Engage for Results Seminars:
In today’s economy, it’s critical to be strategic about your grantmaking dollars. Your grantmaking budget is shrinking just when your grantee organizations need your support most. It’s critical to work with them to make sure your limited grantmaking dollars can help where it’s most needed. GEO is here to help with a two-day skill-building seminar designed specifically for grantmakers.
"It was great to get away from daily work and gain perspective on how to cope with the power dynamic of grantee relationships."
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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has partnered with experts in collaborative leadership and stakeholder engagement, The Interaction Institute for Social Change, to design a two-day learning experience just for grantmakers. By attending, you will come away with the tools and skills necessary to authentically incorporate nonprofit and community experience and perspective into your grantmaking. Specifically, you will learn:
- The benefits and impact of inclusive grantmaking
- The criteria for effective stakeholder engagement within philanthropy
- The appropriate balance between results, process and relationship
- How to identify and engage stakeholders in decision-making in transparent and strategic ways that take into account power dynamics
Who should attend this seminar?
This seminar is ideal for senior and mid-level staff responsible for grantmaking. We highly encourage you to send two-person teams. This enables team members to support each other in implementing what they’ve learned when they go back to their organization.
Trainer Biographies
Curtis Ogden is a senior associate at Interaction Institute for Social Change.
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Courtney Bourns is the vice president of programs at Grantmakers of Effective Organizations.
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Next seminar:
What: Engage for Results: Involving grantees and other stakeholders in your grantmaking strategies
When: Tuesday and Wednesday, October 26-27, 2010
Where: Ontario Trillium Foundation, Toronto, ON Canada
Cost: GEO Members - $895 USD (1st registration), $695 (additional registrations)
Nonmembers - $1,095 USD (1st registration), $895 (additional registrations)
Register early to secure your seat by contacting Kamasha Hendrickson at hendrickson@geofunders.org or 202-898-0219.
Other workshops are currently being developed. Please contact Jason Twiss, manager of member engagement, at twiss@geofunders.org or 202.898.1841 for more information.
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