March 15, 2022 @ 7:00 pm-9:00 pm – The San Diego Foundation, International Community Foundation, The California Endowment, Catalyst of San Diego and Imperial Counties and Smart Growth California (an initiative of TFN) invite you to attend a dinner to informally launch the San Diego Funders’ Collaborative, a space that facilitates learning, relationship building, alignment and collaboration across a broad set of issues […]
Smart Growth CA Funder Dinner (at #TFN2022)
March 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm-9:00 pm – Come learn more about and connect with funders active in Smart Growth California’s statewide steering committee, San Joaquin Valley Funders’ Collaborative, Los Angeles Funders’ Collaborative and San Diego Funders’ Collaborative. After two years of meeting virtually, we’re ready and excited to meet in person and do what we do best, learning together, building relationships, aligning […]
TFN 2022 Annual Conference
March 14, 2022-March 16, 2022 @ 12:00 am – About #TFN2022 Mark your calendars for The Funders Network’s 2022 Annual Conference: Seize the Moment, scheduled for March 14-16 in San Diego! As communities grapple with the impacts of climate crises, an ongoing pandemic and a widening racial wealth gap, how can we support powerful and creative strategies that can address systemic inequities and move us toward justice? […]
Climate and Clean Energy in California: Making Justice 40 a Reality on the Ground
February 18, 2022 @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm – Register here. A historic amount of federal funding is being allocated to climate-resilient infrastructure with social equity in mind. The Justice40 Initiative, launched in 2021 via Executive Order, is an intentional, “whole-of-government effort to… deliver at least 40 percent of the overall benefits from Federal investments in climate and clean energy to disadvantaged communities.” It is a core part […]
GREEN & Urban Water Funders 2022 Virtual Convening
February 16, 2022-February 17, 2022 @ 10:00 am-2:00 pm – Registration now open! An escalating climate crisis. An ongoing pandemic. Frequent flooding events. Decades of disinvestment and systemic inequities that create barriers to opportunity. These intersecting catastrophes are causing disproportionate harm to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other communities of color. What role can funders play in deploying resources and supporting community-led solutions that move us […]
Small Towns, Big Issues: Mobility, Land-Use & Housing in Small & Rural Communities
February 9, 2022 @ 11:00 am-12:00 pm – Register here. Challenges of mobility, land use and housing are not unique to big cities. This funder-only webinar shines a spotlight on work in smaller cities and rural areas, asking questions such as: What does sustainable and equitable mobility look like in less dense places? How have COVID and remote working affected housing affordability and transportation […]
Smart Growth America’s Equity Summit
January 11, 2022-January 12, 2022 @ 12:00 am – At Smart Growth America, we deeply believe that improving racial disparities is at the core of a smart growth approach. But what does that mean? How does it work in practice? And how can smart growth advocates do it better? Learn more and register here. Last year Smart Growth America (SGA) hosted our first-ever Equity Summit to […]
Workgroup Network: Holiday Happy Hour
December 9, 2021 @ 4:00 pm-5:00 pm – Smart Growth California invites you to virtual holiday happy hour on Thursday, December 9th, from 4pm-5pm. This is an opportunity to connect with other funders, reflect on our collective work over the last year, network and share ideas. We’ll start together as a large group and then provide the space for funders to connect 1-1 […]
Engaging Indigenous Leadership in Climate and Disaster Resilience
December 9, 2021 @ 9:30 am-11:00 am – Register here for part two, and email Kerry Hastings if you’d like to view session one’s recording. Increasing impacts from climate change are testing the resiliency of Native peoples and cultures throughout the West. This is exacerbated by more than a century of forced displacement and wealth extraction, marginalization through discriminatory policies and institutions, and […]
Emerging Initiatives to Build Equitable, Affordable Housing
December 8, 2021 @ 11:00 am-12:00 pm – Register here. An estimated 161,000 unhoused individuals live in California, more than a quarter of the nationwide total (580,000) according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. While the state’s acute housing affordability crisis is decades in the making, we are at a tipping point to take the steps necessary to turn the […]
