Chapter Meetings
PEAK Delaware Valley | Mix and Mingle
Join your PEAK Delaware Valley colleagues for a fun networking session. We’ll spend time getting to know new members and reconnecting with familiar faces. We’ll also spend time sharing opportunities for volunteering and discussing plans for our chapter and how you can influence future meetings. We hope to see you there!
PEAK Florida | Link and Learn
Join your fellow FloPEAKeans for our first in-person networking event in four years at PEAK2023! We look forward to connecting with like-minded changemakers.
PEAK Greater Washington, DC | Triviapalooza 2023
Come one, come all to the most exciting trivia event you will attend at PEAK 2023! Join your PEAK Greater Washington, DC chapter colleagues in a battle of minds and wits. Trivia will be focused on various topics including grants management, regional knowledge, and pop culture. There will be prizes for trivia winners, and there will be candy and refreshments for all!
PEAK Mideast | Face to Face—Finally!
Join your PEAK Mideast colleagues to connect in real life for the first time in four years! We are looking forward to convening our members from Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Western Pennsylvania to catch up and, in some cases, meet for the first time. Let’s get reacquainted and talk about how PEAK Mideast can best serve you through relevant networking and programming opportunities. See you in Baltimore!
PEAK Midwest | Thought Leadership World Café
Join the Mighty Midwest at a world café! We will explore four different topics impacting philanthropic organizations. Come one and come all to meet each other in person, share ideas, learn, and leave reenergized with a sense of community.
PEAK Minnesota | Reintroduction Networking and Topical Chats
Hello, stranger! Let’s reintroduce ourselves with in-person networking and an opportunity to connect with others on the topics most pressing to you. We’ll have time for both organized and informal mingling and a chance to decompress in an introvert-friendly way at the end of a busy first day of PEAK2023.
PEAK New England | Being Wicked Smaaht
Merge and converge in a rotary of fresh ideas with your New England peers. In this interactive networking session, we will prove that you can get they-ahh from hee-yahhhh with a little help from your friends. Bring a best practice, idea, or problem, and the group will share ideas for improving grantmaking practices and find solutions. Get ready to learn and laugh together!
PEAK NorCal and PEAK SoCal | Meet Your Golden State Colleagues
Connect with your colleagues across the Golden State for a fun networking event with the PEAK Northern California and PEAK Southern California chapters.
PEAK Northeast | Reunited (And It Feels So Good!)
Whether this is your first time or your tenth at a PEAK annual convening, join your fellow PEAK Northeast members in networking groups to discuss issues such as: general operating support; international grantmaking; project support; collaborative funding; starting out in philanthropy; what diversity, equity, and inclusion means; career dreams; sandpaper moments with grantees; and grants management system triumphs and terrors. We will also make space to gather insights on what you would like our chapter to address and consider this year. We hope to see you there!
PEAK Pacific Northwest | Mix and Mingle
It’s been more than three years since the PEAK Pacific Northwest chapter has gathered together in person for a regional meeting! Take this opportunity to meet, network, and socialize with fellow chapter members and to share your ideas for future chapter events. We know that many of us are out of practice with attending in-person events, so this session will be an informal community gathering.
PEAK Rocky Mountain | Peer Sharing on Current Challenges and Questions
Join your PEAK Rocky Mountain peers for an interactive session focused on addressing challenges you are currently facing in your philanthropic career. Come to this informal peer-sharing discussion with your process difficulties, compliance questions, interpersonal challenges, and grants management system frustrations and as a group we will pool our collective knowledge and experience to provide guidance. This session will be driven by the group, so come prepared with questions you have and be ready to share advice from your personal experiences.
PEAK Southeast | Build Your Squad
Creating and maintaining professional peer networks creates invaluable opportunities to share best practices, problem-solve with diverse groups, and gain fresh perspectives. But building and maintaining peer networks has proven challenging throughout the ongoing pandemic. As we gather for the first time in person since 2019, we welcome you to join fellow PEAK Southeast chapter members for an engaging relationship-building session to strengthen your squad through structured networking built around topics that are top of mind for our members. This session will include several opportunities to connect with peers from similar roles, foundation types, and more.
PEAK Southwest | Connection Building
Join your PEAK Southwest colleagues for an informal networking session. We’ll spend time getting to know new members and reconnecting with familiar faces. We’ll also spend time sharing opportunities for volunteering and discussing plans for our chapter and how you can influence future meetings. We hope to see you there!
