CONNECTing on tracking grantee demographics. Register now for PEAK2021 Online. Weekly Reads. Trending on CONNECT. 

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** CONNECTing on Tracking Grantee Demographics
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Over in our CONNECT ([link removed]) online community, PEAK members generously share their insights and approaches to grantmaking, recently contributing to a rich discussion around how to collect and leverage grantee demographic data.
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** Registration is now open!
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Across eight days in May, step back from your day-to-day to reconnect with PEAK colleagues and strengthen our community.

Through keynotes and breakouts, affinity groups, chapter meetings, and more, we'll look at how far the profession of grants management has come as we delve into the themes of community and equity in grantmaking practice.
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Join this week’s trending conversations:
* Benchmarking staff caseloads ([link removed])
* SmartSimple Transition Consultants ([link removed])
* Recoverable grants ([link removed])


Help a colleague out by sharing your advice:
* Establishing an ombudsperson/ group for DEI work ([link removed])
* DEI Training for grant reviewers ([link removed])
* Audit grant workbook reviews ([link removed])

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** Upcoming Events
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April 1
WEBINAR
New Member Orientation ([link removed])

April 8
CHAPTER WEBINAR
Grants Managers as Change Managers (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])

Starting April 13
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP SERIES
Grants Management 101 – Class of 2021 ([link removed])

April 15
CHAPTER WEBINAR
Monthly Coffee Hour (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

April 22
CHAPTER WEBINAR
Virtual Coffee Hour: Electronic Payments and Agreements (PEAK Mideast) ([link removed])

April 22
SPONSORED WEBINAR
Listen, Learn, and Rebuild with Resilience ([link removed])

May 4-13
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PEAK2021 Online ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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“Today, our grantees are coping with the exhaustion, burnout, and trauma from this last year, the last four years, and even the last four hundred years. Recently, many of us have begun to invest more intentionally in the healing, sustainability, and wellness of our grantees. Systemic injustice takes a toll on a very individual human level, and as funders, we can and should resource our grantees to thrive.” [more] ([link removed])
Dimple Abichandani, General Service Foundation, on Trust-Based Philanthropy

“We believe our direct-giving approach offers a blueprint for other philanthropic organizations, not only in prioritizing the needs of local entrepreneurs, but in rethinking funding strategies overall. [...] The philanthropic world needs a new and more inclusive template for doing business. We need to look at new partners in our communities.” [more] ([link removed])
Jane Wurwand, Wurwand Foundation

“My gender identity shapes everything about my life, just like racial identity or economic conditions have. It has made me aware of the ways that we label, categorize and put people into blocks. It’s assisted me in understanding relationships of power. It’s helped me to challenge traditional and non-inclusive understandings of leadership and the ways that we are socialized to exclude those, particularly women, who don’t fit a rigid mold of who we’ve been told a leader should be.” [more] ([link removed])
Ana Oliviera, New York Women’s Foundation

"The majority of philanthropic dollars still move largely as they always have because scarcity thinking holds most funders – program officers, CEOs, and board members – back from leading true change." [more] ([link removed])
Nell Edgington, Social Velocity, on Center for Effective Philanthropy

“In 2020, Google searches for ‘ableism’ doubled. That's good news. In order to grow, we must first recognize that there's a problem. If you want to know more about how to eliminate ableism from your life, a good starting point is avoiding ableist language.” [more] ([link removed])
Erica Mones, Popsugar

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