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PEAK Grantmaking

Contribute to building sector-wide knowledge and seek wisdom from others pursuing change and impact.

PEAK Grantmaking calls on grantmakers to design practices that promote learning and sharing of knowledge as one powerful way to contribute to the sector’s collective impact.

Grantmakers increasingly are called on to learn, partner, collaborate, and amplify lessons across issues, fields, and sectors. Grantmaking practices should be designed to manage and share knowledge productively, in ways that inform grantmakers, grantees, and the social sector more broadly.
Grants professionals translate data into information and the knowledge needed to improve practices, strategies and impact.
Grants professionals and leaders at grantmaking organizations should use data and knowledge to push their grantmaking strategy and achieve greater impact.
Key Questions:
  • What information can be unlocked from grants and knowledge management systems to improve practices, strengthen strategies, and synergize learnings?
  • How can you adopt alternative methods for collecting information that align with the ways a grantee already measures impact, thereby reducing the burden of reporting?
  • How does your organization demonstrate a commitment to learning with and from grantees and the grants staff working with them?
  • How does your organization share your learnings both internally and externally?
  • How do you collaborate with other funders to advance knowledge?