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Arts Exchange is a space for arts and culture funders in the Bay Area and Northern California region to strengthen their grantmaking by coming together, building relationships, learning collectively, and celebrating the arts. The Arts Exchange meets several times a year to nourish the arts and culture funder network.
Under the Trump administration, federal climate initiatives have been stalled or defunded leaving nonprofit partners and local governments in limbo around the future of their projects. Initiatives across California and the Bay Area previously tied to robust federal funding streams are facing serious gaps in support protecting historically marginalized communities and a widening of climate vulnerability. Philanthropy must invest in the protections needed, continuity for resilience, and the future of environmental justice.
Achieving racial equity and sustaining a viable democracy go hand in hand. NCG defines democracy as the processes, systems, and structures for historically marginalized and underrepresented community members to participate in a political system that fulfills the promise of an equitable multi-racial society. Northern California is a region that can model this approach, ensuring that people of color and other communities historically underrepresented and marginalized in our political process fully engage in the democratic process.
Immigrants are important members of California’s communities and economy. As national immigration policy continues to evolve, California's diverse population, tax infrastructure, and public benefits systems are and will be deeply impacted. This session will provide an opportunity to get updates on federal administrative action on immigrants and public benefit policy and their intersections with equitable taxation and access to public resources.
Join Equity In The Center (EIC) and Northern California Grantmakers for a Bay Area Funder Briefing focused on sustaining race equity in philanthropy. This event is designed for grantmakers, philanthropic intermediaries, and networks with grantmaking members who are navigating today’s evolving—and often challenging—equity landscape.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has aggressively pursued the targeting and criminalization of migrants as a tactic to amass and consolidate power; completely upending immigration policy as we know it. We are facing the unconstitutional detainment and deportation of pro-Palestinean student activists, the use of El Salvador’s prison for people with lawful immigration status, the enforcement of a registry for undocumented people, and many other racist and dangerous policies and Executive Orders.
“It takes a village to raise a child” is a famous proverb we often reference to communicate that it takes an entire community of people to ensure the growth and success of children. In California, nearly 50% of all children in the state have at least one immigrant parent, and 1 in 5 children are a part of mixed status families. California is also home to over 86,000 undocumented students in higher education. These young people are facing fear, stress, trauma, and worry with the unknown of the current administration's attacks on their village and communities. This moment calls for philanthropy to step into the collective responsibility in protecting, defending, and supporting them.