This week: Grants management systems that narrow the power gap. COVID-19 community conversation. What’s trending on CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** Grants Management Systems that Narrow the Power Gap
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Improve the user experience and accessibility of your online application and reporting system, and you can make quick and meaningful headway in your grantseeker and grantee relationships. Start with the new Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems and our recommendations to choose a system with equity in mind.
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** MEMBER WEBINAR
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** Community Conversation | Managing Responsive Grantmaking During the COVID-19 Crisis
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Next Wednesday, March 25, join grants management peers in a virtual forum to share ideas on how you can lead your organization’s efforts to adapt processes, procedures, technology, and communications in response to this crisis.
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** PARTNER WEBINAR
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** 2020 Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems Release
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On April 1, join a community webinar to hear the findings, followed by an expert panel discussion about the latest trends in grants management technology.
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Visit the CONNECT resource page to review posts related to COVID-19 ([link removed]) , as well as to access resources that will help your foundation through this difficult time. Don't forget to chime in about how your foundation is responding to the crisis and supporting grantees.

Help a colleague out by sharing your advice:
* Template for due diligence on U.S.-based organizations ([link removed])
* Recognition for major gifts ([link removed])
* Approval thresholds ([link removed])
* Grantmaking in Southeast Asia ([link removed])

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** Upcoming Events
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March 25 | Virtual
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Community Conversation | Managing Responsive Grantmaking During the COVID-19 Crisis ([link removed])

April 1 | Virtual
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Virtual Coffee Hour (PEAK SoCal) ([link removed])

April 1 | Virtual
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2020 Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems Release ([link removed])

April 8 | Virtual
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Justice and Inclusion in Grantmaking Practice Webinar (PEAK Florida) ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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"As this current crisis demonstrates, what organizations need most are additional flexible funds that will quickly allow them to deal with the immediate intersectional challenges posed by the coronavirus outbreak." [more] ([link removed])
– Aaron Dorfman and Bethany Maki, on NCRP blog

"Well-meaning donors and funders expect their grantees to inform them about their progress, their failures and their results in order to prove that they can be trusted to accomplish the work they have been funded for." [more] ([link removed])
– Eleni Refu, on NCRP blog

"Foundations, now is a good time to reassure grantees that you got our backs, by ... providing rapid response funding, and not withdrawing your sponsorships and grants for postponed or canceled events and programs." [more] ([link removed])
– Vu Le, NonprofitAF.com

"Despite the recognition of the dangers that a recession might pose for nonprofits and the issues they work on, nonprofits are not necessarily prepared — or do not have the support they need – to navigate such a time." [more] ([link removed])
– Ethan McCoy, on CEP blog

"In talking with both donors and nonprofits and reading the good advice of many leading thinkers in the space over the last few weeks, here are what have emerged as three important things donors can do right now to support grantees: Recommit and reassure; Provide flexible support; and Focus on the most vulnerable communities and those that serve them." [more] ([link removed])
– Betsy Doyle, Michael Etzel, and Peter Kim, on Bridgespan blog

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