Philanthropy California is the alliance of California’s three leading philanthropy-supporting organizations: SoCal Grantmakers (SCG), Northern California Grantmakers (NCG), and Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties.
Philanthropy California is an alliance of Northern California Grantmakers (NCG), Southern California Grantmakers (SCG), and Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties (Catalyst).
Philanthropy CA taps into the deep regional expertise and connections of funders to increase philanthropy’s impact in building and sustaining thriving, equitable communities. Together, we can impact our members, the nonprofits they support and the communities they serve.
Philanthropy CA taps into the deep regional expertise and connections of funders to increase philanthropy’s impact in building and sustaining thriving, equitable communities. Together, we can impact our members, the nonprofits they support and the communities they serve.
In January 2017, California’s three leading philanthropy-supporting organizations — SoCal Grantmakers (SCG), Northern California Grantmakers (NCG), and Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — officially announced our statewide alliance, Philanthropy California.
The Full Cost Project is a joint initiative of Philanthropy California and Nonprofit Finance Fund to support a funding model that honestly assesses the full cost for organizations to deliver on their missions and to be sustainable over time. We are bringing together education, advocacy, and skill-building with the goal to increase the number of funders that provide full cost funding and to build the skills and capacity of all those engaged in grantmaking – foundations, corporations, individuals, and government.
Philanthropy California is proud to partner with the Women’s Foundation of California, a statewide, publicly supported foundation dedicated to achieving gender, racial, and economic justice by centering the experience and expertise of communities most impacted by systemic injustice.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of a fair census count. When census information is not accurate, it threatens to muffle the voices of undercounted groups and regions, and undermine the basic political equality that is central to our democracy.
Philanthropy California’s annual Philanthropy in Sacramento Day is a special event bringing together our state’s elected officials with leaders of our sector.
Join us for a full-day funders convening and Reinvention Tour with Mayor Michael Tubbs to learn about Stockton's transformative initiatives, including the Stockton Scholars College Promise Campaign, the Universal Basic Income pilot program, the South Stockton Promise Zone collective impact collaborative and the Advance Peace program that was recently approved to address community violence and trauma. We invite you to be a partner during this pivotal moment for Stockton as dynamic partnerships between community organizations, civic institutions and public officials are leveraging community impact strategies to rectify decades of underinvestment and neglect.
At #SCGAnnualCon18, we’ll engage in a dialogue about what brings us together in a divided world. Join over 600 colleagues from our diverse philanthropic community of private, public, family, individual and corporate change-makers for this dynamic and inspiring day. We hope to see you there!
Commitment to doing good means commitment to providing for the actual cost to make change happen. We’re accustomed to seeing certain expenses on a balance sheet, but others are often disguised or hidden from view in order to meet the restrictions built into grants.
The Full Cost Project aims to shift the focus from overhead to outcomes and what good outcomes really cost.
Across the nation, numerous initiatives and programs are converging to create an increased focus on nonprofit overhead and funding the full cost of program delivery.
The Full Cost Project is made possible with generous funding from the following funders: