Northern California Grantmakers

We're pleased to share the photos from our event with Ibram X. Kendi spreading his powerful message of how we can be, and need to be, proactively antiracist. #400years Thank you to our partners and sponsors Borealis Philanthropy Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Stupski Foundation Akonadi Foundation Kapor Center East Bay Community Foundation San Francisco Foundation The General Service Foundation by Boris Zharkov

Northern California is currently experiencing multiple widespread #wildfires. NCG is working with key state and local partners to monitor these various fires, and we are compiling vetted funds, resources, and events (including a funder response call on Monday, August 24 at 10am PT) on our response page here: https://bit.ly/2EacDGM

This moment demands more from us. As we commemorate #Juneteenth, NCG's Acting Co-CEOs invite you to listen, reflect, & act with us in order to acknowledge this moment, while also taking action to live our values in order to sustain a greater movement: https://bit.ly/2YRsY9J

THIS WEDNESDAY our founder and visionary Valarie Kaur will speak to this moment: how do we lead with revolutionary love in *this* time? Catch her on the virtual... stage at this year’s Northern California Grantmakers’s Conference titled #TogetherforGood (Apart). Grantmakers and changemakers are invited! Register now at https://ncg.org/events/ncgs-2020-annual-conference [Image Description: A rectangular-shaped image split into two squared sections. The first section to the left is a grid of multi-colored (orange, green, teal, white) letters spelling out Together For Good. The second image to the right has a white background. In the center is a circle outlined in orange with a black and white headshot of Valarie Kaur. Above her is written in black Keynote. Underneath that written in orange is REVOLUTIONARY LOVE. Below the circle photo of Valarie it has her name Valarie Kaur written in orange. Underneath in black is written Civil Rights Activist and Founder of Revolutionary Love.]

"The Pandemic Has Revealed the Weaknesses in Our Democracy": Gary D. Bass, Executive Director of the Bauman Foundation, calls on philanthropy to continue to fund & provide leadership around issues like the 2020 election & #2020census in a recent Chronicle of Philanthropy op-ed https://bit.ly/2xCNQYz

"The coronavirus is yet another major reminder of why it’s important for our state to have access to accurate census data." Christian Arana and Jacqueline Martinez Garcel of #NCGmember Latino Community Foundation share how the #2020census is more important now than ever in a Los Angeles Times op-ed: https://bit.ly/3aCy5z9

"The COVID-19 crisis has upended the carefully laid plans for the 2020 Census in ways that might have disproportionate effects on California’s count." Thank you to the Public Policy Institute of California for continuing to uplift the importance of the #2020census during these times https://bit.ly/2QZ9htu