This week: Managing up. New GMS survey. Trending in CONNECT. Weekly reads.

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** Managing Up: A primer for grants management professionals
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As the foundation staff with the most specialized knowledge, experience, and skills needed to improve grantmaking strategy and practice, your ability to effectively communicate and influence change is key to advancing your own career and deepening your organization’s impact – a win-win!
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Do you work with your foundation’s GMS? If so, please complete this short survey about your experience. Your response will help make the 2020 Consumers Guide to Grant Management Systems a powerful resource for your foundation and the sector.
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** Weekly Reads
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“Diversity, equity and inclusion require a level of trust between funders and the organizations that they support: This is hard work, it tends to air out deep organizational culture issues, and it always feels ‘high stakes.’ As funders, we need to be aware of how power dynamics implicit in our relationships affect these conversations with grantees, and we need to meet grantees where they are to show our support and trust.” [more] ([link removed])
—William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
“Feminist philanthropy is not a charitable act or an act of power. It is an act of solidarity and mutual empowerment, in which the solutions to the problems that women face are seen as a matter of mutual responsibility.” [more] ([link removed]) —Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres, in Alliance Magazine
“The pull to act as global philanthropists, and the plaudits that come from giving generously — whether directly or indirectly — to people living without many of the basic comforts we enjoy, should be balanced with a large dose of humility and introspection.” [more] ([link removed])
—Ruth Levine, on CEP blog

A new study, Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds, highlights ways that women’s foundations and funds provide a model for how philanthropic groups create social change, particularly within their local communities. [more] ([link removed])
—IUPUI Women’s Philanthropy Institute

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