This week: Designing a new grants process. Trending in CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** Aligning Practice with Values: Introducing Meyer’s new grants process
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When Grants Director Jane Ward embarked on a redesign of the Meyer Foundation’s grantmaking process, she framed the work around this question: What would grantmaking look like that embedded racial equity, supported systems change, and increased efficiency for both Meyer and our partners?
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** Family Philanthropy: Tying Grantmaking Practices to Shared Values

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Connecting values to practice is key in family philanthropy: Shared values can help family givers develop a grantmaking strategy that ties their vision and mission to real impact.

On February 13, join the National Center for Family Philanthropy and PEAK to learn more about the first Principle for Peak Grantmaking: Tie Practices with Values, featuring examples of family voices in NCFP’s network.

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** Upcoming
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February 7 | Silver Spring
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2020 Kickoff Breakfast (PEAK Greater Washington, DC) ([link removed])

February 13 | Online
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Family Philanthropy: Tying Grantmaking Practices to Shared Values ([link removed])

February 25 | Online
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Introduction to Expanding the Bench for Culturally-Responsive and Equitable Evaluation ([link removed])

February 25 | Online
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Designing Agile & Equitable Granting Systems ([link removed])

February 27 | Minneapolis
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Collaborative Communication Workshop (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])

March 9-11 | Seattle
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** Weekly Reads
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“How can practitioners integrate DEI into their evidence-building processes to ensure equitable outcomes? We’ve been working to develop what we call the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Evidence Matrix, a structured process for promoting and integrating a diversity, equity and inclusion framework into the evidence building activities of an organization. The framework was crafted based on feedback from practitioners and funders, and we’ve worked to integrate the Equitable Evaluation principles (along with other promising approaches). It’s a “scaffolding” of sorts for putting intention into action, helping organizations consider their current evidence building with a DEI lens and identify learning questions and next steps.” [more] ([link removed])
– Charles E. Carter, on GEO blog

“We need focus on a few critical levers of power:
1. Elect more women of color into office
2. Ensure marginalized people can vote and have the resources to do so
3. Remove the influence of corporations and money in general on politics
4. Change the tax code so rich people pay their fair share of taxes
5. Control the public’s perception on important issues (to align with facts, not fear)” [more] ([link removed])
– Vu Le, on NonprofitAF

“There is so much literature in the field today about how to create experiences that feel inclusive for participants, and it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve compiled our top 10 tips to help you plan workshops that are inclusive and engaging.” [more] ([link removed])
– eJewish Philanthropy

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