Embedding equity in financial review processes. Propose a PEAK2025 session. Trending on CONNECT. Weekly Reads.

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** INSIGHT
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** Embedding Equity in Your Financial Vetting Process
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PEAK’s Assessing Financial Health Virtual Training Series, developed in partnership with BDO, begins this September. In anticipation of our newest learning opportunity, BDO’s Melissa Cameron and Jennifer Pedroni explore three strategies to drive equity when reviewing a nonprofit’s finances.
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** Cocreate the PEAK2025 Program With Us
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Change begins with us, and each member of the PEAK community is an inherent leader. And we live in a moment that requires us to courageously lean into the headwinds that challenge us. To this, we say: Onward! As individuals and as a collective, let’s lead with courage to transform philanthropy and boldly move toward a future where justice and equity prevail.

Be a part of this movement by cocreating the PEAK2025 program with us. Submit a session proposal that will inform and inspire grants professionals to become activated change agents in philanthropy and lean into the headwinds that challenge us. Download our call for proposals guide ([link removed]) to learn more about session tracks, session types, and innovative ways we'll be learning together. Also be sure to attend our info session ([link removed]) on August 28 and our Ask Me Anything session ([link removed]) on September 10 to learn more about PEAK2025 and ask whatever questions you have about the proposal process.

The deadline to submit proposals is September 17.
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** TECH UPGRADE
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** New Member Database Update
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** Upcoming
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August 20
CHAPTER MEETING
Untangling Demographic Paradoxes for Funders (PEAK Florida) ([link removed])

August 21
CHAPTER MEETING
San Francisco In-Person Happy Hour (PEAK Northern California) ([link removed])

August 22
COMMUNITY EVENT
PEAK Summer Volunteer Fair ([link removed])

August 28
CHAPTER MEETING
Building Your Own Board of Directors (PEAK Rocky Mountain) ([link removed])

August 28
MEMBER EVENT
PEAK2025 Call for Proposals Info Session ([link removed])

September 10
MEMBER EVENT
PEAK2025 Call for Proposals Ask Me Anything Session ([link removed])
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** Weekly Reads
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“Create the conditions for better nonprofit job quality for the entire grantee organization. ... A funder’s multi-year commitment to a nonprofit can give them the confidence to make investments in their own staff when they know the resources will be there for more than one or two years. The Walter & Elise Haas Fund is not alone in seeing our role as funding nonprofits to win on their own terms, including our shift from one-year to seven-year grant terms. We also place a high priority on supporting the conditions for high quality, empowering nonprofit work.” [more] ([link removed])
Jamie Allison, Walter & Elise Haas Foundation, for the Center for Effective Philanthropy

“Candid’s newly released 2024 Nonprofit Compensation Report ([link removed]) , the most comprehensive study on executive compensation in the social sector… provides information to help nonprofits benchmark compensation to ensure competitive salaries for their employees. ... Highlights from [this edition] include insights into the gender pay gap at organizations of different budget sizes, information on median executive compensation of non-CEO executive positions, and compensation based on program area.” [more] ([link removed])
Parshya Kavoosi, Candid

“Each year we bring together six different trans, nonbinary leaders from different geographic locations who also hold different experiences and different identities, and we bring them together to review all the applications that we receive. ... So, by having a grantmaking panel of folks who know this work, live this work, breathe this work at the table to decide who receives funding is part of our way of trying to bring power back to our people.” [more] ([link removed])
Gabriel Foster, Trans Justice Funding Project, for Disability and Philanthropy Forum

“For foundations, there is a chance to chart a different path forward—you have the chance to redress histories of discrimination, denial of housing, segregation, and unequal treat[ment] (to name a few) which have helped build your wealth. ... [If] we are committed as a city to achieving racial equity—we too must be focused on the issue of reparation.” [more] ([link removed])
Corey Shaw, Empower DC, for the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

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