Upending the ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Five Principles for Engagement on the Future of Work(ers) and Two Big Ideas

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/11/2018
... company workers. We presented a workshop on the evolving worker justice movement during the NFG biennial conference in ... the changing nature of employment, and where they see the worker justice movement heading. All of these activities ...
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Topic: 
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Webinar
... problems related to poor working conditions and a lack of worker protections and benefits. Funders also strategized on ... Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), a Chicago-based worker centre founded in 2009 to win permanent, living-wage ... leadership in Pilsen and neighboring working-class, immigrant communities in Chicago’s Lower West ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Webinar
... problems related to poor working conditions and a lack of worker protections and benefits. Funders also strategized on ... Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), a Chicago-based worker centre founded in 2009 to win permanent, living-wage ... leadership in Pilsen and neighboring working-class, immigrant communities in Chicago’s Lower West ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

The Road Ahead for Worker Justice: Where to Lean In, Pull Up, Push Back and Pivot

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Sat, June 24, 2017
... understanding of the major forces and players that impact worker justice. FJE members engaged in strategic ... Yoon of NELP led a panel describing the recent efforts by immigrant rights advocates, grassroots groups and attorneys ... of immigrants. Following this example from the immigrant rights movement, FJE Co-chair Aditi Vaidya of the ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Strike Watch - Election 2020: Workers Redefine the Map, as Corporate Tech Pours Millions to Undermine Rights

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/13/2020
... (rightfully) centered on the US presidency this election, worker -led organizing made tremendous waves across the ... ahead, most notably California’s anti-labor rights "gig" worker proposition. While the full significance of the ... law will most hurt mostly older Black, Latinx, indigenous, immigrant and women workers for generations to come – .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Strike Watch, Labor Day: Vonda McDaniel on Workers Redefining “Nash-Vegas” and Taking on Power in Tennessee

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/04/2020
... changing Southern economic hub and its implications for worker power across the US. There’s been a lot of attention ... [In a telling incident this June, a 16 year old Latinx worker died falling off a scaffolding , building a new ... really needed a path to a different life. In reaching the immigrant community we had the Catholic Labor Network which ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Inclusive Development
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

State of Black Worker Conference

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - Friday, October 11, 2013
Washington, DC
... are partnering to organize a day-long meeting on black worker organizing. The meeting will be held at Georgetown ... will be a convening of organizations engaged in black worker organizing, including Discount Foundation and Ford ... and resources to the black jobs crisis and to black worker organizing as a core strategy. The recent celebration ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights

Immigrant Youth in NYC: Programs, Practices and Policy

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
New York, NY
... 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 ... youth leaders from several organizations serving diverse immigrant communities. We will explore the local policy ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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...
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Topic: 
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights Project: August 2015 Report

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, August 31, 2015
... Detention Contracting (August 2015) — The National Immigrant Justice Center’s (NIJC’s) three-year Freedom of ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, April 15, 2015
... supplier firms must be met head-on through transnational worker organizing that raises standards across supply chains ... economy, and highlights innovative strategies to build worker power, raise labor standards, reduce poverty, and ... how these have shaped emergent approaches to transnational worker organizing. Chapters two, three and four present case ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Financialization
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

FJE 2018 Policy Briefing: Evolving Strategies for Worker Justice

Event type: 
Briefing
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Washington, DC
... in mind, what are the leading edge strategies toward worker and economic justice? How can funders support these ... Just Economy’s 2018 Policy Briefing will focus on labor, worker centers, and community partnerships in this era of ... a shared analysis of the current state of labor unions and worker centers, and discuss strategies to ensure workers are ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Tue, October 03, 2017

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...

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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

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
... of these challenges, we have seen phenomenal and organic worker movements that have amped up their tactics to elevate ... the message of workers, develop new leaders, and build worker power. Considering how workers are building power, ... leaders, and disrupt the system to build a powerful worker justice movement. Disrupt the System: How Labor and ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Strike Watch: Workers refuse to relent for Black lives, as COVID-19 workplace dangers expand

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/26/2020
... is an image that encapsulates the continued expansion of worker -led direct action in the last few weeks, it is Angela ... by featuring speakers such as fired Amazon warehouse worker Chris Smalls between the racial violence of police and ... like Amazon and Whole Foods are cutting back low-wage worker hazard pay and other protections (won by protests), ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

The Roots of Injustice in Our Agricultural System

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 -
10:00am - 11:00am
Webinar
... in the farm workers movement to share how and why farm worker issues have historically been left out of US labor law ... integrate an analysis toward climate, migrant, food, and worker justice. Join this conversation to hear how powerful ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Rural Organizing
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

Capitalism and Racism: Conjoined Twins

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/03/2019
... of slavery, as well as limit democracy. As I celebrate the worker movement’s victories on Labor Day this year, this ... these “conjoined twins” of racism and capitalism. Many worker -based organizations state that the best vehicle this ... Disrupt the System: How Labor and Philanthropy can Build Worker Power in a New Era event co-convened by the AFL-CIO, ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Administrative Relief and Philanthropy Webinar Series

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Webinar
... Presenters: Margie McHugh, Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Racial Justice

Hawaii Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Honolulu, Hawaii
Register now for the Hawaii Learning Tour! Registration Deadline: October 17th In the popular imagination, Hawaii is thought of as a tropical paradise, but it is also a state that is struggling to overcome centuries of colonialism, environmental degradation and displacement of its Native communities. What can we learn from Hawaii’s unique history, culture and geopolitical location and how communities there are overcoming challenges to forge equitable economic opportunities for its diverse residents? What are the attributes of Hawai‘i that...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/21/2020
... a unique portfolio that integrates criminal justice, worker organizing, and community wealth building towards ... voter engagement with what used to be Mobilize the Immigrant Vote, California (now Power CA). At the time, I was ... changed/grown over the last few months, with the rise of worker and BLM organizing? An obvious answer would be the ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Safe and Just Return to Work

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Webinar
... advocacy to win rights and standards for all workers. Worker -led groups, labor, and advocacy coalitions have worked ... long history of organizing and policy advocacy related to worker health and safety, and how they can support movements ... the opportunities now to shift policy and build worker power and voice. Join NFG's Funders for a Just Economy .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Healthy Communities
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

No Time for Business as Usual

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/16/2017
... are partnering with and pushing companies to stand up for immigrant workers and communities and defend progress on ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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
... in various organizations supporting low-income and immigrant communities, such as Neighbor to Neighbor MA, the ... freedom to join together in union to clean energy and from immigrant rights to reforming criminal justice. Anat's ... People Power Director at Poder NC Action, she has been an immigrant rights activist in North Carolina for 16 years. She .....
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just Economy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/01/2017
... organized labor has not gone, we see a flourishing of worker centers and the development of cooperatives and small ... Temp industry. This was only possible because Black and Immigrant workers have come together to make unified demands for better conditions. As an immigrant who grew up in a working class family, with an ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Be vigilant and move the money: NFG's January 2021 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
01/27/2021
... calling to defund the police as a pathway to community and worker justice. We have an enormous opportunity in ... accumulated wealth, diving deep into supporting worker and community power, and deepening our understanding ... are continuing to build a powerful movement for inclusive worker power, considering both rising fascism and the new ...
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The Beat is (Back) On! Labor Reporting Reemerges

Event type: 
Webinar
Friday, May 3, 2013
Webinar
... Reporters and Editors. He also led projects on worker hazards at oil refineries and lingering air toxics ...
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Topic: 
Future of Work
Workers' Rights

Webinar: Building Movements with Narrative Change Strategies

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 -
9:00am - 10:15am
Webinar
... student groups and faith groups that build strategy around worker rights issues and worker advocacy. Before joining Central Florida Jobs with ... equity in the state of Minnesota. JaNaé specializes in integrating grassroots faith-based organizing and narrative ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

Announcing the 2018 Discount Foundation Legacy Awardee

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/11/2018
... is one of the principal architects of Milk with Dignity, a worker -led program securing human rights and economic justice ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

COVID-19 Strike Wave

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/10/2020
... a live site of strikes and public protest, bringing new worker power energy to a large multinational corporation that ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

2018 Post-Election Briefing for Grantmakers

Event type: 
Briefing
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Washington, DC
Join NFG's Funders for a Just Economy on November 27, 2018 in Washington, DC, for the 2018 Post-Election Briefing: Philanthropy at the Crossroads. Note: This meeting is free of charge and open to foundation representatives and philanthropic advisors only. This November, the whole House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, 36 governorships, and many state legislature seats are up for election. The results of this year’s midterm elections will have an enormous impact in shaping the political landscape for years to come. Assessing the new policy and funding environment...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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
... on the future of work, focus on exciting gains in black worker organizing, examine the progress, challenges, and ... leave protections. Immigration policy implementation: how worker organizations are supporting workers and working ... Discount Foundation’s key role in funding community and worker organizing, as well as founding the WGLCP and ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

Announcing the 2019 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/01/2019
... history of supporting leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena beyond its spend down as a foundation in ... visibility and power for the emerging Nepali-speaking immigrant community. As a co-founder of the New York Healthy ... media on the issues related to workers’ rights, immigrant rights, language justice, and civic engagement. Her ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/10/2019
... in the South to respond to the federal government's anti- immigrant rhetoric and policies with three concrete actions. ... organizations to respond to the manic drumbeat of anti- immigrant rhetoric and cruelty coming from the White House. ... the resulting fear and trauma still reverberating through immigrant communities across America, the administration .....
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/30/2020
... builds power for the long term. Coordinate with Labor and Worker Centers - Support the current worker organizing happening in high-demand and vulnerable ... on corporations benefiting from relief that will increase worker power. Support policies that provided resources to ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Funding Opportunity
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program
Funders for a Just Economy
Amplify Fund
Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Philanthropy Forward

Activists Locked Down Outside Tacoma Detention Center

News type: 
News from the Field
... Diverse coalition of activists risk arrest to stop immigrant deportations, call for immediate end to detentions. ... creating a road to detention, and call for an end to all immigrant deportations and detentions. “Ending immigrant ... climate justice, economic justice, reproductive justice, worker rights and more. READ THE STATEMENT FROM ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Funder Briefing: Freedom Cities

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Webinar
... experience organizing and advocating for women, Black and immigrant families, and poor and low-wage workers—have come ... Movement . Launched on inauguration day by multiracial immigrant workers and allies, this emerging movement has ... how Freedom Cities connects movements for racial justice, worker justice, immigrant rights/migrant justice, and an end ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights

Funders for a Just Economy's Alabama Learning Tour Resources

Resource type: 
Event Recap
... in 2016), has contributed to lower wages and less worker benefits compared to other states . This history of ... and regional funders, community organizations, unions and worker centers to experience, appreciate, and learn about the ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... in local communities. Our work with minority-, women- and immigrant -owned businesses remain one of our larger areas of ... is the investment in converting small businesses into worker -owned cooperatives. In a recent report, Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the American Economy , Surdna ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice

For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... in local communities. Our work with minority-, women- and immigrant -owned businesses remain one of our larger areas of ... is the investment in converting small businesses into worker -owned cooperatives. In a recent report, Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the American Economy , Surdna ...
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For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... in local communities. Our work with minority-, women- and immigrant -owned businesses remain one of our larger areas of ... is the investment in converting small businesses into worker -owned cooperatives. In a recent report, Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the American Economy , Surdna ...
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Building a Funding Response to Scenarios after the Election

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, October 29, 2020 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... ways to support grassroots economic justice & worker organizations working tirelessly to preserve and ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Chicago, IL
... region’s progress in supporting a strong collective of worker centers today called the Raise the Floor Alliance ... and potential of collective efforts of organized funders, worker centers, labor attorneys, and worker leaders. The outcomes sought are to leverage ...
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Topic: 
Workers' Rights

Funders for a Just Economy - Alabama Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Webinar
... in 2016), has contributed to lower wages and less worker benefits compared to other states . This history of ... and regional funders, community organizations, unions and worker centers to experience, appreciate, and learn about the ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

The LA Teacher Strike and Movement for the Common Good

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 12:00pm
Webinar
A powerful movement of educators, parents, students and community allies is taking rise across the country to demand that public schools serve all students regardless of race, immigration-status, class and ability. Increased privatization and perpetual underfunding have created an epidemic where too many schools, particularly those that serve low-income families, families of color and immigrants, are being starved of needed resources. Public school educators, staff, administrators nationwide are barely making a living wage. In response, community-educator partnerships, whether in Los Angeles...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/09/2019
... just this week, Florida passed one of the harshest anti- immigrant bills in the country, banning sanctuary cities and ... at the top of the supply chain accountable for enforcing worker protections and threatening the loss of sales for farm ... justice funders in Florida, especially for workers or immigrant rights. Many holders of wealth hail from outside of ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Racial Capitalism, Power, and Resistance Movements Convening

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 9:00am - Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3:00pm
Brooklyn, NY
... and power within corporations and building countervailing worker and community power. During the event, FJE will build ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

I cried like a baby, I swore like a sailor: NFG's December 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
... with us for years. Black, Indigenous, people of color, immigrant , queer, transgender, rural and unhoused ...
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Support Chicago Protesters

News type: 
News from the Field
... : Right now almost a hundred Black, undocumented and immigrant organizers in Chicago are participating in a mass ... complicity. We are participating because it is crucial for immigrant communities to actively engage in the fight against ...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity
Racial Justice
Community Safety & Justice

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

News type: 
Member News
8 Lessons from Our Southern Grantees in the Fight for Equity and Justice By Miabi Chatterji , Senior Program Officer at Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice My colleagues and I at the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund (RJF) have been thinking hard about how our institutions need to respond to the changes the Trump administration will make to our national culture and policies. Particularly for those of us who support vulnerable communities such as immigrants; refugees; Latinx, Muslim and black people; incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals; sex workers; LGBTQ people; youth of color and...
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Topic: 
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
Criminalization

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 Forward Thursday, September 7, 2017 | 10 am PT / 11 am MT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET On June 19-21, Neighborhood Funders Group’s Democratizing Development Program, The Heinz Endowments, and Pittsburgh United held our Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Our speaker line-up and discussions were focused on local, regional, and statewide strategies, challenges, and opportunities that intersect issues of economic...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

WGLCP Annual Policy Briefing 2014

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - Thursday, April 24, 2014
Washington, DC
Please join us for a timely conversation about opportunities to advance economic justice and security for all. April 23-24, 2014 Public Welfare Foundation Washington, DC What were the policy wins and losses in the last year for working people? What are the campaigns for reform getting under way, and what are the threats to workers’ rights in the offing? Join us for the annual policy briefing of NFG's Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships. Program highlights include: Rocio Saenz, Vice President of SEIU, will speak on immigration...
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Economic Justice
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NFG 2018 Award for Excellence & Discount Foundation Legacy Award

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/27/2018
... history of supporting leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena beyond its spend down as a foundation in ... one of the principal architects of Milk with Dignity , a worker -led program securing human rights and economic justice ...
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Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights

COVID-19 Funds: Where to Donate to Support Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Sat, March 28, 2020
... COVID-19 Emergency Mutual Aid Fund. Jobs With Justice — Worker Solidarity Fund Liberated Capital: A Decolonizing ... Day Bail Out) National Day Laborer Organizing Network — Immigrant Worker Safety Net Fund National Domestic Workers ... Alliance Organization Latina Trans in Texas Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network Detained Migrant Solidarity ...
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Funding Opportunity
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Democratizing Development Program
Funders for a Just Economy
Amplify Fund
Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Philanthropy Forward

Reimagining How We Fund and What We Fund

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/19/2018
... Black lives matter. There are those who believe that immigrant families should not have the right to be together. ... Century. Equally important, we must seek innovations for worker power. This could be reimagining new worker ownership structures like worker cooperatives. ...
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Philanthropic Practice

I Am the Black Woman Who Interrupted the Netroots Presidential Town Hall, and This Is Why

News type: 
News from the Field
... I am a native to Arizona, the child of a Nigerian immigrant father and African-American mother, whose parents ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Power-Building

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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Funders for a Just Economy Florida Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, April 8, 2019 - Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Fort Myers, FL
... at 2pm 8:30am: Building Power with a Femme Agenda: Miami Worker Center, WeCount!, & others 10:15: Building Power in ... Statewide Alignment Group (SWAG), including Florida Immigrant Coalition, Central Florida Jobs with Justice, ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

The Road Ahead

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
11/11/2020
... been under attack. Black, Indigenous, people of color, immigrant , queer, transgender, rural and unhoused ... ICE and border militarization, and protecting & expanding worker power — have now become real conversations in ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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?...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

Say Their Names: Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Dion Johnson

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/29/2020
... was a young Black woman who was an EMT — an essential worker already risking her life during a pandemic. Yet we ... https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate Black Immigrant Collective . Donate here: ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Funders for a Just Economy 2021 Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - Friday, March 12, 2021
Virtual
... for Safety and Health An Organizer with Alabama's Amazon worker unionization effort March 12 Keynote: Sara Nelson , .....
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Discount Foundation Legacy Award

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
01/13/2021
... opportunity to recognize the often unheard voices of worker movements - that includes volunteers, members, ... visibility and power for the emerging Nepali-speaking immigrant community. As a co-founder of the New York Healthy ... media on the issues related to workers’ rights, immigrant rights, language justice, and civic engagement. Her ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Event type: 
Committee Meeting
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... assisting the growth of people of color, women, and immigrant -owned businesses. Additionally, he sourced and ...
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Topic: 
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

DIVEST/INVEST: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, September 17, 2018
... how criminalization impacts youth, civic engagement, immigrant rights, rural communities, LGBTQ rights, and more. ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Gender Justice
Healthy Communities
Housing Justice
Rural Organizing

Facing and Recovering from Soul Trauma

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/09/2018
... inflict on residents. Cooperative ownership structures and worker co-op creation, community land trusts, and local ... steps to be inclusive and welcoming in the face of anti- immigrant politics at the state and county levels. They’ve ... to address the systemic intersections of law enforcement, immigrant rights, and poverty in ways that enhance their ...
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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...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - Thursday, June 7, 2018
St. Louis, MO
... community educator. A Disabled TGNC queer first gen- immigrant they are kept deliciously exhausted and hopeful ...
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Prisons/Detention Centers, Racial Justice, and the Environment in Rural Places

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, January 28, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... Indian People’s Action Nekessa Julia Opoti, Black Immigrant Collective Sammy Nunez & Colleague, Fathers & ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

New York State Rural Equity Summit

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, October 21, 2019 - Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Dundee, NY
To register for this event, please login or create an account first. Note: Due to limited space, this meeting is an invite-only event for funders. Join Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) and Engage New York (ENY) for the New York State Rural Equity Meeting on October 21-22, 2019. NFG and ENY are bringing together funders interested in exploring the New York State (NYS) rural landscape and how to build an action agenda to promote equity in communities across the state. Purpose: To plan ways NY rural communities can drive and participate in strategies to advance equity and...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Community Power-Building
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/25/2020
... control is not a new or recent phenomenon. We saw African immigrant communities blamed for Ebola, gay men pathologized ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Financialization
Future of Work
Gender Justice
Healthy Communities
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Workers' Rights
Funding Opportunity

We Call it the "American Dream"

News type: 
News from the Field
... next ones lying in the street. All of us, black or not, immigrant or native-born, should share those feelings. Our immigrant communities must do more to link the immigrant civil rights struggle with the African-American ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Economic Justice
Community Safety & Justice

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... among them. For example, United We Dream, an undocumented immigrant youth organization, is using civic engagement as a ... issues like police accountability or fair wages for immigrant farmworkers. There are even some institutional ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Community Power-Building

Post-Election Resources

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Tue, November 22, 2016
... GCIR: Post-Election Resources Page for Immigrant and Refugee Issues Grantmakers Concerned with ...
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Philanthropic Practice
Funding Opportunity

We will not be silenced.

News type: 
News from the Field
ACTIVISTS BLAST NYPD ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE New York, NY — Activists issued a scathing statement this afternoon in response to recent attempts by the NYPD to silence the efforts of citizens seeking justice for victims of police violence. The letter, drafted by Ferguson Action, and cosigned by over a dozen grassroots organizations takes aim at PBA president Patrick Lynch and Commissioner Bratton for their reckless attempts to conflate constitutionally protected protest activities with the tragic murders of officers Ramos and Liu: “The events...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

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...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Funding Opportunity

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...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Racial Justice

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
... experience organizing and advocating for women, Black and immigrant families, and poor and low-wage workers, have ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Criminalization

Organizations Addressing Police Accountability and Racial Justice

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
... Highlander Research and Education Center Southern U.S. Immigrant Defense Project New York Ingoma Foundation National ... United New Jersey Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights New York NY Communities for Change New York ... Justice Enlace is a strategic alliance of low-wage worker centers, unions, and community organizations in Mexico ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

Youth on the Move: How Funders Can Support the Growing Movement of Young People of Color in 2015

News type: 
Member News
Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing , Jan 9, 2015 As we begin 2015, we at the Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) have been re-inspired by the undeniable potential for young people of color to play a transformative role in advancing social justice. Young people of color are demonstrating a readiness to organize that has not been seen in many years. For funders and others who care about youth leadership and social and racial justice, it is an important time to support the actions taking place across the country to help them coalesce into a sustained movement. For funders...
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Funding Opportunity
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

Racial Capitalism, Power and Resistance: Perspectives from the Philanthropic Front Lines

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/19/2019
... Growing up in a single mother home, in a low income, immigrant family, issues of race, class, and gender shaped my ... where I worked on a team focused on criminal justice, immigrant rights, and racial justice. From there, I joined ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

FFJ Call Recap: Policing and Criminalization in the Trump Era

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Wed, February 15, 2017
... a broad decriminalization framework Rejecting the good immigrant /bad immigrant frame, because that frame pushes many people to the ... folks, immigrants, and others directly impacted by anti- immigrant and mass-criminalization policies Creatively ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

Project Phoenix Readings

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, March 06, 2017
... fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or ... Toolkit — Make It Work & Wellstone Action This guide to integrating an intersectional gender analysis in social ...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice

Announcing FFJ’s Latest Field Advisor Cohort

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/13/2020
... Fahd Ahmed came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant from Pakistan in 1991. He has been a grassroots organizer on the issues of racial profiling, immigrant justice, police accountability, national security, ... Fahd co-led the work with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian immigrant detainees before, and immediately after 9/11, by ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

Bringing Our Whole Selves to Philanthropy and Our Grantmaking

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... That means investing in the leadership of Black, Brown, immigrant , queer, trans, intersex, women of color, poor and ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, September 17, 2020 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
In the same community where George Floyd was brutally murdered by police, Minneapolis tenants tirelessly organize with United Renters for Justice for racial justice, tenant protections, eviction moratoriums, and canceling rent. For years, tenants of five buildings were threatened to be evicted by a negligent landlord despite the lack of upkeep on the buildings, which included rodents, heating, and plumbing issues. Eviction seemed certain once the pandemic hit since the families — most of whom are immigrants and don’t have health care or access to government benefits — had collectively gone on...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Racial Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open!

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
10/12/2015
... to honor and support an exemplary individual from the worker justice movement. The selected awardee will be granted ... of the Discount Foundation and further its vision for worker justice organizing, the foundation created the ... in organizing workers – this could be a union, a worker center or a community organization that includes ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

The Innovations and Independence of OUR Walmart

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, August 24, 2015
New York, NY
... began in 2011 and has made a deep mark on how to build worker power and paved the way for new forms of organizing. ... developments are continuing to innovate the field of worker rights and movement building. The Innovations and ... be open to experimentation to raise standards and build worker power in other private industry sectors as well. ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Workers' Rights
Funding Opportunity

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Charlene Carruthers

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
... within marginalized communities has led her to work on immigrant rights, economic justice and civil rights campaigns ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Healthy Communities

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/21/2020
... and the latest developments in grassroots efforts to build worker power - and where funders can partner and are taking ... Solidago – a long time supporter of economic justice and worker movements – decide to jump into election defense, ... time, with few resources. This is true of the grassroots worker center model and even some of the larger statewide ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Honoring the Discount Foundation

Event type: 
Reception
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Washington, DC
... Foundation’s key role in funding community and worker organizing, as well as founding the WGLCP and ...
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Control, Disruption and Democracy: Philanthropy's Role in Inclusive Civic Engagement

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, February 29, 2016
"By Gara LaMarche The following is adapted from the keynote speech at the Funders Committee for Civic Participation conference in Washington, D.C., on October 6, 2015. In Citizen , the poet Claudia Rankine, writing about the abandonment of Black lives after Hurricane Katrina – a signal event in the shift toward the current political moment – says “the fiction of the facts assumes innocence, ignorance, lack of intention, misdirection; the necessary conditions of a certain time and place.” To overcome the fictions we tell ourselves requires us to acknowledge that the way the criminal justice...
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Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Economic Justice

Webinar Recap of Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, April 21, 2017
... organization focused on community development, housing and immigrant justice issues. CJJC builds grassroots power and ...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

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...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Healthy Communities
Philanthropic Practice

New Reports: And Still I Rise, #BlackWorkersMatter

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Thu, May 07, 2015
... is a cutting edge report on the state of black worker organizing around the country. This report will ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, May 11, 2015
Webinar
... , is a cutting edge report on the state of black worker organizing around the country. This report will ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights

Healing Justice Guidance to Philanthropy During COVID-19, the Uprisings, and Beyond

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Thu, July 16, 2020
... have on communities and individuals. Resourcing and integrating healing justice within grantmaking and ... from a mother whose child died while in jail, prison, or immigrant detention centers. If funders intend on supporting ... pandemic has disproportionately impacted BIPOC, disabled, immigrant , and low-income communities. As frontline ...
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Topic: 
Healing Justice
Healthy Communities
Racial Justice

Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Tue, March 21, 2017
... working at the city level to pass policies that protect immigrant and communities of color. An example of a ... waiting to detain people without a warrant Create an Immigrant Legal Defense Fund – help people pay for legal ... donors, and government/public sector resources to support immigrant communities? What role can philanthropy plan in ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Are funders ready to fight for our freedom?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/04/2018
By Manisha Vaze , Senior Program Manager of NFG's Funders for a Just Economy This Labor Day weekend, as we celebrate the last days of summer with barbeques and back-to-school preparation, I am thinking about how the labor movement is facing some of the most serious threats to its future. Well-funded efforts are shutting down public sector unions and workers’ ability to collectively bargain , while corporations are using their lobbying power to lock contingent and informal workers out of basic labor protections . Companies are worming out of providing basic benefits such as...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/15/2018
... and multi-generational organizing, South Asian migrant and worker justice, power-building in the South, bail reform, ... Fahd Ahmed came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant from Pakistan in 1991. He has been a grassroots organizer on the issues of racial profiling, immigrant justice, police accountability, national security, ...
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2017 Discount Legacy Award Reception

Event type: 
Other
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Washington, DC
... Award supports leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena. In partnership with Jobs with Justice ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Ferguson Legal Defense Committee Issues 48-Hour Emergency Call To Action & All-Points Bulletin.

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/15/2014
Ferguson Legal Defense Committee Issues 48-Hour Emergency Call To Action & All-Points Bulletin. To All People of Conscience: The Ferguson Legal Defense Committee (FLDC) has issued the following EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION for all lawyers, legal workers and law students of conscience in anticipation of a major reaction to the (non or under) indictment of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown. FLDC was formed by lawyers and legal workers who provide legal support to the greater Ferguson organizers, their supporters and their communities. Support...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Funding Opportunity

Strike Watch: Voices from the Strike for Black Lives

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/24/2020
... Augusta (who goes by Gus), another Lakeland McDonald's worker and a leader of the SEIU-backed Fight for 15 Florida ... McDonald's where he works and what it means to be a Black worker in the US today. What brought you to take part in the ... insight on the ways in which grassroots movements build worker power through direct action. Our ultimate goal: inform .....
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Fri, December 30, 2011

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Following the 1890 census, the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery, crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic references to America as the promised land of opportunity were woven into a cautionary tale about the exceptional threat black people posed to modern urban...

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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

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...
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Topic: 
Future of Work
Philanthropic Practice

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...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Philanthropy Forward

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
09/29/2017
... Legacy Awards supports leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena. In partnership with Jobs with Justice ... for the Award, a nominee must be engaged in related worker justice, including but not limited to organizing and ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Celebrating 20 Years of Leadership on Labor and Economic Justice

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... members of the working group, as well as leaders in the worker rights field. You may see some familiar faces! "The .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Webinar: Investments that Build Wealth and Power

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 -
10:30am - 12:00pm
Webinar
Photo courtesy of Bowdoin Bike School, a member of the Ujima Business Alliance As we consider how communities of color have been locked out of economic opportunities and the ability to build wealth through banking and economic structures that uphold white supremacy, how can funders invest in transformative POC-led strategies creating opportunities for wealth accumulation, entrepreneurship, and community power? Join three of Neighborhood Funders Group's programs — Funders for a Just Economy, the Democratizing Development Program, and the Integrated Rural Strategies Group — in this webinar to...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program
Funders for a Just Economy
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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...
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Topic: 
Healing Justice
Community Power-Building

Resourcing the Movement for Black Lives

Fri, June 03, 2016
... to respond to social movements in a timely way, including worker justice, climate change, immigration, and anti-Black ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice
Funding Opportunity

Lead on Leave

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Webinar
Just Scheduled! : Please join Senior DOL Leaders to Learn About the Lead on Leave-Empowering Working Families Across America Tour Building on the President’s State of the Union announcements to support greater workplace flexibility for hardworking American families, and in follow up from the Working Families Summit last June, the White House Council on Women and Girls has partnered with the Department of Labor on Lead on Leave – Empowering Working Families Across America , a series of regional events focused on working family issues. The tour will kick off...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

What's Next in the Movement for Working Families Webinar

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Webinar
... win in Oregon and new standards in six cities; Powerful worker -led campaigns that moved the retail sector to end ... to Change That Huffington Post: Oregon Passes Pioneering Worker -Rights Bill Racked: America's Massive Retail .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Grant Makers Give Money Fast to Challenge Trump Policies

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
03/13/2017
... and defend" work on access to health care, the wellness of immigrant communities, the social safety net, and preventing .....
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Funding Opportunity

The Real Crime: Mass Criminalization of our Communities

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, June 23, 2015
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Everyday,...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance - Conference Call for Funders

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, February 27, 2017
Webinar
Monday, February 27, 2017 1 pm PT / 2 pm MT / 3 pm CT / 4 pm ET Immediately after the presidential election, mayors across the country have taken 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 Congress. Throughout the country, we also see a heightened increase of hate violence and racially charged rhetoric in the media against immigrants, including calls for banning Muslims, stronger immigration enforcement, and the...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, September 15, 2014
... collective capacity to envision and win an innovative pro- worker , pro- immigrant , racial and economic justice agenda. One of CPD's .....
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Standing in Our Power Together

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/16/2018
... , reflects on funder strategy discussions for building worker power. These days, between the news cycle and ... (a process called financialization), and the moves the worker justice movement was taking in reaction to Supreme ... the future of work, and learn about how Labor and the worker justice movement is evolving. The NFG conference ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Funder Delegation to AFL-CIO Quadrennial Convention

Event type: 
Convening
Sunday, September 8, 2013 - Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Los Angeles, CA
You're invited to the Funder Delegation to the AFL-CIO Quadrennial Convention! September 8-10, 2013 Los Angeles, CA This September, the AFL-CIO—the federation uniting more than 12 million working people—will convene in Los Angeles to discuss the future for America’s workers and our movement. Delegates representing working families from all over the country will be prepared to make big decisions about new ways to help working people gain a voice—new forms of representation for workers, new approaches to politics and...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Rural Organizing

The long, halting, unfinished fight to end racial profiling in America

News type: 
News from the Field
By Emily Badger Originally published on WashingtonPost.com , December 4, 2014. In his very first address to Congress — in the speech where new presidents first detail their priorities for the nation — George W. Bush devoted a few moments to an unlikely topic: racial profiling. "Too many of our citizens have cause to doubt our nation's justice," he said, "when the law points a finger of suspicion at groups instead of individuals." The issue had, in fact, played into the 2000 election. The national news was full of stories of doctors and lawyers and NFL players stopped for "...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

No Pride in Deportation: From Vice to ICE Toolkit

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Thu, June 29, 2017
... from Southerners on New Ground and the Southeast Immigrant Rights Network , while drawing inspiration from ... for political education that can be used with different immigrant and/or LGBTQ bases, and testimonies from LGBTQ immigrant youth. Please visit BreakOUT's website to learn .....
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Gender Justice
Racial Justice

Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, January 09, 2017
... social justice work supporting LGBTQ, people of color, and immigrant communities in the South. Leaders and practitioners ... efforts that aim to support LGBTQ, people of color, and immigrant communities in the South. We also explored what we ... (SONG) Monica Hernandez, Executive Director, Southeast Immigrant Rights Network ...
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Topic: 
Gender Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Unions, Activists Align on Affordable Housing

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
09/04/2014
August 19, 2014 - A group of New York City construction unions have forged a coalition with affordable housing activists to ratchet up pressure on Mayor Bill de Blasio to require organized labor in the building of 80,000 lower-cost apartment units over the next decade. The unions say they will begin supporting a call for 50% of the new units to be set aside for lower- and middle-income residents, a key tenet of the housing advocates' agenda and a departure from past practice in the city. Unions are also willing to make an unusual concession, accepting wages that are 40% lower than normal...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Workers' Rights

A Warm Farewell & A Warm Welcome

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/08/2020
... supports collaboration and innovation around new forms of worker organizing through grantmaking, creating convening ... over $4.5 million in grants to more than 90 collaborative worker organizing projects that are engaged in cutting-edge strategies for building worker power. NFG and the LIFT Fund share a commitment to a ...
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Oct 22-24 in Chicago: Confronting the International Association of Chiefs of Police

News type: 
News from the Field
Disruption can oftentimes be a very stressful thing. Disruption can cause nervousness and anxiety in the person doing the disruption, and tension and anger in the person being disrupted. Disruption can also be a source of movement and progress. It’s safe to assume that the disruption of Democratic Presidential candidates by Black Lives Matter leaders has spurred those candidates to quickly develop policy platforms that address racial justice. Being disruptive may not always be polite and respectable, but it can make a statement and more importantly move your agenda. It is with this in mind...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

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

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Thu, February 25, 2021
... no “one size fits all” solution to addressing low-wage worker issues and economic inequality in the US, especially ... policy advocacy, and other efforts regarding low wage worker issues and understand how conditions are shaped by ... community health, and racial justice — regarding worker justice issues. Share more information about ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Inclusive Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy
Amplify Fund

Grant-making with an Intersectional Lens

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, May 24, 2018 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
The current economic system and laws were not designed for Black people, indigenous peoples, people of color, women, people who identify as LGBTQI, and migrants to thrive. As we consider the implications of this economic system, and philanthropy as a sector within that system, what will it take to truly integrate a historical and intersectional analysis in our grant-making of the economic policies that have led to systemic poverty, structural racism, and patriarchy in order to resource the movement to shift power and seed change? Over the last few years, Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) has...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Gender Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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...
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Topic: 
Inclusive Development
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... and movements with the potential to transform them. For immigrant rights organizations, our struggles are connected ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Power-Building

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Webinar
... large populations of low-income black communities, immigrant communities, and others continue to be plagued with ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Housing Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Webinar
... efforts that aim to support LGBTQ, people of color and immigrant communities in the South. We will also explore what ... (SONG) Monica Hernandez, Executive Director, Southeast Immigrant Rights Network Moving the South Forward in the New ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement

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

Webinar Recap: Why Should Social Justice Funders Care About Impact Investing?

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, July 14, 2017

Funders who have long provided grants to seed social change efforts are becoming interested in fundamental shifts in traditional corporate accountability and disinvestment strategies to consider developing strategies for more values aligned and socially impactful investment alongside grantmaking. These strategies have the potential to help the philanthropic sector invest at scale to change the economy regionally and contribute towards community renewal, power building, and seeding systemic change.

NFG's Project Phoenix and...

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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Funders for a Just Economy 2020 Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, March 23, 2020 - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Webinar
... philanthropic and community and labor partnerships for worker power. Considering what we know today (Monday, March ... & Logistics 11:00 am Centering Race and Gender in Worker Policy in 2020 Adriana Rocha, Neighborhood Funders ... Collective 1:00 pm Restructuring the Economy: Worker Organizing to Take on Corporate Power Marissa ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... is home grown in a culture that is deeply anti-Black, anti- immigrant , and anti-queer. It is of a culture where the ... on his way out of a Queens mosque this month, where an immigrant detention center in Santa Ana still detains and ... of criminalization of gender non conformity, of immigrant detention and deportation are never elevated to the ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Gender Justice
Criminalization

Trans Delegation to the Movement for Black Lives Convening

News type: 
News from the Field
The Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), based in San Francisco, has been spearheading the efforts to mobilize resources to support a national delegation of 16 black trans, gender non-conforming and intersex leaders to be able to attend this historical national convening and hold a one day work meeting previous to the convening. As a part of and separately mirroring the explosion of people’s movement in response to police brutality a trans liberation movement has blossomed within the intensity of violence. As an anchor organization with a long-term (12 years)...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity
Gender Justice

Peer Coaching Training Webinar

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, November 5, 2018 - 1:00pm
Webinar
"In the midst of continual change and development, people rarely struggle because they lack some key piece of information or some precise procedure from a course or a book. Rather, they often get stuck in how they think and feel about themselves or their situations." — Carter McNamara, Authenticity Consulting Our work with our members has taught us that peer support to work through goals and challenges is a powerful tool to move our work towards justice forward. Neighborhood Funders Group is excited to announce the launch of a new offering this fall: peer coaching circles model based on work...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Wed, August 01, 2018

In July 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group and the Right To The City Alliance hosted a Funder & Field Convening alongside the Homes For All Member Assembly in Atlanta, GA. Grantmakers met with grassroots leaders to strategically align and move more resources to support housing justice efforts happening throughout the country. The convening included workshops on investing in long-term narrative shift, a funder tour through Atlanta with the ...

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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

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...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

The Fund for New Jersey Reaffirms Commitment to Racial Justice

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
07/31/2020
... that disproportionately harm Black, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant communities. At the same time, in New Jersey as ... the rights and interests of, Black, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant communities. …. Increased funding will enable ... youth leaders that emanate from Black, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant communities; and Shared resources such as ...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Thu, May 24, 2018
... they invested in relationship-building with community and worker organizing leaders; deepened their understanding of ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Rural Rising: Supporting Equity, Sustainability, and Resilience in Rural & Small-Town America

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, December 13, 2018 -
11:00am - 12:15pm
Webinar
Whether your organization has many investments in rural communities or you are still puzzling out what the term “rural” really means, we invite you to join this dynamic three-part webinar series and explore opportunities to learn from, lift up, and support innovative and equity-promoting work in rural and small-town communities across the country. Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), The Heartland Fund and the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) invite you to join our three-part webinar series, Rural Rising: Supporting Equity, Sustainability, and...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Racial Justice

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...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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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Funders for a Just Economy

Seven Ways That Funders Can Support Racial Justice

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Fri, June 27, 2014
By Julie Quiroz , Senior Fellow, Movement Strategy Center A few months ago I spoke to Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society , who described “disturbing trends in some national foundations; a pulling away from race where they seem to be adopting the notion of post-racial America.” “What,” asked Patterson, “is going on?” How far have we come from 1993 when — a year after the LA uprising — “...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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

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...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Gender Justice
Racial Justice

Expanding Sanctuary: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now?

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, March 13, 2017
Expanding Sanctuary: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now? The term “sanctuary” most recently refers to local policies that limit when and if local law enforcement communicates with, or submits to, (often unconstitutional) requests from federal immigration agents. But in a country where over-policing results in 1 in 3 people being arrested at least once by the age of 23, during a time when evolving technology places fingerprint scanners in the palm of every law enforcement officers’ hand, and as we anticipate the growth in federal...
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Topic: 
Criminalization

Funders: Let's Stop Fixating on Our Issues and Start Supporting our Values

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
02/15/2017
... our own vision of justice. What if, when they came for our immigrant sisters, reproductive rights funders stepped in, ... Sarsour and Marisa Franco at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant & Refugee Rights, titled “Crucial Intersections: ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Pathways to Effective State Funding Strategies

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, February 5, 2018
Webinar
Join this installment of the First Monday + Election Series Discussion, hosted by Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) and co-sponsored by NFG. We will share insights and data points uncovered from our first State Funding Survey. We’ll also drill down and look at one state as a case study to understand how coordinating bodies, intermediaries, national and in-state funders are all operating from the lens of that one state. In this conversation, you will hear key highlights of the state funding landscape, how funders are approaching longer-term power-building investments in states...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization, and How Justice Reinvestment Can Build a Better Future for All

Resource type: 
Partner Resource

Communities United , Make the Road New York , and Padres & Jóvenes Unidos have just released a new report, The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization, and How Justice Reinvestment Can Build a Better Future for All , detailing how the U.S.’s misguided criminal justice policies wasted $3.4 trillion over the last three decades that could have instead been used to more...

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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

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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Voices from the Field: Rural Organizers on What They Need from Funders

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Tue, June 05, 2018

As a first step in establishing a framework and priorities, the Integrated Rural Strategies Group commissioned a scan of rural organizing work, Voices from the Field: Rural Organizers on What They Need from Funders . From this scan, the group has gained literacy in the organizing work...

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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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-...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

Staff Transitions at NFG

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/29/2017
It's an exciting time here at Neighborhood Funders Group, and our staff team is growing and shifting. We are sad to say goodbye to Yolanda Hippensteele as our Director of Member Engagement, but delighted to welcome Adriana Rocha as NFG's new Vice President of Programs, and Lindsay Ryder as our new Membership Manager as well as congratulate Sarita Ahuja into a new role as Vice President of Operations. Adriana has worked in the social justice field for over 20 years, bringing great expertise in organizational and network capacity building. Prior to joining NFG, she led a variety of...
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A Community-Centered Response to Louisiana Flooding

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
08/26/2016
The recent flooding disaster in Louisiana is responsible for loss of life, major destruction of property, and significant impacts on safety in a region already struggling with disinvestment. Over 10,000 people are in shelters, and thousands more will return to damaged homes, neighborhoods, and communities. Thankfully, government’s response to this disaster has been much better than its response to Hurricane Katrina. First responders have saved lives and served evacuees, and disaster agencies are assessing the recovery landscape. Meanwhile, philanthropic organizations—like NFG partner...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Funding Opportunity

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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A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

News type: 
News from the Field
By Alicia Garza , The Feminist Wire, October 7, 2014. I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for Black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was post-humously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed. It was a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society and also, unfortunately, our movements. Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and...
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Topic: 
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
Community Power-Building

Project Phoenix Outcomes and Evaluation

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Wed, March 08, 2017
... fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or ...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice

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...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

Shifting Resources Towards Permanently Affordable Housing

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, October 10, 2019 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
A wave of housing solutions to protect, preserve, and build community power is sweeping across the country to address our current housing challenges. But even with groups moving forward local and state policies to advance tenant protections and increase resources for affordable housing, speculation and rising housing costs are still displacing communities of color and low-income communities. There is a great need to invest in permanently affordable housing like community land trusts and community control of land, which represents a path forward for families threatened by the foreclosure...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

NFG celebrates 40 years! NFG's January 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
01/23/2020
... racism in health and housing, racial capitalism, migrant worker justice in rural areas, reimagining community safety ...
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Black Lives Matter, Today and Always: January 15 Highway Action Solidarity Statement

News type: 
News from the Field
by Mia McKenzie January 16, 2015 BlackGirlDangerous.org On January 15, 2015, A non-Black group of Pan-Asians, Latinos, and white people, some of whom are queer and transgender, linked their bodies together across the I- 93 highway in a highly coordinated action in Boston. This act of civic participation was in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and Black people. Here is the solidarity statement: Police in Ferguson are not bad apples — the whole system, Boston included, is rotten to the core. In the past 15 years, law enforcement officers of Boston Police, the nation’s first...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

The criminalization of Muslim students must end

News type: 
News from the Field
... of school discipline policies against brown, Muslim and immigrant students. To his teachers and school ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

NFG Member Spotlight: The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/17/2018
... gun violence), Four Freedoms Fund (supporting immigrant rights), and the Funders’ Collaborative on ... awarded several grants to organizations responding to the immigrant detention and family separation crisis in the ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Philanthropic Practice

Place Based Community Change: The Time is Now

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/02/2016
This September, 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, Dawn Phillips, of Right to the City Alliance and Causa Justa :: Just Cause outlines an agenda for place-based change that acknowledges our past and looks to local solutions to guide the future. By Dawn Phillips, Right to the City Alliance and Causa Justa :: Just Cause The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group’s Towards...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Project Phoenix

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, February 1, 2016 - Monday, January 30, 2017
... fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or ... and must create a better balance between positive social, worker and environmental returns and profits, and prioritize ...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice

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...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Racial Justice

How to Creatively Fund Social Movements

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Webinar
... than 10 years of experience working on issues including immigrant rights, racial justice, access to higher education, ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Feature: Freedom Inc.’s Creative Response to the Criminalization of Black Communities in Madison, Wisconsin

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
03/08/2016
... against the criminalization of LGBTQI people of color and immigrant communities and that increase their safety. These ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Criminalization
Gender 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...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Economic Justice
Racial Justice

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Kris Hayashi

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/14/2019
Hear from Kris Hayashi, Executive Director of Transgender Law Center and FFJ Field Advisor, about the efforts to seek #JusticeforRoxsana and the horrific conditions trans migrants face, particularly in ICE custody. Click here to participate in a matching gift challenge. #JusticeforRoxsana Six months ago, our government murdered Roxsana Hernandez, a transgender woman and asylum-seeker from Honduras. Last month we put ICE on notice. On November 26 th, 2018 Transgender Law Center (TLC) and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free announced that we have filed a Notice of Wrongful Death Tort Claim in New...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Gender Justice
Racial Justice

Join the Inaugural Philanthropy Forward Leadership for Change Fellowship

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/18/2018
Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) and The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions are excited to launch a new leadership fellowship for CEOs of progressive philanthropic institutions. The first cohort of 15 dynamic fellows will be the start of an annually growing network of visionary CEO leaders who share a belief in a model of community partnership that centers community knowledge and power building. Together, fellows will be strategic thought partners, with a dedicated space to organize together, boldly envisioning and advancing the transformed future of philanthropy. A future that...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

What Have We Learned about Place-Based Investments?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/02/2016
Last month, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened 100 local, regional, and national funders for Towards a More Resilient Place: Promising Practices in Place-Based Philanthropy . Here, Simran Noor of the Center for Social Inclusion shares the three lessons that funders should build on to support sustainable community change. By Simran Noor, Center for Social Inclusion Eight years ago, I worked for a foundation that heavily invests in my hometown, which allowed me to see firsthand the impacts of place-based investments. I was reminded of that...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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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Headwaters Foundation for Justice Launches Emergency Fund For Black Lives

News type: 
Member News
Contact: Maria De La Cruz (612)270-2307 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, December 9, 2015 – Headwaters Foundation for Justice is launching “the Emergency Fund for Black Lives” to provide grants to Black Lives Matter Minneapolis and Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC). These two groups have inspired, mobilized, and supported hundreds of community members to call out and change police violence against people of color. With an initial goal of $100,000, Headwaters Foundation has already raised over $60,000 by reaching out to individual donors and foundation partners. On...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Headwaters Foundation for Justice Relaunches Emergency Fund for Black Lives

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/12/2016
... the killing of Philando Castile, a 32-year-old cafeteria worker . Headwaters grantees – BLM-MPLS, NOC, and others – ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice
Funding Opportunity

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

News type: 
News from the Field
Alicia Garza and two friends first tweeted #BlackLivesMatter to spark a conversation after the death of Trayvon Martin. Three years later, their hashtag has become a movement. Liz Pleasant, May 01, 2015, Yes! Magazine Following the police killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, TIME Magazine hit newsstands with a cover dominated by large, block letters: “Black Lives Matter.” #BlackLivesMatter has infiltrated America’s modern vocabulary. It’s the rallying cry for a movement that began getting a lot of national attention after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Power-Building

From Protest to Power - Behind the scenes of disruptive social movements

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, November 07, 2016

From Protest to Power is a convening hosted by the Ford Foundation and the Solidaire Network on February 26, 2016. We live in a political era defined by crisis, but also great promise. The effects of climate change, economic inequality, and racial injustice threaten our future. Yet in the face of these challenges, there’s a vibrant, visible resurgence of popular movements, of communities rising up against entrenched economic and political power. And it’s working. Four years after the start of the...

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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

Project Phoenix Grantmaking Tools

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, March 06, 2017
... range of issue perspectives (climate, civic engagement, worker rights, local economies, etc.) and a broad range of ...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice

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...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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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Surdna Foundation Stepping Up for Racial Justice

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/14/2020
Don Chen, President of Surdna Foundation , announces the foundation's plans to increase its grantmaking by $36 million to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color leaders, organizations, and networks most affected by systemic racism. This post was originally published here on the foundation's website. Don was part of the 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change Fellowship cohort, a joint initiative of Neighborhood Funders Group and The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions. Surdna Foundation, a member of NFG, seeks to foster sustainable communities in the United States...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

Philanthropy Isn’t Doing Enough to Support Youth-Led Voter-Mobilization Efforts

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/20/2020
... For example, New Mexico Dream Team , which is led by immigrant youth, quickly pivoted their in-person programs ...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

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

Pittsburgh is a “blue city," where nearly 80% of the population voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The city’s economy is booming, but gentrification is rapidly displacing low-income families of color from hot areas of the city while other neighborhoods have not seen any investment in decades.

Local anchor institutions, community organizations, labor unions, and foundations like The Heinz Endowments are playing a critical role in investing in people and community development to build an economy that includes jobs that sustain...

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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

#ReclaimMLK Actions Across the US

News type: 
News from the Field
Check out these articles about the powerful #ReclaimMLK direct action and local organizing across the country this past weekend: Protestors Rally Nationwide to Reclaim MLK’s Legacy by Jamilah King, ColorLines Tuesday, January 20 2015, 10:18 AM EST In cities across the nation, protestors took the streets with a call to reclaim Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy this holiday weekend. The actions were part of a coordinated effort, dubbed #ReclaimMLK on social media, that sought to build off of them momentum of last year’s rallies against police brutality. To see pictures and tweets...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Mon, March 06, 2017
Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age February 5, 2017 By Edgar Villanueva , VP of Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education These first two weeks in Trump's America have been chaotic and stressful, but already emblematic of the dire needs philanthropy must step up to. From those who could be left out of affordable health care to those bandied about in an educational system with an...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Community Power-Building

Webinar Recap: How to Creatively Fund Social Movements

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, February 24, 2017
... than 10 years of experience working on issues including immigrant rights, racial justice, access to higher education, ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

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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Decriminalization and Community-Led Safety and Justice Models in Communities of Color

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, June 8, 2017
New York, NY
... communities fighting for land sovereignty, and anti- immigrant “show me your papers” collaboration with ICE, ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

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

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
... with entrenched poverty and disinvestment. Community and worker power-building through sustained, nimble, multi-issue ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Beyond Outrage: A Clarity of Purpose

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/15/2019
Dimple Abichandani, Executive Director of the General Service Foundation, urges grantmakers and the philanthropic sector to take concrete actions to defend democracy and speak out against racist attacks on people of color. This post was originally published here on the foundation's website. Dimple 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. General Service Foundation, which partners with grassroots organizations to bring about a more just and...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

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...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Funding Opportunity
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

Jews for Racial Justice Moving the Conversation About Police Brutality Into White Communities

News type: 
News from the Field
... with whiteness through diasporic family histories and immigrant memories, alongside their current lived experiences ... led by people of color, poor and working-class and immigrant communities over the last 25 years, we've been able .....
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Safety & Justice

National and Local Recommendations for Police Accountability

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, December 10, 2014
The Center for Popular Democracy The killing of unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson created a moment of moral outrage and mobilization that reverberated around the country. Unfortunately, we understand that the harassment and killing of black and brown women and men through excessive use of force by law enforcement is not uncommon in the United States. According to a report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Project, in 2012 an average of one black person was killed by law enforcement or vigilantes every 28 hours. For the families and...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Safety & Justice

Webinar Resources from Hope in the Heartland: Racial Justice and the White Working Class

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Thu, May 18, 2017

The current debates within progressive circles about the importance of “winning over” the white working class often fail to directly address the need for honest conversations about race, racism and xenophobia. It is tempting for many political strategists and funders to think that we can find and fund a short cut—better candidates, better field canvassing, better television ads, better framing etc... And, that these solutions will influence white, working class voters to (re)align with progressive candidates and causes.

These interventions are doomed from the start because they...

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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

NFG speaks with place-based funders on how they are using impact investing to further justice and equity

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/10/2019
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash An increasing number of foundations are embracing impact investing as a powerful strategy to potentially make use of all of their assets — not just 5% — to advance their place-based and justice-oriented missions. Last month, several Neighborhood Funders Group members attended Confluence Philanthropy’s 9th Annual Practitioners Gathering to explore how the philanthropic and investment sectors can accelerate movement-building for equity. In reflection, a few folks from NFG’s funder network share their perspectives on, and experience in, mission-related...
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Topic: 
Inclusive Development
Philanthropic Practice

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

News type: 
Member News
... analysis on the intersection between criminal justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and/or corporate ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Criminalization

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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Thoughts on Ferguson

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, September 08, 2014
... from her home a week before she was raped by a social worker . While these examples are somewhat extreme, I am using ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Safety & Justice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/08/2020
Black Lives Matter, today and every day. The Amplify Fund, alongside our colleagues at 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. Today we are especially energized by mass protests around the country, and the concrete steps towards defunding the police and investing in community priorities. Today, it is clearer than ever, that defending Black lives requires us all to take...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Amplify Fund

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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How Philanthropy Can Promote Equity through Community Engagement

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
01/22/2018
When NFG members Nexus Community Partners and The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota heard that there was a light rail extension planned to connect Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park, they knew there was an opportunity to leverage their resources to support community power in the process. Many of the neighborhoods that the light rail extension would pass through are home to a population of majority people of color and immigrants who would likely be left out of the conversation if traditional planning processes were followed. As Patrick Troska, Executive Director of the Phillips...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Inclusive Development

Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, March 30, 2017 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... organization focused on community development, housing and immigrant justice issues. Dawn is also Executive Director of ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

The Power of the People – SB1445 is a Strategic Victory With Lessons for Alliance Building

News type: 
News from the Field
Post by Tia Oso, National Coordinator for the Black Immigration Network and BAJI Arizona Organizer Late Monday , in a much anticipated decision, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey vetoed Senate Bill 1445 , dubbed the “Secret Police” bill. As the Movement for Black Lives shines the light of justice on the crisis of police brutality plaguing Black communities across the country, powerful Arizona police unions used their influence to introduce SB1445. The bill withheld the identity of officers that used deadly force or police brutality for 60 days, as well as redacting officer’s...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Safety & Justice

How NFG is Disrupting Funder-Grantee Dynamics

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/04/2018
Helen Chin has just led the Surdna Foundation’s Sustainable Environments Program through a strategy refinement process. “Now,” she says, with satisfaction, “We are able to connect more robustly with what’s bubbling from the ground up in the field, as well as center racial equity in our work!” The outcome of this effort was a commitment to actively partner directly with the communities most vulnerable and impacted by climate change in order to build their capacity and power to self-determine the ownership, control and stewardship of land and infrastructure. This refinement distills the Program...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Amplify Fund

Ferguson Solidarity: Ways to Support the Fight

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, August 19, 2014
" Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) , Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) have identified several critical ways for allies outside of Ferguson to support OBS's organizing efforts: financial resources, legal support, and solidarity actions in localities across the country. Ferguson Solidarity: Ways to Support the Fight All eyes are on the fight for justice for Michael Brown and the growing movement against the systematic targeting of black and brown...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Funding Opportunity

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

Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/29/2016
... that the most effective strategies work both horizontally ( integrating efforts across policy domains within a ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Housing Justice

Applications Now Open for 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward Leadership Fellowship

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
02/06/2019
Neighborhood Funders Group and Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions are excited to launch the second year of our Leadership for Change Fellowship for CEOs of progressive philanthropic institutions. This second cohort will add to the original 16 cohort members from the first year, an annually growing network of visionary CEO leaders who share a belief in a model of community partnership that centers community knowledge and power building. Together, Fellows will be strategic thought partners, with a dedicated space to organize together, boldly envisioning and advancing the transformed...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Philanthropy Forward

NFG at the 2019 CHANGE Philanthropy Unity Summit

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, November 18, 2019 - Thursday, November 21, 2019
Seattle, WA
Neighborhood Funders Group is proud to be a collaborative partner of CHANGE Philanthropy and a member of the 2019 Unity Summit planning committee. NFG's staff and members will be hosting several great sessions at the summit, including a pre-conference Healing Justice Institute , workshops on 'me too.' in philanthropy and rural organizing for racial and economic equity, plenaries on migrant justice and the leadership of women of color in movements, and more! View the full UNITY Summit agenda here. PRE-...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Philanthropy Forward

$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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Racial Justice

Key Insights from #BaltimoreUprising

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Partner Resource
Mon, May 18, 2015
... Latino community as well. Casa de Maryland, a low-income, immigrant organization with roots in Baltimore was a ... in late 2014 by President Obama. In the case of the immigrant justice struggle, the distance between the ...
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Racial Justice
Community Power-Building
Funding Opportunity

We didn’t start a movement. We started a network.

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Partner Resource
Sun, February 21, 2016
by Patrisse Marie Cullors-Brignac In 2013, I helped create a Black-centered political will and movement building project called #BlackLivesMatter. You may have heard of it. As many of you know, it was in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman. Another co-creator, Alicia Garza first uttered the words in a love note to Black people. I slapped a hashtag on it because I understood the power of spreading messages. Opal Tometi caught wind and helped us develop the broader social media platform, among other things. All of us are trained radical Black organizers, who...
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Racial Justice
Criminalization

Local Housing Solutions: Tackling a national problem on a local scale

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/14/2019
A growing number of places are grappling with housing affordability. As the problem spreads from famously high-cost areas like New York and San Francisco, it is becoming a more pressing concern for middle-income households. These trends have pushed housing affordability onto the national stage in an unprecedented way, with several presidential candidates releasing detailed policy plans, and speaking about housing frequently on the campaign trail. Yet despite its national prominence, housing remains an issue where local governments play an enormous role. As Neighborhood Funders Group's...
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Healthy Communities
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
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Democratizing Development Program

Five Things President Obama Could Do to Stop the Killing

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News from the Field
By Gordon Whitman, Deputy Director, PICO National Network If my son - who is 14 years old, has Autism and is hearing impaired - were African-American I would be worried every time he left the house to walk to school or the library, worried that he'd have a failed encounter with a teacher, school administrator or police officer that would result in him being hurt, psychologically or physically. That anxiety - which I know many parents of African-American and Latino children have - is by no means irrational. Whites bring a host of unthinking stereotypes into their encounters with African-...
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Racial Justice
Criminalization
Community Safety & Justice

Black Lives Matter: We Say Their Names

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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 ...
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Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Our Work Today: A Statement from FFJ Leadership

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NFG News
Release Date: 
08/14/2017
... Islamaphobic, misogynist, homophobic, and anti- immigrant . Effective responses to this will be grounded in ...
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Racial Justice

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

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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...
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Philanthropic Practice
Criminalization
Community Safety & Justice

Ferguson Action Demands

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Partner Resource
Sat, November 01, 2014
from Ferguson Action

OUR VISION FOR A NEW AMERICA

WE WANT JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR OUR COMMUNITIES

We Want an End to all Forms of Discrimination and the Full Recognition of our Human Rights

The United States Government must acknowledge and address the structural violence and institutional discrimination that continues to imprison our communities either in a life of poverty and/or one behind bars. We want the United States Government to recognize the full spectrum of our human rights and its...
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Racial Justice
Criminalization
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How White Foundation Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice

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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...
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Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

Can place-based grantmaking help turn the tide of inequality?

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/19/2015
By Dennis Quirin and Steve Patrick Today we see many local communities – urban, suburban and rural - swamped by historic disinvestment and the growing tide of economic and social inequality in our country. Place-based grantmaking can play an important role in turning this tide, but not without addressing the core structural barriers that have produced and propelled it. In local communities, addressing the lived experiences of people who are marginalized by racism, poverty, immigration status, gender discrimination, homophobia and disability will require many funders to retool their approaches...
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Philanthropic Practice

Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening

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Event Recap
Fri, May 05, 2017
... for communities of color, poor communities, immigrant communities, women and others. Click here to ...
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Community Power-Building

On Earth Day, Empowering Allies for the Year Ahead

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/22/2015
People, Place and the Pope offer new hope for environmental progress Rachel Leon, Environmental Grantmakers Association Dennis Quirin, Neighborhood Funders Group There is new hope for sustaining people, place, and planet on Earth Day’s 45 th anniversary, as burgeoning voices for equity, community, and faith are rising to the forefront of the environmental movement. Is the philanthropic community poised to invest in these arenas so that we can maximize this moment of opportunity? Whether your starting place is economic justice or climate resilience, the solutions to these global challenges...
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Climate Justice
Philanthropic Practice

Charlottesville Funder Briefing

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Webinar
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Webinar
... Islamaphobic, misogynist, homophobic, and anti- immigrant . Effective responses to this will be grounded in ...
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Community Safety & Justice
Racial Justice

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/02/2019
Zachary Norris, FFJ Field Advisor and Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , tells us about his vision for change and the need to invest in building the foundation for marginalized communities to thrive. What’s happening for Ella Baker Center in this moment? It's a very exciting time for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights as we move to a new, permanent home in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood: a community advocacy and training center called Restore Oakland . At Restore Oakland, community members will have access to a wide range of resources -...
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Community Power-Building
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Healthy Communities
Inclusive Development

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Jenny Arwade

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/01/2019
Jenny Arwade, Co-Executive Director of Communities United and FFJ Field Advisor, tells us about current Chicago happenings and the role of healing justice in “building the power necessary to change the conditions in our communities, dismantle structural racism, and address long term healing through transformative change”. What are some key fights happening in Chicago that you think folks across the country should be watching? In Chicago, we are coming off of a historic Mayoral run-off election, with voters electing the city’s first Black, Lesbian woman as Mayor. We now have...
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Community Safety & Justice
Healthy Communities

A Letter to the NFG Community from our President: NFG's June 2020 Newsletter

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Newsletter
Release Date: 
06/09/2020
It is a great honor and joy to greet you as Neighborhood Funders Group’s new President . And I do so while holding grief and outrage for George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, Dion Johnson, Ahmaud Arbery, and the untold thousands of Black people killed by police. I am also reflecting on Pride Month as we near the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings — led by trans women of color like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in response to police violence against the LGBTQ community. Protest movements like Pride have been pivotal to the struggles for power and self-...
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From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns

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

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/15/2020
... “ponzi scheme;” and third, automation’s influence on worker 's lives and consumption. She urged us to hold these .....
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Financialization
Gender Justice
Racial Justice
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Funders for a Just Economy

More is required of us

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Member News
... to the murder of Amadou Diallo, the unarmed African immigrant who was shot 41 times in a hail of bullets by ...
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Philanthropic Practice
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CHANGE Philanthropy Convening

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Committee Meeting
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Oakland, CA
Neighborhood Funders Group is proud to be a collaborative partner of CHANGE Philanthropy and a member of the planning committee for the 2017 UNITY Summit . We hope you'll join us for these learning and networking opportunities. Tuesday, September 19th » Session: What Keeps Communities Safe? Divesting from Mass Criminalization 10:00 - 11:30 am | Salon D, Third Floor » Workshop: Practicing Philanthropic Solidarity 10:00 - 11:30 am | Salon A, Third Floor » Luncheon Plenary: Funding Power 11:30 - 1:00 pm |...
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Community Safety & Justice
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As the South Grows

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Partner Resource
Tue, June 12, 2018

As the South Grows is an initiative of Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) to give philanthropists the tools they need to partner effectively with visionary leaders across the South. The initiative will produce a four-part investigative research and resource report series around place-based strategies for supporting structural change in the South. Through timely...

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Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice

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

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/08/2019
... that have extracted from and exploited low-income, immigrant , black, brown, trans, and indigenous communities . ...
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Healthy Communities
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Democratizing Development Program

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

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NFG News
Release Date: 
02/04/2021
This blog was written by Nile Malloy, Director of NFG's Democratizing Development Program to urge philanthropy to propel a bold approach to the housing crisis. Housing advocates and grassroots groups from across the country continue to organize elected officials at the local, state, and federal level for another eviction moratorium, rental assistance, and foreclosure delay relief to slow the rate of some families from being pushed towards the cliff of homelessness. National groups like Right to the City Housing is the Cure; People’s Action Home Guarantee , National Low-income Housing...
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Democratizing Development Program

Making Black Lives Matter

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Member Publication
Wed, February 25, 2015
... Georgia, to a trans woman in Los Angeles, to a fast food worker in Boston, to a returning citizen in Louisiana, to the ...
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Philanthropic Practice
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Funders for Justice Announces Inaugural Advisory Committee of Field Leaders

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NFG News
Release Date: 
07/05/2017
... within marginalized communities has led her to work on immigrant rights, economic justice and civil rights campaigns ...
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