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Weekly Reader – October 1, 2018
What we’re reading and recommending this week.
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Expectations for All
Before you advocate for what is “best” for community organizations, check those gut assumptions by asking: Do I think the same is true for foundations?
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EPIP New York & PNY – Planning Your Path for the Future (PEAK New York)
Join the PEAK Grantmaking New York Regional Chapter, EPIP New York and Philanthropy New York, for a meeting focused on your professional development! Participate in two highly-interactive sessions, focused on reflecting on your current role in your organization and strategizing how best to advocate for yourself at work, while networking with other grants management colleagues from the area. Your Professional Evolution in Grants … Continued
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Fall Meeting – 10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Practices (Pacific Northwest)
Learn ten tips to improve your grantmaking practices on a range of topics including applications, reporting, data, and communications. Participants can share what they would add to the list from their own experiences to help their colleagues improve their practices. During this workshop, participants will: Review 10 tips for implementing practices that will improve your grantmaking Learn … Continued
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Fall Meeting: A Discussion on Grant Reporting and Data Collection (PEAK DC)
Join us for a day to discuss reporting and data collection. We will spend the morning doing roundtable discussions around the best practices and challenges of grant reporting and data collection. After lunch, we will participate in the live PEAK Grantmaking webinar on Digging Into Demographic Data. In this webinar, participants will: Learn the key importance of … Continued
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New Member Breakfast (New York Chapter)
Join fellow new members of PEAK Grantmaking for breakfast, networking, and learning more about how to make the most of your membership. Please remember to bring ID to this event.
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Weekly Reader – September 24, 2018
What we’re reading and recommending this week.
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Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals in Your Grantmaking
Grantmaking data shows that foundations around the world have committed more than $50 billion towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since they were adopted in 2015. Predictions assert that by 2030, that number will rise to at least $364 billion.
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Shifting the Meaning of Community: U.S. Community Foundations Increase Their International Giving
We tend to think of community foundations as place-based institutions, solely serving a community of people living within a defined geographic area through their grantmaking. Research by Foundation Center and the Council on Foundations, however, shows that international giving by U.S. community foundations grew more than three-fold from $103 million in 2011 to $315 million in 2015, a much more rapid increase than the 29% growth in international giving by all U.S. foundations. What explains this growth and what else do we know about global grantmaking, leadership, and engagement by U.S. community foundations?
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Weekly Reader – September 17, 2018
What we’re reading and recommending this week.