Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

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New GEO Publication Examines Culture, Systems and Power in Capacity Building Practices

Strengthening nonprofit organizations is not just a nice-to-have but an essential part of our work as grantmakers to ensure that nonprofits have the resources they need to address today’s most pressing social concerns.

November 17, 2021

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Five Principles to Advance Equity and Justice in Philanthropic Strategy

Anand Dholakia explores five principles that help grantmakers ensure their strategies and practices advance equity and justice.

November 2, 2021

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Seeing Philanthropy in a New Light

How might philanthropy change over the next ten years? The new Monitor Institute by Deloitte report outlines four emerging “edges” of philanthropy.

October 26, 2021

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In Search of the Unattainable – Why Setting Impossible Goals Isn’t Always a Bad Thing for Philanthropy

Strategies set out what we’ll achieve and how; if we’re not realistic, we set ourselves up to fail. But what does this mean for ambition in a world that needs transformative change? Executive Director of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, Michael Jarvis and TAI Steering Committee member, Megan Colnar look back on the 2017–19 TAI strategy to ask whether there’s still a place for unattainable goals.

September 30, 2021

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Giving While Learning: How Regrantors Enable Every Funder to Advance Racial Equity…Starting Now

In response to the converging social and public health pandemics last year, people organized, voted, donated, and resisted, all united by the desire to transform reality into a more equitable future. This showed up in philanthropic giving through an unprecedented surge of commitments to funding for racial equity.

September 28, 2021

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Humility, Listening and Connectedness: Building Partner Relationships that Drive Equitable Practice

Maria Azuri unpacks how humility, listening and connectedness are central to building partner relationships that drive equitable grantmaking practice.

September 24, 2021

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Community-Centered Leadership: Values, Boundaries and Rituals

GEO program manager, Jaser Alsharhan, explains how principles of community-centered leadership can be leveraged to create safe, trusting and thriving communities.

September 13, 2021

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Transforming Funder and Evaluator Relationships for a More Equitable and Effective Field: A Field Conversation

This summer, the Funder and Evaluator Network (FEAN) partnered with GEO to present a pair of webinars drawing from FEAN’s Call to Action Series.

August 13, 2021

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Request for Proposals: Website Design and Development with Content and Customer Relationship Management System Integration

GEO is planning a major website redesign with content and customer relationship management system integration in support of our organizational goals and meet our evolving needs. This Request for Proposals is to identify a vendor partner with the skills, experience and vision to support this effort.

July 30, 2021

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Changing the Face of Philanthropy

Denise Herrera, in her former role as Senior Capacity Building Officer at St. David’s Foundation, reflects on the importance of creating and cultivating a pipeline of future leaders who reflect the values and cultures of the communities they serve.

July 14, 2021

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