How to partner with HR to advocate for your team. Honoring PEAK’s founders. Tech upgrades coming soon.

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** INSIGHT
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** How to Partner With HR to Advocate for Your Team
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In these highlights from PEAK2024, Heising Simons Foundation’s Kelly Hayashi and Karina Rivera join PEAK’s Dolores Estrada and Lita Ugarte Pardi to explore strategies for forming partnerships and leveraging resources—such as PEAK’s forthcoming 2023 Grants Management Salary Report—to advocate for equitable pay and career opportunities.
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Ursula and Margaret stand at a podium, smiling together on stage at PEAK2024.


** FELLOWSHIP
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** Honoring PEAK’s Founders
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At PEAK2024 in Seattle, we recognized two amazing people as emeritus fellows during our annual meeting: (above, from left) Ursula Stewart and Margaret Egan who, along with Ann Gael and Orneata Prawl, cofounded PEAK in 1996 and who have continued to make amazing and sustained contributions to PEAK's evolution.


** NEW RESOURCE
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** How Funders Can Support PEAK
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PEAK wants to transform philanthropy. Through deep partnership with our members and friends, we can make this happen.

Visit and share our new Resources for PEAK Funders ([link removed]) page to explore key resources designed to help your organization learn more about PEAK and consider investing or deepening your current investment in supporting our mission. Whether through trust-based, multiyear, general operating support or through whatever means are available to your organization, we welcome your investment in PEAK.
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** TECH UPGRADE
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** PEAK’s Tech Upgrade Break Starts Friday
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We are excited to implement a next-level association management system—Nimble AMS, which runs on the Salesforce platform—that will make staying connected to PEAK a more seamless experience! To support our transition, our current database will go offline on this Friday, May 24.

During our tech upgrade 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. We anticipate our new database will go live in mid-June.

In the days and weeks ahead, we’ll continue to be in communication with updates and additional information about our implementation. Check out our FAQ page ([link removed]) on what you can expect during our tech upgrade break and from our future system.


** Our Gratitude
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Thank you to The Grove Foundation and The Schott Foundation for Public Education for their unrestricted grants supporting PEAK!

We also thank PEAK2024 sponsors Arnold Ventures and Submittable for their support.


** TEAM NEWS
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** PEAK Is Closed Memorial Day Week
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To encourage the collective rest and restoration of our team, PEAK’s offices will be closed from Monday, May 27, through Friday, May 31. We hope you enjoy the long holiday weekend, and we look forward to reconnecting and supporting you in your work when we return.


** Welcome, New Organization Members
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Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Groundswell Fund
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans


** Upcoming Events
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Registration will not be
available from May 24
through mid-June.

May 23
CHAPTER MEETING
Coffee and Connect: Change Log Registers (PEAK Florida) ([link removed])

May 23
CHAPTER MEETING
New Member Welcome (PEAK Southwest) ([link removed])

May 23
FORUM MEETING
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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]) .

PEAK’s peer networks are wrapping up the month of May with an abundance of community convenings! In February, we were excited to announce new peer engagement opportunities ([link removed]) —and on May 23, we are hosting a forum meeting that began as a CONNECT conversation. There’s still time to join the PEAK Research Forum ([link removed]) to discuss indirect costs for grants to universities and research funding, compare indirect cost policies across funders, and begin developing a framework for supporting indirect costs in a research context that attendees can try in their organizations.

At the chapter level, PEAK Florida ([link removed]) is hosting a virtual Coffee and Connect meeting to learn how to create a process workflow to manage grant management systems (GMS) changes. Today, PEAK Delaware Valley ([link removed]) is hosting its first in-person meeting since 2019, where attendees can connect with like-minded professionals, share insights and experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions around topics that will shape future events. PEAK Mideast ([link removed]) hosted a coffee chat to discuss ways of supporting nonprofit communities beyond financial resources by leveraging your SMIRF (social, moral, intellectual, reputational, and financial) powers.

Our caucuses and affinity groups are blooming this spring, too! You may have missed the PEAK AAHNPI Caucus’ bimonthly tea session bimonthly tea session (lovingly known as BTS) where members discussed their love of KPop, topics related to their work, and shared wins and new learnings. In addition, the PEAK Grants Manager Peer Experience spark talk series hosted Linda Gargiulo of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation who shared how they are reexamining grantmaking practices to improve grantee experiences and staff effectiveness.


** 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.

The Disability and Philanthropy Forum hosted a panel discussion where President and CEO Satonya Fair joined Box the Ballot Founder Daphne Frias and New Disabled South and New Disabled South Rising Cofounder, President, and CEO Dom Kelly—to discuss how funders can support disability rights activism.

Senior Marketing and Experience Manager Caitlin McDanels shared PEAK’s progress along its disability inclusion journey for a United Philanthropy Forum member webinar.

In April, Nonprofit Financial Commons—a community where nonprofit professionals can exchange field-tested financial wisdom—hosted COO Dolores Estrada, who spoke on what it takes to build a thriving nonprofit membership association.

Dolores and Satonya attended the Mission Investors Exchange’s annual conference where they learned about the growing impact investing network for foundations, philanthropic asset owners, and their partners.

For the April meeting, Senior Knowledge and Learning Manager Vanessa Elkan and Knowledge and Learning Manager Alberto Espinoza participated in the Equitable Evaluation Initiative’s Equitable Evaluation Framework™ Practitioner Peer2Peer Collaboratory. There, they engaged in conversations on reimagining evaluation as more relational, discussed how to build community in the process of evaluation, and ideated on how to close the feedback loop with community by sharing how programming and processes will change due to their input.
Dionne, Nichia, Makayla, and Rahmirah pose for a group selfie at ABFE.

Membership Outreach Coordinator Nichia McFarlane, Chapter Specialist Dionne Thompson, Member Services Coordinator Rahmirah Gardner, and Bowie State University Philanthropy Fellow Makayla Peterson attended ABFE’s Harambe 2024 Conference in St. Louis. There, they engaged with Black philanthropy professionals from across the nation to discuss pressing issues and explored how to build communities that can drive equity and impact.


** 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.

PEAK's upgrading our database! You will not be able to post jobs from May 24 through mid-June. Thank you for your understanding. Learn more at our FAQ page ([link removed]) .
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Here are a few current opportunities:
* Community Impact and Finance Coordinator | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Tucson, AZ
* Director, Global Grantmaking and Strategic Programs | GlobalGiving, Remote
* Grants Manager | Dogwood Health Trust, Asheville, NC
* Director of Individual Giving | East Bay Community Foundation, Oakland, CA
* Finance & Grants Specialist | Climate Breakthrough, San Francisco, CA
* Director of Operations | Borealis Philanthropy, Remote
* Vice President of Communications and Marketing | Maine Community Foundation, Ellsworth, ME
* Associate, Grant Operations | Peter G. Peterson Foundation, New York, NY
* Program Officer, Educations Grantmaking | Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, New York, NY / Oakland, CA / Washington, DC
* Philanthropy Internship | Rasmuson Foundation, Anchorage, AK

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