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Grant Distribution Best Practices: 5 Tips for Funders

Your relationship with your grantees is more than a transaction. But it’s difficult to drive impact when your grantees can’t [...]

March 31, 2025| 5 min Read

Change Management

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

November 7, 2024| 4 min Read

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

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

October 25, 2024| 4 min Read

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

October 21, 2024| 7 min Read

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    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

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    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

    Change Management

    Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

    In what ways does technology boost your team’s efficiency and grantmaking—and in what ways can it hold you back? This [...]

    September 18, 2023 | 5 min Read

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    bbcon 2023: The Must-Attend Grantmaking Sessions for Leaders

    When you are working on a tough issue or an innovative solution, sometimes it helps to learn from others who [...]

    September 4, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Data Management

    Streamlining Grantmaking Processes: How Your GMS Can Double as a CRM

    Sometimes, when two things come together, they become more than the sum of their parts. Like peanut butter and chocolate. [...]

    August 15, 2023 | 5 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    5 Tips for Effective Healthcare Grantmaking

    The health needs of your community could change in an instant. An extreme weather event could impact access to food [...]

    August 9, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Change Management

    Customized vs. Configurable Software Solutions: Which Should You Choose?

    The debate over the pros and cons of configurable vs. customized software has arrived at the main stage.

    August 7, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Donor Stewardship

    5 Ways Your Grantees Can Use Storytelling to Prove Impact—and How You Can Help

    Your grantees are doing incredible boots-on-the-ground work every day. Their programs are well-run. Their staff members are intelligent and engaging. [...]

    July 20, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Employee Wellness

    3 Ways Grantmakers Can Jumpstart a Culture of Well-Being for Employees and Grantees

    As a grantmaker, you’re on a mission to make a positive impact in your community through grantmaking. You love what [...]

    July 17, 2023 | 6 min Read

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    How to Respond to Crises While Avoiding Mission Creep

    They say that the only constant is change, and change is often brought on by crises. In this panel discussion, [...]

    July 10, 2023 |24 min Listen
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