Northern California Grantmakers

The East Bay Community Foundation in collaboration with the Office of Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has created a new Web-based resource guide to help East Bay non-profits and faith-based organizations search for federal funding being made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The guide can be accessed at www.eastbaycf.org and at www.lee.house.gov.

Read the full press release on the joint project.

An article in the June 20th New York Times reports on the job losses being felt in the philanthropic sector as a result of diminished budgets and shrunken assets. The article mentions recent job cuts at NCG member, The California Endowment among others:

Racked by steep declines in the value of their assets, the nation’s foundations are paring their staffs in large numbers.

Read the NYT article online.

“Charitable giving declined last year, along with the economy. But it didn’t go down by as much as some people had thought, according to a new report out Wednesday.”
–Morning Edition, NPR, June 10, 2009

Read the NPR story online.