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2024 Discount Foundation Legacy Award: Call for Nominations
The nominations are now open for the 2024 Discount Foundation Legacy Award! The Discount Foundation Legacy Award annually identifies, supports, and celebrates an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and contributed significantly to workers’ rights movements in the United States. Through public recognition and a $20,000 stipend, we hope to recognize and amplify the work…
Read MoreDiscount Foundation Legacy Award
The Discount Legacy Award annually identifies, supports, and celebrates an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and contributed significantly to workers’ rights movements in the United States. Through public recognition and a $20,000 stipend, we hope to recognize and amplify the work of individuals at the intersections leading the way toward justice for low-wage…
Read MoreHow NFG Celebrates Worker Justice Movements: NFG’s May 2022 Newsletter
At the beginning of May — on International Workers’ Day — Neighborhood Funders Group was excited to announce the winners of our 2022 Discount Foundation Legacy Award! We’re resharing this announcement and sending our sincerest congratulations to this year’s awardee, Wendy Melendez Garcia of Local 32BJ SEIU District 615, as well as the runner-up and equally-inspiring Nap Pempena, Secretary…
Read More(Re)Sharing NFG’s National Convening update + more events: NFG’s April 2022 Newsletter
Neighborhood Funders Group is re-sharing the announcement about our National Convening that we made earlier this month. We are shifting the timing of our National Convening in Wilmington, North Carolina from June 2022 to Spring 2023. Convening is NFG’s ‘superpower,’ and the most frequently named reason for why we are many funders’ political home in philanthropy.…
Read MoreConnection: NFG’s 2023 National Convening
Neighborhood Funders Group is shifting the timing of our National Convening in Wilmington, North Carolina from June 2022 to Spring 2023 (the convening had been planned in this same location for June 14-16, 2022). It’s with mixed emotions and deep commitment to the NFG community that I share this update with you, while also holding…
Read MoreSharing NFG’s refreshed theory of change: NFG’s March 2022 Newsletter
Neighborhood Funders Group has shared snippets of our new theory of change in each of our newsletters so far this year. In January, we unveiled our long-term outcome: Philanthropic assets are liberated so that BIPOC communities and low-income communities have power to self-determine. In February, we applied this outcome to NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy program…
Read MoreHow will you commit to building worker power? NFG’s February 2022 Newsletter
Neighborhood Funders Group’s new theory of change has our organization working toward a world where philanthropic assets are liberated so that BIPOC and low-income communities have power to self-determine (read more about why this long-term outcome from our President, Adriana Rocha, in our January newsletter). NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) program brings funders together that are committed to advancing the…
Read MoreGetting grounded for 2022: NFG’s January 2022 Newsletter
I began 2022 taking comfort in the seemingly little — but deeply meaningful things — a hug from my son, a good laugh with friends, a walk after school drop-off. These comforts help me ground myself, as I set my intentions for the year and for our collective work at NFG. When I became NFG’s…
Read MoreSaying ‘no’ and rest as resistance: NFG’s December 2021 Newsletter
At the beginning of this month, Neighborhood Funders Group hosted our final Member Connection Call of 2021. These calls are informal virtual spaces for grantmakers to truly connect and co-conspire; if you haven’t joined one yet, we hope that you will in 2022 — register here for our next call on January 26! On this…
Read MoreCampaign to Support BIPOC Farmers
Photos courtesy of Black Oaks Center. Connect with NFG about contributing Neighborhood Funders Group and Wieboldt Foundation invite you to support racial justice and reparations for Black, Indigenous, and POC farmers who are crucial to our fight for just food systems, economic justice, and climate justice. We have launched a campaign to support the farmers of Pembroke Township, Illinois and Black Oaks…
Read MoreIndigenous-led Funding Opportunities
Philanthropy needs to move more resources and power to Indigenous-led groups. In honor of Native American Heritage Month in November, here is a list of Indigenous-led organizations you can fund today and every day. This list was compiled by NFG teammate Stephan Cheney, who is Lakota of the Kul Wicasa Oyate located in Lower Brule,…
Read MoreLooking back & what’s ahead: NFG’s November 2021 Newsletter
As we’re approaching the end of the year, our team at Neighborhood Funders Group has begun reflecting on the many ways we’ve been organizing with funders to move more money to racial, gender, economic, and climate justice. In this month’s newsletter, you’ll find our highlights from 2021 and a glimpse of what to expect from…
Read MorePhilanthropy’s horoscope for care + liberation: NFG’s October 2021 Newsletter
I’ve been on NFG’s staff team since July 2019 — popping into your inbox (whether you knew it was me or not) as one of the behind-the-scenes creators/writers/editors of our monthly newsletters and other communications pieces. In addition to being NFG’s Director of Membership and Communications, I’m a puppy parent, an avid car camper, a…
Read MoreConnect & co-conspire with us: NFG’s 2021 September Newsletter
As a proud partner of CHANGE Philanthropy, NFG is excited to come together for the 2021 Unity Summit — the largest convening of progressive philanthropy! Join us for the virtual & live Unity Summit experience from October 25-28. The Unity Summit will continue November 1-5 with a week of interactive experiences. This year’s format will offer live…
Read MoreWelcoming IRSG’s Movement Advisors
NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) launched its inaugural committee of Movement Advisors in August 2021. These Advisors will deepen IRSG’s work to increase philanthropy’s accountability to rural movement leaders. These seven rural leaders reflect the powerful and broad diversity of rural communities, representing a range of geographies, issues, races, cultures, and more. What these leaders…
Read MoreReflections on Labor Day with Larry Williams, Jr. of UnionBase
This Labor Day, NFG’s Director of the Funders for a Just Economy program, Manisha Vaze, met with Larry Williams, Jr., Cofounder of UnionBase, and formerly a Labor and Just Transition Coordinator at the Sierra Club and President of the Progressive Workers Union. In this interview, Manisha and Larry talked about Larry’s work and his vision…
Read MoreWhat Philanthropy can Learn from Labor Organizing: NFG’s August 2021 Newsletter
I am so excited to join NFG’s Amplify Fund team. Amplify, a funder collaborative, has organized local, regional, and national funders to distribute over $8 million in power building grants to Black, Indigenous, people of color and low-income organizations. As the Fund’s inaugural Director of Learning and Communications, my skills with research, evaluation, and messaging…
Read MoreStatement on President Trumka’s Passing
With heavy hearts, Neighborhood Funders Group and The LIFT Fund are in solidarity with the AFL-CIO and the labor movement to honor President Richard Trumka. President Trumka dedicated his life to fighting for workers, from his beginnings with the United Mine Workers of America, to global solidarity efforts with workers in South Africa, and through…
Read MoreBuilding Power in Place – Houston: Breaking the Cycles of Disaster, Displacement, and Disenfranchisement
Labor and community organizers with the Build Houston Better campaign, launched after Hurricane Harvey, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announce a major legislative win to improve worker protection, wages and training access. Photo credit: Worker’s Defense Project. Houston often doesn’t receive funder attention until major climate change-fueled disasters: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Deer Park…
Read MoreTransformative change, rooted in place: NFG’s July 2021 Newsletter
Can you imagine what New York would look like if private equity funds weren’t evicting low-income renters? What about, if in the Washington, DC area, historically Black neighborhoods were not being gentrified by wealthy white people and behemoth-tech corporations like Amazon? What if, in Southern California, essential workers had the power to set policies that…
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