2019 Learning Conference Program
2019 Learning Conference Program
Resource Type: Event Materials
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Funding for Justice and Change
To achieve our vision for individuals and communities, grantmakers must work to address the historic, emerging, dynamic and collective forces at work to suppress racial, social and economic justice.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: The GEO Community at 20
Over the last 20 years, the GEO community has worked to transform a desire for results into real improvements by creating spaces where grantmakers learn together and use that learning to drive concrete changes in the way grantmaking work gets done. As a field, we’ve made progress. And, as we continue learning together, our understanding of effective philanthropy evolves.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Automating Austerity
Virginia Eubanks, professor at the University at Albany, SUNY and author of Automating Inequality offered lessons from twenty years of research and reporting on the use of digital tools in public service programs to place the big data revolution in its political and economic context.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Creating Space for Systems Change
Raj Jayadev of Silicon Valley De-Bug shared how De-Bug has been transforming the criminal justice system using a “participatory defense” approach that empowers families and community members to sway the result of court cases. He suggested ways grantmakers can support systems change work led by nonprofits and communities, and how creating space allows for the innovation that’s needed to tackle oppressive systems and institutions.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Inclusive Grantmaking Requires Breaking Norms
Christina Canales Gorczynski highlighted the Simmons Foundation’s work to address the power dynamics inherent in philanthropy and how the foundation identified avenues for communities to drive and direct change.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Stories as Catalysts for Widespread Change
American culture and narratives are rooted in a collective ambivalence about how we formed this country – in both oppression and opportunity; open doors to some, closed to others; welcoming from afar but often discriminatory day-to-day. But traditional messaging campaigns and op-eds aren’t generally effective at moving people toward a greater sense of shared fate.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: The Implications of Implicit Bias
Focusing on equity necessitates reflection on ourselves and reckoning with the impact of our actions, regardless of our intentions. Understanding how implicit bias can manifest in behavior is crucial to understanding how our organizations may perpetuate the very inequities we seek to reduce.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Centering Philanthropic Change in Community
Organizations seeking to support authentic change on complex, multi-layered issues often find that listening to and being in relationship with impacted communities is central to the work.
2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Using Restorative Justice to Transform Racialized Harm in the U.S.
Fania Davis highlighted efforts bubbling up across the nation and shared strategies such as truth-telling, healing circles, and reparative justice that will help individuals and institutions in the U.S. interrupt and transform cycles of racialized historical trauma.
Leading Change Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Home Team Meetups
Leading change requires us to be bold, yet transformation can be intense and exhausting. Linking up with peers can rejuvenate us to do the work, and the Home Teams at the Leading Change Conference 2017 were designed to help you prepare to lead change efforts no matter where you sit in your organization.
Member Call: How Can We Be In This Together? Highlights and Resources
Highlights, Key Takeaways and Resources from the October 16, 2017, Member Call: How Can We Be In This Together? A Funder Discussion with Nonprofits.