Plus: What’s ahead in PEAK2020 Online. Weekly reads. Convos on CONNECT.

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** INSIGHT
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** Trends in Grants Management Technology: Relationship management, artificial intelligence, and data trusts
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The grants management role is evolving to increasingly leverage technology and data. In this conversation, two technologists explore emerging opportunities to improve the grantmaking process – and the grantee experience – by harnessing AI, machine learning, and data mining.
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Two more weeks of learning and networking ahead! Organization Members and PEAK2020 registrants, be sure to RSVP for our closing keynote, Building Equity for Native Communities Through Collaboration ([link removed]) , and two more breakouts. Plus, we welcome the community to attend chapter meetings ([link removed]) and explore the Virtual Expo ([link removed]) .
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Visit our COVID-19 hub ([link removed]) to review the latest posts and share how your foundation is responding to the crisis and supporting grantees.

Join this week’s trending conversations:
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* Board book software ([link removed])

Help a colleague out by sharing your advice:
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* Small business loan applications and agreements ([link removed])
* Virtual conference planning and tech support ([link removed])
* Anti-terrorism watchlist vendors ([link removed])
* Policies and procedures guide -- structure and key policies ([link removed])
* Fiscal agent for corporate contribution, and fiscal sponsorship ([link removed])

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** Upcoming
Events
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May 5-28 | Virtual
PEAK2020 ONLINE
Keynotes + Breakouts + Chapter Meetings + Virtual Expo ([link removed])

May 19 | Virtual
CHAPTER WEBINAR
Standing with Community (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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"In the next several months and years, funders will roll out well-intentioned funding to affected communities. As they do so, we urge them to upend grant making by trusting the communities they seek to serve to know best where to put the money in their movements. We are firm believers in the motto of the disability rights movement: 'Nothing about us without us.'" [more] ([link removed])
– Diana Samarasan, Disability Rights Fund, and Katy Love, in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

"For many marginalized people, crisis is ever-present and opportunities for philanthropists acting with urgency abound. We now know that what seems impossible is not. What seems inevitable is not either. Community organizations serving people of color are vital, and they hold unique expertise, relationships, and experience. We must set them up with the resources, power, and access to thrive so they can help sustain progress in this recovery and through the next crisis when it comes." [more] ([link removed])
– Antony Bugg-Levine, Nonprofit Finance Fund, in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

"Conversations among grantmakers are already moving beyond relief to recovery. We know the pandemic will require long-term investments and new infrastructure from government and philanthropy. We know that the way out of this will require extraordinary measures. We know that there is no “return to normal.” We must engage the people most affected by inequity as decision-makers in our efforts to solve the problems in front of us: Nothing about us, without us, is for us." [more] ([link removed])
– Eleanor Savage, Grantmakers in the Arts blog

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