DAPP Survey: Understanding the Philanthropic Community’s Workforce & Leadership
How diverse are the staff and boards of foundations? What are the experiences of diverse philanthropic professionals? And how can your grantmaking organization support them in bringing their full selves to work? CHANGE Philanthropy’s 2024 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals (DAPP) Survey aims to answer these questions and more in a groundbreaking culture and climate study…
Read MoreDDP Briefing: How Collaborative Governance is Transforming Our Housing System
Housing is a human right, and a new set of bold, collaborative governance strategies is required to ensure that everyone has a safe and permanently affordable place to call home. Achieving this goal will require local elected officials and their civil society partners to develop new approaches to housing that center tenant rights and protections,…
Read MoreNew Year, New Tools for Moving Money: January NFG Member Call
We know that philanthropy is inequitable with resources flowing to larger, white-led organizations. Only 4% of $472 Billion moved to communities of color in 2020. It can be difficult for funders to find groups to fund that are outside their existing networks. And it can be costly for organizations and funders to seek and distribute funding. NFG is…
Read MoreBuilding Rural Worker Power Funder Briefing
Please join us on November 30th at 11am PT | 12pm MT | 1pm CT | 2pm ET for a Funder Briefing on Building Worker Power! artwork by Emitxin © 2023 Food Chain Workers Alliance. Rural economies have long been tied to extractive and exploitative practices. In sectors ranging from natural resource extraction to agriculture,…
Read MoreBuilding Local Power Before and Beyond the 2026 FIFA World Cup
FIFA’s 2026 Men’s Soccer World Cup games are coming soon to 16 host cities in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Since FIFA selected North America’s bid, local and national groups have fought to highlight the tangible risks associated with the tournament – displacement, police abuse, low-road temporary jobs. A national coalition of labor movement,…
Read MoreDelivering for Workers and Communities: Philanthropy’s Efforts to Ensure Equitable Implementation of Federal Investments
SAVE THE DATE – REGISTRATION FORTHCOMING This in-person event is co-hosted by Funders for a Just Economy, Economic Opportunity Funders, and Ford Foundation. Industrial policy is making a comeback in the United States. Sweeping legislation -including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act, and the…
Read MoreExponential Reach: How Worker Power Organizations Can Reach Millions and Grow to Scale to Win
Photo Credit: Unemployed Workers United Please join us for our webinar, Exponential Reach: How Worker Power Organizations Can Reach Millions and Grow to Scale to Win on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 10:30am – 11:30am PT | 11:30am- 12:30pm MT | 12:30pm- 1:30pm CT | 1:30pm – 2:30pm ET. Many movement organizations have the potential…
Read MoreFrom the Ground Up: Why Community Power Matters in Funding Climate Justice
Please join us on September 14 from 9:30am PT | 11:30am CT | 12:30pm ET for From the Ground Up: Why Community Power Matters in Funding Climate Justice. Register Here! The undeniable intersection of colonialism, racial capitalism, and climate injustice cannot be overlooked – from the devastating wildfires on Maui to the perpetuation of natural resource extraction…
Read MoreDDP Midterms Debrief: Securing Economic Justice in New York and Massachusetts
The future of safe, healthy, and clean communities are on the ballot across the country. As more state legislatures exercise increasing austere power over policing, voting, housing, healthy neighborhoods, and new green jobs, grassroots organizations are experimenting with narratives and base building strategies that are responding to the multiple opportunities this election cycle represents and…
Read MoreIndiana: Co-Governance in Action
Join us, for a conversation with Faith in Indiana and the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform to learn how they aligned organizing and policy expertise to transform Indianapolis’s criminal justice system, while and building new vehicles to advance governing power in a highly volatile state. Together we will explore: With billions of dollars…
Read MoreFund Excluded Workers Coalition Strategy Briefing
The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition invites you to join its 2022 strategy briefing on Wednesday, December 1 (9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET). In 2021, this coalition won a historic $2.1 billion statewide fund for New Yorkers who had been excluded from government relief. All eyes are on New York as this is the first publicly-funded program to provide…
Read MoreWorkers Confluence Fund of Minnesota Funder Briefing
For decades Minnesotans have organized innovative campaigns to build worker power. Organizing strategies are shifting state and local policy, building protections for workers in retail, farm work, construction, restaurants, logistics, and other industries. At the center of the organizing in Minnesota are community groups and labor unions working together to take on major corporations and…
Read MoreFJE Funder Briefing with Guests from the U. S. Department of Labor: Federal Grant Opportunities
NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy has invited back guests from the U. S. Department of Labor to share current and upcoming Federal grant opportunities for community groups and partners. During the briefing, USDOL staff will focus on grants supporting workforce development, training and apprenticeships, and unemployment insurance (including newly-announced community navigator grants as well…
Read MoreThe Lunar Project Funder’s Briefing: Building Asian-Black-Indigenous Solidarity
Sponsored by AAPIP, Justice Funders, Neighborhood Funders Group Last year’s racial justice uprisings against the state-sanctioned murders of Black people and increased anti-Asian xenophobia and violence fostered heightened awareness of the undeniable harms that white supremacy and anti-Blackness cause to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Despite the progress that philanthropy has made…
Read MoreFunder Briefing with invited guests from the U.S. Department of Labor
Calling all funders! Join us for a briefing with the U. S. Department of Labor on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 from 2:30-3:30pm Eastern Time. At the event, USDOL staff will share an overview of its priorities and opportunities for collaboration. In particular, USDOL will discuss key elements of the Build Back Better Act and the…
Read MoreFunders for a Just Economy 2021 Policy Briefing
Across the US, we are struggling with crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, the crippling racial and gender gaps in wealth, income, and political influence, rising fascism, and the deteriorating conditions for Black, Indigenous, and people of color, low-income communities and workers, rural communities, LGBTQIA people, women, and immigrants. In response, community members and workers have been…
Read MoreFunder Briefing on Advancing Housing Justice and Health Equity
NFG’s Democratizing Development Program invites you to participate in Human Impact Partners and Right To The City Alliance’s Funder Briefing on Advancing Housing Justice and Health Equity. Health and housing stability have always been closely intertwined. But when our collective health depends on our ability to stay home, we all have a stake in ensuring that…
Read MoreFunders for a Just Economy 2020 Policy Briefing
Over the past few weeks, NFG has been reviewing our upcoming events in response to COVID-19 including FJE’s upcoming Policy Briefing in Washington, D.C. on March 23-24. NFG cares about you, your loved ones, and the communities that you live and work in. While public health authorities have so far not prohibited domestic travel, public…
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