Insights - PEAK Grantmaking

Steward Responsively

Through our Steward Responsively Principle, PEAK Grantmaking calls on grantmakers to reframe risk and to recalibrate their vetting process to make it more transparent, more trust-based, more nonprofit- and community-centered, and less burdensome. 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

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Risk, Finances & Compliance

Embedding Equity in Your Financial Vetting Process

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Partnerships & Collaboration

Navigating the Complexities of Humanitarian Emergencies

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Grantmaking Lifecycle

Envisioning Your Role as a Responsive Steward

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Career Development

Building Your Financial Assessment Skills to Better Support Nonprofit Partners

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Organizational Learning

Insights on Stewarding Responsively

Risk, Finances & Compliance

What Does It Mean to Be a Responsive Steward?

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Risk, Finances & Compliance

The Myth of Risk: Fear not the dragons, funders

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Strategy & Planning

Prep Your Grantmaking Systems for Effective Crisis Responses

Strategy & Planning

Three Essential Ways to Provide Support for Community Rebuilding After Disasters

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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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