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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 … Continue reading Investing for Quality Jobs and Wealth Generation: Employee ownership for frontline and BIPOC workers

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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 … Continue reading Grounded Action: Grassroots Movements and Climate Justice | Session 2

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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 … Continue reading Full Cost Workshop

Funder Meeting

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 … Continue reading Military Funders Meeting

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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 … Continue reading Friday Morning Refresh

Partner Event

Philanthropy Northwest Network Call – Linking Climate Change and Racial Justice

As climate disasters in our region continue to persist in the form of rising sea levels, wildfires and poor air quality, how can funders expand their work to include a climate justice lens? Hosted by Philanthropy Northwest, this call will illuminate the intersectionality between climate change, community development, COVID-19 and racial equity. Speakers will share … Continue reading Philanthropy Northwest Network Call – Linking Climate Change and Racial Justice

Partner Event

Leadership When It Matters Most: A Conversation with Breakthrough California Leaders

Organized by: The James Irvine Foundation

Join the James Irvine Foundation for a conversation with Leadership Awards alumni - followed by a keynote address from Senior Advisor on Social Innovation for Governor Gavin Newsom, Kathleen Kelly Janus The James Irvine Foundation and USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy are hosting a one-hour virtual event featuring alumni of Irvine’s Leadership … Continue reading Leadership When It Matters Most: A Conversation with Breakthrough California Leaders

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 … Continue reading The Ethos of Being Trust-Based Session 5 | Reimagining Funder Roles in a Trust-Based Context

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Future-Proofing Your Portfolio: A Quick Guide To Scenario Planning For Foundations

As our world becomes more uncertain, planning for the future becomes more important, but also more difficult. This interactive workshop will introduce fundamental tools used in scenario analysis and risk management and show how foundations can apply these tools to predict how economic, social/political, and environmental changes might affect their grantees and their beneficiaries. It … Continue reading Future-Proofing Your Portfolio: A Quick Guide To Scenario Planning For Foundations

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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 … Continue reading Friday Morning Refresh

Join Orange County Grantmakers, Asian Pacific Community Fund, National Asian American Community Foundation, and Orange County Community Foundation for a conversation around the history, community, and experiences of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities in Orange County. Attendees will hear from Dr. Linda Trinh Vo, Professor and former chair of the … Continue reading Understanding the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities in Orange County

Funder Meeting

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 … Continue reading Funders Together to End Homelessness Meeting

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