Learning for Improvement
Grantmakers must be learning organizations with commitments by staff and board to embed learning in both their strategies and day-to-day grantmaking work. In doing so, an organization can view functions such as evaluation and knowledge management in a broader way, focused on continuous improvement.
GEO produces resources and sponsors events that promote learning for results among our members and the broader grantmaking community.
Recommended Resources
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Evaluation in Philanthropy:
Perspectives from the Field
Released with the Council on Foundations, this publication explores how evaluation can help grantmakers learn and improve practices (not just "prove" results).
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Funder's Guide to Evaluation: Leveraging Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness
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Learning for Community Change
Core Components of Foundation Learning
Chapin Hall Center for Children
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Learning as We Go
Making Evaluation Work for Everyone
TCC Group
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Advisors
The following individuals provide guidance to GEO's Learning for Improvement work:
- Fatima Angeles
Director of Evaluation and Organizational Learning, The California Wellness Foundation
- Tanya Beer
Evaluation Officer, The Colorado Trust
- Gale Berkowitz
Director of Evaluation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (chair)
- Ted Chen
Director of Learning and Innovation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Nelson Gonzalez
Chief Strategy and Program Officer, The Stupski Foundation
- Astrid Hendricks
Director of Evaluation, The California Endowment
- Mary Kaplan
Vice President of Programs and Chief Operating Officer, Endowment for Health
- Jill Wohlford
Senior Knowledge Management and Program Officer, Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc.