Hear what participants said about this year’s programming! Programming at a Glance: Tuesday, July 15: Opening Plenary: Connecting Local and State Organizing for Transformational Power in Tennessee  Let Us Live: Funding an Opposition to Eugenics From Vision to Victory: Advancing the Power to Win Through Strategic Collaboration Winning in the States: Coordinating Philanthropy to Resource…

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NFG’s Nashville Primer After many conversations with local leaders, Nashville emerged as a region of focus due to a lack of philanthropic support at the regional and national levels; the potential for grassroots leaders to influence community power building across the country; and a core belief that the South has always been as much an…

The 2025 National Convening: Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power was held in Nashville, Tennessee the week of July 15-17, 2025! Through this Convening, the NFG community returned to the South, building on six years of work in the state beginning in 2019 when Tennessee became one of Amplify Fund’s eight places.  The convening was a…

To make the 2023 National Convening accessible to those who could not join us in Wilmington, our team decided to record each of the plenary sessions that took place. With the help of local videographers, NFG was also able to capture footage centering Amplify Fund’s grantee partners in Eastern North Carolina and the award celebration…

Folks in philanthropy know that Neighborhood Funders Group is where they can find their community and co-conspirators to move more money for racial, gender, economic, disability, and climate justice. They also know our convenings are spaces to come together, organize, and have fun! From our first National Convening in 1995 in Cleveland to our first…

CORE CONVENING TEAM Convening Co-Chairs Shona Chakravartty — Hill-Snowdon Foundation As Senior Program Officer at the Hill-Snowdon Foundation (HSF), Shona Chakravartty is responsible for leading and managing HSF’s Economic Justice grantmaking program, as well as developing and implementing learning and leveraging activities related to HSF’s economic justice interests. She was previously the co-chair of Neighborhood…

NFG’s 40 Years Strong virtual convening series celebrated four decades of mobilizing philanthropy and brought funders together to explore what is possible in the current era of organized philanthropy. The series began with our 40 Years Strong plenary session on People, Place and Power, followed by our Accountability and Philanthropy’s Role plenary focused on philanthropy’s responsibility to be…

You can find recordings of each plenary and session from NFG’s 40 Years Strong virtual convening series below, along with links to transcripts, graphic recordings, and related resources. Watch for the first time, watch again, and please share widely! Catch highlights and quotes shared by participants on Twitter with #NFG2020 and #NFG40YearsStrong. Sessions: Technologies for Liberation: Moving…

As we celebrate 40 years of NFG’s work in organizing and mobilizing philanthropy, our dynamic community of grantmakers and grassroots leaders is what makes us strong. Thank you to the following funders who sponsored NFG’s 40 Years Strong virtual convening series! Thank You Sponsors! Surdna Foundation Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Needmor Fund Raikes Foundation The Workers Lab…

ACCESS, ACCOMMODATIONS, AND DISABILITY STATEMENT OF INTENT In organizing NFG’s 2020 National Convening, we held strongly to the goal to create a space where Disabled/chronically ill and Deaf folks shouldn’t need to pass as being able-bodied, healthy or from hearing culture, in order to be present or to participate fully. We arrived at this goal knowing that…

Since 1980, NFG has been a ‘political home’ for people in philanthropy: a place to connect, strengthen our analysis, and take action. Our virtual convening series: 40 Years Strong celebrates four decades of mobilizing philanthropy and brings funders together to explore what is possible in the current era of organized philanthropy. This series began on…