4 Ways to Help Your Grantmaking Organization Adopt an Emergent Learning Mindset
Curiosity, transparency, diversity, vulnerability, and collaboration. At PEAK Grantmaking, these qualities and practices of emergent learning are an everyday endeavor [...]
Continuous Enrollment: The Pros and Cons
The continuously high re-enrollment numbers at Donna Klein Jewish Academy (DKJA) reflect our efforts to provide the best possible experience [...]
Thinking in the Gray: A 2024 Leadership Challenge
Every year when the calendar rolls over into the new year, leaders are presented with a fresh set of challenges. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Think Big (but Start Small) with Nonprofit Innovation
With advances in technology such as artificial intelligence, automation, and cloud services flooding the marketplace, nonprofits feel the pressure to [...]
The One Record Myth in K–12 School Software
Is it possible to have one record for each constituent at a school? The short answer is no, not if [...]
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 [...]
Combating Innovation Creep
How often does a colleague attend a conference, see a demo of the latest “it” technology, and want to implement [...]
