Every article we publish in the Journal and through our Insights program serves to uplift the experiences and wisdom of our entire member community and illustrate how to put our Principles into practice. As you contemplate the year ahead, read (or revisit) the stories that resonated the most with our community in 2024. They offer inspirational calls to action, guidance on how to deepen your relationships with nonprofit partners, and takeaways from our annual convening that we hope will embolden you in your efforts to spark change and help to transform the sector.
Using Oral Reporting to Cultivate Trust, Care, and Possibility
When the Kataly Foundation reenvisioned reporting to uplift and unburden grantees, they discovered that their relationships within and outside of the organization were deeply enriched as a result. In this piece for the Learn, Share, Evolve issue of the Journal, Danielle Royston-Lopez shares the story of how they operationalized trust-based practices to center the grantee experience.
Rethinking Indirect Cost Rates to Support Nonprofit Financial Health
The David and Lucille Packard Foundation’s Linda Gargiulo shares how listening to their grantees has enabled the foundation to take a new, flexible approach to indirect cost rates that minimizes burden and builds resiliency.
Embedding Equity in Your Financial Vetting Process
BDO’s Melissa Cameron and Jennifer Pedroni explore how traditional or one-size-fits-all risk assessment processes can unintentionally create inequitable burdens on nonprofits, and offer three ways funders can reimagine their relationship to risk and drive equity throughout the financial review process.
Visualizing the Big Ideas of PEAK2024
Each day of PEAK2024 featured a keynote conversation that offered inspiration for how our community can reimagine the philanthropic sector through practices and mindset shifts that center and drive equity. In these three graphic recordings, we’ve captured the key ideas shared by our speakers—Jamie Allison, Satonya Fair, Glen Galaich, Allison Gister, Roland Kennedy, Jr., Vu Le, Jill Nishi, Angelique Power, Erik Stegman, and Edgar Villanueva—so that you can continue these conversations within your own organization.
The Courage to Do Extraordinary Things
In these highlights from our 2024 Volunteer Leadership Summit, Archstone Foundation’s Tanisha Davis interviews civil rights trailblazer and former Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation President Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton on the fortifying power of ordinary acts of courage, and her lifelong work to reshape the world into a kinder, more equitable place.
The Path to Radical Wellness: How PEAK’s focus on team well-being is driving our evolution
PEAK’s journey to create a work culture centered on trust and care has been transformational and shows what success looks like when you shed commonplace habits of toxic productivity. In this article for the Learn, Share, Evolve issue of the Journal, PEAK Chief Operating Officer Dolores Estrada tells the inside story.
The Evolution of Grantmaking Practice Since 2020
Will the changes needed to confront the crises of 2020 result in lasting change? In this contribution from the Learn, Share, Evolve issue of the Journal, The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s Elisha Smith Arrillaga and Kevin Bolduc say that early signs point to yes—but continuously building driving change will depend on supporting five imperatives.
Persisting Pay Inequities Revealed in PEAK’s New Salary Report
In these highlights from PEAK’s 2023 Grants Professionals Salary Report, PEAK’s Kristen Craig shares key trends in how grants professionals are compensated compared to other foundation staff, pay disparities along the lines of gender and race and ethnicity, and how you can use this resource to advocate for better practices at your organization.
A Love Note to the PEAK Community
For PEAK President and CEO Satonya Fair, philanthropy’s work begins and ends with love. However, as she shares here, moving the field forward requires us to lean into a few hard truths, focus on people-centered change, and take collaborative action in order to realize equity and opportunity for all.
Creating Communities of Care to Uplift People and Their Careers
In this CEO:CEO conversation from the Superpowers of Grants Professionals issue of the Journal, Satonya Fair and Walter and Elise Haas Fund Executive Director Jamie Allison discuss the importance of creating caring communities of peers and mentors—and sharing the power you have to enrich and support yourself and those around you.
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