Northern California Grantmakers

Earlier this week NCG member The California Endowment (TCE)  announced “an expansion of its longstanding support of minority-led nonprofits, with more than $1.4 million in new funding to strengthen grassroots organizations focused on improving the health and well-being of communities of color.”

TCE has “selected eight minority-led intermediary organizations with close ties to communities of color to administer grants under the new initiative.  The grants will range in size from $5,000 to $20,000 and will support an estimated 200 organizations across the state. ”

The intermediary grantmaking organizations include:

• Akonadi Foundation*
• Bay Area Black United Fund
• Brotherhood Crusade
• Liberty Hill Foundation
• Sierra Health Foundation *
• Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, Inc.
• Tides Foundation * / California Fund for Youth Organizing
• Women’s Foundation of California *

* NCG member

Read the full press release online.

The Momentum Leadership Conference, presented by NCG member the Tides Foundation, will take place September 7 – 9 in San Francisco.

Billed as “more than a conference,” organizers at Tides envision this event to be an intersection of creativity that will break down boundaries and build new bridges by bringing together leading activists, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs, to provoke conversation, invite debate, and inspire.

Momentum’s 2009 presenters and keynote speakers include:
Donna Edwards, D-Maryland
Ben Jealous, NAACP
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Anna Burger, SEIU
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Green for All
Kate Kendell, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance
Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum
Manuel Pastor, USC professor & author
Bishop Gene Robinson, Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Marjorie Torres, GreenSpace Developments
Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute
Adam Werbach, Author of Strategy for Sustainability
Malika Saada Saar, The Rebecca Project
Jessy Tolkan, Power Share

For more information on the Momentum Leadership Conference visit the Tides Foundation website.