September 10, 2025 @ 11:30 am-2:30 pm – Register Here Join the Climate Funder Collaborative for an in-person, working lunch to share relevant updates, discuss year-end priorities, and the road ahead into 2026. Participants will hear updates from each of the working groups, explore shared funding opportunities, identify gaps, and discuss how to mobilize resources toward high-impact, achievable projects. Current Working Groups These […]
Los Angeles Funders’ Collaborative 9/5 Convening
September 5, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm – The next in-person meeting for the Los Angeles Funders’ Collaborative scheduled for September 5th in Downtown Los Angeles. If you are a funder and would like to join us for lunch from noon to 1pm, with the option of joining some breakout groups after lunch from 1 to 2pm If you’d like to join, please […]
Climate Resilience & Economic Development: Two Sides of the Same Coin
August 28, 2025 @ 10:00 am-11:00 am – Register Here Climate change is increasingly becoming inextricably linked to the financial wellbeing of our communities. In California, catastrophic flooding and wildfires are the clearest example of how disasters – often made worse by climate change – have harmed both municipal and household budgets. Slower onset impacts of climate change like drought and extreme heat are also contributing to […]
Federal Transportation Funding: What’s at Stake for Our Movement?
July 29, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm – Register Here What could you do with $70 billion a year? That’s roughly the annual federal budget for surface transportation. Join experts on July 29 at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) for a webinar covering the latest on challenges, changes and opportunities around the staggering sums spent on a transportation system that struggles to […]
Defending Against Federal Funding Cuts to the Environment & Implementing California’s Climate Investments
June 27, 2025 @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm – Smart Growth California is delighted to partner with SoCal Grantmakers for a June 27th webinar on two key areas for philanthropic action: defending against federal funding cuts to the environment and supporting California’s climate investments, especially through the California Climate Bond (Proposition 4). Proposition 4 authorizes $10 billion over the next decade for essential environmental […]
Lessons from the 2024 Election Cycle: How Transit Measures Helped Restore Faith in Democracy
June 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm – Register Here June 18 | 3 – 4 p.m. ET | 12 – 1 p.m. PT This webinar is co-sponsored by The New York Community Trust, the Climate and Energy Funders Group, The Funders Network, the Health & Environmental Funders Network, and the New York Environmental Funders Network. Amid mounting attacks on essential public goods […]
Bolstering the Environmental Justice Movement: Philanthropy’s Role Amidst Funding Cuts and Attacks on Climate
May 29, 2025 @ 2:30 pm-3:30 pm – Northern California Grantmakers Webinar 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 […]
Urban Water Funders: Green Stormwater Infrastructure Peer Learning Call
May 27, 2025 @ 11:00 am-12:00 pm – Register Here Please join an informal funder discussion for those who currently fund, or are looking to fund, green-stormwater infrastructure and nature-based solutions. Storms and flooding are the leading way that climate events show up for the majority of Americans. Green stormwater infrastructure helps to reduce flooding impacts to homes and businesses while also bringing myriad […]
California Funder Briefing: Climate Resilience Under Attack
April 24, 2025 @ 1:00 pm-2:00 pm – REGISTER HERE The Trump Administration has already had a significant impact on climate adaptation & disaster resilience priorities and funding availability in California. The Federal Administration has completely frozen or outright cancelled large funding programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, and the Community Change Grants Program, and we have […]
Climate Funders’ Collaborative Network Wide Meeting
April 16, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-5:00 pm – Register Here Join us for the 2025 kick-off meeting of the Climate Funder Collaborative! At this in-person gathering, we will review and refine the collaborative workgroups, identify shared funding opportunities, and discuss strategies for deepening connections with the community. We will also review the Strategic Action Plan and discuss how to leverage regional, statewide, and national […]
