Weekly Reads—October 28, 2022

Enjoy PEAK’s weekly roundup of timely insights from the grantmaking community and beyond.

“What Flint’s Water Crisis Taught Grant Makers About Dealing With Failing Government Services: Coordinate grant making. Listen closely to what residents need. Support well-being, not just health. Post capacity. Expand access to trustworthy information.” [more]
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

“[M]ost international disaster and humanitarian aid from foundations in the United States continues to bypass the local groups that can use it most effectively. A new report by Candid and the Council on Foundations found only 13 percent of U.S. philanthropy humanitarian funding ‘went directly to organizations based in the country where programs were implemented.’” [more]
Ben Smilowitz, Disaster Accountability Project and SmartResponse.org, for The Chronicle of Philanthropy

“Nonprofit leadership development isn’t an add-on for the [Community Memorial] Foundation. We believe that strengthening our grantees is critical to transforming our communities, so we invest significantly in this work.” [more]
Greg DiDomenico, Community Memorial Foundation, for Fund the People

“[W]e frequently hear hesitation because the kind of work needed to achieve racial equity can, for funders, feel slow, amorphous, hard to measure, even risky. … Our recent research, ‘Unlocking Social Progress by Addressing Structural Racism,’ offers examples of how that happens.” [more]
Britt Savage, Cora Daniels, and Peter Kim, Bridgespan, for the Center for Effective Philanthropy