NFG’s September Newsletter: Fall ushers in new phase of leadership for NFG

Dear friend, This summer has brought moments of profound happiness like being in community with so many funders and grassroots leaders in Nashville at Neighborhood Funders Group’s (NFG) 2025 National Convening. At the same time, we’ve also had to contend with the present political moment, navigating organizing both within philanthropy and in our backyards. As…

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NFG’s August Newsletter: Built for This Moment — and What Comes Next

Dear friend, Thank you to everyone who joined us in Nashville for NFG’s 2025 National Convening! Whether you were there in person or cheering us on from afar, your presence, energy, and commitment made this gathering powerful. Together, we laughed, learned, built relationships, and strategized toward a future rooted in justice and thriving communities. We’re…

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NFG’s July Newsletter: Register Today NFG for an Upcoming Webinar!

Dear friend, Last week NFG hosted its 2025 National Convening in Nashville, TN rooted in seeding (and ceding) transformational power. During the week we grounded ourselves in the richness of Middle Tennessee’s history, culture, and powerful organizing ecosystems. We came together for a variety of planaries, sessions, and workshops aimed at challenging philanthropy to take bold, coordinated…

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NFG’s March Newsletter: Registration for NFG’s 2025 National Convening is now live!

Dear friend, Registration is now open for NFG’s 2025 National Convening: Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power! This year’s convening theme, Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power, is a call to action. We aim to seed many ideas and investments, build new opportunities to fund ongoing organizing and power building, and resource communities methodically and in collaboration with one another…

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NFG’s January Newsletter: NFG is ready to take on the unknowns of 2025 with members

Dear friend, I’m excited to welcome the Neighborhood Funders Group community to 2025! I’m returning from NFG’s winter office closure feeling energized to continue working towards a reality where BIPOC and low-income communities are funded with all philanthropic assets in this current political moment. 2024 was a big year for NFG. Together with you all, we advanced…

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NFG’s December Newsletter: Now live — NFG launches its Co-President search

In this month’s newsletter, you’ll hear from NFG board Co–Chairs, Kaberi Banerjee Murthy, Ms. Foundation, and Tania Durán, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. As board Co-Chairs, Tania and Kaberi have been deeply committed leaders on the Board through the heart of this transition; this has been a body of work full of commitment to NFG and its…

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NFG’s November Newsletter: Team NFG on funder organizing beyond election cycles

Dear friend, Over Neighborhood Funders Group’s 45 year history, we have been a steadfast presence in philanthropy, pushing funders to more deeply and effectively support people of color-led, grassroots organizing in communities across the country. Each of our six programs seek to organize philanthropy into action, with a commitment to sustaining movements for the long haul. As the shape…

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NFG’s October Newsletter: NFG announces a new leadership model

Dear friend, Over Neighborhood Funders Group’s nearly 45 year history as an organization we have been a steadfast presence in philanthropy, pushing funders to more deeply and effectively support people of color-led, grassroots organizing, and powerbuilding work in communities across the country. And, NFG has become more bold in its vision to liberate philanthropic assets…

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NFG’s June Newsletter: An invitation for funders to explore NFG’s evolving identity

Dear friend, Neighborhood Funders Group is a community of grantmakers who are moving money to racial, gender, economic, disability, and climate justice. We organize philanthropy so that Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities and low-income communities thrive. For the past two years, NFG has been in a significant period of leadership transition and organizational change that…

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NFG’s May Newsletter: Organizing funders & building community — Neighborhood Funders Group reflects on 2024 so far

Dear friend, A political home derives some of its greatest strength from the intentional care and participation of its members. When we say that Neighborhood Funders Group offers ​​grantmakers a political home — a place to connect, strategize, and take action — it is with recognition that joyful, inspiring organizing spaces are created in community. For NFG…

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NFG January Newsletter: take action and build community with NFG this winter

Dear friend, Winter often represents a time of challenging transition as we navigate the darkness and dormancy, but now is not the time for hibernation. Our sector must continue moving money to racial, gender, economic, disability, and climate justice and organizing to liberate philanthropic assets. At NFG, we are energized by the bold and strategic…

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