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A crucial component of organizational effectiveness is how grantmakers use what they are learning to make decisions, affect change and support nonprofit results. This section of GEO's Web site focuses on learning that happens within and between organizations, whether they are foundations or nonprofits, that leads to improved performance and impact. Items with  by them require GEO membership to access.
Suggested Reading
Learning for Community Change: Core Components of Foundation Learning, by Ralph Hamilton, et al, from Chapin Hall Center for Children. 2005.
What is Strategic Learning and How do you Develop an Organizational Culture that Encourages It? John A. Healy, director of strategic learning and evaluation at The Atlantic Philanthropies shares ways to position learning as an organizational priority. Evaluation Exchange, XI, 2.
Marketing Your Knowledge: A Report of Philanthropy’s R&D Organizations, by the Williams Group for The David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Knowledge Project
Overcoming the 'Cultural Barriers' to Knowledge Sharing, by Richard McDermott, Ph.D. and Carla O’Dell, Ph.D; American Productivity & Quality Center, January 2001.
Learning as We Go: Making Evaluation Work for Everyone, by Peter J. York, TCC Group, June 2003. Compares evaluation for accountability with evaluation for learning.
Spending Smarter: Knowledge as a Philanthropy Resource by Lucy Bernholtz, Blue Print Research & Design, 2001.
Advisory Group
The following advisory group members are providing guidance and oversight to GEO's learning for results efforts:
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 Learning For Results
Explores what it means to be a “learning organization”, and helps grantmakers understand that they must reach beyond the walls of their own organizations and share knowledge with their peers, if real learning is to take place.
 Evaluation as a Pathway to Learning, June 2005. Explores the link between evaluation and grantmaking; contains tips on how to incorporate a results orientation into your organization's work without making a large investment.
 GEO's Building Learning Organizations conference, May 2005. Session summaries and access presentation materials.
 Leveraging What you Know
explores such issues as using technology to support learning for results, assessing your organization's learning culture and effective communicating of learnings. More about GEO's June 2004 KM conference
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