March 2021
Mar
11
Funder Meeting Thursday, March 11 - Wednesday, April 14
Leading Equity Series
In March 2021, Catalyst is re-launching our Leading Equity Series, virtually. This multi-day series will provide you interactive ways to learn about and practice equity-building tools in a cohort, build supportive peer relationships for this journey, and interact with community organizations such as Black Lives Matter San Diego, Comite Civico del Valle, and Kumeyaay Community College. Sessions: Opening session March 11, 2-5 PM Virtual community outings: March 25, 12-4 PM: Black Lives Matter San Diego March 30, 12-4 PM: Comite…
April 2021
Apr
13
Partner Event Tuesday, April 13 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am
COVID-19 and Systemic Inequality: Community-led Lessons for Funders
Please join us to discuss a new report that focuses on the systemic inequalities that – while magnified during COVID-19 – have always been a reality for marginalized populations, including, but not limited to, those living with or at risk of HIV. Report excerpt: “Our grantees had added stress – immeasurable stress. Living in a nightmarish situation, especially if they were working with immigrants worried that ICE would be looking for them, then overlay police brutality…Staff was getting COVID, dealing…
Apr
13
Conference, Partner Event Tuesday, April 13 @ 9:30 am - Thursday, April 15 @ 1:00 pm
SCG Policy Conference: Build Anew
Join Southern California Grantmakers for two mornings exploring the policy and advocacy actions needed to combat the challenges of a generation and maximize lessons learned from listening deeply, building power, and meeting the social justice movements of 2020. Our country faces a set of multidimensional and interrelated crises — the Covid-19 pandemic, racial and economic injustice, and the urgency of climate change — which demand cohesive and dynamic policy responses. With a new federal administration and major government budget deficits,…
Apr
15
Funder Meeting Thursday, April 15 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Investing for Quality Jobs and Wealth Generation: Employee ownership for frontline and BIPOC workers
Employee ownership is an evidenced-based wealth generation tool for frontline workers and their families, and a powerful tool to build an inclusive economy. Alliance Healthcare Foundation, Project Equity and Mission Driven Finance will discuss their partnership to expand employee ownership models for small businesses with majority BIPOC employees through its impact investment portfolio. Hear about why they have made this investment, how it addresses pressing worker and small business needs, and how this could be replicable to other communities across the state. Learn about some…
Apr
16
Webinar Friday, April 16 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Grounded Action: Grassroots Movements and Climate Justice | Session 2
In philanthropy, ‘grassroots’ is often equated with ‘community’ and with ‘small-scale’. Grassroots solutions do come from the community, but they are not often small. And because grassroots solutions come from the people most impacted by the problem they seek to solve, they can be more effective and holistic in the problems they address. As communities around California, the nation, and the world are facing increasing impacts and threats from the climate crisis, funders have a unique opportunity to invest in…
Apr
20
Webinar Tuesday, April 20 @ 9:00 am - Wednesday, April 21 @ 2:30 pm
Full Cost Workshop
Join Nonprofit Finance Fund and Philanthropy California to advance full cost practices for the nonprofit sector by participating in a remote learning series in April. This workshop series invites you to take what you’ve learned as a nonprofit leader or funder and help pave the way for others to have transformative conversations about more equitable funding practices. We intuitively understand: the less nonprofits stress about money, the better they do. That’s pretty straight forward. So it may come as a relief to know that…
Apr
20
Funder Meeting Tuesday, April 20 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Military Funders Meeting
The Military Funders is a funder collaboration that focuses on helping military and veteran families in San Diego and Imperial Counties. Military Funders connects Catalyst members and cross-sector partners to learn and explore ways to collectively support local active military personnel, veterans, and their families. Currently exploring mental health issues, the group began its collaborative funding helping with the difficult transition from active duty to civilian status and has recently funded solutions to food and housing insecurity. Target Audience This…
Apr
23
Webinar Friday, April 23 @ 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Friday Morning Refresh
Current conditions continue to place enormous demands on us. Still, we have cause for hope: bold new leadership in many places, budgetary step stones toward a just recovery, and a rising tide of action to disrupt systemic racism. Now, as always, we are each asked to bring clarity, generosity, and courage to our efforts to heal, reimagine, and rebuild toward large-scale change. We are invited to make space, in the midst of urgency, to notice more, re-vision priorities, reconnect with…
Apr
27
Webinar Tuesday, April 27 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
The Ethos of Being Trust-Based Session 5 | Reimagining Funder Roles in a Trust-Based Context
Trust-based philanthropy encourages us to rethink our notions of traditional philanthropic roles, which tend to prioritize transactions over relationships. In fact, a trust-based approach encourages us to understand our roles as partners working in service of nonprofits and communities. Traditional Philanthropy has institutionalized and perpetuated harmful tropes about funders as experts and nonprofits as needy people who need to be held accountable. This has been perpetuated institutionally through our grantmaking practices, but also in less obvious ways, such as job…
Apr
30
Webinar Friday, April 30 @ 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Friday Morning Refresh
Current conditions continue to place enormous demands on us. Still, we have cause for hope: bold new leadership in many places, budgetary step stones toward a just recovery, and a rising tide of action to disrupt systemic racism. Now, as always, we are each asked to bring clarity, generosity, and courage to our efforts to heal, reimagine, and rebuild toward large-scale change. We are invited to make space, in the midst of urgency, to notice more, re-vision priorities, reconnect with…
May 2021
May
6
Funder Meeting Thursday, May 6 @ 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Funders Together to End Homelessness Meeting
Funders Together to End Homelessness San Diego (FTEHSD) is a collaborative of individual, public and private funders that explore and invest in effective systems change and services to end homelessness in San Diego County. The group is fiscally sponsored by Catalyst. FTEHSD’s goal is to build a San Diego County collaborative of funders who are committed to solving homelessness through leadership, education, and advocacy; strategic collaboration, alignment and focus of resources; and effective promotion and replication of evidence-based practices in…
May
7
Webinar Friday, May 7 @ 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Friday Morning Refresh
Current conditions continue to place enormous demands on us. Still, we have cause for hope: bold new leadership in many places, budgetary step stones toward a just recovery, and a rising tide of action to disrupt systemic racism. Now, as always, we are each asked to bring clarity, generosity, and courage to our efforts to heal, reimagine, and rebuild toward large-scale change. We are invited to make space, in the midst of urgency, to notice more, re-vision priorities, reconnect with…