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Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? (2008)

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The 2008 Field Study, conducted by Harder+Company Community Research, was the second-ever comprehensive study of the attitudes and practices of staffed grantmaking foundations in the United States.  

Supporting Next-Generation Leadership: Action Guide

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Finding tomorrow?s nonprofit leaders requires more than beating the bushes for fresh faces and new talent and supporting new or expanded leadership programs. It also requires a top-to-bottom look at the nature of nonprofit organizations and nonprofit careers; consideration of the fiscal challenges facing nonprofits as they work to identify, recruit and support next-generation leaders; and commitment to building a more diverse workforce, in terms of race, gender and age.

Assessing the Impact: General Operating Support Volume 2

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Many grantmakers agree that general operating support can boost effectiveness and impact for nonprofits. At the same time, however, the field continues to struggle to answer a question that has become a significant barrier to the wider use of general operating support: How are we going to measure its impact? This supplement to GEO?s General Operating Support Action Guide was created to demonstrate how some grantmakers are assessing the impact of general operating support.

General Operating Support: Action Guide

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What is general operating support? How are grantmakers providing it? GEO’s answer to these questions (and more) were inspired by a spirited conversation that took place in early 2007 on the GEO listserv.

Learning for Results

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This publication explores what it means to be a “learning organization;” how to make the case for a stepped-up commitment to learning to your staff, board and grantees; andstrategies to embed learning in your day-to-day grantmaking work.

Listen, Learn, Lead: Grantmaker Practices that Support Nonprofit Results

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GEO’s Change Agent Project seeks to inspire change in grantmakers so they can help their grantees achieve meaningful results. This report on Phase 1 of GEO’s Change Agent Project delves deeper into what is necessary to instill change in grantmaking practices. This publication was reprinted in 2010.