Highlights from Amplify this July

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/23/2020
... been busy in these internet streets,” as Melody Baker, Amplify ’s Senior Program Officer said on a recent staff ... Development session. Just a few days later on July 8, Amplify Director Amy Morris, joined Jazmin Segura again, ... here and many of the images that Amy shared about Amplify ’s structure are available for download on our ...
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Amplify Fund

Amplify Fund's Response to COVID-19

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Tue, April 21, 2020
In the face of COVID-19, Amplify is stretching from our core! We maintain our central ... reduce redundancy and burden for grantees. We formulated Amplify 's COVID-19 response (detailed below) based on what ... welcome you to join us! Just send us an email at amplify @nfg.org SUMMARY OF NEEDS & PRIORITIES SHARED BY .....
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Amplify Fund

Amplify Fund Learning and Evaluation Partner RFP

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/11/2019
Photo by Jo Szczepanska on Unsplash The Amplify Fund is in search of a Learning and Evaluation ... grant cycle. Housed at the Neighborhood Funders Group, the Amplify Fund is a national pooled grantmaking and capacity ... and would like access to the recording, please email amplify @nfg.org . How to Apply: To apply, please ...

The Amplify Fund is Expanding Support for Power Building and Equitable Development in 2019

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/21/2019
When Neighborhood Funders Group launched the Amplify Fund in 2018, it was with a singular core purpose: to ... places to support local work. Beginning in late 2019, Amplify Fund will be dedicating resources to four new places ... Nashville, South Carolina and Nevada. Everywhere Amplify works, we strive to increase organizing capacity in ...

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

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 -
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Virtual
... NFG members through our first pooled grantmaking fund, the Amplify Fund. Driven by the belief that community power is the key driver of just and equitable development, Amplify makes flexible general operating support grants in 8 ... which are Black-led organizations. Racial justice grounds Amplify ’s grantmaking strategy and our values, behavior and ...

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 ... — including those of us in the philanthropic sector. The Amplify Fund calls on all grantmakers, from individuals to ... in communities. As NFG’s first grantmaking program, Amplify is proud to learn alongside the organizations that we ...

NFG Newsletter - February 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
02/28/2020
... power building. At the beginning of the month, NFG’s Amplify Fund staff and steering committee spent a day with ... in Charleston and Edisto Island, South Carolina — one of Amplify ’s eight sites. Both national and local grantmakers learned alongside some of Amplify ’s grantees, including the Center for Heirs’ ...
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NFG moves into grantmaking with a multimillion-dollar collaborative fund

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/11/2017
... steps into the role of collaborative grantmaker with The Amplify Fund—a new, multimillion-dollar pooled fund focused ... of color,” said Dennis Quirin, president of NFG. “The Amplify Fund is a catalytic opportunity for NFG to live its ... That's why we at Ford are so excited to be launching the Amplify Fund alongside other funders that share a vision of .....

St. Louis Young Black Leaders Cohort Design Process Consultant Search

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/26/2019
... by Brittney Butler on Unsplash In late 2018, the Amplify Fund engaged with a group of local advisors in a ... and plan. Specifically, the funding strategy calls for Amplify to support the leadership primarily of Black and ... serve as the design team, the Deaconess Foundation and the Amplify Fund are seeking a consultant to facilitate a ...

Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, May 05, 2017

In bayous, hollers, cities, and small towns across the American South, visionary leaders have long pioneered cutting edge, successful strategies to build lasting change in their communities and beyond. These leaders have the skills and expertise necessary to navigate an inclusive way forward for everyone in this era of unprecedented political, economic, and demographic shifts. Yet philanthropy—for reasons both mundane and profound—hasn't kept up. How can Southern and national philanthropists alike change this trend and help advance progress in the region and the nation overall?

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Community Power-Building

As We Mourn Charleston's Victims, Philanthropy Must Act

News type: 
Member News
By Nakisha M. Lewis, Tynesha McHarris, and Allen Kwabena Frimpong The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 26, 2015 As we face the latest violent assault on black people — the nine black parishioners who were shot dead in their church in Charleston — those of us in philanthropy must think hard about our role in supporting the movement for black lives. We have returned yet again to the kind of vigilante violence that also took the life of Trayvon Martin. We are constantly reminded of the culture of violence in our country that continues to take the lives of black people. The volatile stream of...

Catalyzing a Movement for Health and Housing

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2019
... and National Steering Committee member of NFG’s Amplify Fund Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash Why ... Funders for Housing Opportunity , SPARCC , and NFG’s own Amplify Fund . Not only does this approach enable the ... and convening of funders in the development of the Amplify Fund and the Fund for Inclusive California . This ...

NFG Newsletter - August 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
08/20/2020
... PT / 3:30-5:30pm ET) Get It Together: How the Amplify Fund Supports Black-led Power Building and Organizing ...
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NFG Newsletter - July 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
07/30/2020
... working conditions for all workers. Grantees of NFG's Amplify Fund engaged in conversation about how groups are ... heard by decision-makers. ( Contact us for a list of Amplify 's recent grantees!) NFG's Integrated Rural Strategies .....
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Five Questions with Casey: Sophie Dagenais on the Baltimore Unrest and the Way Forward

News type: 
Member News
October 27, 2015, By the Annie E. Casey Foundation As director of the Baltimore Civic Site team, Sophie Dagenais oversees Casey’s community-based investment strategies and grant-making activities in Baltimore. She also advises the Foundation on investing in the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative, a major community and economic development project aimed at transforming an 88-acre East Baltimore neighborhood. Prior to joining Casey, Dagenais served as chief of staff for Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. A member of the New York and Maryland Bar Associations, she previously worked...

Board Transitions at NFG

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
04/19/2019
Neighborhood Funders Group is steered by a passionate and talented board of directors who help fulfill our mission of organizing philanthropy to support grassroots power building so that communities of color and low-income communities thrive. This year, we will sadly bid a fond farewell to Andrea Dobson , Chief Operating & Financial Officer of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, as she finishes her term serving as Treasurer of the board. Fortunately, we are also welcoming three new NFG members to the board: Cory Anderson, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; Judith Bell, The San Francisco...
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NFG Newsletter - December 2020

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
... security, staff wellness, and healing (including NFG’s Amplify Fund moving $150,000 in wellness grants to their ... Up Nashville and The Equity Alliance, as part of NFG’s Amplify Fund and Funders for a Just Economy virtual ...
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Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?

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

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...

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

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

COVID-19 Funds: Where to Donate to Support Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Sat, March 28, 2020
... Collaboratives, & Donor Networks with COVID-19 Funds Amplify Fund Amplify Fund at NFG supports people of color and low-income ... Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and California. Amplify Fund is continuing our core grantmaking program to ...

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

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/20/2020
Alejandra Ruiz, Executive Director of the Youth Engagement Fund , and Lori Bezahler, President of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation , write about youth of color civic engagement and voter mobilization work as a core opportunity for grantmaking on racial equity, leadership development, and building people centered long-term infrastructure that transforms our communities and democracy. This op-ed was originally published here in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Alejandra was part of the 2019-2020 Philanthropy Forward: Leadership for Change Fellowship cohort, a joint initiative of Neighborhood...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/21/2020
As part of our ongoing coverage and analysis of the many uprising for economic justice – from the Strikes for Black Lives to fights for basic protections in the age of COVID-19 – we wanted to get the perspectives from FJE members on how they are changing their practices to better support economic justice organizing in this dynamic moment. FJE was fortunate to sit (virtually) down with San Francisco Foundation’s Jidan Terry-Koon, MPA , Director of SFF’s People pathway . She oversees a unique portfolio that integrates criminal justice, worker organizing, and community wealth building towards...

After #FergusonOctober

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

FergusonOctober – Voices from the Ground

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