The Why and How of Ceding Power to Community Organizations to Achieve Systems Change
There is a window of opportunity to permanently shift the way we show up to support the strategies, vision and leadership of communities that are directly affected by unjust and racist systems. A growing number of funders are aligning behind movement priorities, breaking the cycle of unbalanced philanthropic power so that communities can set forth…
Read MoreIRSG 2021 Multiracial Rural Equity Summit
Resilience to Abundance: Organizing to move beyond rural resilience toward abundance for all Hosted by NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group Thursday, December 9th 11am-1pm PT / 12-2pm MT / 1-3pm CT / 2-4pm ET Followed by a 30-minute informal mixer (starting at 1pm PT / 4pm ET) NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) invites you to…
Read MoreThe Housing Crisis: Creating a Statewide Action Agenda for New York Funders
Liz McGiff, a longtime resident who fought displacement and won the right to remain in her home, reflected on her struggle– “The system is broken. We need to build a better system.” Now a lead organizer for the City-Wide Tenant Union of Rochester, she is organizing residents to protect neighborhoods from predatory development through community…
Read More2021-2022 Midterm Election Series
The 2022 Midterm Elections are rapidly approaching. Next November, elections around the country will shape Congress and state and national policy outcomes, while setting the stage for the 2024 presidential election. With a polarized political landscape, civic engagement and voter mobilization among rural and tribal communities will have a critical impact for years to come.…
Read MoreJob Quality in 2021: Implications from the Gallup Great Jobs Survey
NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy, Economic Opportunity Funders, and Workforce Matters invite you to a webinar sharing the latest data and implications from Gallup’s Great Jobs survey, an in-depth survey of nearly 8,000 adults shedding light on the impact of COVID on the labor force, and in particular job quality. The survey was supported by…
Read MoreAddressing the Housing Crisis in New York and Beyond: Two Part Webinar Series
Hosted by Neighborhood Funders Group, Engage New York, and the Neighborhoods First Fund Part 1 – The Urgency of Now: What Funders Need to Know About the Housing Crisis July 22 (11am-12pm PT /2pm-3pm ET) Part 2 – Sustainable Housing Solutions: Effective Interventions and Long-term Strategies August 12 (11am-12pm PT /2pm-3pm ET) An estimated…
Read MoreMaximizing the Moment: Strategies & Successes in Power Building from Metro Washington, DC
Graphic illustration by Laura Chow Reeve from Organizing DMV’s Maximizing the Moment report. Supporting the South. Resourcing Black-led organizing. Shifting to trust-based practices. Funding to win. While philanthropy grapples with what these critical ideas mean in practice, some Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia (DMV) organizer and funder partnerships are showing how it’s done. Featuring…
Read MoreResourcing Rural Organizing Infrastructure: A New York Case Study – Report Launch Webinar
Join NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group and Engage New York for this launch event of our new report on rural organizing and power building: Resourcing Rural Organizing Infrastructure: A New York Case Study. This report presents a landscape scan of New York State’s community organizing infrastructure; analysis of the role of rural communities in designing,…
Read MoreA New Social Contract for Houston: Expanding Labor and Civic Power, from Construction to Climate
A Building Power in Place Report Preview & Strategy Session Everything is bigger in Texas, and that’s not always a good thing: Climate-fueled hurricanes and disastrous freezes. Shameless voter suppression. Runaway speculation on development. Unchecked evictions. Giant corporate tax havens that allow companies off the hook – even for worker’s compensation. The good news? The imagination,…
Read MoreWading in the Water: Water & Racial Justice in the Midwest Webinar
Water is essential to human life. While the Midwest is known for its Great Lakes and is home to one fifth of the world’s fresh water, Midwest communities are facing barriers to protecting access to their water and securing themselves against the threats of flooding, droughts, factory farm contamination, and unsafe municipal drinking water. Calamities across the…
Read MoreBuilding a Just Culture in the Environmental Movement: How Funders Can Invest in the Health and Safety of Environmental Leaders
Advocates on the frontlines of the climate and ecological crises often sacrifice their personal health and wealth to make a difference for people and planet. And those working in communities most impacted by environmental degradation bear the added burdens of racism, economic disinvestment, and political disenfranchisement. Philanthropy can sometimes incentivize an extractive culture that seeks…
Read MoreA Place to Call Home: Housing Policy Roundtable
A vital discussion of how the Housing Policy Playbook & the BREATHE Act can inform federal housing policy and what the Biden-Harris administration & philanthropy can do in the short and long term to reinvigorate housing justice. Presented by Shelterforce, Funders Together to End Homelessness, and Neighborhood Funders Group Earlier this year, the Housing Playbook Project released the…
Read MoreMovement Portfolio Theory (MvPT)
NFG urges foundations to use all of their assets to propel racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. Aimed at CEOs and CFOs interested in transforming their endowments, this webinar introduces Movement Portfolio Theory (MvPT), a social justice investment framework and portfolio management strategy in development by the Center for Economic Democracy (CED). There is increasing…
Read MorePhilanthropy & the Case for Reparations
As our country heals and pivots forward under a new administration, conversations and actions for reparations for Black and Indigenous communities continue to gain unprecedented momentum. Last year, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) introduced legislation that would fund the first commission to study and develop proposals for providing reparations to African Americans. It…
Read MorePower Building and Equity: Rural Electric Cooperatives
Want to fuel rural communities of color building power? Access to electric utility infrastructure is about more than getting power to rural communities when the utility is a cooperative. It actually holds massive potential for building power in these communities – particularly in rural communities of color as well as low-income communities in rural areas.…
Read MoreMeeting the Moment: 2020’s New Civic Engagement Landscape in Rural and Small-City America
Neighborhood Funders Group’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group and The Heartland Fund invite you to join this three-part series, Meeting the Moment: 2020’s New Civic Engagement Landscape in Rural and Small-City America. The 2020 elections are set to be the most important, volatile, and unpredictable in recent history. In addition to creating a health crisis with…
Read MoreFunder Strategy and Discussion: New Data on Policymakers’ Views on Low-Wage Workers
Low-wage workers are in crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has only magnified long-term trends carving away at the already sparse economic security, social protections, and safety of low-wage workers, most especially who identify as Black, Latinx, immigrant, women, or transgender. For those without work, the situation is even more dire, with the ranks of unemployed only…
Read MoreBuilding a Funding Response to Scenarios after the Election
News media, movements and policy experts are urgently signaling looming threats to democracy in the upcoming elections. But what do real strategies and responses look like for those at the front lines, and where do funders invested in economic justice play a substantive role? NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy is offering a dynamic session…
Read MoreFunding the Ecosystem: Organizing to Build Housing and Community Ownership Opportunities
In the same community where George Floyd was brutally murdered by police, Minneapolis tenants tirelessly organize with United Renters for Justice for racial justice, tenant protections, eviction moratoriums, and canceling rent. For years, tenants of five buildings were threatened to be evicted by a negligent landlord despite the lack of upkeep on the buildings, which included rodents, heating, and…
Read MoreSafe and Just Return to Work
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated communities across the country while revealing health and economic disparities that have existed for decades. Workers of color and immigrants are dying from COVID-19 in large numbers, as they are disproportionately represented in many of what are now recognized as “essential jobs:” caring for our families and providing us with…
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