State of Black Worker Conference

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - Friday, October 11, 2013
Washington, DC
... the Negro freedom movement. Together we can be architects of democracy."" – Martin Luther King, Jr., at the AFL-CIO ... Group are partnering to organize a day-long meeting on black worker organizing. The meeting will be held at ... the Black Labor Scholars Network. They will be hosting a State of the Black Worker in America conference directly .....

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/26/2020
... is an image that encapsulates the continued expansion of worker -led direct action in the last few weeks, it is ... businesses and community collaborated on a Washington State -wide day of action where dozens of businesses shut down and employees skipped work to support of Black Lives Matter and confront white supremacy. Unions are ...

Making Black Lives Matter

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Wed, February 25, 2015
... Director, Hill-Snowdon Foundation The tragic killing of an unarmed African American teenager, Michael Brown, by a ... the issue of police brutality and excessive force in the Black community. Indeed, in the months surrounding Mike ... also some key distinctions. The brutality of the Alabama state troopers against peaceful protestors in Selma on ...

Resourcing the Movement for Black Lives

Fri, June 03, 2016
... THE POLICE BRUTALITY AND IMPUNITY that led to the deaths of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, ... With growing national attention on the Movement for Black Lives, a conversation has surfaced across the field of ... building organizing, much of which went to local and state campaigns that traditional funders would not touch. It ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, October 22, 2020 -
11:30am - 12:30pm
Webinar
... sparse economic security, social protections, and safety of low-wage workers, most especially who identify as Black , Latinx, immigrant, women, or transgender. For those ... real relief - which in turn ties the hands of local and state governments. Why have even seemingly non-partisan ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
12/17/2020
... and physically exhausted. The never-ending tragedy of this year’s global pandemic, the job loss, the deep ... Americans to systemic racial injustice, racial terror, and state violence overlayed our own personal losses and ... responses to 9/11 shaped my experiences of centering Black and Indigenous communities in our fight against ...

FJE 2018 Policy Briefing: Evolving Strategies for Worker Justice

Event type: 
Briefing
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Washington, DC
... on low-wage workers in particular, the changing nature of work due to technology and automation, and the Federal ... workers. We will develop a shared analysis of the current state of labor unions and worker centers, and discuss ... co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial ...

Strike Watch: Voices from the Strike for Black Lives

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/24/2020
... his co-workers in Lakeland, FL during the J20 Strike for Black Lives. Photo Credit: Fight for 15 Florida. Hundreds of workers walked out of work from coast to coast Monday, ... with plaintiffs from more than 100 of the locations in the state . FJE had the opportunity to interview Augusta (who goes ...

Black Lives Matter: We Say Their Names

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/02/2020
... McDade in Tallahassee, FL. Dion Johnson in Phoenix, AZ. Black Lives Matter, today and every day. NFG stands in ... and compelled to action in response to the murders of George Floyd and Black people across the U.S. by police. ... LLC & Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Authoritarian State or Inclusive Democracy? 21 Things We Can Do Right Now ...

Integrating Immigrant Workers into the U.S. Economy

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Webinar
... While many immigrants come to the U.S. in search of greater opportunity, they face many barriers in accessing ... As the U.S. faces a growing skills gap in which production of skilled labor is falling short of projected demand, we can ... more about how civic leaders from Maryland to Washington state are promoting approaches that expand access to economic ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Workers' Rights

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
... and the ultra-wealthy also pushed their agendas of racialized and gendered inequality ahead, most notably ... for $15 had recently been an active part of the Strike for Black Lives, featured in our recent Strike Watch . Get Out ... of all workers and publicly-managed, in ways prior state -level bills have not been. Proposition 22 and the ...

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
... can Support Growing Movements As mostly-conservative state governors and the federal government enforce rapid ... other actions. Employees are coalescing under the banners of established labor (including in the first union election ... while relying upon a multi-racial ( Latinx, indigenous, Black , and Asian ) mostly-migrant workforce . Successive ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/04/2020
... the fortune to sit down with Central Labor Council (CLC) of Nashville & Middle Tennessee President Vonda McDaniel. ... the Nashville area – where organizations are redefining Black and migrant-led labor organizing in new and important ... in the South (and the Midwest) is the way conservative state governments have sought to stop everything from minimum ...

Headwaters Foundation for Justice Launches Emergency Fund For Black Lives

News type: 
Member News
... for Justice is launching “the Emergency Fund for Black Lives” to provide grants to Black Lives Matter ... groups have inspired, mobilized, and supported hundreds of community members to call out and change police violence ... racism that exists in Minneapolis and throughout our state .” “With financial support from the community Black ...

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

News type: 
News from the Field
by Tia Oso Identities.mic, July 21, 2015 I am Tia Oso, the black woman who took to the stage and demanded a microphone ... in Phoenix, Arizona. I did this to focus the attention of the nation's largest gathering of progressive leaders and ... tragic situation and the precious lives lost to senseless state violence. Our courageous and bold efforts are being .....

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/09/2019
... in Florida to explore how diverse communities in the state are building power and political infrastructure for ... women’s rights, and more. Sienna Baskin , Director of the Anti-Trafficking Fund at NEO Philanthropy , shares her ... at the top of the supply chain accountable for enforcing worker protections and threatening the loss of sales for farm ...

The Black Scholar: Ferguson, the Black Radical Tradition and the Path Forward

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, August 26, 2014
By Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua , The Black Scholar, August 26, 2014. Can’t you feel it? Feel the ... The first frost has already fallen, in Ferguson, Missouri, of all places. Ferguson has ripped the veil off. It is now ... maturing in Ferguson; they are not only challenging the State , but as importantly, they are also defying the decrepit ...

Black Churches Are Burning Again in America

News type: 
News from the Field
... doing on fire?” Jeanette Dudley, the associate pastor of God's Power Church of Christ in Macon, Georgia, got a call a little after 5 a.m. ... whether it might be a hate crime. Two other predominantly black churches have been the target of possible arson this .....
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

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

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Tue, October 03, 2017
... an understanding and attention to the political economy of the South can help funders and field organizations develop ... Theodore assesses economic indicators affecting quality of life in the South and examines corporate strategies that are driving these changes. It presents some of the efforts underway in the region to improve the quality ...

FJE 2017 Policy Briefing: The Road Ahead for Worker Justice

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Friday, May 19, 2017
Washington, DC
Check out our recap of this event In a fundamentally shifting political and power ... understanding of the major forces and players that impact worker justice; explore the offensive opportunities and defensive needs on federal, state and local levels; and identify how funders can best ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Webinar
... In fact, these public policies can advance a concentration of power and a monopolization of the market. These then drive ... problems related to poor working conditions and a lack of worker protections and benefits. Funders also strategized on ... Job Creation (Berrett-Koehler, 2005). GJF was honored by State Tax Notes magazine in 2015 for its landmark ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Webinar
... In fact, these public policies can advance a concentration of power and a monopolization of the market. These then drive ... problems related to poor working conditions and a lack of worker protections and benefits. Funders also strategized on ... Job Creation (Berrett-Koehler, 2005). GJF was honored by State Tax Notes magazine in 2015 for its landmark ...

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

Event type: 
Other
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Webinar
... an understanding and attention to the political economy of the South can help funders and field organizations develop ... report assesses economic indicators affecting quality of life in the South and examines corporate strategies that are driving these changes. It presents some of the efforts underway in the region to improve the quality ...
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Topic: 
Workers' Rights
Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

LGBTQ Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter

News type: 
News from the Field
... LGBTQ Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter December 3rd, 2015 (Minneapolis) — ... a given; it is fought for. We remember it was trans women of color who led the riots at Stonewall, catalyzing a ... for racial justice. With this letter, we want to publicly state our support in a unified way, and ask our friends 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, ... and compelled to action in response to the murders of George Floyd and Black people across the U.S. by police. ... us all to take powerful action — including those of us in the philanthropic sector. The Amplify Fund calls on ...

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Sat, June 24, 2017
... briefing updated members with our current understanding of the major forces and players that impact worker justice. FJE members engaged in strategic ... migration status and gender, the future of work, emerging state and local policy and advocacy campaigns, and how to ...

We Can’t Win a Right To The City Unless #Black Lives Matter

News type: 
News from the Field
... Alliance - March 2015 Wall Street, the financial center of the most powerful city in the world, was built and ... private equity firms that prevails, rides on the backs of black and brown families. Movements across America ... States, the recent momentum built in the fight against state violence and for a world where #blacklivesmatter has ...

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

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
03/08/2016
... violence within and against low and no income communities of color. They work at the intersection of prison abolition, LGBT rights, education rights, and ... through leadership development and community organizing in Black and Southeast Asian, particularly Hmong communities in ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/14/2020
Michelle J. DePass, President & CEO of Meyer Memorial Trust , describes how the foundation is supporting Black resilience in Oregon with their largest initiative yet ... impacts. Here in Oregon, tens of thousands from across the state have shown up amid the coronavirus pandemic to add ...

St. Louis Young Black Leaders Cohort Design Process Consultant Search

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/26/2019
... In late 2018, the Amplify Fund engaged with a group of local advisors in a strategy development process to ... clear ask from local strategy advisors to invest in young Black leadership in the St. Louis region to deepen ... calls for Amplify to support the leadership primarily of Black and youth leaders and names several strategies as ...

Countering State Preemption and Protecting the Power of Local Government

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, July 10, 2017
Webinar
... 3 - 4 PM ET American cities have historically been places of innovation and incubation when it comes to advancing ... a fast-growing threat. Since the 2010 midterm elections, state lawmakers have become more aggressive in their use of ... democracy. Speakers will discuss the landscape of state preemption and share newly developed legal theories and ...

New York State Rural Equity Summit

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, October 21, 2019 - Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Dundee, NY
... Group (NFG) and Engage New York (ENY) for the New York State Rural Equity Meeting on October 21-22, 2019. NFG and ... together funders interested in exploring the New York State (NYS) rural landscape and how to build an action agenda ... progressive change. Intended Outcomes: Deeper knowledge of the strategies rural grantmakers and other change agents ...

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, April 15, 2015
... for Labour and Development (based in India), the Project of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ProDESC, based in ... labor forces and communities, and the increasing mobility of capital (and with it the threat of exit, disinvestment, ... supplier firms must be met head-on through transnational worker organizing that raises standards across supply chains ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/11/2018
... Justice) talks about collective bargaining and the future of work and Michelle Miller (Coworker.org) describes the concept of “surveillance capitalism” and data generated by ... company workers. We presented a workshop on the evolving worker justice movement during the NFG biennial conference in ...

Disrupt the System: How Labor and Philanthropy can Build Worker Power in a New Era

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 -
8:30am - 5:00pm
Washington, DC
... Please reach out to Manisha Vaze, Senior Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy, at manisha@nfg.org if you are ... the way that workers can collectively bargain. In spite of these challenges, we have seen phenomenal and organic worker movements that have amped up their tactics to elevate ...

A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

News type: 
Member News
" By Nat Chioke Williams August 27, 2015, Chronicle of Philanthropy On Saturday, people from around the world ... many people will tout the city’s recovery, few people in black working-class neighborhoods will be celebrating. After ... But that is hardly the only poignant and painful reminder of the inequities facing blacks in America and how far the .....

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 has been bringing funders who believe in the power of people to transform communities together to exchange ideas ... Since 2018 we have honed in on our core purpose of moving more money to grassroots organizations in ... supports more than 45 grantees, the majority of which are Black -led organizations. Racial justice grounds Amplify’s ...

Black Lives Matter,' NYC Mayor Says After Grand Jury Doesn't Indict Officer

News type: 
News from the Field
... not to indict a New York police officer in the death of Eric Garner on a Staten Island sidewalk this past July. ... Daniel Pantaleo caused an uproar after video footage of the incident was released. It showed Garner repeatedly ... a federal probe into Garner's death. Read the full article Black Lives Matter,' NYC Mayor Says After Grand Jury Doesn't .....
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

Safe and Just Return to Work

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Webinar
... disparities that have existed for decades. Workers of color and immigrants are dying from COVID-19 in large ... workers, and labor and community groups, many who are Black , Indigenous, people of color, LGBTIA, and migrant ... and have real implications for public health and the state of our economy and democracy. We can see the impact of ...

Oct 22-24 in Chicago: Confronting the International Association of Chiefs of Police

News type: 
News from the Field
... person being disrupted. Disruption can also be a source of movement and progress. It’s safe to assume that the disruption of Democratic Presidential candidates by Black Lives Matter leaders has spurred those candidates to ... all efforts to legalize or decriminalize drugs by local, state and the federal governments. They oppose all needle ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/29/2020
... McDade in Tallahassee, FL, Dion Johnso in Phoenix, AZ. Black Lives Matter, today and every day. Fund Black lives, ... our mandate is to fund communities rising up against state violence, and to continue to fund as communities build ... police response to armed white nationalist posted in front of state capital buildings and yelling in the faces of ...

Reflections on Labor Day from Funders for a Just Economy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/01/2017
Alejandra L. Ibañez, Chair of NFG's Funders for a Just Economy and Lead Program ... in the Temp industry. This was only possible because Black and Immigrant workers have come together to make ... I am inviting you to this year’s learning tour in the state of Alabama. The people of Alabama are on the frontlines .....

COVID-19 Strike Wave

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/10/2020
By Rob Chlala, Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy The last few weeks have seen an ... such as GE workers call to shift to ventilator production. Black , undocumented, women and other highly vulnerable ... in Boston , are launching wildcat efforts to get the state and employers to halt operations with pay. COVID-19 ...

Capitalism and Racism: Conjoined Twins

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/03/2019
... segment with Ibram X. Kendi , author and founding director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American ... of racism and capitalism. Many worker -based organizations state that the best vehicle this country has in pursuit of ... and exploitative roots through policymakers passing the Black Codes of 1865 and 1866, making it easier to imprison ...

Announcing the 2019 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/01/2019
... rights and economic equity, and this year's winner of the Discount Foundation Legacy Award. The Discount ... the first ever Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) in the state of Tennessee. She believes that Nashville has the ... back power for structurally unemployed and underemployed Black men and women through campaigns to achieve higher wages .....

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

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Thu, February 25, 2021
... Massive May 30th, 2020 protest for George Floyd & Black Lives at Nashville’s Legislative Plaza, led in part ... eyes on 2020 voter mobilizations to give voice to hundreds of thousands of Black , Latinx, and API voters in Georgia and ... equity. Facing rapid gentrification and relentless state -level pushback against inclusion, new upsurges in ...

A Warm Farewell & A Warm Welcome

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
12/08/2020
... place to connect, strategize, and take action. A big part of how we make meaning and take action is incubating spaces ... solidarity with the uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri, and Black communities and other communities of color resisting state violence and criminalization around the country. Since ...
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Strike Watch: Solidago Foundation's Rebecca Greenberg on Funding Democracy Defense from Georgia to Arizona

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/21/2020
... we bring you an in-depth interview with Rebecca Greenberg of the Solidago Foundation , who shares how and why the ... four US states at the front-line of electoral defense. The Black and brown-led organizations Solidago partners with ... needs. "There is persistently a high level of calculated state -sanctioned repression that is overtly racialized across .....

The Road Ahead

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
11/11/2020
... it comes hopes and possibilities for a country in which Black , Indigenous, and people of color communities, queer and transgender communities, ... to support these movements across local, regional, and state levels. With the right resources, they can expand these ...

Funders for a Just Economy - Alabama Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Webinar
... and successes in civil rights and economic policy. Decades of disinvestment and economic discrimination, changes in ... and developing neighborhoods and communities across the state . On November 6-8, Neighborhood Funders Group's Funders ... 11/7 Workforce and Economic Development in the Black Belt Tour of Selma Farm Workers, Household Workers, .....

Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Thu, May 24, 2018
... grant-making together and create the beginnings of a central framework on economic justice grantmaking ... their understanding of how slavery, genocide, the settler state , and heteropatriarchy have shaped the economy; talked ... Group and the Discount Foundation, the And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voices / Power / Promise ...

The Roots of Injustice in Our Agricultural System

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 -
10:00am - 11:00am
Webinar
... immigration status, gender and workers’ rights. As part of this continued exploration, FJE is excited to host a ... in the farm workers movement to share how and why farm worker issues have historically been left out of US labor law protections, and how farm workers are ...

Announcing FFJ’s Latest Field Advisor Cohort

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/13/2020
Funders for Justice is excited to share the latest cohort of FFJ Field Advisors. FFJ looks forward to expanding our own ... Communities United Marbre Stahly-Butts, Law for Black Lives Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson, Resilient ... where she launched “We Dream in Black ,” a multi- state initiative that increases the leadership capacity of ...

COVID-19 Funds: Where to Donate to Support Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Sat, March 28, 2020
In this new moment of growing uncertainty brought by the outbreak of COVID-19, ... for Migrant Youth Community Via East Oakland DREAMers. Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project Note in the form that your ... be hit hardest. We often suffer the worst because of the state ’s failure to protect us and oftentimes the states ...

The Beat is (Back) On! Labor Reporting Reemerges

Event type: 
Webinar
Friday, May 3, 2013
Webinar
... , Freelance Reporter and Author, The American Way of Eating (Scribner), "" Common As Dirt ,"" The American ... ranging from industrial explosions to air pollution to black lung disease. He also has written about the criminal ... Reporters and Editors. He also led projects on worker hazards at oil refineries and lingering air toxics .....
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Topic: 
Future of Work
Workers' Rights

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 ... a unique portfolio that integrates criminal justice, worker organizing, and community wealth building towards ...

Thoughts on Ferguson

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, September 08, 2014
... dialogue began about police brutality, the over policing of communities of color, the militarization of our police ... Echoing Ida writers spoke out to elevate the voices of Black women and the impact of the killings on our ... experience all across the country, at the hands of the state , have a deep impact. An impact not only felt by our ...

Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, September 15, 2014
... in Ferguson, MO, in response to the police killing of Michael Brown, have awakened national attention to ... now. With accounts by Bukky Gbadegesin, Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): oagbadegesin@gmail.com ; Jeff Ordower, ... Inc., sifill@naacpldf.org. October 16, 2014. State Infrastructure Fund and Shelby Response Fund -- Last ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

"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 ... policy. Criminalizing communities to justify violence and state control is not a new or recent phenomenon. We saw ... tenet of public health, (source: pg. 107; Killing the Black Body; Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by ...

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, November 07, 2016
... era defined by crisis, but also great promise. The effects of climate change, economic inequality, and racial injustice ... for $15 in cities across the country. The Movement for Black Lives, escalated by residents of Ferguson, Missouri, ... has led to criminal justice reforms at the local, state , and federal levels. And after years of activism ...

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

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sun, February 21, 2016
... Marie Cullors-Brignac In 2013, I helped create a Black -centered political will and movement building project called #BlackLivesMatter. You may have heard of it. As many of you know, it was in response to the ... to hold helped propel the conversation around the state -sanctioned violence they experienced. Particularly ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Announcing the 2018 Discount Foundation Legacy Awardee

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/11/2018
... in rural Vermont and worked for years on farms across the state . Enrique joined Migrant Justice and became a leader in ... to undocumented immigrants in Vermont. He became part of the organization's Farmworker Coordinating Committee and ... is one of the principal architects of Milk with Dignity, a worker -led program securing human rights and economic justice .....

Funders for a Just Economy's Alabama Learning Tour Resources

Resource type: 
Event Recap
... and successes in civil rights and economic policy. Decades of disinvestment and economic discrimination, changes in ... in 2016), has contributed to lower wages and less worker benefits compared to other states . This history of ... and developing neighborhoods and communities across the state . In November 2017, Neighborhood Funders Group's Funders .....

2018 Post-Election Briefing for Grantmakers

Event type: 
Briefing
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Washington, DC
... Philanthropy at the Crossroads. Note: This meeting is free of charge and open to foundation representatives and ... a third of the Senate, 36 governorships, and many state legislature seats are up for election. The results of ... and workers rights and what will be in play at the state and federal level. Participants will explore what ...

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... #BlackLivesMatter to spark a conversation after the death of Trayvon Martin. Three years later, their hashtag has ... 01, 2015, Yes! Magazine Following the police killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, TIME ... with a cover dominated by large, block letters: “ Black Lives Matter.” #BlackLivesMatter has infiltrated ...

Discount Foundation Legacy Award

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
01/13/2021
... $20,000 stipend, we hope to recognize and amplify the work of individuals at the intersections leading the way toward ... the first ever Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) in the state of Tennessee. She believes that Nashville has the ... back power for structurally unemployed and underemployed Black men and women through campaigns to achieve higher wages ...

Meeting the Moment: 2020’s New Civic Engagement Landscape in Rural and Small-City America

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:15am
Webinar
... crisis with devastating impacts in rural communities of color, the coronavirus pandemic has crippled the economy, ... fighting white supremacy and systemic violence against Black people have opened up extraordinary opportunities for ... is the executive director of ProGeorgia, Georgia’s state based non-partisan voter engagement advocacy ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/15/2020
... defining US and global capitalism — and the role of philanthropy within these structures. FJE is moving this ... racism, patriarchy, and capitalism raised the fact that Black women and other people of color also face these traumas ... Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2009). “In the Shadow of the Shadow State ” in The Revolution Will Not be Funded (edited by ...

Are funders ready to fight for our freedom?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/04/2018
By Manisha Vaze , Senior Program Manager of NFG's Funders for a Just Economy This Labor Day weekend, as we celebrate the last days of summer with barbeques and back-to-school preparation, I am thinking about how the labor movement is facing some of the most serious threats to its future. Well-funded .....

What's Next in the Movement for Working Families Webinar

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Webinar
... the country, working people struggling on the frontlines of America’s service economy are standing up for jobs that ... policy momentum including this year's historic state -wide win in Oregon and new standards in six cities; Powerful worker -led campaigns that moved the retail sector to end .....

Funders for Justice Announces 2nd Cohort of Field Advisors

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/15/2018
FFJ is proud to announce our 2nd cohort of FFJ Advisors – 12 powerhouse leaders from cities across ... worker justice, power-building in the South, bail reform, Black organizing and power-building, community-determined ... at the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He was also a Human Rights and National ...
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Women of Color on #BlackLivesMatter, Gender, and Racism

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Thu, December 11, 2014
... Civil Disobedience. People are responding to the murder of Mike Brown and Eric Garner and the subsequent lack of ... There’s been a proliferation of important writing on how state violence and racial injustice impacts the lives of ... moving forward. I think some of that is happening with Black Lives Matter and making the links between anti- black ...

St. Louis Activist: Decades After 1968 Urban Uprisings, Key Economic & Race Issues Remain Unresolved

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, August 19, 2014
... divisions that split open in the 1960s with a series of uprisings in cities across the country. In 1967, President ... known as the Kerner Commission to investigate the causes of the unrest. In February 1968, the commission famously ... "Our nation is moving toward two societies — one black , one white — separate and unequal." Just a month .....

Response to Ferguson: Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, November 24, 2014
... Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenage boy, on August 9. Our thoughts are first with the family of Michael Brown and the community of Ferguson. It’s ... those in uniform–with guns and the authority of the state –are too willing to believe that a black body poses a ...

Agenda to Keep us Safe

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, September 30, 2014
Originally posted at byp100.org The Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is dedicated to the long-term fight to end the criminalization of Black youth. We believe that strategies to achieve this ... organizing and public policy advocacy at the local, state , and federal level. Thus BYP100 wants decision makers, ...

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

News type: 
News from the Field
Post by Tia Oso, National Coordinator for the Black Immigration Network and BAJI Arizona Organizer Late ... bill. As the Movement for Black Lives shines the light of justice on the crisis of police brutality plaguing Black ... rhetoric ignored the reality of communities plagued by state violence at the hands police, at current count 14 ...

Building a Funding Response to Scenarios after the Election

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, October 29, 2020 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... ways to support grassroots economic justice & worker organizations working tirelessly to preserve and ... to respond to the immediate, medium and long term needs of movement leaders. We’ll pay particular attention to the ways to protect workers, Black , Indigenous and people of color, LGBTQIA and gender ...

Lead on Leave

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Webinar
... Families Across America Tour Building on the President’s State of the Union announcements to support greater workplace ... on Women and Girls has partnered with the Department of Labor on Lead on Leave – Empowering Working Families ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

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

News type: 
Member News
... organizing, activism, and mobilization led by young women of color, queer, and transgender youth around the country who ... groups who are often the first to respond to issues of state -violence, reproductive oppression, and attacks on women ... . Crowdfunding Quadrupled Our Inaugural Grant to Black Youth Project 100 The Mobilize Power Fund is as much ...

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

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
01/27/2021
In NFG’s final Strike Watch blog of 2020, Manisha Vaze — Director of our Funders for a Just ... calling to defund the police as a pathway to community and worker justice. We have an enormous opportunity in ... 2021 and continue to celebrate — and fund! — the Black women, women of color, Indigenous activists, and queer ...
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The Making of Ferguson

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, October 14, 2014
... a Ferguson, Missouri, policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Michael Brown’s death and the resulting ... homes, and community powerlessness. Media accounts of how Ferguson became Ferguson have typically explained that ... and nationwide has been the explicit intents of federal, state , and local governments to create racially segregated ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Ohio Student Association: Justice for John Crawford

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/18/2014
... this Sa turday October 18th? John Crawford was a young black man who picked up a toy gun from a shelf at the ... and killed Crawford. He was on the phone with the mother of his children, and the last words she heard him say were ... We must continue our demands up the power structure in our state because our prosecutors and judges, our governor and ...

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, ... is the investment in converting small businesses into worker -owned cooperatives. In a recent report, Ours to ... compliance and revenue sources separate from local and state budget negotiations to fund enforcement of labor ...

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, ... is the investment in converting small businesses into worker -owned cooperatives. In a recent report, Ours to ... compliance and revenue sources separate from local and state budget negotiations to fund enforcement of labor ...
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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, ... is the investment in converting small businesses into worker -owned cooperatives. In a recent report, Ours to ... compliance and revenue sources separate from local and state budget negotiations to fund enforcement of labor ...
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2019 Budget and Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - Friday, February 22, 2019
Washington, DC
... This two-day meeting will focus on federal and state budget and tax policy, work and job quality issues, and ... an economy that works for all. This event is offered free of charge and open to foundations, donor collaborative ... committed to bringing funders together to discuss a range of topics during this event. Due to the sensitivity of the ...

After #FergusonOctober

News type: 
NFG Blog
... their contributions: Bukky Gbadegesin, Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): oagbadegesin@gmail.com Jeff Ordower, ... . 1) What would you offer as a synopsis of the Ferguson uprisings overall and of Ferguson October, ... tracing funding programs from the Dept. of Justice for state and local police organizations. We proposed a ...

FergusonOctober – Voices from the Ground

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
10/16/2014
... their contributions: Bukky Gbadegesin, Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): oagbadegesin@gmail.com Jeff Ordower, ... . 1) What would you offer as a synopsis of the Ferguson uprisings overall and of Ferguson October, ... tracing funding programs from the Dept. of Justice for state and local police organizations. We proposed a ...

Racial Capitalism, Power, and Resistance Movements Convening

Event type: 
Convening
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 9:00am - Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3:00pm
Brooklyn, NY
... resistance movements currently tackling the concentration of wealth and power within corporations and building countervailing worker and community power. During the event, FJE will build ... barriers. Confirmed speakers include: Alicia Garza, Black Futures Lab Aaron Tanaka, Center for Economic Democracy ...

Funders for a Just Economy Florida Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, April 8, 2019 - Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Fort Myers, FL
... its climate, land, and resources. Known as the “Sunshine State " and situated in the southern United States with a ... trade. However, Florida has also long been an epicenter of inequality. Industries there have used forced labor ... at 2pm 8:30am: Building Power with a Femme Agenda: Miami Worker Center, WeCount!, & others 10:15: Building Power in .....

More is required of us

News type: 
Member News
... we all know, deep down, that something more is required of us now. This truth is difficult to face because it’s ... with unprecedented levels of protest proclaiming “ Black Lives Matter” across the U.S. and around the globe. ... to work for racial justice. How do we know this? The state of giving in our field reveals it. The current overall ...

The Fund for New Jersey Reaffirms Commitment to Racial Justice

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
07/31/2020
In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the protests that followed, The ... all races and ethnicities are focused on the ways in which Black Americans have been targeted and denigrated by the ... on improving the quality of life in the Garden State by supporting good policy decision-making. At its core, ...

The New Jim Crow

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, January 16, 2012
... Alexander The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has ... race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of black men in major urban areas are under correctional control ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

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, ... history of supporting leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena beyond its spend down as a foundation in ... in rural Vermont and worked for years on farms across the state . Enrique joined Migrant Justice and became a leader in .....

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

Event type: 
Briefing
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Washington, DC
... by Senator Elizabeth Warren Hosted by: American Federation of Teachers, Arca Foundation, Communication Workers of ... of political money from the financial sector into local, state and federal elections, key progressive policies are at ... regulatory agency, ethics and money-in-politics reforms, state -based mortgage relief, consumer settlements from “Too ...

Administrative Relief and Philanthropy Webinar Series

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Webinar
... as minors. Successfully applying for DACA lifts many of these barriers: it earns beneficiaries temporary legal ... Nearly 800,000 immigrants – more than a third of those who are potentially eligible – have successfully ... young immigrants’ futures—and support the prosperity of the communities they call home—by helping them to meet ...

Support Minneapolis Protesters

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
11/27/2015
... 2015. Please check back regularly for updates. DONATE to Black Lives Matter Minneapolis : Please donate to help ... the past 10 days Minneapolis has experienced horrific acts of violence, first with the shooting of Jamar Clark, a 24 ... egged on by online trolls, and entrenched by an anti- Black state and civil society. When white males of the far right ...

Our Work Today: A Statement from FFJ Leadership

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
08/14/2017
Just several days ago, the city council of Charlottesville, VA, voted to sell the Robert E. Lee statue and to create a reparations fund for Black residents , or an “equity package” which will ... Jay Cullen, and Trooper Berke M. M. Bates, both Virginia State Officers, also died when their helicopter crashed ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

Webinar: Building Movements with Narrative Change Strategies

Event type: 
Webinar
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 -
9:00am - 10:15am
Webinar
... capacity, deepening leadership development, and other ways of building infrastructure for movements and organizations. ... and ultimately end domestic violence throughout the state . Prior to that, she was senior project director at ... student groups and faith groups that build strategy around worker rights issues and worker advocacy. Before joining ...

Enough

News type: 
Member News
... 7, 2016 Headwaters Foundation for Justice mourns the death of Philando Castile, who was shot and killed during a traffic ... criminalization and police violence that targets black people and people of color across the country and in ... to the Governor’s Mansion, from city hall to the state capitol, we stand with our grantees, donors and with ...

What President Obama told me about Ferguson's movement: think big, but go gradual

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, December 05, 2014
... from a community in active struggle against state sanctioned killing, violence and repression met with the President of the United States of America . Not “civil rights ... poor people long before the state killed another unarmed black man. T Dubb-O, the artist, activist and community ...

Chicago Has Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Police Brutality Cases—And It’s Impoverishing the Victims’ Communities

News type: 
News from the Field
... Strong March 11, 2016 - The Nation Mayor Rahm Emanuel, State ’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, and the Chicago Police ... are under intense scrutiny for covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald, the unarmed Black 17-year-old who was shot 16 times by a police officer ...

Charlottesville Funder Briefing

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Webinar
... 10 am PT / 11 am MT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET In the aftermath of the August 2017 white nationalist attacks in ... Robert E. Lee statue and to create a reparations fund for Black residents , or an “equity package” which will ... Jay Cullen, and Trooper Berke M. M. Bates, both Virginia State Officers, also died when their helicopter crashed ...

Reimagining How We Fund and What We Fund

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/19/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 ... of corporate profit. There are those that do not believe Black lives matter. There are those who believe that ... Century. Equally important, we must seek innovations for worker power. This could be reimagining new worker ownership ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Statement from Within Our Lifetime

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/07/2016
... . Within Our Lifetime (WOL) supports the families of Alfred Olango, Keith Scott, Terence Crutcher, Terrence ... (and beyond) in the wake of the rampant police killings of Black people across America. These tragic losses lay bare the ... in California, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio and other state and local governments, as well as the federal ...

Funders for a Just Economy 2020 Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, March 23, 2020 - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Webinar
... and safe during our events. We recognize the urgency of a conversation on how to strategically build philanthropic and community and labor partnerships for worker power. Considering what we know today (Monday, March ... Winning in 2020: Key Policies on the Federal and State Stages Andre Oliver, James Irvine Foundation ...

WeTheProtesters Open Letter

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
03/04/2015
An Open Letter affirming the protesters’ point of view and vision for this movement. We, the protestors of ... our children, and secure the blessings of freedom for all black lives, do ordain and dedicate ourselves to this ... and Dontre Hamilton, among others. The police occupied state of oppression which black people inhabit has stolen ...

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

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
07/30/2020
Thank you to the hundreds of people who joined us online to kickoff our 2020 National ... landscape created by COVID-19 and rise up to defend Black lives, NFG is a place for funders to find ... funded the holistic sustainability and wellness of communities and grantee partners so that they had the ...
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Answering the Call from Movement Leaders

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 ... Justice. Here, Julia Beatty , Program Officer for the Black -Led Movement Fund and the Communities Transforming ... their loved ones whose lives had been taken by police and state violence, I asked myself: what is our responsibility to ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Ferguson Action Demands

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sat, November 01, 2014
... FREEDOM FOR OUR COMMUNITIES We Want an End to all Forms of Discrimination and the Full Recognition of our Human ... An Immediate End To Police Brutality And the Murder Of Black , Brown & All Oppressed People Every 28 hours a black ... attacked and brutalized. We want an immediate end to state sanctioned violence against our communities. We Want ...

Response to Eric Garner's Case: A Deeper Conversation

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, December 03, 2014
... a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager, we are faced ­with the reality that a New ... for the publicly witnessed and video recorded death of an unarmed black man, reached the same decision: no ... that there will be a constructive look at the current state of our society. Brown and Garner are but two names in a ...

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

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - Thursday, June 7, 2018
St. Louis, MO
... thanks for pushing us to break silos and change systems of oppression through action and example.” ... in healthcare administration and planning from Tennessee State University. Mrs. Richardson brings over a decade of ... resources. Compared to the state violence directed at Black and brown bodies, our whiteness privileges us to ...
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Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, June 19, 2017 - Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Pittsburgh, PA
... in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. After decades of disinvestment and loss of manufacturing, Pittsburgh’s ... to use local power to build toward regional and state change. This Pittsburgh Moment offers tough questions ... with entrenched poverty and disinvestment. Community and worker power-building through sustained, nimble, multi-issue ...

Briefing: Freedom Side, on the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

Event type: 
Convening
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Washington, DC
... are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.” ― Doug McAdam , Freedom ... the electorate to include registering voters from the Black /African American communities and combating the racist ... lead in mobilizing and activating young people in a multi- state effort throughout the Summer and Fall of 2014. Read ...

Eradicating Gender Based Violence Outside of the Carceral System Institute

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Webinar
... solutions to end sexual and gender-based violence outside of the carceral system. In our current moment, there is ... challenge of supporting survivors in such a criminalized state , how can we continue to move toward community safety ... (TGIJP) Stacy Suh, Survived & Punished Paris Hatcher, Black Feminist Futures / M4BL (moderator) Session 2: Models ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Gender Justice

$50million for M4BL - See You There

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/25/2020
... Funders, and Resource Mobilizers: The Movement for Black Lives mounted a significant SixNineteen Juneteenth weekend of actions in a matter of weeks. Virtually, over 185,000 people viewed M4BL-TV ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

We will not be silenced.

News type: 
News from the Field
... to recent attempts by the NYPD to silence the efforts of citizens seeking justice for victims of police violence. The letter, drafted by Ferguson Action, ... police union in New York to essentially declare war on Black communities. This is unacceptable and should be ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Police Accountability and the Criminalization of Communities of Color: Organizing in Ferguson and Beyond

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, September 15, 2014
Webinar
... Foundation Speakers Bukky Gbadegesin, Organization for Black Struggle Joo-Hyun Kang, Communities united for Police ... Liberty Hill Foundation The uprisings in Ferguson of the last three weeks in response to the police killing of ... accountability and criminal justice funding, national and state civic engagement organizing infrastructure, and the ...

Hawaii Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Honolulu, Hawaii
... October 17th In the popular imagination, Hawaii is thought of as a tropical paradise, but it is also a state that is struggling to overcome centuries of ... the impact of tourism as the primary economic driver in a state ’s economy? Come join your colleagues for an ...

Shifting Resources Towards Permanently Affordable Housing

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, October 10, 2019 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
A wave of housing solutions to protect, preserve, and build ... challenges. But even with groups moving forward local and state policies to advance tenant protections and increase ... and rising housing costs are still displacing communities of color and low-income communities. There is a great need 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 ... of a century. Their participation increased in every state , reaching as high as 40 percent in some states and ... of color are positioned to assume a leadership role. Black and Latinx youth have proven especially effective at ...

A Message From FFJ Leadership: In Solidarity With Chicago & Minneapolis

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/09/2016
... community, Today Chicago officials released the tape of the police killing of Laquan McDonald , a year after his ... as information becomes available. And, last night five Black Lives Matter protesters were shot by a group described ... on social movements and marginalized communities by state and non– state actors. Such a trend of activities are ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Funders for a Just Economy 2021 Policy Briefing

Event type: 
Briefing
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - Friday, March 12, 2021
Virtual
... rising fascism, and the deteriorating conditions for Black , Indigenous, and people of color, low-income communities and workers, rural ... for Safety and Health An Organizer with Alabama's Amazon worker unionization effort March 12 Keynote: Sara Nelson , .....

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 ... a living wage, electricity, running water and freedom from state , communal, and interpersonal violence, are created and ... builds power for the long term. Coordinate with Labor and Worker Centers - Support the current worker organizing ...

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Stephanie Guilloud

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/20/2018
... continues with Stephanie Guilloud, Co-Director of Project South . Read our interview below to learn more ... but is alive with the injustices and racial terror that Black people face every day in prisons, jails, and in public ... in Dothan, Alabama based on an Alabama law that allows the state to charge anyone near a crime to be fully responsible ...
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Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Wed, April 08, 2015
... This document was shared by Reverend Starsky Wilson, of the Deaconess Foundation. Read the original document here ... with primary leadership provided by the Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) and Missourians Organizing for Reform ... issue interim recommendations – including several to the State General Assembly convening in January - these public ...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity

Updates on Ferguson, Cleveland, and NYC

News type: 
NFG Blog
... decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown. Like many of you, we are saddened and ... Ferguson Governor Jay Nixon preemptively declared a state of emergency . That decision, as well as information ... partners, including ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities , and the Philanthropic Initiative for ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

White People and Activism in the Trump Era

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/19/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 ... to inch the country closer and closer to an authoritarian state , undermining public faith in and attacking the ... on Inauguration Day 2017 at a successful blockage led by Black Lives Matter DC | Photo credit: Caitlin Duffy On ...

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... 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 ... with my three-year-old son nearby, of powerful, defiant, Black life-affirming, white supremacist hegemony-defying, ...

#ReclaimMLK Actions Across the US

News type: 
News from the Field
... Jr’s legacy this holiday weekend. The actions were part of a coordinated effort, dubbed #ReclaimMLK on social media, that sought to build off of them momentum of last year’s rallies against police ... Movement Legacy by Opal Tometi, Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Co-Founder of Black ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

A New Testament of Hope

News type: 
Member News
... Nearly a half century ago, during the final days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, he penned what he ... his last. “Whenever I am asked my opinion of the current state of the civil rights movement,” Dr. King began, “I ... this essay from my desk at the Ford Foundation; that a black , gay man — born to a brave single mother in a ...

5 Hot Causes for Donors in 2015

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
02/04/2014
Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 15, 2015 The Battle for Racial ... 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 ...

2020 Nashville Virtual Site Visit

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Monday, September 21, 2020 - Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Virtual
... Located in middle Tennessee, Nashville has now become one of the fastest growing cities in the last decade since the ... to Nashville, these changes have been preempted by the state , thereby squashing policy wins. These challenges have ... and power building work of movement leaders centering Black , Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color; ...

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

Event type: 
Committee Meeting
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... (Ford Foundation) who will share a recap and review of the recent FJE and Florida Philanthropic Network Learning Tour. They will provide an overview of the tour and their experience, and then we’ll open it up ... to share and answer questions. Check out this recap of the learning tour on the NFG blog. In addition, we are ...

Native Communities, Policing, and Mass Criminalization

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, September 25, 2017
Webinar
... , and Native Voices Rising . Native Americans and Black communities are the two populations most impacted by ... and incarceration in the US. The criminalization of indigenous people on this continent began with genocide ... support building any capacity for resisting US government state violence. On September 25, 2017, Neighborhood Funders ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

National and Local Recommendations for Police Accountability

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, December 10, 2014
The Center for Popular Democracy The killing of unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, by Ferguson police ... we understand that the harassment and killing of black and brown women and men through excessive use of force ... are often elusive or non-existent. The prevalence of state violence and the absence of accountability are ...

Letter to President Obama and US Attorney General Eric Holder

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, November 25, 2014
... and US Attorney General Holder take action. The Department of Justice has the power to arrest and prosecute Officer ... Officer Darren Wilson who targeted and killed 18-year-old Black teenager, Mike Brown, more than 3 months ago. Numerous ... indict Officer Darren Wilson and to overhaul the local and state policies and practices that led to Mike Brown's death, .....

Why We Move Money for Justice

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/19/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 ... continues to keep residents in poverty. And the Black residents who led the uprisings are still facing ... of BYP100 and FFJ Advisor , spoke to this on FFJ’s State of the Police State briefing panel: “Abolition is ...

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 , ... As Americans across the country rise up in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, IRSG calls on philanthropy to: ... economic and environmental justice. Uplift the voices of Black , Indigenous and people of color in rural places. Uplift ...

NFG Announces Transition of President Dennis Quirin

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
06/12/2019
... — On July 19, Dennis Quirin will step down as President of Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) to accept a new position as Executive Director of the Raikes Foundation in September. NFG’s Vice President of Programs, Adriana Rocha, and Vice President of Operations, ...
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Webinar Recap of Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, April 21, 2017
... and gentrification at the local, regional, and state level. Strategies and solutions to gentrification and ... housing has had some success, but the demographics of many communities are still rapidly changing. At the center ... Sasha Hauswald : Prior to serving as Director of State and Local Policy at Grounded Solutions Network, Sasha ...

Funders for Justice Announces Inaugural Advisory Committee of Field Leaders

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
07/05/2017
Since we were founded three years ago, a pillar of Funders for Justice has always been close partnership and ... Jenny Arwade , Communities United Charlene Carruthers , Black Youth Project 100 Stephanie Guilloud , Project ... Hooks joined the SONG team as a field organizer for the state of Alabama in March 2011. Her passion for helping ...
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A Place to Call Home: Housing Policy Roundtable

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Webinar
A vital discussion of how the Housing Policy Playbook & the BREATHE Act can ... The BREATHE Act , a project of the Movement for Black Lives’ 501(c)4 Electoral Justice Project, offers a ... non-carceral approaches to community safety shrinks state criminal-legal systems and center the protection of ...

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
02/04/2021
This blog was written by Nile Malloy, Director of NFG's Democratizing Development Program to urge ... continue to organize elected officials at the local, state , and federal level for another eviction moratorium, ... to pass a reparations resolution that seeks funding for Black people who have been denied housing through racist .....
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Program: 
Democratizing Development Program

Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Tue, March 21, 2017
While the frame of sanctuary cities is designed as protection for ... featuring the following speakers: Carl Lipscombe | Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) Kimi Lee | Bay ... coordinate trans-local campaigns and make impacts on the state and national level. Many cities that are not officially ...

How White Foundation Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sat, March 14, 2015
... has been brewing in response to the police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and many others. ... violence against African- Americans and Latinos. People of color are leading this movement, as they should be, but ... annual dinner and lecture sponsored by the Association of Black Foundation Executives has perhaps only one or two white ...

Building Momentum From The Ground Up: A Toolkit For Promoting Justice In Policing

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Sun, June 14, 2015
... and PolicyLink . www.justiceinpolicing.com The killing of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, John Crawford III, and Ezell Ford ... disobedience to demand accountability and recognition that black lives matter. From New York to Seattle, outraged ... elected officials walked out of city council meetings and state buildings with their hands up to express solidarity ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
09/10/2019
Justin Maxson, Executive Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, calls on fellow ... and refugees, and even that money doesn’t go to state and local groups that are accountable to grassroots and ... in Southern states receive less than half of the state and local funding of California, New York and ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
03/21/2019
... development. The Fund aims to strengthen the ability of communities of color and low-income communities to guide ... in which the deep racial segregation and disinvestment of Black communities has had negative outcomes for the region as ... for an Inclusive California, which is working across the state to build power with communities of color affected by ...

Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson

News type: 
Member News
... Few moments in life are filled with the hope and promise of a high school graduation. Marked by celebration and ... from nearby suburbs yelling for Normandy’s predominantly black young people to leave the schools in their communities ... home.” Shortly after graduation in 2014, the Missouri State Board of Education announced that the Normandy School ...

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

News type: 
News from the Field
... Nonprofit Quarterly - March 22, 2016 This piece is part of our ongoing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) ... police. 1 The deaths of Freddie Gray and other unarmed black youth sparked a national yet localized movement that ... to secure general operating support, even in a swing state . Voting is a form of binding, empowered decision-making ...

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 ... run-off election, with voters electing the city’s first Black , Lesbian woman as Mayor. We now have Black women at the ... of our city, county, and occupying a key position in our state as Lieutenant Governor. All eyes are watching to see if ...

A Letter from IRSG Members in Honor of Isabel Arrollo

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/04/2020
... Valley, Isabel Arrollo. Isabel was the Executive Director of El Quinto Sol de America , an organization founded by her ... mother’s side, lifting up community voices in local and state decision-making, and supporting residents across Tulare ... also angry and frustrated by the accumulated conditions of environmental, economic, and racial injustices that ...

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

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Thu, July 16, 2020
... Foundation; Claribel Vidal, Ford Foundation — members of the Funders for Justice Healing Justice Strategy Group ... COVID-19, and the simultaneous murders and violence by the state and White nationalists, and the glaring role of ableism ... working during this public health crisis and violence on Black bodies impacted your own productivity, focus, and ...

The Innovations and Independence of OUR Walmart

Event type: 
Briefing
Monday, August 24, 2015
New York, NY
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Neighborhood Funders Group, Working Group on Labor and ... you to a funder briefing on The Innovations and Impact of OUR Walmart . OUR Walmart’s campaign to change Walmart ... began in 2011 and has made a deep mark on how to build worker power and paved the way for new forms of organizing. ...

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

News type: 
Member News
... How did criminalization become a defining characteristic of American society? What can we in philanthropy do about it? ... in our society for decades. Policies at the local, state and federal levels have been designed to exclude certain groups, notably Black and Native people – fortifying a labyrinth of ...

Honoring the Discount Foundation

Event type: 
Reception
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Washington, DC
... Foundation’s key role in funding community and worker organizing, as well as founding the WGLCP and ...
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ColorofChange.org: We have a key opportunity to transform discriminatory and violent policing nationwide

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/03/2014
The tragic police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown hit home for millions across the country. The horror of losing a loved one, to senseless, racially-motivated ... police violence is a daily threat in the lives of Black people in America. In a time when law enforcement kill ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, February 27, 2017
Webinar
... Throughout the country, we also see a heightened increase of hate violence and racially charged rhetoric in the media ... are deeply embedded in their communities, and regional, state , and national grantmakers of all kinds who support ... a new vision of cities Speakers: Carl Lipscombe | Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) Kimi Lee | Bay ...

FFJ Webinar on Gender, Race, and Criminalization

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Webinar
... has intentionally lifted up the work, lives, and voices of women and trans folks of color, along with gender justice ... in regards to policing, criminalization, and state violence. At the same time, our members, including ... and straight) women and trans folks of color, especially Black women and trans movement leaders, we will discuss why ...

City Rising

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, July 09, 2018
... shows how gentrification is deeply rooted in a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States. ... by those in power. City Rising follows the journey of California communities that are fighting gentrification ... of advocates seeking responsible development across the state . Watch the trailer and full series here. City Rising ...

As the South Grows

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, June 12, 2018
As the South Grows is an initiative of Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) and the National ... provide qualitative and quantitative data describing the state of funding for Southern social change, concrete ... and the legacy civil rights infrastructure of the Alabama Black Belt, the Mississippi Delta and places like them across ...

Facing and Recovering from Soul Trauma

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/09/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 ... inflict on residents. Cooperative ownership structures and worker co-op creation, community land trusts, and local ... welcoming in the face of anti-immigrant politics at the state and county levels. They’ve worked thoughtfully and ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Project Phoenix Readings

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, March 06, 2017
Below are several of the reports and readings that supported our learning in ... fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or ... A Vision for Community-Based Energy Policy in New York State — PUSH Buffalo This memo offers a range of ideas for ...

Ways to Support Organizers in North Carolina

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
10/07/2016
... costs for people demonstrating against the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, NC. The Freedom Fighter Fund is governed by a Rapid Response Team composed of a 5-8 people who are representative of the people and ... September 20, 2016, Keith Lamont Scott, a disabled Black man, was shot and killed by Charlotte police while he ...

Funder Briefing: The Future of Work and the Workforce

Event type: 
Briefing
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 9:00am - Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 5:30pm
Baltimore, MD
... Community Partnerships cordially invites you to The Future of Work and the Workforce Baltimore, MD December 2-3, 2014 ... working will look like in the future, the potential impact of key trends on low-income workers, families and communities, and the role of philanthropy in shaping better outcomes for the workplace ...

Reclaim MLK 2016

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
01/16/2016
... country have risen up and are calling for a transformation of our country. Following the Movement for Black Lives Convening in Cleveland last year with nearly 2000 ... emerged about what our movement stands for. Across all of the demands and work coming from different parts of the ...

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 ... youth justice lens, with a focus on the intersections of state and interpersonal violence. Their work challenges ... about the thoughtful way that M and Kabzuag both support Black and Hmong communities to build strong work in their own ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/08/2019
... by Chainbreaker Collective and Right to the City . As part of the convening, a funder track brought together key allies ... to support the movement for community control of land and housing. Community Visioning for Health, Housing, ... systemic impacts of the permanent displacement of 100,000 Black residents from the city after Hurricane Katrina. In ...

CHANGE Philanthropy Convening

Event type: 
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Oakland, CA
... Funders Group is proud to be a collaborative partner of CHANGE Philanthropy and a member of the planning committee for the 2017 UNITY Summit . We ... nationwide; and further criminalize protest and dissent. Black and Native communities have been policed, criminalized, ...

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

News type: 
Member News
... re-inspired by the undeniable potential for young people of color to play a transformative role in advancing social ... is the fellowship program developed by Organization for Black Struggle in St. Louis, which provides stipends and ... together to organize a National Youth Action Against State Violence in December with coordinated actions across ...

Post-Election Resources

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Tue, November 22, 2016
... we find ourselves in. NFG has pulled together a short list of post-election readings and tools you may find useful. We ... upcoming months to boldly take action and support leaders of marginalized communities on the frontline. Carmen Rojas, ... Bay Area Headwaters Foundation: Emergency Fund for Black Lives – Minneapolis Foundation for Louisiana: Rapid ...

14 Questions And Answers About The Ferguson Grand Jury

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
11/18/2014
... police officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, which was followed by sometimes violent ... and how were they selected? A: The grand jury is composed of 12 people “selected at random from a fair cross-section ... is 75 percent white: six white men, three white women, two black women and one black man. St. Louis County overall is 70 ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
09/29/2017
... Legacy Awards supports leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena. In partnership with Jobs with Justice and Funders for a Just Economy (a program of Neighborhood Funders Group ), the Discount Legacy Award ... is meant only for individuals. Organizations, groups of individuals or institutions are not eligible for ...

Celebrating 20 Years of Leadership on Labor and Economic Justice

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
09/01/2016
... we are celebrating a milestone—the 20 th anniversary of the Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships ... Since 1996, the working group has kept a revolving circle of funders engaged, informed, and organized around funding ... members of the working group, as well as leaders in the worker rights field. You may see some familiar faces! "The .....

CampaignZERO Launched

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Fri, August 21, 2015
CampaignZERO presents a comprehensive package of policy reforms to end police violence in America. It ... to implement 10 policy solution areas at the local, state , and federal level of government to achieve an America where police do not kill ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/12/2020
... Justice and donor-organizing partners for the Movement for Black Lives to fortify our resolve and commitment to Black lives by ramping up our support to M4BL to the tune of $50M. Reaching this goal would be unprecedented — and ... secure the national infrastructure to meet the urgency of the current moment, while building toward Black liberation ...
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How not to only fund the loudest voices in the room: NFG's September 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
09/29/2020
... building power in their city for all residents. These Black women-led organizations have laid the foundation for ... influence in the city. This imbalanced distribution of philanthropic resources is true in many communities across ... said during the learning visit: empty barrels make a lot of noise but impacting systemic change requires philanthropy ...
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Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Fri, May 05, 2017
... 5, The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), Law for Black Lives , Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), and over ... and allies released a new report examining the budgets of 12 city and county governments that reveals the extent to ... pour money into policing and incarceration, at the expense of community safety priorities such as infrastructure and ...
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Topic: 
Community Safety & Justice

Funder Delegation to AFL-CIO Quadrennial Convention

Event type: 
Convening
Sunday, September 8, 2013 - Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Los Angeles, CA
... new ways to help working people gain a voice—new forms of representation for workers, new approaches to politics and ... quadrennial Convention is the most important gathering of labor leaders in the country, making crucial decisions about the future of the labor movement, electing officers and engaging a broad ...

Unions, Activists Align on Affordable Housing

News type: 
News from the Field
Release Date: 
09/04/2014
August 19, 2014 - A group of New York City construction unions have forged a coalition ... Bill de Blasio to require organized labor in the building of 80,000 lower-cost apartment units over the next decade. ... The unions say they will begin supporting a call for 50% of the new units to be set aside for lower- and middle-income ...
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Topic: 
Housing Justice
Workers' Rights

#Asians4BlackLives

News type: 
News from the Field
#Asians4BlackLives On Monday, Dec 15th 2014, members of newly organized all- Black groups, including The Blackout Collective, #BlackBrunch ... the Bay Area Solidarity Action Team to lead an occupation of the Oakland Police Department and demand an end to the war ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

One year after Eric Garner’s death, we still are not safe

News type: 
News from the Field
... 07/21/15 06:12 PM One year has passed since the death of Eric Garner and it seems New Yorkers are still living in ... populism. He won his campaign by echoing the words of protest movements and promising to help those most ... to demand an end to police brutality and recognition that black lives matter. #BlackLivesMatter isn’t the only ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/10/2019
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash An increasing number of foundations are embracing impact investing as a powerful ... is also exploring new models seeking to expand capital to Black , Brown, and Native communities. “This is an ... practices by corporations doing business in our state ,” according to Heather McKellips. Amalgamated’s ...

The National Bar Association Responds to the Grand Jury's Decision Not to Indict Police Officer Darren Wilson in the Shooting Death of Michael Brown

News type: 
News from the Field
... should not be indicted and tried for the shooting death of Michael Brown. National Bar Association President Pamela ... expresses her sincere disappointment with the outcome of the Grand Jury’s decision but has made it abundantly ... stands firm and will be calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue federal charges against officer Darren ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Technologies for Liberation: Toward Abolitionist Futures

Resource type: 
Member Publication
Mon, December 07, 2020
... Action Design (RAD). The report explores the ways the state and corporations in the U.S. are using technology to control, police, surveil, and limit the flow of money and power to QT2SBIPOC communities. It also uplifts ... to play in sustaining QT2SBIPOC organizers combatting U.S. state and corporate tech that criminalizes communities of ...

PolicyLink

News type: 
News from the Field
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot multiple times and killed by Darren ... in Ferguson and across the country. We mourned the loss of an innocent young man, taken before his time, and ... was the latest in a long and rapidly growing succession of cases involving police use of lethal force against unarmed ...

Philanthropy & the Case for Reparations

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, March 18, 2021 -
10:00am - 11:00pm
Virtual
... conversations and actions for reparations for Black and Indigenous communities continue to gain ... Vermont are all exploring reparations as a form of racial healing after generations of institutionalized racism. Portland approved as their top ...

Baltimore Uprisings

Resource type: 
Other
Tue, April 28, 2015
... is rising up to protest the police killing of Freddie Gray, the long history of over policing and police brutality, and the severe under-resourcing of Black communities in Baltimore. The city is under occupation, ...
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Topic: 
Funding Opportunity

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

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
08/20/2020
... series, Gladys Washington, Former Deputy Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, urged philanthropy ... landscape created by COVID-19 and rise up to defend Black lives, we are seeing philanthropy heed Gladys’ call ... ahead to ensure that philanthropy is taking risks worthy of the courage of our communities. To support the necessary ...
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Welcome Manisha Vaze, Sr. Program Manager of Funders for a Just Economy

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
03/02/2017
... grassroots organizing. Most recently, she was the Director of Organizing at Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy ... barriers to social and economic barriers for residents of South L.A. There, Manisha helped build replicable job ... proactive solutions among funders around the future of work, with a focus on the social movements engaging and ...
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Program: 
Funders for a Just Economy

Seven Ways That Funders Can Support Racial Justice

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Fri, June 27, 2014
... Center A few months ago I spoke to Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society , who described “disturbing ... away from race where they seem to be adopting the notion of post-racial America.” “What,” asked Patterson, “is ... building,” answered Gihan Perera, executive director of Florida New Majority (FNM) and former executive director ...

Energy and Equity in Puerto Rico

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Webinar
... — REGISTER HERE — Join us for this conversation, part of the ongoing Puerto Rico: From Relief to Equitable ... to assist with the power needs for a just rebuilding of Puerto Rico's severely damaged infrastructure. It will ... Development. Speakers will share on-the-ground details of current efforts, and strategies for how funders can .....
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Topic: 
Climate Justice

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

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Webinar
... challenges, and opportunities that intersect issues of economic development, immigration, workers’ rights, ... United – Carl Redwood Chair, Board of Directors, Hill District Consensus Group Learn, dialogue, ... please contact Nile Malloy, Senior Program Manager of the Democratizing Development Program, at nile@nfg.org . ...

WGLCP Annual Policy Briefing 2014

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - Thursday, April 24, 2014
Washington, DC
... in the offing? Join us for the annual policy briefing of NFG's Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships. ... Program highlights include: Rocio Saenz, Vice President of SEIU, will speak on immigration reform, A message from ... Kirsten Gillibrand, Solicitor and Acting Deputy Secretary of Labor Patricia Smith will join us to speak on “future of .....
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Workers' Rights

Funders Briefing and Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Dignity & Power Now

Event type: 
Briefing
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Los Angeles, CA
... funders briefing about how funders can best support Black -led movement building. The briefing will feature the work of Dignity and Power Now, a grassroots organization based in Los Angeles founded by Patrisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of #BlackLivesMatter. Dignity and Power ...
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She was only a baby': last charge dropped in police raid that killed sleeping Detroit child

News type: 
News from the Field
... an increasingly militarized –police force. In an echo of deaths at police hands that rocked the US last year, including those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in ... Officer Weekley is white and Aiyana Stanley-Jones was black . Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekley’s ...

United Against the Muslim Ban

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Mon, March 13, 2017
... Against the Muslim Ban to learn more about the policing of Muslim communities through the travel and migration ban. Now is the time to take a stand, regardless of your faith, ethnicity or cultural heritage. These policies threaten more than Muslim, Arab, Black , and South Asian communities. They threaten our ...
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

The Let Us Breathe Fund

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
07/23/2015
... work on the ground, and a longer term investment in Black communities in New York City. Let Us Breathe puts decision-making in the hands of experienced community activists, who understand priorities ... for immediate action by communities at the forefront of police violence, and for long-term coalition-building and ...

Grassroots Racial Justice Funding Opportunities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Fri, December 16, 2016
... Response Fund for Movement Building Emergency Fund for Black Lives – Headwaters Foundation for Justice ... Justice – Liberty Hill Foundation, Los Angeles/ all of California Deaconess Foundation - for the St. Louis area ... Communities Against Hate This rapid-response initiative of the Open Society Foundations aims to support, protect, and ...

Breaking: Ferguson Activists Meet with President Obama to Demand an End to Police Brutality Nationwide

News type: 
News from the Field
... Communities nationwide have responded to the miscarriage of justice by carrying out more than 150 sustained, ... coordinated and intense protest actions that show no signs of letting up. Primarily led by young people of color, the ... Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder met with seven Black and Latino organizers – from Ferguson, Mo.; Columbus, ...

Questions Linger for LGBT Community After Police Kill Jessie Hernandez

News type: 
News from the Field
... mostly empty, minus the police SUV blaring Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger," but they're worried about crossing an ... Campos, holding a cheese pizza box, pointing to the stairs of a nearby building. "Because we might get arrested by that ... criminalizes the homeless, more than half of whom are black or Latino, according to a survey conducted by The .....

Bringing Our Whole Selves to Philanthropy and Our Grantmaking

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 ... learnings, help make connections, and serve as a bridge of information and knowledge between philanthropy and ... our values during the workshop session by the Movement for Black Lives. Given the history of slavery and genocide ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Funder Briefing call with Senator Al Franken on Forced Arbitration

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Webinar
... consumers from being ripped off and trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty isn’t over yet. And now what’s at ... and abusive companies. Buried in the service terms of credit card and checking accounts, student loans, ... What new policies might be on the way, and will the voices of working families be heard once the financial industry ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice

NFG celebrates 40 years! NFG's January 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
01/23/2020
... 40th anniversary. During our early years, NFG was one of the few spaces in philanthropy specifically focused on people of color-led, grassroots organizing, and power building as ... racism in health and housing, racial capitalism, migrant worker justice in rural areas, reimagining community safety ...
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Project Phoenix

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, February 1, 2016 - Monday, January 30, 2017
... fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or “solidarity economy” or ... jobs and promotes local economic prosperity the growth of ecologically sustainable and non-extractive sectors a ...

FFJ Call Recap: Policing and Criminalization in the Trump Era

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Wed, February 15, 2017
... National Immigration Law Center Over the course of these past few weeks, marginalized communities have been ... care providers across the globe with the reinstatement of the global gag rule ; federal employees who promote the ... travel ban; South Asian folks walking down the street ; Black activists fighting for freedom and liberation under the ...

After #Ferguson

News type: 
News from the Field
... a few blocks away from Canfield Green, the predominantly black apartment complex where the unarmed teenager was shot. ... and men out there, and the family." The next day, members of the community passed around a large plastic bag for ... others donated $50, $20, whatever they could. By the end of the day, the bag was filled with money. "Before it became .....
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Topic: 
Criminalization
Racial Justice

Freedom Side Open Letter

News type: 
News from the Field
... Ferguson and the larger fight against police brutality and Black dehumanization, to request real solidarity. This is a ... no surprise because young people have always been the fuel of social movements. Youth leaders recruiting, planning, ... New York and Los Angeles and Cleveland and beyond. For all of our lives, people of color have been fighting to breathe. ...

From the Front Lines of Ferguson

News type: 
Member News
... The incident was all too familiar. An apparently unarmed black man was fatally shot by a white police officer, in a ... were meaningful differences between the April 7 shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ... amid a national debate over police practices, the use of force, and the strained relations between law enforcement ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice
Criminalization

Lifting up Philanthropy Forward Fellows’ Response to Coronavirus

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/22/2020
... Forward fellowship provides dedicated space for CEOs of progressive philanthropic institutions to organize ... and power: Fellows Nicky Goren, President and CEO of Meyer Foundation, and Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat, President ... Justice Issue & our Response must Prioritize the Power of Black , Indigenous, Latinx & Other People of Color Fellow ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, March 30, 2017 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... and gentrification at the local, regional, and state level. Strategies and solutions to gentrification and ... housing has had some success, but the demographics of many communities are still rapidly changing. At the ... Grounded Solutions Network Prior to serving as Director of State and Local Policy at Grounded Solutions Network, Sasha ...

Action Alert: Flush Transphobia Fund

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
05/26/2016
... bills while doing nothing to address the real causes of violence against women. If you're concerned about the harm ... and intersex communities -- particularly women, folks of color, and youth -- we need your support . If you're angry ... that conservative men created bathroom bills in the name of women's safety while doing nothing for actual survivors of .....

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, April 21, 2017
... and gentrification at the local, regional, and state level. Strategies and solutions to gentrification and ... housing has had some success, but the demographics of many communities are still rapidly changing. At the center ... Causa Justa :: Just Cause Sasha Hauswald , Director of State and Local Policy, Grounded Solutions Network Felicia ...

Homecoming: Housing Justice is Racial and Economic Justice

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, July 2, 2020 -
9:00am - 12:00pm
Virtual
As part of Neighborhood Funders Group’s 40th anniversary virtual ... shifts and bolder strategies to address the intersections of community health, housing, community ownership, and racial ... development Support our shared analysis of local, state , and federal demands for housing needs and the ...

Grant-making with an Intersectional Lens

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, May 24, 2018 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
The current economic system and laws were not designed for Black people, indigenous peoples, people of color, women, people who identify as LGBTQI, and migrants to thrive. As we consider the implications of this economic system, and philanthropy as a sector within ...

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

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 -
9:00am - 11:00am
Virtual
... learn from frontline leaders working at the intersection of climate justice, sovereignty and land justice. The ... conversation will acknowledge the history and current work of the Land Justice Movement while exploring the ... that are centering land amidst a myriad of challenges black and brown communities are facing – housing and food ...

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

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
01/22/2019
... for rural organizing infrastructure that centers values of racial justice and builds sustainable power in rural communities. Faron was a founding member of IRSG in his former role as Program Officer at the ... During his time at Veatch, Faron oversaw its New York state and Environmental Justice portfolios. He has also ...

Puerto Rico: A Philanthropic Sneak Peak

Event type: 
Webinar
Friday, October 10, 2014
Webinar
Webinar Sneak-Peak of the Tour! Friday, October 10, 2014 1pm-2:15pm eastern/ ... with the United States, there has been a limited presence of US mainland philanthropy in Puerto Rico. The island is ... the island are forging innovate ways to address a myriad of problems in innovative and effective ways. This webinar ...

DIVEST/INVEST: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities

Resource type: 
NFG Resource
Mon, September 17, 2018
... Zachary Norris, FFJ Field Advisor and Executive Director of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights notes, "Too often, ... Jenny Arwade, FFJ Field Advisor and Co-Director of Communities United, explains: “The dominant narrative ... is devastating enough. Then to hear how many trillions of dollars have been invested in these same communities to .....

#NFG2016 Conference Recap from Native Americans in Philanthropy

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/04/2016
... and programming centered around rethinking the role of funders in building long-term holistic transformation and ... philanthropy opportunities; EDUCATE to master a method of philanthropy rooted in Native values; and EMPOWER each ... grassroots groups that emerged from Oakland is the Black Panther Party, which is celebrating its 50th ...

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 ... 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, .....

NFG's 2020 Virtual Convening Series

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 -
9:00am - 10:30am
Virtual
... is continuing throughout 2020 as we celebrate four decades of mobilizing philanthropy and bring funders together to explore what is possible in the current era of organized philanthropy. Our convening series features six ... boldly strategize, and shift power & money so that Black , Indigenous, and people of color communities and ...

For Philanthropy, Time to Double Down to End Injustice

News type: 
Member News
... By Jennifer Buffett, Peter Buffett, and Pamela Shifman of the NoVo Foundation As people across the country prepare ... and other nonprofits are grappling with the consequences of change for our collective future, especially as we have ... increase support for social-justice movements — from Black Lives Matter to the Dreamers — that have gained ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Webinar
... more equitable communities for low-income and communities of color becomes even more critical as cities and regions ... like Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit, large populations of low-income black communities, immigrant communities, and others continue ...

Board Transitions at NFG

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
04/19/2019
... Group is steered by a passionate and talented board of directors who help fulfill our mission of organizing ... and strategy development. Previously, Cory supported state -level child advocacy organizations and helped lead the ... policy development and campaign strategy at the local, state , and national levels. She holds an undergraduate ...
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Health, Housing, Race, Equity and Power Funders Convening

Event type: 
Convening
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Oakland, CA
... and families continue to struggle. Housing is one of the best-researched social determinants of health , and ... of color in the civic process at the local, regional, and state levels? How are health funders advancing an ... Funders will hear from leaders about local, regional, and state organizing approaches to build power and opportunity in ...

Power Research

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Webinar
... an offensive tool, power research guides the development of strategic campaigns that target and expose the drivers of racism and racial division that perpetuate structural ... and the fossil fuel industry. Furthermore, as networks of state -based grassroots organizations collectively build ...
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Moving the South Forward in the New Reality: A Post-Election Funder Briefing

Event type: 
Webinar
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Webinar
... a conference call for funders to explore the impact of this year's election results in Southern communities. ... their insights about the challenges and opportunities of the current national narrative about what happened in the ... Partners from across the region will provide a multi- state analysis using election data; explore key learnings .....
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Game Changing Advancement in Fostering Access to Opportunity: HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Webinar
... 11:00 am (PST) | 1:00 - 2:00 pm (EST) Every year, billions of federal dollars are allocated to local governments to ... that concentrated poverty is on the rise, with people of color disproportionately affected. Why are there so many ... Furthering Fair Housing rule (AFFH) will require local and state government to use a new approach called an ""Assessment .....

Speak Out: Social Justice Advocacy for Public Foundations

Event type: 
Webinar
Friday, September 20, 2019 -
11:00am - 12:15pm
Webinar
A recording of this webinar is available here . (Enter contact info to ... play an important role in building power for communities of color and low-income communities by engaging in advocacy ... ballot measure for climate justice or lobbying the state legislature to increase resources to support census ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
As the philanthropic community takes stock of the impact COVID-19 has on our operations and long-term ... communities who are hardest hit by the compounding impacts of this pandemic. California Foodshed Funders, First Nations ... of COVID-19 cases has risen beyond 1000; if it were a US state it would rank third in per-capita infection behind New ...

Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
06/29/2016
... and social immobility. However, there is little mention of the role that place plays in perpetuating poverty or ... article from the Urban Institute discusses the importance of place on poverty and makes several policy recommendations. ... within a neighborhood) and vertically (activating city, state , and federal policy levers and resources). But perhaps ...
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Topic: 
Economic Justice
Housing Justice

On Earth Day, Empowering Allies for the Year Ahead

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/22/2015
... equity, community, and faith are rising to the forefront of the environmental movement. Is the philanthropic community ... invest in these arenas so that we can maximize this moment of opportunity? Whether your starting place is economic ... due to its geographic and political status (territory vs. state ): National funders tend to overlook it as non-US, ...

Webinar: Fueling the Movement - How Foundations Can Support the Fight for Racial Equity

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Webinar
... Creator, #BlackLivesMatter Tynesha McHarris , Director of Community Leadership, Brooklyn Community Foundation ... , President & CEO, Deaconess Foundation and Co-Chair of the Ferguson Commission Aaron Dorfman , Executive ... have been on the ground in the movement about what type of support they need to be successful. Learn funding ...
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2020 National Convening update & more: NFG's April 2020 Newsletter

News type: 
Newsletter
Release Date: 
04/30/2020
... spent the last several weeks adjusting to this altered way of life — providing time off for staff, calling for social ... , urging funders to scale up and move money to communities of color on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking ways to highlight the ...
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JPMorgan Chase, Detroit Development Fund and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Announce $6.5 Million Loan Fund for Detroit’s Minority-Owned Small Businesses

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
10/12/2015
Entrepreneurs of Color Fund will provide greater economic opportunity for ... program for Detroit businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color and businesses that primarily hire people of color. The Entrepreneurs of Color Fund will boost economic ...

NFG Member Spotlight: Tremaine Foundation

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
04/27/2018
... does grantmaking through a national lens in niche areas of Art, Environment, and Learning Differences. One of their recent initiatives that may be of special interest ... and environmental lenses. Sustainable CT is part of a 12- state network focused on community-led sustainability ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

Resource type: 
NFG Report
Tue, June 05, 2018
... the Integrated Rural Strategies Group commissioned a scan of rural organizing work, Voices from the Field: Rural ... the group’s role and intended impact in the landscape of rural organizing. Capturing the voices of organizers on ... “It’s very powerful to be with others around the state [ of Minnesota]. I’ve seen it transforming some of our ...

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, August 28, 2017
Pittsburgh is a “blue city," where nearly 80% of the population voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 ... gentrification is rapidly displacing low-income families of color from hot areas of the city while other neighborhoods ... housing. Tour Highlights: Building power from the local to state level takes coalitions, partnerships, and engaging .....

Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Mon, January 09, 2017
... impacts social justice work supporting LGBTQ, people of color, and immigrant communities in the South. Leaders and ... their insights about the challenges and opportunities of the current national narrative about what happened in the ... forward. Partners from across the region provided a multi- state analysis using election data; explored key learnings ...

“Advancing Together” the Democratizing Development Program

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
10/13/2016
... Development Program this summer with the goal of supporting our network to help create a shift in how ... toward a vision where low-income people and communities of color have actual decision-making ability to say what ... Project and Tyler Nickerson, Director of Investments and State Strategy at The Solutions Project. Webinar: ...

Development Without Displacement in Opportunity Zones

Event type: 
Webinar
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... a provision nested within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, presents significant opportunities and potential ... to advance equitable economic development. Unlike many state -level incentives, there are no requirements included regarding the number of jobs, amounts of wages, transparency, accountability, or a ...

Hope in the Heartland: Racial Justice and the White Working Class

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Webinar
... debates within progressive circles about the importance of “winning over” the white working class often fail to ... Join us for a funder webinar in which Tarso Luis Ramos of Political Research Associates will have a conversation ... factory farms influenced federal farm policy, won multiple state investments in sustainable family farming, and helped ...
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Topic: 
Racial Justice

Reclaim, Remain, Rebuild: A Conversation with Funders on New Strategies for Urban Democracy & Equity

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, October 20, 2014
New York, NY
... organizing strategies for urban democracy on municipal, state , and national levels. The conversation will take a behind the scenes look at two new national reports, Rise of the Renter Nation and Rise of the Corporate Landlord, to better understand the current ...

How to Fund the Revolution: Part 1

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Tue, March 01, 2016
By Mary Joyce, Movement Net Lab In Part 1 of this two-part series I argue why new social movement ... system the most effective activists will be starved of resources and change will not occur. A : Social movements ... and #SandraBland that have sprung up around the Black Lives Matter movement, its own name taken from a ...

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

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Thu, May 18, 2017
... debates within progressive circles about the importance of “winning over” the white working class often fail to ... communities. This webinar featured Tarso Luis Ramos of Political Research Associates in a conversation with Mark ... factory farms influenced federal farm policy, won multiple state investments in sustainable family farming, and helped ...

FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Kris Hayashi

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
01/14/2019
Hear from Kris Hayashi, Executive Director of Transgender Law Center and FFJ Field Advisor, about the ... th, 2018 Transgender Law Center (TLC) and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free announced that we have filed a Notice of ... Roxsana Hernandez’s death accountable. We were joined by Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) and Familia: Trans ...

Foundation for Louisiana Supports Baton Rouge Organizing with Rapid Response Fund

News type: 
Member News
Release Date: 
09/12/2016
... who are outraged, hurt and engaged by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling, Deputy Brad Garafola with East Baton Rouge ... Office and officers Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson of the Baton Rouge Police Department — as well as the three ... resulted in the criminalization and mass incarceration of black and brown people at alarmingly disproportionate rates. ...

Five Questions with Casey: Sophie Dagenais on the Baltimore Unrest and the Way Forward

News type: 
Member News
... 27, 2015, By the Annie E. Casey Foundation As director of the Baltimore Civic Site team, Sophie Dagenais oversees ... Prior to joining Casey, Dagenais served as chief of staff for Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. A ... know that the unemployment rate is high — 35% — for black youth ages 16–24. For their white and Hispanic peers, ...

Time to Invest for Justice

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2018
In June 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group convened hundreds of local, regional, and national funders for the NFG 2018 ... at The Solutions Project , reflects on the importance of investing time into learning and collaborating together. ... Center and Electoral Justice Project at Movement for Black Lives reminded us in the philanthropic sector to slow ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Prisons/Detention Centers, Racial Justice, and the Environment in Rural Places

Event type: 
Webinar
Monday, January 28, 2019 -
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... the land, and ultimately rely on increasing the number of people in prison in order to grow. This often means heavier policing of youth, migrants, homeless folks, and families. ... Hawk, Indian People’s Action Nekessa Julia Opoti, Black Immigrant Collective Sammy Nunez & Colleague, Fathers ...

Place Based Community Change: The Time is Now

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/02/2016
... in Place-Based Philanthropy . Here, Dawn Phillips, of Right to the City Alliance and Causa Justa :: Just Cause ... and insightful. The gathering explored the importance of place-based community change and its potential to support ... crises—historic racial and economic inequity; anti- Black racism; deepening violence against immigrants, ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Ferguson City Council Announces New Programs

News type: 
News from the Field
... the West Florissant Great Streets Project with the City of Dellwood and St. Louis County. “The overall goal of these changes is to improve trust within the community and ... and St. Louis County. The City will seek federal and state highway funds, streetscape grants, and other sources of ...
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Webinar Recap: Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Fri, November 03, 2017
... resources should be allocated. Here is a recap of the lessons learned, along with the video recording and ... Our discussion with Josh Lerner, Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project, and Tyler Nickerson, Director of Investments and State Strategy at The Solutions Project, provided a ...

What Have We Learned about Place-Based Investments?

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
11/02/2016
... Practices in Place-Based Philanthropy . Here, Simran Noor of the Center for Social Inclusion shares the three lessons ... my hometown, which allowed me to see firsthand the impacts of place-based investments. I was reminded of that work when ... Could success potentially mean a self-sustaining future state without philanthropy’s presence? What are the ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

NFG Announces New President: Adriana Rocha

News type: 
NFG News
Release Date: 
05/21/2020
... to support grassroots power building so that communities of color and low-income communities thrive, is excited to ... leader committed to social justice who brings a wealth of nonprofit and philanthropy experience to the role. Rocha has served as NFG’s Vice President of Programs since May 2017. In this role, she supported NFG ...
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2018 Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE)

Event type: 
Convening
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 - Thursday, May 10, 2018
Chicago, IL
... (CCLE) on May 9-10, 2018 in Chicago, IL. This iteration of CCLE will highlight the philanthropic journey and process ... (Break) 3:45 - 5:30 pm The State of Race in Chicago Today 5:30 - 5:45 pm ... Innovation Review, 2017] A Tale of Three Cities: The State of Racial Justice in Chicago [Institute for Research ...

No Time for Business as Usual

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
05/16/2017
Sharon Alpert, NFG member and President & CEO of The Nathan Cummings Foundation , shares an update on NCF's ... democratic institutions are under attack. The legitimacy of the press is being questioned and critical public ... in anti-Semitic acts. They are organizing vast groups of people who are showing up at airports and in the streets, .....
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

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

News type: 
Member News
National awareness of police brutality and the need for policing reform is at an ... attention to horrific moments has led to the birth of a movement, and a tipping point is in sight. Tides and its ... their work might not be popular, neither was the work of black -led organizations at the height of the Civil Rights ...

Sister Cities Learning Tour

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - Friday, October 3, 2014
Memphis, TN
... us in Minneapolis, Minnesota to experience a vibrant hub of positive transformation where people, place and ... community development exchange with our “sister city” of Memphis, Tennessee to learn about concrete innovative ... of the Northiside Funders Group in Minneapolis Tawanna Black , Executive Director, Northside Funders Group Linda ...

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

Event type: 
Webinar
Thursday, September 17, 2020 -
11:00am - 12:30pm
Webinar
... moratoriums, and canceling rent. For years, tenants of five buildings were threatened to be evicted by a negligent landlord despite the lack of upkeep on the buildings, which included rodents, heating, ... Economy on a unique virtual learning tour to learn how Black women-led organizations Stand Up Nashville and The ...

Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy

Resource type: 
Event Recap
NFG Report
Fri, March 13, 2015
In response to a resurgence of interest in place-based grantmaking, the Aspen Forum for ... Philanthropy. This conference report provides an overview of the discussions that took place at this conference, ... Working group membership includes funders at city, state , regional, and national lev- els who are committed to ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

Towards a More Resilient Place: Voices from the Convening

Resource type: 
Event Recap
Wed, October 18, 2017
... community change. By Dennis Quirin, President of Neighborhood Funders Group, and Steve Patrick, Executive Director and Vice President of the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions As ... continue to expand, the time is ripe to rethink the role of funders in supporting community resilience, cohesion, and ...
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Topic: 
Philanthropic Practice

NFG at the 2019 CHANGE Philanthropy Unity Summit

Event type: 
Convening
Monday, November 18, 2019 - Thursday, November 21, 2019
Seattle, WA
... Funders Group is proud to be a collaborative partner of CHANGE Philanthropy and a member of the 2019 Unity Summit planning committee. NFG's staff and ... to today’s most pressing problems at the local, state , and national levels. Philanthropy's long withdrawal .....

Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk

Resource type: 
Partner Resource
Wed, April 20, 2016
... were about 24,000 stops last year, a far cry from the peak of 685,000 in 2011 under Bloomberg. But not everyone is ... to get it pushed through City Council. Today hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside City Hall to support the ... first introduced by council members Antonio Reynoso ( of Bushwick) and Ritchie Torres in November 2014. The act ...

Learning Tour in Puerto Rico

Event type: 
Learning Visit
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - Friday, November 14, 2014
San Juan, PR
... solutions that advance equity and resilience. Decades of inequitable development patterns coupled with urgent ... and civil society partnerships that prioritize the needs of the island’s low-income communities. Against this ... and Neighborhood Funders Group on a two-day learning tour of the areas surrounding San Juan, during which funders and ...

Catalyzing a Movement for Health and Housing

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
07/12/2019
... in community housing solutions. Despite the large number of concurrent sessions, funders filled the room to dig deep into the urgent issue of equitable housing — and what role health funders can ... a critical role to play, regardless of what extent local/ state /federal government is stepping up. Invest in the ...

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

News type: 
NFG Blog
Release Date: 
08/14/2019
A growing number of places are grappling with housing affordability. As the ... most acutely by low-income individuals and communities of color, they affect more than just low-income renters. ... approach to these issues is starting to show results, as state and local governments are responding more aggressively ...