Member Strategy Session: Occupation Of Our Neighborhoods
This year millions are facing an unprecedented incursion on self-determination. This summer the federal government approved an increased budget for immigration and detention to $170 billion dollars, including tripling the budget for ICE, 300% increase in detention, and allocating hundreds of millions to private contractors for heightened surveillance. State and national lawmakers are escalating their…
Read MoreMidwest Funder Connection, Learning, + Strategy Sessions
About Our Connection, Learning, and Strategy Sessions (CLS Sessions) As a core component of Midwest Organizing Infrastructure Funder programming, CLS Sessions are bi-monthly 90-minute virtual meetings for funders to strategize, learn, and build community in ways that strengthen their ability to move more resources to Midwest grassroots organizing. All funders that fund in the…
Read MoreRacial Capitalism Community of Practice
NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) program is hosting a Racial Capitalism Community of Practice (CoP) open to funder members. Through this CoP, funder participants will explore how we can deepen our grantmaking efforts to advance justice, incorporate anti-racist practices in philanthropy, and partner with movement leaders in the creation of an inclusive economy.…
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