Grantmaking

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Change Management

Questions to Ask If You Are Thinking About Moving to a New GMS

When your grantmaking organization first started, you didn’t need a lot of functionality to manage your single program and a [...]

November 7, 2024| 4 min Read

Disaster Response

Preparing for the Inevitable: How Grantmakers Can Thrive Amid Climate Events

October 28, 2024| 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

Blackbaud Grantmaking Has SKY APIs, But What Does that Mean for Me?

October 25, 2024| 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

Why Hospitals Should Invest in Climate Actions as a Community Benefit Strategy

October 21, 2024| 7 min Read

Change Management

Technology as Partner (not Product) in Knowledge Work

August 15, 2024| 5 min Read

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    Data Insights

    10 Tips for Mastering Your Grantmaking Dashboards

    The dashboard on your car gives you real-time information that helps you make better decisions about your driving. Are you [...]

    January 24, 2024 | 4 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

    Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing [...]

    January 22, 2024 | 5 min Read

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    How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back

    The following is an excerpt from How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back A Practical Guide for Taking [...]

    January 18, 2024 | 7 min Read

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    Data Management

    Need a New Grant Management System? 5 Tips for Selecting the Best GMS for Your Foundation

    Changing a core piece of software at your grantmaking organization is no picnic. But inertia is not an option when [...]

    January 17, 2024 | 5 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    4 Ways Funders Can Help Grant Writers Submit a Great Application

    Grant writers are often the unsung heroes of the application process. They parse the grant documentation to understand if their [...]

    January 15, 2024 | 3 min Read

    Data Insights

    Data as Decision in Grantmaking

    In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. Those who find it fun are [...]

    January 10, 2024 | 6 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    Grantmakers’ Questions as a Way Toward Change

    Knowledge work in philanthropy is a big umbrella, expanding exponentially over the last decade to cover more of what grants [...]

    December 27, 2023 | 5 min Read

    Change Management

    Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

    Philanthropy loves “new” things. Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. But it is [...]

    December 18, 2023 | 9 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    How to Streamline Your Grant Management Process with Technology

    Receiving requests for funding can be both a crucial and frustrating part of being a grantmaking organization. You want applications [...]

    December 14, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    Facilitation: The Secret Ingredient for Successful Participatory Decision-Making in Philanthropy

    Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad experience working with a group of people to make a decision. [...]

    December 5, 2023 | 6 min Read

    Diversity Equity and Inclusion

    How to Drive Next-Level Grantmaking: Start with Levers, Ripples, and Spheres

    PEAK Grantmaking’s work centers on five core principles, each challenging our community of 8,000 philanthropy professionals to critically consider their [...]

    November 2, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    The Core Elements of Empathy, Power, and Vulnerability in Grantmaking

    We hear about Trust-Based Philanthropy and having a more grantee-centered approach to grantmaking. There was a surge in these perspectives [...]

    October 18, 2023 | 6 min Read

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    Optimizing the Application Process for Grantmakers and Grantees

    Heather Hiscox is on a mission to change the way we change the world. As an author, speaker, and consultant [...]

    October 17, 2023 |19 min Listen

    Grants Strategy

    An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

    We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of [...]

    October 9, 2023 | 7 min Read
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