Centering Humanity in Philanthropy
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Learning Together: The Value in Community Convening
In philanthropy, transformational change does not happen in a vacuum. There’s inherent…
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Harmonizing AI and Philanthropy: Running To or Running From a Brave New World
In the ever-evolving landscape of technological advancement, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out…
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Reimagining Philanthropy with Humanity at the Core
Reflections from the 2024 GEO Conference
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Taking COVID Lessons Forward
How can the lessons from COVID guide us in forging a future…
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Reimagining Philanthropy: How Funders Can Advance the Movement for Social Justice
“Reevaluating Practice: Reimagining Philanthropy” captures recommendations of our grantees. They have taught…
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Why Funders Should Invest in Flexible Cash Assistance
Funders have an opportunity to significantly invest in and advocate for one…
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Living Into Shared Ways of Being that Advance Equity
Share GEO’s ways of being with the broader GEO community to highlight…
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GEO’s New Strategic Direction
GEO is thrilled to be sharing our new strategic direction as we…
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Bridging Differences to Advance Equity: Three Lessons Community Foundations Are Learning About Engaging Donors and Community
An exciting evolution is happening among community foundations in the United States.
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Important Update on #GEO2024 National Conference Date and Location
We’re writing today with an important update regarding GEO’s 2024 National Conferences…
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Crosspost: Lessons learned: Using demographic data to move from intention to action
At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang…
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Keeping the Faith in Democracy: Why America’s Faith Communities Can’t be Overlooked
The following is adapted from a guide for funders on investing in…
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A Funder’s Demographic Data Journey
GEO and Candid are partnering to bring you this conversation with two…
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Crosspost: Centering lived experience: Unlocking the preconditions for equity-rooted evaluation
Kresge Strategic Learning and Evaluation Officer Arturo Garcia moderated a session at…
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What makes collaboration effective? And what doesn’t?
CLIPF is a supportive community where grantmakers can identify best practices and…
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Connecting Internal Culture and Practice Shifts to External Organizational Impact
GEO created the Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship (CLIPF) to provide senior…
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Using Organizational Strategy to Inform Philanthropic Effectiveness
Over the last 25 years, the GEO community has led the field…
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No More Excuses: Child and Youth Participation is the Future of Philanthropy
How can philanthropy and civil society build the future world we want…
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Philanthropy is a Leverage Point in the Systems We Seek to Shift
Philanthropy is beginning to understand that in order to get different results,…
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Celebrating 25 Years of Exploring Effective Grantmaking Practices
Over the past 25 years, contributors to the GEO community have remained…
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Together, We Can Co-Create a Meaningful Set of Possibilities for 2023
GEO's CEO and President Marcus Walton contemplates a meaningful set of possibilities…
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GEO 2023 Learning Conference: Session Proposal Frequently Asked Questions
GEO is seeking session proposals for our 2023 Learning Conference: Courageous Unlearning,…
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To Sustain Movements, Grantmakers Must Invest in Leadership
Leaders on the front lines need continued investment to continue the long-term…
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Exploring GEO’s Approach to Equitable Conference Planning
GEO's Allison Beck and Allison Punch-Turner share insights and lessons learned on…
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Community in Philanthropy: What it is, why we need it, and how we can build it
Dr. Albertina Lopez explores why community matters in philanthropy and explains how…
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Meeting the Future with a New Approach to Readiness: Part II
The unpredictability of the future and overt inequities unmasked during the past…
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Centering Equity through Flexible, Reliable Funding: Resourcing BIPOC Leaders
GEO’s new publication, Centering Equity through Flexible, Reliable Funding provides grantmakers with…
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Change Leaders in Philanthropy: A Conversation with Rebecca Cisek of Bainum Family Foundation
GEO’s Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship (CLIPF) launched in 2016 to offer…
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Funding Movement Building is Critical to Criminal Justice Reform
A broad ecosystem of nonprofits, coalitions and leaders of color are working…
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Conferences as Collective Capacity Building
Felisa Gonzales of The Colorado Trust, Laura Patterson of Metropolitan State University…
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Facing a World without Roe: How Effective Grantmaking Combats Inequity
Here at GEO, we envision and are co-creating a community of courageous…
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Change Leaders in Philanthropy: A Conversation with Marisa Magallenez of Albuquerque Community Foundation
GEO’s Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship (CLIPF) launched in 2016 to offer…
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Meeting the Future with a New Approach to Readiness
Today’s changing world requires an overhaul in how we think of readiness.…
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GEO Welcomes Kristina Wertz as Vice President of External Affairs
We are excited to welcome Kristina Wertz to the team as GEO’s…
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Change Leaders in Philanthropy: A Conversation with Sabrina Slade of John Rex Endowment
GEO’s Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship (CLIPF) launched in 2016 to offer…
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Meet the Newest Members of the GEO Team
For the last couple of years, Covid-19 has made social separation a…
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Crosspost: In the Test Kitchen: Grantmaking Insights to Chew On
As a spend down foundation, how the Stupski Foundation shows up is…
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Language is a Key to Reducing Health Disparities
Language is powerful. Using clear and direct language to describe the populations…
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Humility, Listening and Connectedness: How to Build Partner Relationships Rooted in Equity
In this second, follow-up piece of Humility, Listening and Connectedness: Building Partner…
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Creating a Race Equity Culture™ Together
Rebekah Gowler and Jaser Alsharhan explain that a crucial part of doing…
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Equity in Event Planning: Lessons Learned in Creating an Access-Centered Virtual Environment
Allison Punch-Turner and Cassie Maxwell reflect on lessons they learned in creating…
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Is Philanthropy Ready? End of Year Reflections from GEO President & CEO, Marcus Walton
GEO President & CEO Marcus Walton reflects on the past year and…
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Philanthropy’s Next Stage Imperative: Meaningfully Moving Foundation Assets for the Common Good
Henry A. J. Ramos explores how grantmakers can meet the moment of…
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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…
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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…
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Seeing Philanthropy in a New Light
How might philanthropy change over the next ten years? The new Monitor…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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Community-Centered Leadership: Values, Boundaries and Rituals
GEO program manager, Jaser Alsharhan, explains how principles of community-centered leadership can…
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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…
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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…
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Changing the Face of Philanthropy
Denise Herrera, in her former role as Senior Capacity Building Officer at…
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Addition by Subtraction: Part Two
In part two of his blog, Neel Hajra shares examples of how…
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Addition by Subtraction: Part One
In part one of his blog, Neel Hajra reflects on adding through…
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Great News for the GEO Community
GEO is thrilled to share we has been selected as one of…
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Reflections on GEO’s 2021 Learning Conference
Nadege Souvenir reflects on GEO's 2021 Learning Conference, asking if philanthropy is…
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Shifting Power through Co-Creation: Reflections from Empowerment Economics to Spark Dialogue
Jessica Santos, PhD reflects on the importance of shifting power in our…
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Shifting Evaluation and Learning to Center Equity in Philanthropic Practice
Kara Carlisle and Anita Patel, co-chairs of GEO's 2021 Learning Conference, write…
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Reinventing The Wheel No More: Actions every philanthropic professional can take to increase the impact of evaluation and learning
The Funder Evaluator Affinity Network (FEAN) shares actions grantmakers can take to…
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Investing in Resilience: Continuous Quality Improvement for Adaptation in Uncertainty
When grantmakers invest in service quality and continuous improvement practices, it builds…
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Toward More Useful Evaluations: Strategies and Examples from the Kansas Health Foundation
Nadine Long and LaShawn Glasgow unpack strategies from the Kansas Health Foundation…
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Staff Reflections: Growing a Movement for Trans Liberation
Nicole Fernandes of Funders for LGBTQ Issues shares three takeaways on how…
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GEO Sabbatical: Two Months of Open Space
On the blog, Kyle Rinne-Meyers reflects on his sabbatical experience and how…
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Don’t Be A Stranger: Tips for Philanthropy on Distancing vs. Building Solidarity
Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation shares important insights into…
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Two Steps Forward
Suprotik Stotz-Ghosh reflects on how grantmakers can generate meaningful results in response…
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Making the Case for the Equitable Evaluation Framework™
Funders Together, GEO, PEAK, and SCG are excited to co-host and launch…
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Challenges and Strategies for Building Community-Driven Philanthropy
Jaser Alsharhan unpacks the challenges and strategies for building community-drive philanthropy from…
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The Imperative of Foundation Board Diversity
Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, unpacks the imperative…
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GEO Statement on the Violence at the U.S. Capitol: Threats to Democracy Demand an Emphatic Philanthropic Response
This week, American democracy came under siege in full public view leaving…
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Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship: Transformative Leadership in Service of Thriving Communities
Having real conversations about where we want philanthropy to go is crucial…
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What Next? Gearing Up for the Long Fight for an Inclusive, Equitable Democracy
2020 underscores what many of us in the social change field have…
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Unmuted: What Works (and Doesn’t) When Working Together Online
Andy Goodman unpacks the challenges of working remotely, asking what works, what…
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Cross-post: Learning from Two Decades of Grantee Relationships
Decision-makers such as elected officials and institutional funders have historically ignored and…
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Cross-post: How to Discuss Merger Exploration with Grantees
In the COVID-19 world, funders may increasingly find themselves in discussions with…
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Cross-post: Rethinking Outcomes in a Crisis Context
In this critical time, and with a sense of urgency, many philanthropic…
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Philanthropy’s Racial Funding Gap is an Urgent Crisis
The demand for racial justice erupting across a nation ravaged by a…
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New Survey: How Online Work is Impacting Us All
Andy Goodman, director and co-founder of the Goodman Center, is launching a…
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Cross-post: We Need to End Structural Racism and Inequities. How can Data and Evidence Help?
In this cross-post, Project Evident discusses how data and evidence can help…
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Hope is Not a Strategy for Change
Hear from GEO CEO, Marcus Walton, as he reflects on how hope…
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Cross-post: To turn a corner, trust social entrepreneurs
In this cross-post Ashoka argues the case for funding social entrepreneur-led organizations…
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Four Upstream Questions to Support Next Steps
For the last two months, grantmaking organizations have focused on triage as…
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Scaffolding and Support: How Senior Leaders Are Setting the Stage for Change
Like many other grantmakers, the CLIPF community mobilized quickly to support grantees…
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The Obstacle is the Path
Hear from GEO CEO, Marcus Walton, as he reflects on the impact…
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Adapting Capacity Building During COVID-19
GEO’s Capacity Building Champions, a community of GEO members who are passionate…
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Smarter Grantmaking Practices During—and Beyond—COVID-19
As a community of grantmakers advocating for philanthropy to put nonprofits and…
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Joint Statement Calling for Increased Giving In This Time of Crisis
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions. The challenges that we are collectively…
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A New Role for Funders in Field Building Toward Social Change: Moving from Driving the Car to Filling the Tank
The Bridgespan Group shares key findings from their new report that examines…
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Trust-Based Philanthropy is Trending. What Will It Take to Sustain It?
Last week, over 200 foundations signed a pledge calling upon philanthropy to…
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A Note from GEO CEO, Marcus Walton, on COVID-19
The global COVID-19 outbreak being felt here and across the world is…
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See the Forest and the Trees: 11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2020
In this post from the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, Tory…
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Learning What Works: Practitioners Leading with Equity
Charles E. Carter of Project Evident shared reflections from his experience at…
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Cross-post: An eye towards the future: Trust-based funding
In this cross-post from the inaugural fellow at The Patterson Foundation, Hannah…
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Cross-post: Evaluation in the Hot Seat: Taking on Current Criticisms
At the GEO Learning Conference this year a group of 5 evaluators…
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Cross-post: How Grantmakers Can Better See What's Coming
In this post, which originally appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Bess…
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Making Organizational Culture More Intentional to Drive Community Change
As more grantmakers are considering how they can advance change through their…
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Racial Equity and the Role of Foundations
The Consumer Health Foundation has long embedded racial equity in its programs,…
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Five Foundations Advance Ways to End the Starvation Cycle
Five major foundations, all GEO members, have agreed to do more to…
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Revolutionary Love — Our Secret Sauce
What if the philanthropic sector placed as much value on love and…
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Cross-post: Reflections on Un-Learning
The Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices (AAEEP) came together earlier this year…
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Cross-post: Two Years into Our Journey - Lessons in listening and humility
What started out two years ago as a simple “strategic plan refresh”…
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My Journey to GEO
Throughout my career, I have committed myself to service. First, as a…
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Cross-post: How Do We Measure Success?
This is a cross-post of an article written by Scott Heimlich of…
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Cross-post: Are Search Firms Doing Their Best to Practice Racially-Equitable Nonprofit Searches?
This post originally appeared on Fund the People's website and discusses white…
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Cross-post: Candid Announces Inaugural #OpenForGood Award Winners
As part of the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Learning Conference 2019, Candid…
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Lessons Learned from a Multilevel Capacity-Building Approach to Center Race in Health Equity Advocacy in Colorado
The Colorado Trust recently released a learning paper on their cohort model…
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Relationships Are Our Work: 3 Culture Building Practices to Engage Employees
To retain employees long-term, we need to create cultures where people feel…
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Transition as an Opportunity for Transformational Change
Interim CEO J McCray shares an update on GEO's leadership transition and…
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Cross-post: The Audacity of Building Capacity
Healthcare Georgia Foundation supports and funds capacity building. Learn more about how…
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Cross-post: Engaging Boards and Trustees in Strategic Learning
"Engaging Boards and Trustees in Strategic Learning," a toolkit from FSG and…
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Lessons from a Foundation’s Culture-Change Journey
Helios Foundation for Education shares their lessons learned from a cultural change…
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A Farewell from Outgoing CEO Kathleen Enright
After 17 years with GEO, President and CEO Kathleen Enright is transitioning…
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Cross-post: Crafting Capacity-Building Support that Counts
When grantmakers consider providing capacity-building support for the first time or refining…
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Findings from GEO’s Language Survey
In 2018 and 2019, GEO is developing a publication, workshop and conference…
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Perspective Matters
After three years of working to expand the bench of evaluators, the…
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Cross-post: Are Nonprofits Getting the Support They Really Need?
The Center for Effective Philanthropy conducted a study to discover what support…
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Get on the Balcony
In September 2018, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations released "Get on the Balcony:…
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Introducing The Sprout Fund Field Guide for Philanthropy & Civic Action
After 17 successful years of inspiring and nurturing people with innovative, grassroots…
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Complex Problems Require Collaborative Solutions
After 17 successful years of inspiring and nurturing people with innovative, grassroots…
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Centering Our Website on Relationships, Accessibility and Transparency
The Maddox Charitable Fund's original website bespoke a transactional as opposed to…
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Cross-post: The Case for General Operating Support
The Claniel Foundation has shifted to providing 100 percent of its grants…
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Cross-post: Finding—and Using—the Right Tool for the Job
Organizational assessment tools can be used to gauge an organization’s strategic focus,…
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Strengthening Relationships Language Poll
Help GEO decide on language to use when we talk about increasing…
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Returning Learning to the System
The more frequently members of a system communicate with each other about…
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Philanthropy's Debt to our Country's Biggest Region
The southeastern U.S. is heavy with history and layered with nuanced culture…
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Listening to Beneficiary Needs and Respecting Grantees
Philanthropy and the nonprofit sector have seen several evolutionary changes over the…
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Strengthening the Field of Philanthropic Evaluation: A Call to Action
One year ago, Engage R+D and Equal Measure launched an exploratory dialogue…
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To Move Forward, Look Back
The longstanding saying tells us to stop and smell the roses. But…
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Cross-post: Advancing Equity by Undoing Nonprofit Power Dynamics
If we want our sector to be more effective in addressing the…
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Reflections from the 2018 National Conference
We were so excited to welcome so many thought leaders to GEO’s…
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Systems Change and Equity Go Hand-in-Hand
Complex, systemic challenges require sophisticated, long-term strategies to address them. The same…
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Leaning Into Discomfort: A Reflection on GEO's 2018 National Conference
In this post-2018 National Conference reflection, Ellen Solowey, program officer at Virginia…
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Is This 21st Century Philanthropy's Defining Moment?
This year, GEO welcomed back Nell Edgington, president of Social Velocity, to…
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Social Velocity's 2018 National Conference Recap: Day 3
Welcome to the recap of Day 3 of GEO's 2018 National Conference!…
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Social Velocity's 2018 National Conference Recap: Day 2
Welcome to the recap of Day 2 of GEO's 2018 National Conference!…
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Social Velocity's 2018 National Conference Recap: Day 1
Welcome to the recap of Day 1 of GEO's 2018 National Conference!…
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Reflecting on 20 Years of Progress at GEO's 2018 National Conference
At the beginning of the year, we kicked off our first post…
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Reflections on GEO's 2018 National Conference: Matthew Henkes
As GEO's national conference approaches, our members share their hopes for our…
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Philanthropy in Troubled Times - Blogging at the 2018 GEO Conference
This year, GEO welcomes back Nell Edgington, president of Social Velocity, to…
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Dancing with Philathro-friends: Reflections on GEO's 2018 National Conference by Amarilis Pullen
As GEO’s national conference approaches, our members share their hopes for our…
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What Would It Take to Align Foundation Mission and Evaluation Practice?
Equitable evaluation has created a critical space for reflective practice. As evaluators…
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Knowledge Sharing to Strengthen Grantmaking
When foundations share knowledge generated through evaluation, strategy development and thought leadership,…
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A New Guide from Philanthropy's Reflective Practices
Philanthropy's Reflective Practices released a guide exploring four reflective practices. Read more…
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Reframing our Purpose to Be More Transformative for People and Families
As Root Cause began to question its purpose, it was critical that…
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Revised Reporting: Are We Fooling Ourselves?
While there is a nearly universal belief that grant reports are necessary,…
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Rapid Response Grantmaking: Responding to Concerns About Community Wellbeing
Post-presidential election, the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund noticed the increasing amount…
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Improving Maternal and Infant Health Through Collaboration and Engagement
bi3 provided $3.2 million to launch StartStrong, a maternal and infant health…
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Rapid Response Grantmaking: Standing with Immigrant and Refugee Neighbors
Solidarity MN is a coalition of Minnesota foundations inspired to act by…
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Looking Forward and Looking Back: 20 Years of Community
This year, the GEO community celebrates 20 years of making meaningful progress…
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Rapid Response Grantmaking: From Day 1 to 100, We Made it 100 Days of US
The Sprout Fund designs grassroots grantmaking programs that tap the ingenuity of…
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Thank You for Influencing Our Future Direction
Thank you for engaging with us throughout 2017 and sharing your wisdom…
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Cross-post: 5 Concrete Steps Foundations Can Take to Advance Racial Equity
In December 2017, Lori Bartczak and Starsky Wilson co-authored an op ed…
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The Story of the Blue Line Coalition
Beginning in 2012, Nexus and the Phillips Foundation partnered to fund and…
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Cross-post: What Does it Take to Build Strong Relationships?
On November 21, 2017, the Center for Effective Philanthropy posted this blog…
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Look at Social Impact Projects for What They Are: Investment
When funding social impact projects, grantmakers have historically not provided contingency funds…
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Increase Your Impact: Invest in Nonprofit Staff
In September, Fund the People announced the release of Fund the People…
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Cross-post: The Search
After the 2017 Unity Summit, AAPIP (Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy) invited…
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We Are In This Together: A Letter to Philanthropy
Hear directly from 9 nonprofit leaders what you can be doing to…
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Using Intermediaries for Social Change
On September 11, GEO hosted a member call to discuss the role…
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A Statement of Values to Guide Philanthropic Collaboration
For the past two years, a number of the leading organizations supporting…
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Capacity building, now more than ever
At this moment, many nonprofits are facing greater fiscal uncertainty than ever…
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Investing in Collaborative Systems Change in Turbulent Times
Philanthropic funders have a unique role to play when leading in complexity…
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From unrest to collaboration
The biggest win for us in going through these dialogues in and…
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What we know for sure
Often unprecedented circumstances seem to necessitate bigger or radically different strategies. But…
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Effective Engagement Starts and Ends with Respect
Even when we don’t mean to — and even when it runs…
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Change Incubator Lessons Learned
Here are five key lessons learned from our pilot Change Incubator program,…
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How can I bring a DEI lens to my organization?
The Race Matters Toolkit provides a comprehensive look at how race and…
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Focus and Hope
Now is the opportunity for foundations to gain a clarity that has…
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Grantmaking with a racial equity lens
A racial equity lens focuses on how race and ethnicity impact experiences…
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Recognize privilege and confront it to do philanthropy well
We all have blind spots. Our blind spots may cause us to…
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What is diversity, equity and inclusion?
The D5 coalition has created a series of tools to help grantmakers…
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Protecting Progress in the Trump Era
What will the Trump Administration mean for the nonprofit organizations who serve…
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Privilege is a blind spot that we need to recognize and confront to do philanthropy well
We all have blind spots. They impair our judgment in meaningful ways.…
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Putting Grantees at the Center of Philanthropy
This series, produced in partnership with Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, tells the…
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A Watershed Moment for Philanthropy Infrastructure
For far too long, the relationships between infrastructure organizations have been fraught…
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Funders and nonprofit leaders need to get on the same side of the table…and share a beverage
Many trustees, program officers and nonprofit leaders are pretty terrible at having…
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Embracing Discomfort
We need to face the structural and systemic causes of racial disparity…
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Community thoughts from the 2016 National Conference
A number of 2016 National Conference participants have shared their thoughts about…
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Placing big bets with the Change Incubator
When GEO launched the Change Incubator last year, we were making three…
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A Positive Culture Only Happens With Intentionality
We know that as a field, we need to do more to…
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The CIA Made Me Do It
I recently ran across a historical document that surprisingly holds many parallels…
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Change Incubator — What are we learning so far?
Teams from four pioneering GEO member organizations joined us in the first…
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The First Step: Understanding the Origins of Culture
More and more people in philanthropy are realizing just how critical attending…
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A Compelling Case to Make Advocacy a Part of Board Culture
Neither we nor the organizations we support can afford to leave any…
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