Driving equity in grantmaking practice. Streamlined access to PEAK resources. Trending on CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** Drive Equity: Improving practice to connect intent with impact
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This week, we released a powerful set of tools for members – providing a roadmap to reducing bias in the grantmaking process, and using a data-informed approach to advance equity and impact.
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** RESOURCE
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** Discover streamlined access to PEAK resources
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We've made an exciting change to peakgrantmaking.org, enabling custom search and instant download of our growing resource collection.

Under the “Resources” tab, you'll now find reports, case stories, how-to guides, and assessment tools – all searchable by type, topic and Principle. In August, we'll add on-demand webinars, making this your go-to destination for all PEAK resources.
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** Upcoming
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August 4 | Virtual
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Lessons from a Participatory Journey: Fund to Build Grassroots Power ([link removed])

August 13 | Virtual
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August 18 | Virtual
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Inclusive Philanthropy: How the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Philanthropy and Nonprofits Can Add to Your Success ([link removed])

August 20 | Virtual
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August 25 | Virtual
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August 25 | Virtual
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September 2 | Virtual
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Drive Equity: Promoting Justice and Inclusion in the Grantmaking Process ([link removed])

September 15 | Virtual
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From Reviewer to Co-Designer: Collaborating with Applicants to Strengthen Proposals ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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“How can philanthropists learn from the people in the streets and reimagine risk?” [more] ([link removed])
– Mekaelia Davis, Surdna Foundation, in Stanford Social Innovation Review

“[T]o those [funders] who are continuing to sit on the sidelines: Think long and hard about what you owe our country in this moment. Is your discomfort in funding outside your program areas or taking this issue to your board anything like that of John Lewis’ when he faced bullwhips and beatings?” [more] ([link removed])
– Crystal Haling, Libra Foundation, in Inside Philanthropy

“Foundation leaders are motivated by a moral and strategic imperative for philanthropic advocacy, as well as a conviction that, at its best, philanthropic engagement in policy elevates unheard voices, advances justice and equity, fuels democracy, and holds government to account. We re seeing this in action [... and ...] encourage funders on the fence about policy engagement to boldly step into the policy realm and be fearless advocates for their mission.” [more] ([link removed])
– Naomi Orensten, Center for Effective Philanthropy

“To be anti-racist is to believe in the word now. Patience is a dirty word to those incarcerated by inequity. Patience is a nasty word to those with injustice kneeing down on their neck." [more] ([link removed])
– Ibram Kendi, in The Atlantic

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