IE FUNDERS ALLIANCE

June 2024 Member Meeting (Learning Meeting; hybrid in-person/Zoom)
2024-06-12 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The IE Funders Alliance holds bimonthly general meetings available for all staff and board members of IEFA member institutions.
This meeting will be a “Learning Meeting” emphasizing a topical discussion of current issues and initiatives in the region. Learning meetings are offered in a hybrid format, both in-person and on Zoom.
Please save the date; more details will follow when available.
If you are interested in attending, fill out the form below to RSVP for this and our other 2024 member events.

Partnering for Equity: San Bernardino — Reimagining Education and Justice: Restorative, Redemptive, Responsive Community-Driven Solutions
2024-04-11 - 2024-04-12
Reimagining Education and Justice: Restorative, Redemptive, Responsive Community-Driven Solutions

The Inland Empire Funders Alliance is excited to announce Partnering for Equity: San Bernardino County, a two-part series of 2-day immersive co-learning experiences for grantmakers and leaders in the philanthropic, corporate, and public sectors to accurately understand the operating conditions and real stories on the ground in disinvested and marginalized communities — and the opportunities to partner for impact through increased strategic investment and action.
These events will highlight critical issues facing San Bernardino County, its varied sub-regions, and the entire Inland Empire by engaging funders in an immersive co-learning experience with community leaders and fellow funders. Topics to be addressed include:

April 11-12: Education Justice and Justice Reinvestment, focusing on the West End and High Desert communities.
June 26-27: Inclusive Community Development and Health Systems in Indigenous Communities, focusing on the City of San Bernardino and the Morongo Basin

Southern California’s Inland Empire (San Bernardino and Riverside counties) is one of the fastest-growing population centers in the United States. Located 40 miles east of Los Angeles, the IE is rich in diversity, culture, history and economic opportunity. It is also home to innovative, resourceful, mission-driven nonprofit organizations working in partnership to transform lives, communities and the region as a whole. San Bernardino County is home to a dynamic and growing population of 2.2 million people, serving as a microcosm and a bellwether for the future of California.
Over the course of each two-day overnight learning visit, you will have the opportunity to:

Foster meaningful relationships with community groups, leaders, cultural workers, and experts who are advocating about these topics.
Learn about your peers’ funding priorities and activities, enabling them to better coordinate their grantmaking for deeper and broader impact.
Deepen your understanding of your role as a funder in partnership with community, building trust and empathy to shift power relationships and activate more equitable philanthropic practices.
Reduce the burden on community partners by providing a coordinated learning experience for funders.

Register for the April 11-12 session:
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April 2024 Member Meeting (Connecting Meeting; in-person only)
2024-04-10 10:00 - 12:00 | San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Ln, Redlands, CA, 92374, United States
The IE Funders Alliance holds bimonthly general meetings available for all staff and board members of IEFA member institutions.
This meeting will be a “Connecting Meeting” emphasizing peer learning, relationship building, and co-learning. To foster quality conversations, connecting meetings are offered in-person only; no Zoom option will be available.
Please save the date; more details will follow when available.
If you are interested in attending, fill out the form below to RSVP for this and our other 2024 member events.

Member Meeting: Partnering to Build Civic Muscle in the Inland Empire (Learning Meeting; hybrid in-person/Zoom)
2024-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Inland Empire Community Collaborative, 1887 Business Center Dr S # 3, San Bernardino, CA, 92408, United States
This year more than ever, the values and voice of Inland Empire residents will be on the ballot.
The IE is one of the fastest growing regions in the state. And yet with relatively low voter turnout, both new and older residents’ voices are not fully represented in the halls of power — whether locally, in Sacramento, or nationally.
What can funders do ensure that people in the region have access to the information, resources, and supportive structures to make informed decisions? Join us and a dynamic panel of speakers for an honest discussion of how funders can partner with nonprofits to support civic education and engagement — even those that have not traditionally funded civic engagement.
Panel

Sarah Efthymiou (General Counsel for Bolder Advocacy at Alliance for Justice): Why foundations should — and can — support nonpartisan election-related activities
Emily Michels (Policy Director at SoCal Grantmakers): How funders can engage in systems-level change
Jan Masaoka (Former CEO, CalNonprofits): What really works — and doesn’t — when funders undertake civic education and engagement
Brian Thomas Romo (Public Policy and Technology Manager, Inland Empire Community Collaborative): The IE Children’s Cabinet: mobilizing system change through local nonprofit civic engagement

Moderated by Susan Gomez (President/CEO of the Inland Empire Community Collaborative & Advisory Board member, IE Funders Alliance)
We invite you to join us in-person for IEFA’s first member meeting of 2024 on Wednesday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day 💘!) at 10am-12pm. This Learning Meeting will be in a hybrid format, hosted at the IECC offices in San Bernardino and on Zoom. Our member meetings are open to all staff and board members of IEFA member institutions.
If you are interested in attending, fill out the form below to RSVP for this and our other 2024 member meetings.

IE Funders Alliance — 2024 Horizons: Reflecting on Success and Charting Future Impact — Annual Year-End Member Meeting
2023-12-13 10:00 - 12:30 | Inland Empire Community Foundation, 3700 6th St Suite 200, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
We invite you to join us in person for IEFA’s Annual Year-End Member Meeting on Wednesday, December 13th at 10am-12pm!
This “connecting” meeting will be hosted at the IE Community Foundation offices in Riverside and prioritize opportunities for you to strengthen relationships with your funder peers and engage in thoughtful discussion.
As we look towards the horizon of the coming year, there are many exciting opportunities for us to continue bolstering our work together in the IE. We are also well aware that a number of concerning uncertainties face us that will impact the region and our institutions’ responses.
This final convening of the year will provide a space for honest peer-to-peer conversations with fellow funders regarding the social, political, and philanthropic trends we see materializing ahead of us, and what that means for the Inland Empire, the region’s grantmaker community, and IEFA itself.
Your presence and contributions at his meeting will directly inform our goals for the next year. The meeting will include a preview of IEFA’s 2024 goals, along with a look-back on our accomplishments and learnings from 2023.
Lunch will be provided during the final portion of the meeting — we sincerely hope you will choose to stay for the food and fellowship. To make it easier for you to do so, the programmatic portion of this meeting will end slightly earlier than usual.
RSVP to attend:

If you plan to join us, be sure to click below to add the event to your calendar.

San Bernardino County Learning Series: Education Justice
2023-11-01 10:00 - 12:00
Theme/focus: Education Justice
Location: Upland: Youth Mentoring Action Network (YMAN) office

Funding the Promise: Catalyzing Systemic Change through Funder Collaboration
2023-10-11 10:00 - 13:30 | IEHP Foundation in Rancho Cucamonga
The IE Funders Alliance is committed to fostering collaborative grantmaking that brings aligned organizations together to strategically channel resources and create an impact far greater than the sum of their individual parts. This innovative event will be an opportunity to learn directly from your funder peers and their community partners about cross-cutting initiatives in the region that they are already implementing — and where your additional funding can amplify impact! By turning the traditional fast pitch model on its head, it is our hope that this “Funder Pitch” will provide a bottom-up way of catalyzing small- or large-scale collaboration among funders.
Please note: Due to the special nature of this event, it will extend beyond our usual meeting schedule, with the program running through 1:30p.m.
The event will include light refreshments in the morning and lunch.
Theme/focus: Funder Pitch
Location: Zoom/In-Person
In-Person: The meeting will be held at the new IEHP Center for Learning and Innovation, located directly behind IEHP Headquarters. Details will be provided upon registrations.
Zoom Option: If you are unable to come in person, you are also invited to join us via Zoom. The link will be provided upon registration.
Parking: There is ample free parking; please arrive 15-30 minutes early to clear security and join us for a light breakfast before the program starts.
Optional lunch 12 – 1pm

Values-Aligned Co-Design: Bringing our Individual Purpose to our Collaborations
2023-08-09 10:00 - 12:00
Type: Bimonthly Member Meeting (Connecting Meeting)
Theme/focus: Collaborative Grantmaking
Location: IECF Policy Forum
Point people organizing: Diana + Margarita
Moderator: Diana + Margarita
Member Spotlight: N/A
Attendance: 19 in person, 4 online, 23 total

Talking Trust-based: Creating spaces for honest conversations between funders and community nonprofits
2023-06-14 10:00 - 13:00
Type: Bimonthly Member Meeting (Learning Meeting)
Theme/focus: Trust-based Philanthropy
Location: NICC Conference
Point people organizing: Diana + Margarita
Moderator: Diana + Margarita

How are we using the JEDI work as a way to build connections between funders?
2023-04-12 10:00 - 13:00
Type: Bimonthly Member Meeting (Connecting Meeting)
Theme/focus: Connecting the dots on JEDI
Location: Civil Rights Institute, Riverside
Point people organizing: Diana + Anita
Moderator: Anita

The What, Who, and How of Engaging with Public Sector Leaders
2023-02-08 10:00 - 12:00
Type: Bimonthly Member Meeting (Learning Meeting)
Theme/focus: Engaging Public Sector Leaders
Location: ICUC in San Bernardino
Point people organizing: Margarita
Moderator: Lety
Guests: Sky and Silvia
Attendance: 10 people in person, 13 online, 23 total

Year in Review
2022-12-14 10:00 - 12:00
Theme/focus: Year in Review
Location: Hybrid: Zoom + Youth Mentoring Action Network
Moderator: Max, Lina
Member Spotlight: N/A
RSVPs: Unknown
Attendance: 11 online, _ In person

Advancing the IE through Public Policy
2022-10-12 10:00 - 12:00
Theme/focus: Public Policy
Location: Hybrid: Zoom + IEHP Foundation
Moderator: Margarita
Guests: Julian Cuevas (Inland Empire Community Foundation), Sky Allen (Inland Empowerment), Suzie Gomez (Inland Empire Community Collaborative)

Member Spotlight: IEHP Foundation, Angel Baltazar
RSVPs: Unknown
Attendance: Unknown

Racial Equity in Grantmaking: Deepening Our Practice of Equity
2022-08-10 10:00 - 12:00
Theme/focus: Equity
Location: Hybrid: Zoom + The Cheech
Moderator: Anita & Denisha
Member Spotlight: N/A
RSVPs: 20
Attendance: 15

Healing Justice + Sensemaking on the New Normal
2022-06-08 10:00 - 12:00
Theme/focus: Healing Justice
Location: Hybrid: Zoom + San Manuel Commons, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
Moderator: Margarita
Guests: Torie Weiston-Serdan, Youth Mentoring Action Network Jesus Sanchez, Gente Organizada Jean Kayano, The People’s Collective for Environmental Justice
Member Spotlight: N/A
RSVPs: 20
Attendance: Unknown

Integrating IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-racist) Practices and Culture into Our Funding Institutions
2022-04-13 10:00 - 12:00
Theme/focus: IDEA
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Moderator: Lina Paredes
Guests: Icela Pelayo and Andrew Brower, Program Officers, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Member Spotlight: N/A
RSVPs: N/A
Attendance: 26 total
