Looking Ahead: PEAK’s 30th Anniversary

As we prepare to enter PEAK’s 30th year, we want to express our gratitude to our supportive community of PEAK members, our engaged volunteers, our Board, and our dedicated staff. Everyone who attended a chapter or peer group event, who downloaded a resource, who participated in a learning series, who donated personally or made a grant, who joined us for PEAK2025, and everything in between: We appreciate you.

You, our PEAK community, adapt the Principles for Peak Grantmaking to your everyday work. You show up for us and for each other, be it in person or virtually. You share your learnings readily. Launched this year, the Volunteer Spotlight features our volunteers and how they advance the field through their roles and by applying the principles that guide them (along with some fun facts about their lives!). In what has been a tough year for philanthropy and nonprofits, including PEAK, you continue to advance equity, show up for one another to learn and evolve together, and help nonprofits and communities thrive.

We look forward to gathering our community in St. Louis for PEAK2026, where we will celebrate our 30th anniversary and the very heart of philanthropy: the love of humanity. We look forward to continuing to advance equitable, effective grantmaking through our chapters, peer groups, learning series, and bespoke engagements and to ensuring strong member value in our resources and offerings. As our convening theme says, we are Rooted in Purpose, Growing Together.

We are grateful for the ways big and small you have continued to step up to support PEAK, one another, and the nonprofits and communities we ultimately work to serve. We hope you take time this holiday season to rest, relax, and recharge. We can’t wait to see the impacts of your work in 2026.

Happy holidays!
—Eusebio and Sara