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** INSIGHT
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** #FixTheForm. You Don’t Need Permission to Be Revolutionary.
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Making technical fixes to grant application forms is but one way grants management professionals can lead the shift to more equitable practices. Here's how.
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** #PEAKis25
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** A Panel on Operationalizing Equity
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Don’t miss our second 25th anniversary event on September 14 with PEAK’s Satonya Fair facilitating a conversation with Kresge’s Rip Rapson, Ford’s Darren Walker, and GEO’s Marcus Walton.

Together, they will envision what the next 25 years can be and discuss how grants professionals can lead the way as change agents for operationalizing equity. Thank you to Ford Foundation for sponsoring!
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Join this week’s trending conversations:
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* Increasing the grant amount mid-term ([link removed])
* Transitioning grants management systems ([link removed])

Help a colleague out by sharing your advice:
* Seeking policy examples for extending decision-making authority to non-board members ([link removed])
* Demographic data collection and vision and pledge to promote racial equity, diversity, and inclusion ([link removed])

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** Upcoming
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August 25
CHAPTER WEBINAR
Intro to Data Visualization and Accessibility (PEAK Southern California) ([link removed])

September 2
PEER GROUP VIRTUAL MEETING
AAPI Affinity Group Happy Hour ([link removed])

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

September 13
PEER GROUP VIRTUAL MEETING
Accountability & Action for Allies Affinity Group Meeting ([link removed])

September 14
WEBINAR
25th Anniversary CEO Panel: Grants Professionals as Change Agents for Operationalizing Equity ([link removed])

September 16
CHARTER WEBINAR
Monthly Coffee Hour (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

September 23
SPONSORED WEBINAR
Fundamentals of Data Health and Integration for Foundations ([link removed])

October 21
CHARTER WEBINAR
Monthly Coffee Hour (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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“[P]hilanthropic leaders, particularly white leaders, need to rethink all aspects of how they do their work, from who is on their staffs and boards to who and how they fund the work of nonprofits to their willingness to abundantly resource people working deeply in communities of color to improve people’s lives in meaningful and lasting ways.”[more] ([link removed])
David Biemesderfer, United Philanthropy Forum

“To better understand emerging trends, [we] recently asked 18 leaders to share their insights into the challenges confronting philanthropic evaluators. What we learned is that the field faces myriad, intertwined issues, some related to the expanding set of skills and capacities required of individual evaluators, others to the shifting role of evaluation in philanthropy more broadly, and still others specific to the moment we’re facing as a society.”[more] ([link removed])
Matthew Carr and Johanna Morariu, Walton Family Foundation, and Jewlya Lynn, PolicySolve
"The Building Movement Project [BMP] differentiates 'transactional solidarity' — being a spectator, bystander or mildly interested participant — from 'transformative solidarity,' which requires us to challenge ourselves to commit for the long term, disrupt the status quo and deepen relationships rather than walk away when they become hard. 'It’s a daily, lifelong practice,” [BMP's Deepa] Iyer said. 'It’s not something we do when there’s a horrible case of police violence or when there is anti-Asian violence.'”[more] ([link removed])
Ada Tseng, LA Times


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