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Upcoming Events

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Mar 27

Info Session: NCG's (c4) Power-Building Cohort

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Mar 28

Bay Area Equity Atlas: Mobilizing Data for Equity

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Apr 11

Philanthropy California Grant Writing Training #1

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Apr 15 - 16

California Criminal Justice Central Valley Funders Convening

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2023 Annual (Not) Report

In 2023 the NCG organism grew. Our membership grew, we expanded our offerings and created new opportunities for collective transformation. Read our Annual (Not) Report to see what we are made of.

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Take a Look at our 2023 Annual (Not) Report

NCG’s community of advocates, dreamers, and believers are transforming philanthropy. To support this transformation, we choose to lean into impact, which comes from directly inspiring, mobilizing, and supporting philanthropy to shift practice. Together, our community is advancing collective impact that far exceeds what we can do alone. In 2023, the NCG organism grew. Our membership grew, we expanded our offerings, and created new opportunities for collective transformation. We have gathered stories and data to highlight what we’re made of and how we moved philanthropy to action.

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Where We've Been, Where We're Going

We started as the “Lunch Bunch” in the 1960s, a group of philanthropic leaders committed to growing together. We formalized ourselves in the 1980s as Northern California Grantmakers with the goal of supporting a base of philanthropic members. Currently, we have more than 220 institutional members and over 4,000 individual members. For the past forty years, we have been working to gather, mobilize, and transform philanthropy. 

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Tour NCG's New Website & Refreshed Brand

We have been working hard for the past year to create a website that reflects our current evolution. You'll find that we've updated our brand—and it's not just about changing logos or colors. We've taken a deeper look at how we communicate our values through our new design and our refreshed mission and vision statement.

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Imagine and Act: NCG's 2024 Annual Conference

We can only act on what we can imagine. As philanthropy is called to meet this moment, we need to expand our imagination. How can we envision philanthropy not as it is, but what it could be at its best? Within philanthropy, we need practices, tools, and ways of being that are in service to freedom and equity. As those mobilizing resources, we must stay steadfast in imagining and co-creating generative pathways to a more equitable future.

Latest News

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Mar 25, 2024

NCG in DC: Reflections from Foundations on the Hill

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Mar 5, 2024

Announcing Youth Power Fund’s Third Phase $1.12 Million in Grants to Youth Organizing Groups

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Feb 29, 2024

All in for the Central Valley: Bolster Democracy by Rapidly Investing in Grassroots Leaders and Local Journalism During an Election Year

Asking for a Friend... the Field

NCG's Asking for a Friend... (the field) is NCG's Advice Column for the field of philanthropy. Submit your question and we'll contact you or submit it anonymously. Read recent Advice from NCG's Board Chair, Janet Spears by clicking below. 

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