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This program is presented through a partnership between Philanthropy California and the California Office of Emergency Services and is funded by the Listos California Grant Program. This virtual grant writing training takes an in-depth look at how to describe community needs, a step that is very often required to complete a grant proposal. The good … Continue reading Knowing Your Community: Finding Data and Describing Needs

We are excited to launch Catalyst’s first-ever family philanthropy cohort. This cohort is for those who engage in philanthropy as individuals, through family foundations, or through donor-advised funds and want to maximize their impact with their giving. Family philanthropy offers a unique opportunity to create social change by being bold, taking risks, and being responsive … Continue reading Empowering Family Philanthropy for Meaningful Impact

Arts & Intersections Working Group meetings provide an ongoing look at the intersection of the arts and social justice, environmental justice, community health, youth development, and equitable workforce development. Join our next session featuring guest speaker Laura Callanan, Founding Partner of Upstart Co-Lab, who will lead a discussion on disrupting how creativity is funded by … Continue reading Arts & Intersections Funder Collaborative

About Session 2 In this second session of the Foundations of Racial Equity Series, we explore racial capitalism, which describes the current economic system of extracting social and economic value from people of color. Racial capitalism is based on the theft, exclusion and exploitation of the land, labor, and capital of people of color. Philanthropy—as a … Continue reading Racism and the Economy: Understanding Racial Capitalism | 2024 Foundations of Racial Equity: Session 2

Join the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) and The Bridgespan Group for a webinar co-hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on April 23, 2-3:15pm ET. The webinar will explore the how and why of endowment funding from both funder and nonprofit perspectives, including U.S. foundation practices in endowment giving, how funding endowments can foster … Continue reading Funding Nonprofit Endowments as an Equity Strategy: Perspectives from Funders and Nonprofits

This program is presented through a partnership between Philanthropy California and the California Office of Emergency Services and is funded by the Listos California Grant Program. To build your vision of a successful project that meets needs in the community, you need to understand how to connect resources (like your organization’s staff, volunteers, funding sources, … Continue reading Building Your Vision: Program Design in a Grant Application

About Session 2 In this second session of the Foundations of Racial Equity Series, we explore racial capitalism, which describes the current economic system of extracting social and economic value from people of color. Racial capitalism is based on the theft, exclusion and exploitation of the land, labor, and capital of people of color. Philanthropy—as a … Continue reading Racism and the Economy: Understanding Racial Capitalism | 2024 Foundations of Racial Equity: Session 2

Join Catalyst staff and outside experts for the first of our two-part Fundamentals 101 series covering the “nuts and bolts” of Philanthropy. This series will provide attendees with comprehensive insights into various philanthropic practices, along with opportunities for networking and collaboration. To learn more about the financial side of philanthropy, join us at part two … Continue reading The Fundamentals of Grantmaking | Session One

This program is presented through a partnership between Philanthropy California and the California Office of Emergency Services and is funded by the Listos California Grant Program. Don’t be intimidated by program evaluation or logic models! They use specialized language, but they are descriptions of very practical and down-to-earth realities about your program, such as clearly describing … Continue reading Telling the Story of Your Work: Program Evaluation and Logic Models

Join Rise Economy and the California Community Land Trust Network for a funders-only virtual briefing and conversation with foundation, public sector and community leaders on the importance of corporate accountability in tackling the housing crisis. Presenters will share policy strategies to address the capital gap by increasing banking sector investment in affordable housing and BIPOC … Continue reading Solving California’s Affordable Housing Crisis: Innovative Policy Approaches

This program is presented through a partnership between Philanthropy California and the California Office of Emergency Services and is funded by the Listos California Grant Program. You can think of a grant budget as another way to describe a program and its activities. Everything you have proposed to do in the program is represented somewhere … Continue reading Bringing It All Together: Budgeting and Planning for Collaboration

The second day of our Fundamentals 101 series will focus on the financial side of things. We will begin by exploring financial due diligence and why it is an essential part of grantmaking, including the history and context of how systemic oppression shows up in financial statements and what key indicators funders might rely on … Continue reading The Fundamentals of Grantmaking | Session Two