Going beyond the grant. Trending on CONNECT. Weekly Reads.

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** How the Rogers Family Foundation Partners Beyond the Grant
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Learn how the culture at the Rogers Family Foundation fueled an organization-wide commitment to working in true partnership with community members and finding means beyond money to help them to thrive.
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** NEW MEMBER OPPORTUNITY
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** Service-Learning Pilot Program: What can you learn from a nonprofit’s 990?
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In response to member feedback, PEAK is partnering with our friends at BDO to pilot a member service-learning opportunity focused on analyzing nonprofit financials. We know that foundations often decline grant applications due to concerns with the nonprofit’s financials—and that those concerns are usually not discussed with applicants.

Through this pilot program, BDO will train 20 PEAK members to review and analyze the information found in IRS filings and to hold open, respectful, and culturally appropriate conversations with nonprofits. Participants will then be matched with Baltimore-based nonprofits that want to understand what foundations see when they review financial documents.

Join PEAK and BDO for an informational session on July 18 to learn more.
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Join this week’s trending conversations:
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* Still trending: Best practices for tracking multiple grants with the same grantee ([link removed])



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** Upcoming Events
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July 18
MEMBER INFORMATION SESSION
Service-Learning Pilot Program: What can you learn from a nonprofit’s 990? ([link removed])

July 18
CHAPTER MEETING
New Member Coffee Chat with Mighty Midwest (PEAK Midwest) ([link removed])

July 19
CHAPTER MEETING
Chapter Volunteer Interest Meeting (PEAK Southwest) ([link removed])

July 20
CHAPTER MEETING
Monthly Coffee Hour (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

July 20
CHAPTER MEETING
Career Progression: Best practices and pitfalls (PEAK Northeast) ([link removed])

July 23
CHAPTER EVENT
New York Botanical Garden Outing (PEAK Northeast) ([link removed])

July 27
CHAPTER MEETING
In-Person Coffee Chat (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])
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** Weekly Reads
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“The challenges inherent to social impact work are unlikely to disappear. Yet there are specific mental health practices we can cultivate in our workplace to expand our behavioral possibilities, loosen our rigid narratives, and free up energy to seek meaningful systemic and cultural impact.” [more] ([link removed])
Enoch Li, Bearapy, and Daisy Rosales, Brio, for Stanford Social Innovation Review

“Because we value sustainability over symbolic gestures, EBCLC’s racial justice practice has progressed the organization: we infused racial equity within policy advocacy and human resources, we found strength in being accountable to our public commitments, and set up structures to ensure we move forward, not backward, in the necessary effort to dismantle the policing and carceral systems that impose disproportionate harm to communities of color.” [more] ([link removed])
Zoe Polk, East Bay Community Law Center, for the Center for Effective Philanthropy

“The information we gathered underscored the importance of valuing all stakeholders for their contributions to our work. It supported the idea that funders aren’t entitled to a community’s capital based on the grantee/funder relationships. ... When funders make requests of grantees and other partners, we need to fairly compensate them for the value they provide in acknowledgement of their expertise, lived experiences, and time and effort.” [more] ([link removed])
Kenneth Rainin Foundation

“We have made some progress toward leaving behind the charity mindset and exclusively White-held decision-making power, and have begun listening to new sources of wisdom beyond the traditional White male philanthropist. But we are not yet living in a liberated world where capital is distributed evenly and the leaders of our society reflect this country’s full spectrum of humanity.” [more] ([link removed])
Jocelynne Rainey, Brooklyn Community Foundation, and Lisa Pilar Cowan, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, for Nonprofit Quarterly

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