Supporting Grantmakers’ Efforts to Improve Practice
GEO offers an array of peer learning opportunities that bring grantmakers together to advance efforts toward smarter grantmaking and stronger nonprofits.
Action Learning Groups
GEO's convenings drive practice improvement by bringing together grantmakers to address pressing challenges and burning improvement goals. Participants learn how their peers are creating change and translate collective lessons into immediate advances in their own work. GEO supports each group for an extended period of time to ensure that participants can translate the experience into real change. (Open to GEO members only!) + more
Upcoming Opportunities:
View our current offerings here. To learn more about forming or joining an Action Learning group, contact Leonor Alfonso at
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or 202.355.9536.
Engage for Results
The popular GEO publication, Do Nothing About Me Without Me, underscored the value of engaging diverse stakeholders in grantmaking and described some of the practices grantmakers can adopt to help ensure that they are effectively working in partnership with nonprofit leaders, community members and others. Building on the publication, this seminar provides grantmakers with the tools and skills necessary to incorporate nonprofit and community experience and perspective into their grantmaking. + more
Upcoming Seminars:
To find out about plans for upcoming seminars contact Jason Twiss, GEO's manager of member engagement, at
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Remote Learning Series
This four week online course aims to offer GEO members an overview of the grantmaking practices that have the greatest impact on nonprofit results as well as an opportunity to learn from the experience of other members.
We have designed these sessions to be interactive. Each session will feature guest speakers who are leaders in the field but participation from the group throughout the series will be required. + more
Skill-Building Workshops
Through the Scaling What Works initiative, GEO has teamed up with Nonprofit Finance Fund and Innovation Network to produce and deliver a series of workshops around the country for grantmakers that want to support grantees in their efforts to scale social impact. + more
If your regional association is interested in partnering with GEO to host a workshop in your area, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , GEO's manager of member engagement.
Upcoming Workshops:
- "Supporting Nonprofit Financial Sustainability for Greater Impact," hosted by the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance on May 15 in Indianapolis. + more
- "Building Nonprofit Capacity to Evaluate, Learn and Grow Impact" hosted by Gateway Center for Giving on Aug. 15 in St. Louis. + more
Webinars and Member Conversations
Our webinars and member conversations are designed to explore emerging topics and combine in-depth information, practical examples and thought-provoking discussions with experts and practitioners in the field. + more
Upcoming Webinars and Member Conversations:
