This week: Streamlining for equity. RSVP for a community webinar. What’s new on CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** INSIGHT
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** Streamlining for Equity: Your first two steps to take
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PEAK board member Allison Gister shares the “why” and “how” to begin streamlining your foundation’s grantmaking processes.
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** COMMUNITY WEBINAR
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** Tying Grantmaking Practices to Values
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On October 31, join this complimentary webinar introducing the first of our five Principles for Peak Grantmaking—Tie Practices to Values. Hear from a foundation doing this work well, and find out about the slate of resources rolling out to support our members in putting this principle into practice.

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Connect with peers in our member-exclusive online community. Join this week’s trending conversations:
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Help a colleague out by sharing your advice:
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** Upcoming Events
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October 28 | Columbus
REGIONAL CHAPTER EVENT
Sharpening Your Skills All-Region Event (PEAK Ohio) ([link removed])

October 28 | Wilmington
REGIONAL CHAPTER EVENT
Collecting and Using Demographic Data (PEAK Delaware Valley) ([link removed])

October 31 | Online
COMMUNITY WEBINAR
Tying Grantmaking Practices to Values ([link removed])

November 1 | Oklahoma City
REGIONAL CHAPTER EVENT
Fall Meeting (PEAK Southwest) ([link removed])

November 4 | Online
WEBINAR
Using a Measurement Framework: The Implementation Challenge ([link removed])

November 6 | Online
REGIONAL CHAPTER & PARTNER EVENT
Project Streamline - Essential Principles and Key Practices ( ([link removed]) PEAK Ohio & GWP) ([link removed])

November 14 | Denver
REGIONAL CHAPTER EVENT
Fall Grants Managers Coffee Meet-Up (PEAK Rocky Mountain) ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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“[P]hilanthropic collaborations face core management challenges: agreeing on goals, priorities, and desired roles; creating realistic timelines and milestones; enforcing accountability; fostering mutual trust and support; navigating internal power dynamics; establishing strong leadership and adequate resourcing; and generating buy-in from grantees and beneficiaries. [...] What to do to avoid these pitfalls? Research on funder collaboratives identifies evaluative health checks as a key best practice.” [more] ([link removed])
—Alina Tomeh, on Center for Effective Philanthropy blog

“[T]he vast majority of foundations and nonprofits want to include people with disabilities, they don’t know what they don’t know. Hence their practices do not align with their values and they are discriminating against people with disabilities.” [more] ([link removed])
—Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, RespectAbility, on Glasspockets blog

NCFP’s new Trends 2020 study found that family foundations are shifting their main grantmaking from local causes to efforts aimed at addressing policy issues, especially economic inequality; and are increasing their efforts to make their boards and staff more diverse. [more] ([link removed])
—National Center for Family Philanthropy

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