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** INSIGHT
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** Exploring How to Share and Reuse Nonprofit Data
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In these highlights from PEAK2024, PEAK’s C. Davis Fischer leads a panel discussion with Sandi Boga, Jamie Carroll, Alison Jannette, and Hope Lyons to discuss how funders can leverage existing data repositories to reduce the burden that nonprofits endure by completing one-off data requests.
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** PEAK2025
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** Join the PEAK2025 Planning Committee
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PEAK2025 will take place in New Orleans from March 24, 2025 through March 26, 2025—and we want PEAK members to help us plan our annual convening by codeveloping an exciting agenda filled with thoughtful sessions, inspiring keynotes, and ways to give back to our host city.

To express your interest, please fill out this form ([link removed]) by Monday, May 6. Staff will begin contacting selected planning committee members toward the end of May. Please note that completion of this form does not guarantee your place on the committee. If you have any questions, please email Zakiyah Williams Thomas at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .


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** Limited Friday Office Hours in April
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As part of PEAK’s focus on staff wellness and being a next-level nonprofit, PEAK is transitioning to a Monday-to-Thursday workweek. In April, we will be working reduced Friday hours, and our offices will be completely closed on Fridays from May through August. We will resume a five-day workweek in September.
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** Upcoming Events
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April 17
CHAPTER MEETING
Collecting Demographic Data (PEAK Northeast) ([link removed])

April 18
CHAPTER MEETING
Coffee Hour Series (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

April 23
CHAPTER MEETING
Knowledge Swap Meet: Collective Brain Power (PEAK Southwest) ([link removed])

April 25
PEER GROUP MEETING
SparkTalk Series: Artificial Intelligence (Grants Management Peer Experience) ([link removed])

April 30
CHAPTER MEETING
How Can Philanthropy Promote an Inclusive, Representative Democracy? (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])
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** Weekly Reads
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“The fate of the nation is dependent upon the very people who are being left behind, and who are now fighting to make sure the future isn’t sacrificed to maintain systems that aren’t working for any of us. When young people today advocate for what they need to be successful, they are advancing what the country needs to become more plentiful and prosperous for everyone— things like universal health care; tuition-free public universities; high-quality, affordable housing; and generational investments in climate resilience. So we need to listen.” [more] ([link removed])
Angela Glover Blackwell, Learning for Justice

“Many grant makers set strategies and goals to achieve over three, five, or maybe 10 years at the longest. But in an era defined by a pandemic, climate disasters, and a nationwide racial reckoning, more grant makers are rethinking how they plan and are applying the tools of futurism. … ‘Funders and nonprofits are really good at imagining their preferred futures,’ [Gabriel Kasper, managing director of the Monitor Institute by Deloitte] says, but the sector isn’t as good at understanding how global risks and upheavals might affect their work. That’s where futurism comes in.” [more] ([link removed])
Eden Stiffman, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

“Reevaluating Practice: Reimagining Philanthropy is a final offering to philanthropy from the [Hazen] Foundation and its nonprofit partners. The report includes grantee recommendations for funder partnerships that advance a more effective and sustainable movement for social justice. The report highlights the ways funders have impeded and empowered grassroots organizers to mobilize their communities. The Foundation also shares the lessons it’s learned throughout the co-creation and implementation of a five-year spend down plan defined by grantee input and collaboration.” [more] ([link removed])
Edward W. Hazen Foundation

“This issue of The Foundation Review [which is available to read without a subscription] is somewhat unusual in its focus on a particular approach, the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ (EEF). ... The EEF is primarily a way to help us think differently about how knowledge is created, who gets to be part of the creation of knowledge, and how power may be wielded differently based on different ways of knowing.” [more] ([link removed])
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

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