Finding community through the AANHPI Caucus. Announcing our 2024 board. Honoring PEAK’s founders. Our new member database. Chapter name change.

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** INSIGHT
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** What the AANHPI Caucus Has Meant to Me
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As we look ahead to the start of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage month in May, PEAK AANHPI Caucus Cochair Irene Chansawang shares how her experiences coleading this peer group have impacted her personally and professionally.
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** GOVERNANCE
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** Announcing Our 2024 Board of Directors
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We are excited to welcome six members to the PEAK board: David Bender, Pinellas Community Foundation; TeQuion Brookins, TeQuion Brookins, LLC; Tanisha Davis, Archstone Foundation; Tara Havlicek, Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation; Sarita Michaca, Tides; and Blanch Vance, The Grove Foundation.

Joining the board for a second term will be Josh Abel, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust; Janet Disla, The Nathan Cummings Foundation; and Teresita Maz, Healthy Places by Design. Each of these board members will serve for the 2024–2027 term, which begins on June 1. Thank you to the more than 1,100 members ([link removed]) who voted to affirm these candidates to the board!
We also want to take a moment to thank our outgoing board members whose terms will end on May 31: Steven Casey, We Mean Business Coalition; Allison Gister, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation; Tiauna George, Energy Foundation; and Jane Ward, National Park Foundation. Steve, Allison, Tiauna, and Jane each served on the board for six years during a time of great evolution and growth. We wish them well and look forward to their continued engagement in our community as board alums.


** TEAM NEWS
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** PEAK Is Hiring
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We are excited to share that PEAK has launched the search for our communications director to lead our communications, marketing, publications, and brand experience efforts. PEAK has engaged Chaloner, an executive search firm, to help us identify a strategic leader who will guide the organization’s outreach and messaging to our members, the profession, and the larger field of philanthropy. Click the link below to learn more about the role and, if you or someone in your network is interested, to send your application to Chaloner.
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** ICYMI
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** Our 2023 Impact Report
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Here, we chronicle another incredible year of evolution and unwavering commitment to driving equity in philanthropy—for our organization. What’s more, we show how our community has been an essential part of moving this work forward.

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** OPERATIONS UPDATE
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** Transitioning to a New PEAK Member Database
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It’s happening! PEAK is preparing to implement a next-level association management system (AMS), which will help support our amazing and expanding network. NimbleAMS, which runs on the Salesforce platform, is akin to grants management systems, so this process has been an amazing learning experience for staff. Members will find it easier to access our website and CONNECT, download resources, register for events, and update contact information and team rosters. Staying connected to PEAK will soon be a more seamless experience.

To support our transition, we will have a tech upgrade break. PEAK’s current database will go offline on Friday, May 24, and we anticipate our new database will be online in mid June. During our break, members will not have access to CONNECT or members-only resources on our website. In addition, we will not host meetings or run meeting registration during that time. We will share instructions on how to access our new system in June and ensure ways for you to stay connected during this time.

We appreciate your support, patience, and understanding as we make this important shift.

And because we know our members have so much experience with system transitions, we’d love your advice. Click the link below to share your lessons learned here to support our efforts with an emergent learning focus, and earn your chance to win a prize in our raffle.
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** Our Gratitude
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Thank you to The Nathan Cummings Foundation for their unrestricted grant supporting PEAK and to Mary Cotterman from the BHHS Legacy Foundation for her individual contribution.

Our thanks to PEAK2024 sponsors, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., The Lemelson Foundation, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Reis Foundation, and Walton Enterprises.


** ANNOUNCEMENT
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** GM101 Begins May 25
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Join colleagues for the Grants Management 101 Class of 2024! Over the course of five months, you’ll receive an in-depth orientation to the fundamentals of grants management, the philanthropic sector, and equitable, effective grantmaking practices.

Few seats remain, so be sure to reserve your spot now.
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** CHAPTER UPDATE
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** PEAK Minnesota Becomes PEAK Northern Plains
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After a thoughtful, monthslong process, PEAK Minnesota chapter members, in collaboration with PEAK staff and leadership, in March 2024 approved changing the chapter’s name from PEAK Minnesota to PEAK Northern Plains. The name change is intended to be more inclusive of everyone in the chapter’s current geography, which includes Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The name change was approved via an online survey in which 20 percent of chapter members participated, going beyond the necessary quorum of at least 10 percent.


** Welcome, New Organization Members
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Full Circle Impact Solutions
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Reis Foundation
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** Upcoming Events
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April 25
PEER GROUP MEETING
SparkTalk Series: Artificial Intelligence (Grants Management Peer Experience) ([link removed])

April 25
CHAPTER WEBINAR
How Can Philanthropy Promote an Inclusive, Representative Democracy? (PEAK Northern Plains) ([link removed])

May 9
CHAPTER MEETING
Salem In-Person Coffee Hour (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

May 14
CHAPTER MEETING
Show and Tell (PEAK Southeast) ([link removed])

May 16
CHAPTER MEETING
Coffee Hour Series (PEAK Pacific Northwest) ([link removed])

May 21
CHAPTER MEETING
More Than Money: Supporting Nonprofits Beyond the Grant (PEAK Mideast) ([link removed])
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** Peer Network Spotlight
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PEAK offers members diverse peer spaces for learning, sharing, and evolving in our thrivingchapters ([link removed]) andpeer groups ([link removed]) . Each month, we showcase the meaningful programming and networking taking place in these volunteer-led spaces and how the PEAK team is supporting their work. Stay up to date on upcoming meetings by checking PEAK’s events calendar ([link removed]) .

The chapters are buzzing this spring! In addition to the informal networking and thought exchanges hosted by PEAK Pacific Northwest, PEAK Rocky Mountain, and PEAK Northern and Southern California, chapters are bringing in guest speakers to dive deeply into major questions and issues facing the grantmaking community. PEAK Northeast invited The Commonwealth Fund to share how they are collecting and using demographic information to drive learning in the context of their pledge to promote racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. In addition, PEAK Southwest held “Knowledge Swap Meet: Collective Brain Power,” which featured a facilitated conversation where staff from the Houston Endowment discussed issues that have come up during their strategic planning process related to monitoring, evaluation, and learning. On April 30, PEAK Northern Plains ([link removed]) will host a
virtual conversation with speakers from Healthy Democracy Healthy People, UNIDOS MN, and We Choose Us to explore the crucial role of civic and voter participation in creating healthy and equitable communities.


** PEAK in Community
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Here’s the latest on how PEAK is engaging with member organizations, partners, nonprofits, and allies in advocating for transformative change and leading the way in advancing equitable and effective grantmaking practices.

President and CEO Satonya Fair joined Manuela Contreras for aWisdom Wednesdays ([link removed]) event on LinkedIn to discuss PEAK's path to radical wellness and why focusing on employee wellbeing is necessary to achieving PEAK’s equity goals.

After PEAK2024 wrapped, Satonya participated in the MasterMind Retreat hosted by organizational change management firm FutureGood Studio. Here, she joined six others for this fully facilitated, in-person event designed to create spaces for goal setting, relationship building, and long-term collaboration. Participants worked together to clarify their respective reasons for participating in the retreat and left the retreat ready to serve as accountability partners.

Knowledge and Learning Director Lita Ugarte Pardi, Senior Knowledge and Learning Manager Vanessa Elkan, and Knowledge and Learning Manager Alberto Espinoza participated in the Equitable Evaluation Initiative ([link removed]) ’s Equitable Evaluation Framework™ (EEF) Practitioner Cohort Kickoff conversation in March. This cohort, which brings together funders, philanthropy-supporting organizations, nonprofits, and consultants, seeks to sustain EEI’s work by ensuring more social sector practitioners and organizations embrace the shifts to the evaluation paradigm so that it becomes a conduit for and of equity.

Partnerships Director C. Davis Fischer joined a panel, “Optimizing Grants and Scholarships,” which was hosted by Foundant Technologies. She was joined by Andy Caroll from Exponent Philanthropy and Jackie Bright from National Scholarship Providers Association​ to discuss trends in and opportunities for evolving grants and scholarship management in the coming years.


** CAREER SUPPORT
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** The Latest on PEAK’s Job Board
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Explore career opportunities from across our member community. Searching for a new team member? PEAK members are invited to add job postings at no cost. Simply log in, complete a brief form, and your post will be added shortly.
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Here are a few current opportunities:
* Senior Data Product Manager | Candid, Remote
* Communications Officer | East Bay Community Foundation, Oakland, CA
* Senior Staff Accountant, Operations | Democracy Fund, Washington, DC
* Philanthropic Services Associate | Oregon Community Foundation, Portland, OR
* President | R. Howards Dobbs, Jr. Foundation, Atlanta, GA
* Associate Director, Global Grants Management | American Jewish World Service, Remote
* Grants Manager | Pacific Foundation Services, San Francisco, CA
* Associate Director, Policy, Knowledge, and Training | Open Society Foundations, New York, NY
* Grants Manager | Samueli Foundation, Corona Del Mar, CA

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