Grants pros' critical role in communications strategy. Trending on CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** The Role of Grants Pros in Impact Storytelling
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Learn how grantmakers can be strategic assets to a funder’s communications team and better support nonprofit partners in the process in these highlights from a recent PEAK Florida event featuring David Bender, Jessica Cohen, Lashonda Curry, Leigh Davis, and Grace Maseda.
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** PEAK's Annual Meeting: The Future of Grants Management
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On May 24, join the PEAK board, staff, and community for our annual membership meeting where we'll reconnect and celebrate. After sharing highlights from our memorable 25th anniversary year, we’ll host a panel conversation on how the field is shifting and the opportunities to lead on operationalizing equitable practices. All are welcome!
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** Upcoming
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May 4
CHAPTER MEETING
Learn, Share, Evolve: Smart grant reporting (PEAK Mideast) ([link removed])

May 4
MEMBER EVENT
PEAK Volunteer Fair ([link removed])

May 6
CHAPTER MEETING
Monthly Chapter Chat (PEAK Northeast) ([link removed])

May 13
CHAPTER MEETING
Monthly Coffee Hour (PEAK New England) ([link removed])

May 17
PEER GROUP
VIRTUAL MEETING
Virtual Coffee Hour: Discussing breaking down dominant norms in an organization (PEAK Minnesota) ([link removed])

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** Weekly Reads
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“We’re here to clear the air on what trust-based philanthropy is and what it isn’t. ... As longtime grantmakers and co-founders of theTrust-Based Philanthropy Project ([link removed]) , we have evidence that this approach works.” [more] ([link removed])
Carrie Avery, Durfee Foundation; Pia Infante, The Whitman Institute; Philip Li, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; Brenda Solorzano Headwaters Foundation, in Alliance magazine

“Overall, funding of nonprofit capacity strengthening is vibrant but still relatively small. We need many more funders to increase their support, whether as flexible funds and/or supplemental support for capacity strengthening, so that the sector has access to the resources needed to build and sustain strong, healthy organizations and networks. We also need more investment in the evaluation of capacity strengthening strategies to better understand how funders can continue to adapt and refine their approaches to support nonprofit health, resilience, and sustainability.” [more] ([link removed])
Jennifer Wei, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

“Nonprofits too often receive (well-intended) guidance from stakeholders like funders and board members to disproportionately zero in on a single goal: serving the maximum number of beneficiaries. … The right way to expand a nonprofit’s impact is to build programs on three pillars: breadth, depth, and durability. Scaling means advancing all three of these dimensions simultaneously. And while the specific metrics an organization uses will vary, some version of each of those elements must be measured and advanced together to stay on track.” [more] ([link removed])
Mona Mourshed, Generation, in Stanford Social Innovation Review

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