Strengthen your data storytelling skills. Last call to RSVP to our CEO panel. Trending on CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** Upgrade that Board Packet with the Same Data, Better Storytelling
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St. Luke's Foundation Senior Grants Manager Kristen Summers shows how you can adopt a streamlining mind-set to present data so that it resonates with your board and drives deeper discussions on your organization's giving practices.
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** Last Call to RSVP
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PEAK is celebrating its 25th anniversary in a big way next Tuesday. In a not-to-be-missed event, PEAK's Satonya Fair will lead a conversation in conversation with Kresge’s Rip Rapson, Ford’s Darren Walker, and GEO’s Marcus Walton about how grants professionals can lead the way as change agents for operationalizing equity.

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** Upcoming Events
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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
CHAPTER WEBINAR
Monthly Coffee Hour (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

September 21
PEER GROUP
VIRTUAL MEETING
Tech and Data Futurists Marquee Session ([link removed])

September 21
CHAPTER WEBINAR
#FixTheForm Together: Exploring the true power of grant writers and grants managers as change agents (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])

September 23
PEER GROUP
VIRTUAL MEETING
PEAK Small Foundations Affinity Group Coffee Hour ([link removed])

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

September 28
PEER GROUP
VIRTUAL MEETING
PEAK DEI Learning and Support Community of Practice: Start Where You Stand and Start Where You Can ([link removed])

September 30
SPONSORED WEBINAR
Time to Upgrade: Lessons on when and how to successfully switch your grants management system ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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“Neither [top-down nor bottom-up] leadership models lends itself to the kind of multi-dimensional approach needed for true collaboration, or the cyclical process of ideation and information sharing that can solve complex social problems. To meet these needs, we recommend a different, third approach we call ‘locally driven, network supported,’ or LDNS. This model—which numerous successful organizations already use—marries the best elements of the top-down and bottom-up models, and encourages an ego-less, fluid, intentional approach to systems-level social change.”[more] ([link removed])
English Sall, Sall Family Foundation and Jeffrey C. Walker, New Profit, in Stanford Social Innovation Review

“[MacKenzie] Scott’s departure from the paper- and process-heavy norms of strategic philanthropy … has caused those in the foundation and nonprofit sector, as well as the philanthropy peanut gallery, to reflect on whether her example offers a new and improved way to support organizations that are doing good. … Rather than setting up philanthropic infrastructure, Scott has asked a small number of advisors to conduct due diligence without burdening potential grant recipients.”[more] ([link removed])
Ruth Levine, IDinsight, for Center for Effective Philanthropy
“Today, philanthropy has very different faces and finds itself pulled in different directions. In fact, we might go as far as to say that two parallel philanthropic universes have emerged which are likely to shape the future of philanthropy over the next 25 years. … In one universe, the rise of community-based philanthropy, movements to shift power to grassroots, and technology-enabled movements like Giving Tuesday feel inherently more democratic—everyone participates on an equal footing and all kinds and levels of giving are respected equally. And when you add to that recent demands to diversify foundation boards, the growth of participatory grantmaking, an impetus for racial and gender justice and calls to ‘shift the power’—though meaning different things to different people—an almost palpable egalitarian and democratic ferment can be felt pulsating through our sector. … But in another universe, there are growing concentrations of wealth—and thus ever-deepening pools of philanthropic
capital.”[more] ([link removed])
Maria Chertok, Caroline Hartnell, Charles Keidan, Elika Roohi and Ingrid Srinath, in Alliance


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