Webinars Archives - Neighborhood Funders Group

Day 1 Registration

Register for Day 1 using the button to the right → NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) is excited to invite you to join us for our fifth annual flagship event – the 2025 Rural Equity Summit! Launched in 2020, this annual gathering has become a vibrant space for building connections, sparking action, and deepening our commitment to rural equity. Set to…

Day 2 Registration

Register for Day 2 using the button to the right → NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) is excited to invite you to join us for our fifth annual flagship event – the 2025 Rural Equity Summit! Launched in 2020, this annual gathering has become a vibrant space for building connections, sparking action, and deepening our commitment to rural equity. Set…

Rooted: Integrating Gender Justice into Philanthropic Practice

Click to enlarge. Graphic recording by Jayda Shuavarnnasri. We continue to see sinister encroachment on gender justice – from anti-trans legislation and sentiments to attacks on reproductive rights and disregard of gender based violence. At the same time, community organizers continue to mobilize with a vision of intersectional feminism and justice for impacted communities. We…

2024 Post-Election Call

Over NFG’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. As we prepare for a new presidential administration, we at NFG are holding possibilities for a country…

Supporting Multi-Issue Organizing for Climate Justice: October NFG Member Call

To effectively mitigate our climate crisis, we must support multi-issue organizers who are building power for connected priorities in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, immigrant and low-income communities. Whether your funding is directed to economic justice, civic engagement, education, or health – there are opportunities and inroads to advocate for climate equity inherent to our movements…

Movement-led Community Ownership Models to Support Housing and Land Justice

From colonial land expropriation to the rise of the corporate landlord, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, immigrant, and low-income communities have been forced to navigate ever-changing, rigged housing systems that seek to displace and extract as many resources from communities as possible. Over the last several months, Neighborhood Funder’s Group’s Democratizing Development Program, in partnership…

The Latest: Leveraging Federal Funds & Building Community Capacity in Rural

America’s cities and states – and yes, it’s rural communities! – are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to benefit from nearly $4 trillion in federal funds available for infrastructure, environmental, and clean energy projects. Funding opportunities are rolling out at a dizzying pace, with many communities already implementing projects with awarded funds. There…

New York Rural Organizing Portfolio Launch Webinar

Register HERE. Despite being underfunded, Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities of color are leading transformational campaigns in New York State, particularly in rural geographies. Seven percent of philanthropic funding reaches rural communities. Historically, non-white communities receive even less philanthropic support. Rural organizers of color advance deep canvassing work in and outside of election…

Understanding Militarism and US Funding of the Genocide in Palestine

Graphic recording by Nafisa Ferdous. Click to enlarge. As we continue to witness the US funded and facilitated genocide in Palestine, we are filled with horror, and also steadfast in our commitment and action toward a free Palestine and the self-determination of all oppressed people. NFG recognizes that the occupation of Palestine is not new…

May CLS Session

On May 15, funders will be invited to sharpen their approach to practicing solidarity with movements. Specifically, we will support participants to: Critically analyze how philanthropy is a contributor to racial capitalism and anti-Black racism Grapple with the origins of their foundation’s assets and what it means to move resources to organizing through a reparative…

Funding BIPOC-led Organizations in Transition: April NFG Member Call

As the number of movement and nonprofit organizations that are in a period of leadership transition grows, one common practice of funders – “wait and see” – is failing organizations just when they need extra support. Given that many previously white-led organizations are hiring their first BIPOC leaders, this strategy can have an even more…

The Evolution of Housing and Land Justice 2018-2023

In 2018 and 2019, Amplify Fund worked with local community leaders to create our eight place-based grantmaking strategies. We understood that each place was unique, and our grantmaking approach had to be developed in the local context. As a result of that process, several places identified ‘housing justice’ as a priority including California, Missouri, Nevada,…

FJE Network Strategy Session 2024

Funders for a Just Economy: Network Strategy Session “Interlocking Issues of Precarious Work” March 26-28, 9:30-12:30pm PT/ 12:30-3:30pm ET NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy Program invites you to join us for our annual Network Strategy Session! The Network Strategy Session brings together members and allies in a virtual community building, co-learning and strategy…

Values Aligned Investment Praxis

Rooted: NFG Political Education Series Session 4 – Values Aligned Investment Praxis NFG’s Values Aligned Investment Praxis Group provides a dedicated space for foundation CEOs and Presidents to learn and experiment with a group of trusted peers who aim to shift their endowment investments into greater alignment with their institutional missions. An outgrowth of…

Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations: February NFG Member Call

Recent years have witnessed racial uprisings that mobilized the largest swath of the American population calling for an end to anti-Black violence and the systemic racism pervasive in all aspects of our lives. National discourse about the harms and costs of racial inequity, organizing by increasingly powerful social movements, growing numbers of young progressives committed…

Summit Day 2: Agenda & Registration

Day 2 Agenda Register by clicking the button to the right. Please note that you must register separately for each day of the Summit (you are welcome to join for either or both days). The IRSG Summit is intended for a funder audience. If you have additional questions, please contact Stephan@nfg.org

Youth in the Lead: Shifting Power and Moving Resources to Youth Organizers

Throughout history, young people have played crucial roles in catalyzing, organizing, and connecting movements. Despite this, many of us in philanthropy consistently hear the adultist, classist, and racist myth that youth organizing is a less serious form of organizing. Today, as movements demand for the abolition of the prison and military industrial complex, reproductive…

Philanthropy’s Role in Supporting Community Voice in Federal Infrastructure

Hosted by Communities First Fund, Health and Environmental Funders Network, The Funders Network, and Integrated Rural Strategies Group at Neighborhood Funders Group. Register Join us for a virtual funder briefing on Tuesday, October 10th to learn more about a collaborative project to bring community based organizations, funders, and federal agencies together to coordinate the equitable…

From 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…

Rural Disability Justice: The role of mutual aid, power building and connecting across community

Rural Disability Justice – The Role of Mutual Aid, Power Building, and Connecting Across Community We are delighted to invite you to join us September 12th at 10am PT for this webinar hosted by NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group, in collaboration with Ceres Trust and Borealis Philanthropy’s Disability Inclusion Fund. This webinar promises to shed light…