The innate power of grantmakers. New 3-part career series! Trending on CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** INSIGHT
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** The Innate Power of Grantmakers
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It’s common for grants management professionals to feel disconnected from peers, misunderstood, and excluded from conversations on strategy and decision making. But as this roundtable discussion from our latest edition of the Journal reveals, their role and influence is expanding and, increasingly, driving change.
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** VIRTUAL LEARNING
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** Announcing a New PEAK/EPIP Career Series
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Join us for a three-part learning and professional development series where we’ll explore career pathways in philanthropy, equity as an essential competency for emerging leaders, and tools for effective self-advocacy and pay equity in your career journey.

On August 2, we’re hosting a Community Conversation and Leader Salon: Career Pathways in Philanthropy. Inspired by the latest PEAK Journal, Career Journeys in Philanthropy ([link removed]) , we will explore the triumphs and challenges of pursuing a career in philanthropy.
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** Then, we’re hosting two additional events exclusively for our members:
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On August 19, Reimagine Leadership: Racial Equity as a Leadership Competency will explore how understanding inequities, aligning values, centering relationships, and cultivating inner well-being are core values leaders need to advance equity.
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On September 9, Practical Tools for Self-Advocacy and Pay Equity will teach you how to leverage publicly available tools and information like salary and jobs survey reports and form 990s to address wage and title discrepancies and advocate for change.
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** Upcoming
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July 21
CHAPTER WEBINAR
July Coffee Hour (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])

July 22
SECTOR EVENT
Emergency Funder Briefing: The Dangers of Ignoring the Disinformation Campaign Against Critical Race Theory ([link removed])

July 23
PEER GROUP
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Black Caucus Coffee Chat ([link removed])

July 26
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PEAK Tech and Data Futurists Community of Practice Peer Share ([link removed])

July 29
PEER GROUP
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AAPI Affinity Group Meeting ([link removed])

August 2
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PEAK/EPIP Community Conversation: A Leader Salon on Career Pathways in Philanthropy ([link removed])

August 9
PEER GROUP
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PEAK Accountability & Action for Allies Affinity Group Meeting ([link removed])

August 12
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Unlock Your Jedi Skills to Constructively Deal with Drama (PEAK Mideast) ([link removed])

August 19
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PEAK/EPIP Career Series | Reimagine Leadership: Racial Equity as a Leadership Competency ([link removed])

September 9
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PEAK/EPIP Career Series | Practical Tools for Self-Advocacy and Pay Equity ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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"COVID-19 has laid bare what the disability community has been telling us all along: current systems have failed people with disabilities because they were not created with disabled people in mind." [more] ([link removed])
Catherine Hyde Townsend and Bess Rothenberg, Ford Foundation, in Stanford Social Innovation Review

"Overall, we found that foundations increased their giving in fiscal year (FY) 2020. Larger organizations were more likely to report increases, as were community foundations. But increases in giving were not necessarily matched with higher payout. For those that did increase payout, they cited the crises of 2020 as reasons to give more." [more] ([link removed])
2020 Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, Candid

"Corporate charitable donations were critical in order to absorb the immediate shock and disruption of the pandemic. But for business leaders willing to consider a far-sighted approach, there is another, higher-risk strategy with potential for longer-term change: betting on social enterprises." [more] ([link removed])
Yasmina Zaidman, Acumen, for Fast Company

"Giving financially, as part of who we are together as Americans, is waning. Why this is so is the subject of ongoing research and discussion, but some of it may have to do with how disconnected we feel from each other. … Certainly, some of the giving we are doing as Americans is exacerbating divisions among the four Americas and seeding confusion about common facts and shared understandings." [more] ([link removed])
Amir Pasic, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University


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