We launched our New York Rural Organizing Portfolio in June 2024 with an attainable yet impactful goal: raise $15,000 in general operating funds for each of the thirteen organizations featured to support rural organizing that is overlooked by New York City-based funders and the coalitions they support. Our ‘why’ was two-fold. First, leaders of organizations… The post How the New York Rural Organizing Portfolio is Shifting Power in New York appeared first on Neighborhood Funders Group.| Neighborhood Funders Group
NFG’s Convening this July in Nashville, TN, “Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power” brought movement leaders together with grantmakers to co-conspire and strategize around seeding transformational power — investing in grassroots powerbuilding, movement organizing and infrastructure, relationships, and supporting BIPOC communities now and for the long term — and ceding power — shifting and ending harmful… The post IRSG at NFG’s Convening in Nashville, TN: Resourcing & Fol...| Neighborhood Funders Group
The state of housing justice and public health is nothing short of a political polycrisis. A term defined as a “cluster of distinct crises that interact in ways that they and/or their effects tend to reinforce each other.” Michael D. Durham of Funders Together for Housing Justice used this term to describe the intersection of… The post Criminalizing Homelessness Will Make Everyone Less Safe appeared first on Neighborhood Funders Group.| Neighborhood Funders Group