INSIGHT

Persisting Pay Inequities Revealed in PEAK’s New Salary Report

In these highlights from PEAK’s 2023 Grants Professionals Salary Report, discover key trends in how grants professionals are compensated compared to other foundation staff, pay disparities along the lines of gender and race and ethnicity, and how you can use this resource to advocate for better practices at your organization.

TECH UPGRADE

New Member Database Update

Thank you for your grace and understanding as we transition to our new member database, Nimble AMS! We are excited that almost 1,400 members have already activated their accounts to access CONNECT, the 2023 Grants Professionals Salary Report, and our many resources.

Haven’t logged in yet? Go to https://my.peakgrantmaking.org. For members who previously had an account with PEAK, click Forgot Password? to activate your account.

Running into challenges? We hear you! We are working with the support team at Nimble AMS to correct the issue of wrong time zones displaying on our events, and we apologize for the confusion. We are also working to restart sales of our online Grants Management 101 and Smart Risk Management courses, create and utilize event registration confirmations, and ensure our volunteer leaders have access to chapter and peer group rosters.

If you have any issues with Nimble AMS, please reach out to our team at [email protected] so we can troubleshoot. We appreciate your feedback as we continue to work to make this an amazing, seamless experience for you.

Weekly Reads

“The first step in fighting the use of fear and tactical threats to Black communities and others of color is acknowledging it; philanthropy must reckon with where we are in the long journey to racial equity and justice in our sector. We must recognize that the use of fear to disrupt our work is actually due to fear amongst those looking to stop us; clinging to a belief that THEY will lose rather than believing that ALL of us can win.” [more]
Susan Taylor Batten, ABFE

“Philanthropy and nonprofit partners can take a number of steps to protect and preserve nonprofit organizations impacted by increased scrutiny. Most importantly, philanthropic institutions must double down on funding for organizations engaged in mobilization and organizing, particularly those being publicly named and targeted. This includes support for both rapid response and long-term movement infrastructure, from base building to ecosystem coordination to cross-movement partnerships.” [more]
Deepa Iyer, Building Movement Project

“[A]n effective grants management team can serve as one proxy for the strength of relationships that a funder has with its grant partners. To be explicit, I’m not referring here to the strength of relationships that grantees have with individual staff members, but rather how a funder as an entity prioritizes relationships with grantees. For a funder to truly serve as a partner to its grantees, it needs to know the who, what, and why of each of its grants—and the quality of this fundamental information is mediated and enhanced by a funder’s grants management team.” [more]
Emma Relle, The Center for Effective Philanthropy

“The principle and practice of ‘talent justice’ is part and parcel of talent investing. It is asserted that racism, sexism, classism, and other biases drive the deficit of investment in the nonprofit workforce. Thus, talent investing must intentionally address racial equity, and do so in an interconnected fashion that both accounts for the prominence of racism and recognizes the many interwoven forms of discrimination. … The need for funders and nonprofit leaders to understand, practice, and assess talent investing and talent justice across lines of race and power has never been more urgent.” [more]
Rusty Stahl, Fund the People, for The Foundation Review