Insights - PEAK Grantmaking

Narrow the Power Gap

Through our Narrow the Power Gap Principle, PEAK Grantmaking calls on grantmakers to use practices and policies to help narrow the power gap between grantmakers and grantseekers, and value equally the resources each brings to the partnership. Here, we feature a growing collection of insights from across the PEAK community about how to put this Principle into practice.

The Big Ideas of PEAK2026 St. Louis

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Weekly Reads—February 10, 2026

Looking Ahead: PEAK’s 30th Anniversary

Partnerships & Collaboration

Reimagining Philanthropy Through Shared Power: Thrive’s Community Grantmaker Initiative

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Partnerships & Collaboration

Reenvisioning Nonprofit-Funder Partnership

Grantmaking Lifecycle

Rethinking Indirect Cost Rates to Support Nonprofit Financial Health

Grantmaking Lifecycle

Three Critical Factors in Vetting Nonprofit Finances

A photo of De'Amon Harges talking to a group of three people at the art gallery show Perception: What's Behind the Door

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

PEAK Delaware Valley Digs Into Relationship Building With De’Amon Harges

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Organizational Learning

What Comes After Listening?

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Partnerships & Collaboration

Redefining the Grantmaker-Nonprofit Partnership

Strategy & Planning

How to Turn Trust-Based Philanthropy from an Idea into a Viable Approach

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CEO:CEO

How Bainum Family Foundation Is Working to Challenge Traditional Power Dynamics

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Journal | Issue 22

The Superpowers of Grants Professionals

We all know that grants professionals are strategic drivers for impact. In this edition of the Journal, we celebrate the unique superpowers you bring to the role and philanthropy!

The complete edition of the Journal is exclusively available to PEAK members as a PDF and as web-optimized articles. Select articles are open to the community.

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