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PEAK Grantmaking

Annual Convening

PEAK2024

The PEAK community can be a beacon that guides philanthropy forward. Over these three days, we’ll foster an emergent learning experience that elevates how our members are leading the way with innovations in grantmaking practice and encourages everyone to contribute to transforming the sector.

At PEAK’s Annual Convening…

We are inspired.
Learn from the leading voices in grantmaking.

We are connected.
Build your professional network and share ideas.

We are home.
Experience the support of a growing community.

LOOKING BACK

PEAK2023

The PEAK community reunited May 8–10, 2023 in Baltimore and virtually with a record number of 1,244 participants. For our first in-person annual convening since 2019, we debuted new ways of gathering that invited you to join us on a collective emergent learning journey toward more equitable, effective grantmaking. Over three days, we focused on our Learn, Share, Evolve Principle, lifting up stories and insights from across the PEAK community, and exploring ways that members are leaning into each of our five Principles to be activated change agents for philanthropy.

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PEAK2022 Online

In March 2022, more than 1,200 members of the PEAK community came together for a virtual conference centering on what it looks like to “live your PEAK.” Across the week, we imagined how grantmaking can truly embody what PEAK stands for: Principles, Equity, Advocacy, and Knowledge, taking inspiration from thought-provoking keynotes, interactive peer dialogues, skill-building breakouts, and community gatherings—leaving empowered to lead change in our organizations and the sector at large.

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PEAK2021 Online

Across eight days in May 2021, more than 1,300 philanthropy professionals gathered for an immersive virtual conference experience to reconnect with colleagues and strengthen our community. Together, we examined and expanded upon a pivotal and visionary year, and looked at how far the profession of grants management has come – its growing influence and responsibility, critical work in this moment to meet the challenges of our day, and evolving role as a change leader in philanthropy.

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PEAK2020 Online

On March 4, 2020, PEAK’s Board of Directors made the decision to cancel the PEAK2020 conference slated for March 9-11 in Seattle due to the COVID-19 outbreak—a decision based wholly on ensuring the health and safety of attendees, presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, hotel workers, and the communities to which each would have been returning.

Read thE message from our board co-chairs

Two months later, we hosted our first-ever virtual conference, bringing together more than a thousand grants management professionals and our partners for a series of learning and networking events around the theme, Courage in Practice.

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Past Conferences


PEAK2022
Online | March 2022
PROGRAM

PEAK2021
Online | May 2021
Program

PEAK2020: Courage in Practice
Online | May 2020
PROGRAM

PEAK2019: Helping Grantmakers Advance Grantmaking
Denver | March 11-13, 2019
PROGRAM

PEAK2018: Creating the Future Together
Orlando | March 19-21, 2018
PROGRAM

PEAK2017: In the Spotlight
Hollywood | March 20-22, 2017

PEAK2016: Take the Lead
New Orleans | March 14-16, 2016