Community Conversation
PEAK Community Conversation: Emergent Learning
Members Only
In 2021, PEAK unveiled a new strategic framework anchored in four ideas that will guide our work in the years ahead. One of those anchors is a commitment to “emergent learning” as a core philosophy, embracing an adaptive learning process to advance our Principles through our peer learning community.
The fall 2022 edition of the PEAK Grantmaking Journal delves into the concept and practice emergent learning, which guest editors Melanie Matthews and Shantelice White, and Coeditor Chantias Ford, describe as “a philosophy and practice that values maintaining communal spaces where people can safely learn, practice, explore, and make mistakes in the pursuit of building knowledge and skills. Unlike traditional, linear modes of learning … positioning organizations to nimbly respond to complex and rapidly evolving operating environments.”
Watch this Community Conversation to dive deeper into insights from the Journal and hear directly from our guest editors.
Speakers
Satonya Fair
President and CEO
PEAK Grantmaking
Melanie Matthews
Journal Guest Editor
Melanie is part-time executive director of Cedarmere Foundation, the founder of Brassington Consulting, and a senior advisor at BDO FMA. She is a former member of PEAK’s board of directors.
Shantelice White
Journal Guest Editor
Shantelice cochairs PEAK’s Black Caucus cochair and previously served as director of grants management at a private family foundation based in Bethesda, Maryland.