NEW RESOURCE

Driving Equity With Demographic Data

While data can illuminate the impact of your grants, working with the information you collect also comes with complex challenges. Open to the community, this new action planner—the latest release in our Drive Equity suite of resources—offers a primer to help funders address the fundamental questions with four action steps that you can take to drive equity through your data-collection practices.

Coming in early 2022: a set of member-exclusive how-to guides with in-depth guidance.

#PEAKis25

Join Our Community Celebration, Get a Little Special Something

On December 2, take a break to join colleagues for some joy and self-care and to envision where philanthropy, grants management, and PEAK are going—plus, get a limited-edition 25th anniversary sticker set! We’ll celebrate our members and volunteers, hear about aspirations for the future from peers across the sector, and enjoy a fun networking happy hour with fellow PEAKies. 

Look Back at Milestones in PEAK’s 25-year history

• Watch our latest video on the power of PEAK's community. Members Jina Freiberg, Kelly Costello, and Suki O’Kane talk about finding their people, centering on equity, and making deep connections with peers.
• How many PEAK (and GMN) conferences have you attended? Read about the 16-year history of our annual gathering!
• From the first GMN all-day workshop way back in 1999 to GM101, our salary survey, and so much more, we’ve been championing career development for grants management professionals as their roles have evolved.

NOW OPEN

Register early for PEAK2022

Sign up your team now to benefit from our best rates: $200 for Organization and Consultant Members, $300 for Individual Members, and $400 for nonmembers.

EXTENDED DEADLINE

Call for Proposals

Cocreate PEAK2022 with us! Submit your proposal for a session that will illuminate one of this year’s four learning pathways which represent what PEAK stands for: Principles, Equity, Advocacy, and Knowledge. Extended deadline: November 24.

JUST OUT

Sponsor & Exhibitor Opportunities

Announcing an array of options to support and participate in PEAK2022 Online—through sponsorship of keynotes and session blocks, our community reception, scholarships, and making the program accessible to all attendees. Demonstrate your commitment to equitable grantmaking and the PEAK community of change agents by supporting PEAK2022!  

PEAK in Community

The latest news about our sector partnerships and how PEAK is advocating for more equitable grantmaking practices at conferences, convenings, and community conversations.

At Philanthropy Northwest’s The Future is Forward virtual conference, PEAK’s Satonya Fair gave a presentation designed to help participants understand the importance of transparency and communication when collecting demographic data to maximize insight, impact, and equity. She also moderated the closing panel, which featured philanthropy leaders who are moving funds to racial justice and systems change, redefining grantee partnerships, centering community voices, and transforming the role of funders as a result.

At Blackbaud’s bbcon 2021, Satonya joined Greater Washington Community Foundation CEO Tonia Wellons for a session on how the current state of grantmaking and foundation practices have changed throughout the past year in the face of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice.

Satonya joined a Council of Michigan Foundations panel with Sandra Swirski of Urban Swirski & Associates and Independent Sector’s Jeff Moore to talk federal policy and actionable advocacy, helping to frame the many ways equity is being defined and advanced at various policy levels.

The PEAK membership team met with Philanos, a national network of women's giving circles, to discuss ways that we can collectively drive equity in the ever-evolving sector of philanthropy.

Satonya hosted the opening plenary for Philanthropy West Virginia’s First Attempt in Learning (FAIL) Festival. This high-energy panel, designed to celebrate failure as a mark of innovation, risk-taking, and learning, featured Paul Daugherty of Philanthropy West Virginia, Cathy McAlister, Highmark Foundation, and George Montgomery, Jr. of the African American Philanthropy in Action Giving Circle.

PEAK’s Chantias Ford hosted a tailored three-part learning series for United Way Greater Atlanta, a new PEAK Organization Member. The sessions introduced PEAK resources and combined information from PEAK's Grants Management 101 program with best practices for equitable grantmaking, including increasing flexibility, streamlining application processes, and shifting reporting requirements; plus opportunities for internal assessment and reflection, and actionable next steps to move towards equitable grantmaking.

CAREERS

The Latest on PEAK’s Job Board

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.

• Grant Operations & Finance Associate | Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Atlanta, GA
• Director of Giving Operations | Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
• Program Associate, Community and Opportunity | Heising-Simons Foundation, Los Altos, CA
• Regional Manager, Community Partnerships | The Colorado Trust, Colorado (multiple locations)
• Grants Program Manager | Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, Milwaukee, WI
• Vice President of Community Impact | Rose Community Foundation, Denver, CO
• Grants Management Systems Administrator | Trinity Church Wall Street, New York, NY
• Scholarships Manager | Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
• Grants and Project Management Associate | Helios Education Foundation, Phoenix, AZ
• Program Officer, Philanthropy Grantmaking – Effective Philanthropy Group | The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park, CA