Services

Supporting Grantmakers’ Efforts to Improve Practice

It is one thing to know change is needed; it is something else entirely to transform knowledge into improved practice. GEO offers custom services that advance your efforts toward smarter grantmaking and stronger nonprofits. Fees apply, with discounts for GEO member organizations.

Action Learning

GEO’s “convenings with a purpose” bring together grantmakers to address pressing grantmaking challenges. Participants hear 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 the learning extends into real change. (Open to GEO members only!)
 

Seminars & Workshops

GEO offers presentations in an interactive format for grantmakers seeking to hone a particular set of skills, such as stakeholder engagement. In some cases, we customize a workshop focused on the skills put forward in a GEO publication such as leadership development or organizational learning. In other cases, we team up with experts from the field to design an advanced seminar.
+ e-mail seminars@geofunders.org

• Involving grantees and other stakeholders in your grantmaking  + more
   

Speakers Bureau

GEO staff and board members are available for public presentations before grantmakers at conferences, workshops or seminars.  
+ download PDF for Speaker Request Form

If you are looking for smarter grantmaking strategies that build stronger nonprofits, GEO and your peers are here to help.