September 3, 2020 @ 9:00 am-10:30 am – As we find ourselves in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice awakenings, it’s important to reflect on what we’ve learned and take action towards the new possibilities and opportunities in front of us that can create real and equitable change. Join funder peers on Thursday, September 3, at the California Homelessness and […]
Realities of the Triple Pandemic: Racialized Violence, COVID-19 and Climate Change
August 24, 2020 @ 2:00 pm-3:30 pm – “We make a grave mistake every time we invoke the history of oppression to diminish the reality of racism’s present. Progress is real, but the narrative of progress seduces us into inaction. If we believe, simply, that it gets better, there is no incentive to do the work to ensure that it does.” ― Mychal […]
SCG Environmental Funders Group: How to Be an Anti-Racist Environmental Movement
August 21, 2020 @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm – As the Black Lives Matter movement has made clear, white supremacy and systemic racism are root causes of injustice, violence, and inequality, and these forces contribute to environmental injustice, degradation, and destruction. For generations, the mainstream environmental movement has willfully ignored issues of race and power, with many environmental organizations still led by white men, […]
Representation Matters: Deepening Leadership Pipelines and Building Community Power
August 12, 2020 @ 11:00 am-12:00 pm – Legislative victories on important issues are rightfully celebrated — but meaningful impact also hinges on equitable implementation, community engagement and local leadership that can fuel that forward momentum long after votes are tallied. How can funders and anchor institutions work together to support community power-building and help create leadership pipelines and pathways? Join us for […]
Embracing Uncertainty: How Funders (and the Communities We Serve) Can Grapple With an Unknown Future and Think About a Path Forward
August 6, 2020 @ 10:00 am-11:30 am – *Date now finalized for August 6, 2020 for 10 am PST Today, we confront a society reeling from the health impacts of COVID-19 as well as an economy that is struggling to stabilize itself as millions of people have lost their jobs, many of them for good. Simultaneously, we are experiencing widespread civil unrest as […]
PLACES 2020 Book Club: This Accident of Being Lost
July 28, 2020 @ 2:00 pm-3:30 pm – The PLACES fellows and alumni invite all TFN members to join us for this year’s PLACES 2020 Book Club (previously held at our annual conference). Register now for a lively discussion of this year’s book: This Accident of Being Lost, a collection of stories and songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson which highlights the indigenous life […]
Save the Date: IMWFN Funders Sharing Their Systems Change Work
July 14, 2020 @ 10:30 am-11:45 am – Panelists will share key program strategies and help us see how their work builds toward greater systems change that benefits people, communities, and land. We’ll hear examples from funders working at different intervention points in this work including resident empowerment, leadership development, decision-support research, and policy change, and how long-term aspirations are advanced through shorter […]
Virtual Policy Briefing – Coordinated Planning for Equitable Integration of Water & Land-Use
July 9, 2020 @ 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Five Nonprofits have been working together with the Local Government Commission as part of the Community Foundation Water Initiative to equitably integrate water management and land use decision making through their organizations. The briefing will specifically cover the role that coordinated planning plays in public engagement efforts. Learn more and register now. Leveraging what has […]
Inland Empire Rising: The Case for Timely Investments in Racial Equity and Sustainability
July 8, 2020 @ 11:00 am-12:30 pm – Join us for a webinar featuring a comprehensive new report on the Inland Empire’s nonprofit sector. The report, the first of its kind since 2009, shows that nonprofit jobs in the Inland Empire pay significantly more than other private-sector jobs. Inland Empire leads California with the highest share of nonprofit startups since 2010, and the […]
Keeping it Local: Strategies to Support Power-Building and Economic Self-Determination
July 8, 2020 @ 11:00 am-12:00 pm – Across the country, we are witnessing a trend of community residents and institutions organizing together to create community-led alternatives for local development. This alternative vision is not driven by profit, speculation and the corporate capture of land and community assets. It is centered on community-defined priorities and needs. This approach to local development centers the […]
