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#NFG2016 Conference Recap from Native Americans in Philanthropy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/04/2016
... Americans in Philanthropy , provides her perspective on NFG ’s 2016 National Convening. This post originally appeared on ... Vanguard of the Revolution . As a “newbie” to the conference , I was excited to see the three-day conference was ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open!

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
10/12/2015
... worker justice organizing campaigns. The winner of the 2016 Discount Legacy Award will be honored at the Jobs With ... Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration on February 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. To learn more about the ... the word about this special leadership opportunity. The 2016 Discount Legacy Award Nominations Are Open! ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Staff Transitions at NFG

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/29/2017
... Engagement, but delighted to welcome Adriana Rocha as NFG 's new Vice President of Programs, and Lindsay Ryder as ... and network capacity building. Prior to joining NFG , she led a variety of organizational development and ... a half years, Yolanda has spearheaded NFG 's successful 2016 National Convening , helped to launch the California .....
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NFG Newsletter - December 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
... Director of the Needmor Fund) as she ended her term on NFG ’s Board of Directors, I found myself crying like a baby. I have known Mary since NFG ’s National Convening in Cleveland in 2007: the conference I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with ...
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NFG Member Spotlight: Tremaine Foundation

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
... recent initiatives that may be of special interest to the NFG membership is Sustainable CT (Connecticut). We asked ... questions about their work, and how their membership with NFG is shaping their thinking. 1. The Emily Hall Tremaine ... to NFG ’s cross-sector, community, and equity lenses. In 2016 , we attended NFG & Aspen Institute’s convening, ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Reclaim MLK 2016

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
01/16/2016
... Read more and find an action near you. Reclaim MLK 2016 ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Racial Justice

Empower Philanthropy! ABFE’s Annual Conference

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
12/10/2014
Each year, ABFE hosts an annual conference , convening more than 250 members, stakeholders and ... and recognition of our colleagues in the field. The 2015 conference will spotlight individuals who are leading ... workshops in December 23. Learn more and register for the conference . Empower Philanthropy! ABFE’s Annual Conference ...
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/29/2017
... taking collective action and funding grassroots efforts . NFG is the political home where funders collaborate to make this happen. As NFG members ourselves, we’ve learned how to fund just ... year, all staff at your organization will get early bird conference rates... trust us, you don’t want to miss this ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

NFG Newsletter - January 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
01/23/2020
This year marks NFG 's 40th anniversary. During our early years, NFG was one of the few spaces in philanthropy specifically ... as the key to effective social change strategies. Today, NFG continues to be many funders' political home at a time .....
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NFG Newsletter - April 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
04/30/2020
... this unprecedented public health and economic crisis. The NFG team has spent the last several weeks adjusting to this ... philanthropy. With this message, we’re announcing that NFG will be pivoting to virtual offerings for our 2020 ... we made this decision because the health and safety of the NFG community is paramount and we have deepened our ...
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NFG Newsletter - February 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
02/28/2020
February is Black History Month and, in this newsletter, NFG honors Black resistance. Given the persistence of structural racism and the legacies of segregation, NFG has mobilized philanthropy to support POC-led organizing ... grassroots power building. At the beginning of the month, NFG ’s Amplify Fund staff and steering committee spent a ...
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NFG Newsletter - July 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
07/30/2020
... recording! ), Multiracial Rural Equity Summit hosted by NFG 's Integrated Rural Strategies Program, and Homecoming: ... and Economic Justice, a strategy session organized by NFG 's Democratizing Development Program. As communities ... created by COVID-19 and rise up to defend Black lives, NFG is a place for funders to find co-conspirators, explore .....
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Welcome to the new NFG website!

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/10/2018
... by topic and format, at the bottom of every page Look up NFG member organizations in our member directory Log in to ... on our reset password page. Let us know at support@ nfg .org if you come across any issues logging in, or anywhere else on the site. Welcome to the new NFG website! ...
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NFG Newsletter - October 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
10/29/2020
... courage of our communities. Over the next several weeks, NFG is offering a variety of ways to connect, strategize ... together, and create action plans: TODAY! Join NFG ’s Funders for a Just Economy at 10am PT / 1pm ET for ... this survey beforehand to help shape the discussion! NFG ’s 40 Years Strong virtual convening series ...
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NFG Newsletter - August 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
08/20/2020
At NFG ’s plenary session to ignite our 40 Years Strong ... for philanthropy to be more accountable to communities, NFG is excited to announce that registration is now open ... for our convening programming is complimentary for NFG members and available to non-members for $100. If you ...
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NFG Newsletter - November 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
11/23/2020
... 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 ... is of great personal and political importance to me. NFG ’s mission is to organize philanthropy to support ...
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NFG Newsletter - September 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
09/29/2020
Last week, NFG ’s Amplify Fund and Funders for a Just Economy ... build power, and transform their lives and communities. NFG urges you to fully resource work that centers the lives, ... color communities: Be in conversation and community with NFG as you work to do better in your role as a funder. Take ...
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NFG Newsletter - June 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
06/09/2020
... Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. NFG is grounded in these histories, strengths, and struggles. ... struggles too. In this new moment, I am heartened to lead NFG and am rooted in community with you. This organization ... and inspiring organizing spaces for funders. And we at NFG are committed to pushing philanthropy to support ...
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Supporting Transformative Change with NFG

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/14/2019
... her first encounter with Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ), just after entering philanthropy from the field of ... 4 years. When I was first assigned to go and sit in on an NFG strategic planning conversation, for me it was like ... that analysis to our funding strategies. She appreciates NFG ’s clarity and boldness in naming and elevating issues ...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Board Transitions at NFG

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
04/19/2019
... the board. Fortunately, we are also welcoming three new NFG members to the board: Cory Anderson, Winthrop Rockefeller ... the University of California, Berkeley. Learn more about NFG 's board. Board Transitions at NFG .....
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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 ... Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change This fall, NFG will be launching Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for ... Integrated Rural Strategies Group In addition, NFG has been convening a core group of funders interested in .....
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Philanthropy Forward

NFG Member Spotlight: The Libra Foundation

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/22/2020
... & Grants Manager), Jennifer Agmi (Senior Program Officer) NFG 's network is composed of 120+ members that work in ... in this moment, and why they continue to invest in NFG with their renewed and increased membership. We love to ... with our members! Share your experiences as part of the NFG network by getting in touch with Lindsay Ryder, Senior .....
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Asks: What is NFG?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/05/2014
Longtime NFG member and leader asked an important question: "What is NFG ?" See how they answered. So many smiling faces from our friends in Arkansas! "Like NFG , we see the need for philanthropy to advance social .....
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NFG Announces New President: Adriana Rocha

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/21/2020
... May 21, 2020 OAKLAND, CA — Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ), a national affinity group that organizes philanthropy ... nationwide search, Rocha will become the 6th President in NFG ’s 40-year history. She is a seasoned, action-oriented ... philanthropy experience to the role. Rocha has served as NFG ’s Vice President of Programs since May 2017. In this ...
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NFG Announces Transition of President Dennis Quirin

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/12/2019
... 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 ... through the executive transition. A search for NFG ’s next President will begin in late 2019. “The ...
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How NFG is Disrupting Funder-Grantee Dynamics

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/04/2018
... signature expression of its values, Surdna partnered with NFG , Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Jessie Smith ... The Moriah Fund, and The JPB Foundation to seed NFG ’s Amplify Fund, a new, multimillion-dollar pooled fund ... forms criteria and provides oversight for the Fund. Of NFG , she says, “Because racial equity is so squarely ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Amplify Fund

NFG moves into grantmaking with a multimillion-dollar collaborative fund

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/11/2017
Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ) steps into the role of collaborative grantmaker with The ... communities of color,” said Dennis Quirin, president of NFG . “The Amplify Fund is a catalytic opportunity for NFG to live its mission and provide a vehicle for funders to ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Inclusive Development
Philanthropic Practice
Program: 
Amplify Fund

NFG Member Spotlight: The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/17/2018
... Moyer, to talk about their work and how membership with NFG is shaping their thinking. Langeloth is part of a number ... Finally, share a bit about Langeloth’s history with NFG – how has NFG membership enhanced Langeloth’s learning and influenced ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Philanthropic Practice

NFG 2018 Award for Excellence & Discount Foundation Legacy Award

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/27/2018
... and organizing: Molly Schultz Hafid, recipient of the NFG Award for Excellence, and Enrique "Kike" Balcazar, winner of the Discount Foundation Legacy Award, at the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice. NFG Award for Excellence in Philanthropy NFG ’s Award for .....
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Topic: 
Leadership Development
Philanthropic Practice
Workers' Rights

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/01/2014
... Southern Progress (GSP) and Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ), are pleased to announce that LaTosha Brown will become ... for Southern Progress is a funder working group of NFG , comprised of Southern and national funders who are ... LaTosha writes, “It's an exciting time to be joining the NFG leadership team. The South is rapidly changing, the .....
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Roses Along A Journey: My Transformative Experience in NFG’s Project Phoenix

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/03/2017
Tyler Nickerson, NFG Member and Director of Investments and State Strategy at ... , was one of 33 funders selected to participate in NFG ’s Project Phoenix . He shares his reflections on ... creativity are rare and fleeting. I was fortunate to have NFG ’s Project Phoenix provide such an opportunity for me to ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/30/2020
In the midst of the growing COVID-19 pandemic, NFG stands with our communities and workers who are in ... meet the immediate needs of our communities at this time, NFG also remains committed to long-term transformation ... for each other.” Read the full essay here. NFG is doing just that in our programming and grantmaking. ...
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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

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
... every day. The Amplify Fund, alongside our colleagues at NFG , stands in solidarity with Black communities as we again ... challenge white supremacy, and follow the guidance of our NFG colleagues and members through Funders for Justice , by ... from criminalization and investing in communities. As NFG ’s first grantmaking program, Amplify is proud to learn ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Program: 
Amplify Fund

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
... for equity. In reflection, a few folks from NFG ’s funder network share their perspectives on, and ... equity Soon after Confluence Philanthropy’s Gathering, NFG member Amalgamated Foundation launched the Hate Is Not ... it can be helpful to look at these alternatives. NFG member The Hyams Foundation considers itself to be at the ...
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Topic: 
Inclusive Development
Philanthropic Practice

Why We Move Money for Justice

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/19/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... sparked by Michael Brown’s murder was clear at the conference ’s screening of Whose Streets? , a powerful ... As Kevin Ryan, longtime NFG member and recipient of the 2016 NFG Award for Excellence in Philanthropy, once told me: ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice

Changing Foundation Culture to Support Place-Based Change

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/02/2016
In September 2016 , the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and ... that define the Aspen Institute. In many ways, the conference matched our surroundings. Outside of logistics and ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Philanthropy’s Role in Holding Tension

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... Group - they are your people”. I had just missed the 2016 convening in Oakland and learned I had to wait another ... close to my chest as I navigated through the rest of the conference . Organizers, funders, and neighborhood activists ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

On Earth Day, Empowering Allies for the Year Ahead

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/22/2015
... Association (EGA) and Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ) find our paths increasingly intertwined. Building a ... Latino electorate could grow to more than 13 million by 2016 , representing a 34 percent increase from 2008. New ... around December’s December’s 21 st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris, we hope we can ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Philanthropic Practice

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/09/2016
... future is in your hands. In the next days and weeks, NFG will be collecting analysis and information from a ... the rest of our network, please send it to us via email at nfg @ nfg .org . We are grateful to be in community with you. ...
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“Advancing Together” the Democratizing Development Program

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
10/13/2016
We launched NFG ’s new Democratizing Development Program this summer ... Development 2017 Program Planning Survey by November 18, 2016 . Funder Webinar on Governance, Participatory ... contact Nile K. Malloy, Senior Program Manager, nile@ nfg .org . “Advancing Together” the Democratizing ...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Standing in Our Power Together

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/16/2018
... of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... Justice . Here, Manisha Vaze , Senior Program Manager of NFG 's Funders for a Just Economy , reflects on funder ... There were several standout moments for me during the conference related to the Funders for a Just Economy’s .....
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Economic Justice
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Bringing Our Whole Selves to Philanthropy and Our Grantmaking

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... my first time attending the Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ) convening, I was thankful to be able to bring my full ... and invitation of NFG VP of Programs, Adriana Rocha, and conference co-chairs Marjona Jones and Retta Morris. In my ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/19/2015
... and Neighborhood Funders Group organized the conference last September, our intent was to start a national ... rich discussions and learnings from the conference , the NFG and the Aspen Forum have just released a conference ... and practices. The Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and NFG will continue providing opportunities for funders to ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... Community Strategies at The Annie E. Casey Foundation , NFG Conference Co-Chair, and NFG Board Member — reflects on the ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
09/29/2017
... via our online portal by 11:59 p.m. PST on October 28, 2016 . You can access the online nomination form here . ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Answering the Call from Movement Leaders

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... This question was especially on my mind given that the conference was held in in St. Louis, Missouri where Mike ... supporting their nationally coordinated organizing. At the NFG conference , we were invited by the M4BL to provide ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Kris Hayashi

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/14/2019
... he presented himself for asylum also at SYPOE in December 2016 . He was detained for nearly two years before being ... for her. Justice for Roxsana.” WATCH THE TLC PRESS CONFERENCE IN SAN DIEGO HERE. Time to Take Action We know this will be a long and hard fight. After the press conference in San Diego, INTO reported , “On Monday, ICE ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Gender Justice
Racial Justice

Reimagining How We Fund and What We Fund

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/19/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice . Here, Dr. Carmen Rojas , NFG Board Member and Co-Founder & CEO of The Workers Lab , ... role of philanthropy in these pressing times. The NFG conference could not have come at a better time. We are at a ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Catalyzing a Movement for Health and Housing

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2019
... Foundation. In June 2019, Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ) gathered nearly 90 funders at Grantmakers in Health’s national conference in Seattle for a panel discussion on how ... The goals of the session, which was organized by NFG ’s Democratizing Development Program , were to mobilize ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Healthy Communities
Housing Justice
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Announcing the 2019 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/01/2019
... Workers' Day, Jobs with Justice Education Fund and NFG ’s Funders for a Just Economy are excited to celebrate ... by many community organizations and elected officials. In 2016 , she received the Grinnell College Innovator for Social ... makers throughout the world. Learn more about Adhikaar. 2016 Awardee: Alfred Marshall Organizer with the New Orleans .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Funders for Justice Announces Inaugural Advisory Committee of Field Leaders

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/05/2017
... community safety, and policing. fundersforjustice@ nfg .org Jenny Arwade, Communities United Jenny ... Public Interest Award in 2015, and is a member of the 2016 class of the Levi Strauss Foundation's Pioneers of .....
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Announcing FFJ’s Latest Field Advisor Cohort

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/13/2020
... her nestled in her NYC apartment, creating art while on conference calls. Charlene Carruthers is a strategist, author ... Equity fellow, Funders for Justice fellow 2018-2021 and a 2016 -2018 Rosenberg Foundation Leading Edge Fellow, focusing ... you’d like to have? Email us at fundersforjustice@ nfg .org . Announcing FFJ’s Latest Field Advisor ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization

White People and Activism in the Trump Era

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/19/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... separating migrant families. In progressive circles like NFG , we have our own brand of fear in the face of this new ... it did for many of us, it really came to a head after the 2016 presidential election. In the weeks leading up to ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

Facing and Recovering from Soul Trauma

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/09/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice. Here, Andrea Dobson , NFG Board Member and Chief Operating & Financial Officer of ... I say I’m interested in serving? Soul trauma. At NFG ’s conference , I was challenged to dig deeper into corpus, to ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Resilient Places Require Intentional Strategies

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/29/2016
... the energy and curiosity of the grantmakers attending the conference , who were of all backgrounds and identities and ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Updates on Ferguson, Cleveland, and NYC

News type: 
NFG Blog
... LGBTQ communities, and others across the country. NFG is committed to continuing this conversation and movement ... democracies. If you would like to become connected with NFG members talking about organizing in Ferguson and beyond, ... to find new streams of revenue to support the work through 2016 and beyond. www.ohiostudentassociation.org Twitter/IG: ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

A Community-Centered Response to Louisiana Flooding

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
08/26/2016
... landscape. Meanwhile, philanthropic organizations—like NFG partner Foundation for Louisiana—are prepared to focus ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Funding Opportunity

Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/29/2016
... Greene, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and former NFG board member Earlier this month, House Republicans ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Housing Justice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/19/2019
... prioritize racial and gender justice. What brought you to NFG ’s Racial Capitalism Convening? I’ve been involved in NFG ’s Democratizing Development Program while at NYF and since my time at Ford, so I am familiar with NFG ’s work and moved by its leadership. Whenever y’all ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
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
... (FJE), a program of the Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ), we’re coming together to track this arena, better ... on the evolving worker justice movement during the NFG biennial conference in St. Louis, MO. And, we partnered with Sarita ...
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Topic: 
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
News from the Field
By Austin Belali Nonprofit Quarterly - March 22, 2016 This piece is part of our ongoing Equity, Diversity, ... Development (UNRISD), “Racism and Public Policy” conference paper, September 3–5, 2001. CIRCLE (Center for ... center_content="no" min_height="none"][FCCP] conference in Washington, D.C. Note: the quoted text does not .....
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Community Power-Building

Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/15/2018
... an d policing. If you would like to get involved with NFG ’s ongoing conversations about these issues, email us at fundersforjustice@ nfg .org Fahd Ahmed DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving ... Public Interest Award in 2015, and is a member of the 2016 class of the Levi Strauss Foundation's Pioneers of .....
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A Multiracial Rural Equity Summit: Why Now

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/16/2020
... Neighborhood Funders Group’s virtual convening series , NFG ’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) will host ... , Engage New York , Meyer Memorial Trust , and NFG ’s Democratizing Development Program . A Multiracial ...
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Topic: 
Climate Justice
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Rural Organizing
Program: 
Integrated Rural Strategies Group

Minneapolis Protestors Occupy Police Precinct, Shut Down Highway After Police Kill Jamar Clark

News type: 
News from the Field
... officers’ account of the shooting during a press conference on Sunday. Two officers say they were called to ... aren’t scheduled to receive them until 2016 —but did not say if there is any other surveillance ...
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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Charlene Carruthers

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NFG Blog
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04/27/2018
... the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference through a mass civil disobedience action. The IACP conference brought over 14,000 law enforcement agents from ...
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Community Power-Building
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Foundation for Louisiana Supports Baton Rouge Organizing with Rapid Response Fund

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Member News
Release Date: 
09/12/2016
... released by Foundation for Louisiana on July 21, 2016 at ...
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Community Safety & Justice
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Building Power in the Sunshine State: Lessons from FJE’s Florida Learning Tour

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/09/2019
In April 2019, NFG 's Funders for a Just Economy and Florida Philanthropic ... Tour. But as we left the sunshine to enter a darkened conference room, our eyes adjusted to read the first slide: .....
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Oct 22-24 in Chicago: Confronting the International Association of Chiefs of Police

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News from the Field
... Project 100 (BYP 100) are planning to disrupt the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of ... in October. On October 22-24 we are holding a counter conference to the IACP annual conference , culminating in a massive 10,000-person protest ...
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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Stephanie Guilloud

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/20/2018
... restaurants and kept a massive event from feeling like a conference and more like a shared experience, rooted in the ...
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Welcome Manisha Vaze, Sr. Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy

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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 ... get involved with FJE, please contact Manisha at manisha@ nfg .org . Welcome Manisha Vaze, Sr. Program Manager of ...
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Funders for a Just Economy

Highlights from Amplify this July

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NFG News
Release Date: 
07/23/2020
... June and begin July with so many of you at the start of NFG ’s 2020 virtual convening series: 40 Years Strong . On ...
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Amplify Fund

Discount Foundation Legacy Award

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NFG News
Release Date: 
01/13/2021
... by many community organizations and elected officials. In 2016 , she received the Grinnell College Innovator for Social ... makers throughout the world. Learn more about Adhikaar. 2016 Awardee: Alfred Marshall Organizer with the New Orleans ...
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Economic Justice
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For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
Will Cordery, Program Officer of Surdna Foundation ’s Strong Local Economies program, writes about racial justice and inclusive economic development. This post originally appeared in NCRP’s quarterly journal, which you can find here . When people have asked me what compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared that I saw a philanthropic organization that is not only guided by principles of social justice, and working to address real societal problems, but one that is committed to investing in new ways of building economies, environments and...
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Community Power-Building
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For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

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Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
Will Cordery, Program Officer of Surdna Foundation ’s Strong Local Economies program, writes about racial justice and inclusive economic development. This post originally appeared in NCRP’s quarterly journal, which you can find here . When people have asked me what compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared that I saw a philanthropic organization that is not only guided by principles of social justice, and working to address real societal problems, but one that is committed to investing in new ways of building economies, environments and...
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For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures

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Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
Will Cordery, Program Officer of Surdna Foundation ’s Strong Local Economies program, writes about racial justice and inclusive economic development. This post originally appeared in NCRP’s quarterly journal, which you can find here . When people have asked me what compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared that I saw a philanthropic organization that is not only guided by principles of social justice, and working to address real societal problems, but one that is committed to investing in new ways of building economies, environments and...
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A Warm Farewell & A Warm Welcome

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NFG News
Release Date: 
12/08/2020
... These initiatives include Funders for Justice (FFJ), an NFG program that was created in 2014 to mobilize funding ... the idea was sparked, FFJ Director Lorraine Ramirez and NFG staff & members worked in close partnership with movement leaders to grow and nurture FFJ as an NFG program. Over the past six years, FFJ has mobilized ...
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Welcome Faron McLurkin, Sr. Program Manager of the Integrated Rural Strategies Group

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NFG News
Release Date: 
01/22/2019
Faron McLurkin has joined NFG ’s staff as the Senior Program Manager for the ... and how to get involved, get in touch with Faron at faron@ nfg .org . Welcome Faron McLurkin, Sr. Program Manager of ...
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Topic: 
Rural Organizing
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Integrated Rural Strategies Group

California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement

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NFG News
Release Date: 
10/12/2016
... contact Nile Malloy, Senior Program Manager of NFG 's Democratizing Development Program, at nile@ nfg .org . California Funders Working Group on Gentrification .....
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Housing Justice
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Democratizing Development Program

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

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/21/2020
... broader FJE and our committees, please reach out to robert@ nfg .org ). Tell us a little about your journey into ... At the time, I was the Deputy Director and once we hit 2016 , I was clear that I needed to find work that was more ...
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Criminalization
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Funders for a Just Economy

St. Louis Young Black Leaders Cohort Design Process Consultant Search

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NFG News
Release Date: 
03/26/2019
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Photo by Brittney Butler on Unsplash In late 2018, the Amplify Fund engaged with a group of local advisors in a strategy development process to determine its grantmaking priorities in Missouri. Through that process there was a clear ask from local strategy advisors to invest in young Black leadership in the St. Louis region to deepen relationships, develop trust, and align around a shared political analysis and plan. Specifically, the funding strategy calls for Amplify to support the leadership primarily of Black and youth leaders and names several strategies as pre-...
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Inclusive Development
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Executives' Alliance Foundation Leaders "Ban the Box"

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Member News
... to Adopt Fair Chance Hiring Measures NEW YORK, Feb. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders from 42 foundations ...
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Philanthropic Practice
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Meet the First Philanthropy Forward CEO Leadership Cohort

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NFG News
Release Date: 
10/12/2018
... leaders in philanthropy, get in touch with Adriana Rocha, NFG 's Vice President of Programs, at adriana@ nfg .org . This fellowship is best suited for philanthropic .....
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Leadership Development
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Black Lives Matter: We Say Their Names

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/02/2020
We at NFG say their names. George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN. Breonna ... in Phoenix, AZ. Black Lives Matter, today and every day. NFG stands in solidarity with Black communities as we again ... to fund transformative justice in this blog post from NFG ’s Funders for Justice. NFG cares about you, and your ...
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Community Safety & Justice
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Introducing the 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward Fellows

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NFG News
Release Date: 
04/11/2019
... sheri.brady@aspeninst.org , or Adriana Rocha at adriana@ nfg .org . Introducing the 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward ...
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Leadership Development
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Philanthropy Forward

Time to Invest for Justice

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
... hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 National Convening, Raise Up: Moving Money for ... socialism and liberal values. And last month, at NFG 's "Raise Up: Moving Money for Justice" National Convening ... least expected. Having participated in this, my first NFG convening, today is our moment for leadership and a new .....
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Philanthropic Practice

Ferguson October Report

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News from the Field
... of the growing momentum across many philanthropic spaces, NFG reached out to four organizations deeply involved in ...
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Racial Justice
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Reflections from Philanthropy Forward's First Cohort

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NFG News
Release Date: 
10/24/2019
Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change is a CEO fellowship program created by Neighborhood Funders Group and the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions. The program's first cohort started in October 2018 in furtherance of building and advancing a shared vision for the future of philanthropy. Hear perspectives from members of the first cohort as they reflect in this video on their work together as strategic thought partners, addressing philanthropy's most challenging issues and aligning to build a financial engine for social change. 2018 - 2019 Philanthropy Forward Cohort Click...
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Ways to Support Organizers in North Carolina

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News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/07/2016
... People of Color Collective. On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 , Keith Lamont Scott, a disabled Black man, was shot and ...
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Racial Justice
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8 Lessons from Our Southern Grantees in the Fight for Equity and Justice

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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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Enough

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Member News
July 7, 2016 Headwaters Foundation for Justice mourns the death of ...
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Police Shootings Since Ferguson Put Foundations to the Test

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Member News
By Drew Lindsay, Chronicle of Philanthropy July 19, 2016 In mid-April, a police-reform task force appointed by ...
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Racial Justice
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Amplify Fund Learning and Evaluation Partner RFP

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/11/2019
... would like access to the recording, please email amplify@ nfg .org . How to Apply: To apply, please respond to ... any questions about this opportunity please email amplify@ nfg .org . Amplify partner foundations include: Ford ...
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Inclusive Development
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Amplify Fund

Statement from Within Our Lifetime

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News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/07/2016
... rapid response statement on police killings in September 2016 was originally released by Within Our Lifetime on September 29, 2016 at http://www.withinourlifetime.net/ . Within Our ...
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Community Safety & Justice
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Support Chicago Protesters

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News from the Field
... the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference in Chicago to demonstrate the urgency for a ... displacement of our people. The global nature of the IACP conference is not lost on us. We know that American police ...
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Funding Opportunity
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A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

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News from the Field
... Police Officer Darren Wilson. We’ve hosted national conference calls focused on issues of critical importance to ...
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Gender Justice
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Strike Watch 2020 Review: Defund the Police to Build Worker Power

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
By Manisha Vaze, Director, NFG Funders for a Just Economy As we close this year, it’s ... I’m really ready for a winter break. Prior to joining NFG , I organized alongside immigrant families facing ... includes partnership from philanthropy. IMG_4798.jpg At NFG ’s Funders for a Just Economy, I am privileged to work ...
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Criminalization
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Funders for a Just Economy

How Philanthropy Can Promote Equity through Community Engagement

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Member News
Release Date: 
01/22/2018
When NFG members Nexus Community Partners and The Jay & Rose ... infrastructure investment. “ Although we’re new to the NFG family, the Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of ... of centering community voice in big local decisions. NFG supports us in this important work and helps connect us ...
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Community Power-Building
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Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just Economy

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/01/2017
Alejandra L. Ibañez, Chair of NFG 's Funders for a Just Economy and Lead Program Officer ... contact Senior Program Manager Manisha Vaze at manisha@ nfg .org . Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just .....
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Economic Justice
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Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.

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News from the Field
... before it even began. 53% of white women who voted in the 2016 presidential election did so for a man who aims to move ...
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Racial Justice
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Planting Roots in the South: Announcing a New Home for GSP at the Southern Education Foundation

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NFG News
Release Date: 
05/08/2017
Photo by Jonas Weckschmied on Unsplash NFG is pleased to share some exciting news about the growth ... national profile has become well-established, and NFG ’s capacity and networks in the South have grown and ... and leverage national support for Southern-led efforts. NFG is excited about GSP’s next steps as it becomes a ...
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The Road Ahead

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NFG News
Release Date: 
11/11/2020
... aggression. Those at the frontlines — and we at NFG — know that oppressive and unequal systems have only ... to reshape their cities and rural regions, and we at NFG are here to do the same with you — to support ... to racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. How NFG is making meaning of the road ahead There is much to ...
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Community Power-Building
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Statement: Do Not Militarize Our Mourning: Orlando and the Ongoing Tragedy Against LGBTSTGNC POC

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News from the Field
... post on the Audre Lorde Project website . June 15, 2016 We at the Audre Lorde Project are devastated by the ...
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Racial Justice
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A Message From FFJ Leadership: In Solidarity With Chicago & Minneapolis

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/09/2016
... please feel free to write to us at fundersforjustice@ nfg .org . While the shooting in Minneapolis is in itself an ... to join by asking them to write to us at fundersforjustice@ nfg .org . Thank you all for your leadership in philanthropy ... at Shelter Rock and FFJ co-chair Lorraine Ramirez, NFG Program Manager – Funders for Justice A Message From ...
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Criminalization
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Join the Inaugural Philanthropy Forward Leadership for Change Fellowship

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NFG News
Release Date: 
07/18/2018
Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ) and The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions ... For more information, please contact Adriana Rocha, NFG 's Vice President of Programs, at adriana@ nfg .org . Who This is For This Fellowship is best suited .....
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Leadership Development
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Chicago Has Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Police Brutality Cases—And It’s Impoverishing the Victims’ Communities

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News from the Field
By Carrie Sloan and Johnaé Strong March 11, 2016 - The Nation Mayor Rahm Emanuel, State’s Attorney ...
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Racial Justice
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Headwaters Foundation for Justice Relaunches Emergency Fund for Black Lives

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Member News
Release Date: 
09/12/2016
... La Cruz, 612-400-6263 Our Response to Recent Events: July 2016 The killing of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis and Philando ...
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Spotlight: Justice Committee, North Star Fund Grantee

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... of Programs and Operations North Star Fund January 2016 The Justice Committee (JC) is among the groups leading a ...
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Funding Opportunity
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Backing Protests: Funders for Justice Members Answer Activist Movements' Call

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Member News
Release Date: 
07/19/2016
... Put Foundations to the Test ". Published on July 19, 2016 and written by Drew Lindsey.) Backing Protests If .....
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Criminalization
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Celebrating 20 Years of Leadership on Labor and Economic Justice

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NFG News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... contact Manisha Vaze, Senior Program Manager, at manisha@ nfg .org . FJE’s next program is a post-election briefing in ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Applications Now Open for 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward Leadership Fellowship

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NFG News
Release Date: 
02/06/2019
... For questions, please contact Adriana Rocha at adriana@ nfg .org . The application deadline has been extended to March ...
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Leadership Development
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HIV is not a crime! (except in 32 states and 72 countries)

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

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/15/2020
In October 2019, NFG 's Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) held a breakthrough ... Foundation shared how as Executive Directors and alumni of NFG 's Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change Fellowship .....
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Financialization
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Funders for a Just Economy

#HandsOffTheHomeless Protest of de Blasio’s NYPD

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News from the Field
Release Date: 
09/09/2015
... the folks on 125th organize an incredible rally and press conference , complete with poems and songs and street theater. ...
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Criminalization
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Funder Coalition Calls for Building a Just and Resilient New Orleans

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Member News
Release Date: 
09/01/2015
August 29, 2015, Philanthropy News Digest - While challenges such as entrenched poverty and overincarceration remain, funder collaborations, cross-sectoral partnerships, and community-based leadership and participation have helped transform New Orleans in the decade since Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the city, a paper from the Greater New Orleans Funders Network argues. The paper, Fulfilling the Promise, Making New Orleans a Just and Resilient City (16 pages, PDF), outlines the progress made and challenges that remain in areas where philanthropy has played an important role...
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Climate Justice
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Identify. Describe. Dismantle. Repeat.

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/08/2019
... that build an equitable Greater Washington, is a member of NFG . Recently, the president of the United States openly ...
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Leadership Development
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Philanthropy Forward

The Fund for New Jersey Reaffirms Commitment to Racial Justice

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Member News
Release Date: 
07/31/2020
... and to join this effort, please contact support@ nfg .org to us to get in touch with Kiki Jamieson, President ...
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Leadership Development
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Philanthropy Forward

Mall Of America Protest A “Decoy” Says Black Lives Matter

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News from the Field
... give in. Until there is justice, there will be no peace. 2016 is coming, so are we. ‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬ ...
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Criminalization
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Shifting Gears for Racial Justice

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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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Community Power-Building
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Lifting up Philanthropy Forward Fellows’ Response to Coronavirus

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/22/2020
NFG ’s Philanthropy Forward fellowship provides dedicated ...
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Policing the Homeless: Broken Windows ‘On Steroids”

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News from the Field
by Lynn Lewis March 29, 2016 , The Crime Report Cities, towns and rural areas all over ... parks or other public spaces. The memo, dated Jan. 19, 2016 , was “issued to all commands” with the subject line: ...
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Criminalization
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Strike Watch, Labor Day: Vonda McDaniel on Workers Redefining “Nash-Vegas” and Taking on Power in Tennessee

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/04/2020
... as Tennessee sped to re-opening . In partnership with NFG ’s Amplify Fund, we will be dialoguing more deeply about ... content or ideas for future content? Reach out to robert@ nfg .org Strike Watch, Labor Day: Vonda McDaniel on Workers ...
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Economic Justice
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Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/14/2019
... tool generously funded by two Neighborhood Funders Group ( NFG ) members, the Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, ... local strategies to meet their individual housing goals. NFG partnered with the Ford Foundation, NYU Furman Center, ... and make refinements accordingly. We encourage all NFG members to consider the importance of housing policy in ...
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Healthy Communities
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Inclusive Development
Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

COVID-19 Strike Wave

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/10/2020
... the labor situation — and many more efforts not covered. NFG 's Funders for a Just Economy program will be providing ... like us to highlight, please reach out to me: robert@ nfg .org . And of course, the best way to support a strike is .....
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Economic Justice
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Funders for a Just Economy

Our Work Today: A Statement from FFJ Leadership

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

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

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News from the Field
... the focus of the program, especially in the context of the conference theme of "Immigration." I am a native to Arizona, .....
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Jews for Racial Justice Moving the Conversation About Police Brutality Into White Communities

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News from the Field
Thursday, 02 July 2015 By Chris Crass, Truthout | Interview As New York City erupted in December 2014 in mass, nonviolent, disruptive direct action after the non-indictment of the officer who murdered Eric Garner and the officers who were accomplices in this brutal crime, one of the actions that grabbed national headlines and many a heart, was organized by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) . Over 400 members of JFREJ, including Rabbis and other leaders in the Jewish community, took to the streets of the primarily white, wealthy and Jewish, Upper West Side. This civil disobedience...
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Are funders ready to fight for our freedom?

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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 .....
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Economic Justice
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Innovative community land trust from Puerto Rico wins 2015-16 UN World Habitat Award

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News from the Field
Release Date: 
03/01/2016
... Awarded UN World Habitat Award" on NBC News.com. Visit NFG 's virtual tour of the land trust and other organizing .....
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Climate Justice
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A Pivotal Moment for Racial Justice

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

What Have We Learned about Place-Based Investments?

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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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Philanthropic Practice

Place Based Community Change: The Time is Now

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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

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
... standards and job quality. The Coordinating Committee of NFG ’s Funders for a Just Economy is calling on its members ... organizations and/or union collaborations. Check out NFG ’s COVID-19 relief resources page for the latest ... of community groups. For more information and/or to join NFG ’s Funders for a Just Economy network, please email ...
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Economic Justice
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Funders for a Just Economy

We. Just. Getting. Started. Moving Money for M4BL

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/12/2020
... 8, nearly 700 people gathered on a call co-organized by NFG 's Funders for Justice and donor-organizing partners for .....
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The Amplify Fund is Expanding Support for Power Building and Equitable Development in 2019

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/21/2019
... all the way there yet. We invite other funders in the NFG network and beyond to join Amplify’s current funding ... about how to join the Amplify Fund, please contact amplify@ nfg .org . The Amplify Fund is Expanding Support for Power ...
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Community Power-Building
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Amplify Fund

Beyond Outrage: A Clarity of Purpose

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/15/2019
... about a more just and sustainable world, is a member of NFG . We live in dangerous times, and every passing news ...
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Leadership Development
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Philanthropy Forward

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/10/2019
... greater social and economic justice, is a member of NFG . We are issuing a clarion call to Southern ...
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Leadership Development
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Racial Justice
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Philanthropy Forward

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/29/2020
This piece was written by NFG 's Funders for Justice program leadership. We say their .....
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
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Criminalization
Racial Justice

Justice Oregon for Black Lives: A five-year, $25 million commitment

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/14/2020
... Community Solutions. Meyer Memorial Trust, a member of NFG , works with and invests in organizations, communities, ...
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Leadership Development
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Philanthropy Forward

Strike Watch: Voices from the Strike for Black Lives

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/24/2020
... or ideas for future installments? Reach out to robert@ nfg .org . Strike Watch: Voices from the Strike for Black ...
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Community Safety & Justice
Criminalization
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

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

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/20/2020
... power of young people. The Hazen Foundation is a longtime NFG member and is comitted to supporting organization and ...
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Leadership Development
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Philanthropy Forward

National Mama’s Bail Out Day

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
05/02/2017
The week before Mother’s Day, organizations in Oakland, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Montgomery, Memphis, Minneapolis, Durham, Atlanta, and beyond will bail out as many mothers as possible who otherwise would spend Mother’s Day in a cell simply because they cannot afford bail. Everyday an average of 700,000 people are condemned to cages and separated from their families simply because they can not afford to pay bail. National Mama’s Bail Out Day will give incarcerated mothers an opportunity to spend Mother’s Day with their families and build community through gatherings that highlight the...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Economic Justice
Gender Justice
Racial Justice

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

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

More is required of us

News type: 
Member News
by Vanessa Daniel, Groundswell Fund August 5, 2016 - Health & Environmental Funders Network “I think we ...
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Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson

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Member News
... D. Wilson Standford Social Innovation Review - Spring 2016 Few moments in life are filled with the hope and promise ...
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Philanthropic Practice
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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
In the spring of 2017, Funders for Justice (FFJ) launched its inaugural cohort of Advisors – nine field leaders recognized for their leadership in community power-building, racial and gender justice, police accountability campaigns, and anti-criminalization movements. We asked them to share their insights on the current political climate, how we can build a vision for the world we want, and what funders can do in this moment. This month, FFJ staff interviewed Zachary Norris , Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights . (The Ella Baker Center is a leader in the Freedom...
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Community Power-Building
Criminalization

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

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
02/15/2017
Dimple Abichandani, NFG member and Executive Director of the General Service ...
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Philanthropic Practice

A Letter from IRSG Members in Honor of Isabel Arrollo

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

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/26/2020
... on the efforts to divest and defund from police ( see our NFG resource for funders here ) and invest in real community ... content or ideas for future content? Reach out to robert@ nfg .org Photo Credit: Yalonda M. James / The San Francisco ...
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Criminalization
Economic Justice
Future of Work
Workers' Rights
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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
While the public eye (rightfully) centered on the US presidency this election, worker-led organizing made tremendous waves across the country in ballot initiative, issue-based wins and get out the vote mobilization, including in closely-watched swing states. Corporations and the ultra-wealthy also pushed their agendas of racialized and gendered inequality ahead, most notably California’s anti-labor rights "gig" worker proposition. While the full significance of the election is still unfurling, the results point to the power of long-term, worker-led organizing led by unions, place-based worker...
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Economic Justice
Future of Work
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
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Funders for a Just Economy

Urgent Funding Needs and Opportunities

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Member News
... of the growing momentum across many philanthropic spaces, NFG reached out to four organizations deeply involved in ...
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Funding Opportunity
Community Power-Building

5 Hot Causes for Donors in 2015

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NFG News
Release Date: 
02/04/2014
Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 15, 2015 The Battle for Racial Justice: Grant makers are uniting to address racial-justice issues as tensions remain high following the failure of grand juries to indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City. Funders for Justice, a new group of about 30 foundations and other groups affiliated with the Neighborhood Funders Group, has set up a website to publicize activities and promote giving to community organizers working on issues like police accountability. Lori Villarosa, executive director of the...
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Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

Capitalism and Racism: Conjoined Twins

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/03/2019
A few weeks ago, Democracy Now! aired a segment with Ibram X. Kendi , author and founding director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American University, where he discussed white supremacy, anti-racism, and the increase in mass shootings. What struck me about the segment was his illuminating statement about the origins of capitalism. Kendi views capitalism and racism as "conjoined twins" and that “…the origins of racism cannot be separated from the origins of capitalism… the life of capitalism cannot be separated from the life of racism.” Kendi continued by discussing how the...
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Economic Justice
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Workers' Rights
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Funders for a Just Economy

No Time for Business as Usual

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NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/16/2017
Sharon Alpert, NFG member and President & CEO of The Nathan Cummings ...
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Philanthropic Practice

Support Minneapolis Protesters

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
11/27/2015
Last updated December 2, 2015. Please check back regularly for updates. DONATE to Black Lives Matter Minneapolis : Please donate to help support their efforts with bail, legal support, and other supplies. November 27, 2015 Dear Community, In the past 10 days Minneapolis has experienced horrific acts of violence, first with the shooting of Jamar Clark, a 24 year old unarmed black man, who was killed by the Minneapolis police just over a week ago. Then, on Monday night, in the wake of an ongoing peaceful occupation demanding justice for Jamar Clark outside of Minneapolis’ 4th...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice
Racial Justice
Funding Opportunity

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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Community Power-Building
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice

What It's Going to Take to Change Philanthropy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/06/2017
In October 2017, Funders for Justice (FFJ), a program of Neighborhood Funders Group, hosted a funder briefing on the Freedom Cities Movement at the NoVo Foundation office in New York City. FFJ got the chance to sit down and talk with NoVo's Ramatu Bangura, Program Officer for Advancing Adolescent Girls’ Rights, and Jesenia Santana, Program Officer for the Initiative to End Violence Against Girls and Women, about the foundation's vision and funding of the movement. Ramatu Bangura FFJ: The last year or couple years have been really the challenging ones in many parts of the country with...
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Philanthropic Practice

Surdna Foundation Stepping Up for Racial Justice

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/14/2020
... for Community Solutions. Surdna Foundation, a member of NFG , seeks to foster sustainable communities in the United ...
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Leadership Development
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Racial Justice
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Philanthropy Forward

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Mary Hooks

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
... then Mary has relocated to the hot shades of Atlanta, GA , and has found her niche in organizing with SONG, throwing ...
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FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris

News type: 
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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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Healthy Communities
Inclusive Development

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Jenny Arwade

News type: 
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

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/25/2020
In the midst of the growing COVID-19 pandemic, NFG stands with our communities and workers who are in ... meet the immediate needs of our communities at this time, NFG also remains committed to long-term transformation ...
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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

FergusonOctober – Voices from the Ground

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/16/2014
... our partners, please write to us at fundersforjustice@ nfg .org . 1) What would you offer as a synopsis of the ...
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Topic: 
Community Power-Building
Community Safety & Justice
Racial Justice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/21/2020
Strike Watch brings you original content from FJE on urgent economic justice issues and the latest developments in grassroots efforts to build worker power - and where funders can partner and are taking action. This week, we bring you an in-depth interview with Rebecca Greenberg of the Solidago Foundation , who shares how and why the foundation has gone all-in on shoring up grassroots movements in four US states at the front-line of electoral defense. The Black and brown-led organizations Solidago partners with build power for low-income communities to advance a just economy and progressive...
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Economic Justice
Philanthropic Practice
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights
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Funders for a Just Economy

After #FergusonOctober

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NFG Blog
... and our partners, please write to us at fundersforjustice@ nfg .org . 1) What would you offer as a synopsis of the ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization
Funding Opportunity

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