With racial equity becoming more and more central to the work of grantmakers, this guide explores how considerations related to racial equity can apply to the full range of grantmakers’ capacity-building efforts – everything from financial management to human resources to leadership development.
The Executive Summary introduces the “Engaging Boards and Trustees in Strategic Learning: Toolkit.”
Collective action is an effective way for nonprofits to increase their impact, but key capacities are needed to enable these types of partnerships to thrive. This publication offers insights on the core capacities nonprofits need to collaborate and how funders can help.
As grantmakers and nonprofits are looking for ways to collaborate more effectively, many are experimenting working with and through networks to achieve greater impact. Because networks are by definition loosely controlled and emergent, understanding how to effectively support them feels like a mystery to many grantmakers.
Whether you are strategically working to scale up some of your successful grantees or are simply trying to provide support that will make the biggest difference to the nonprofits you fund, the vision is the same – you want your grantmaking to have the greatest impact possible. Pathways to Grow Impact -
the result of collaborative research from GEO, Ashoka, Social Impact Exchange, Taproot Foundation and TCC Group – explores four approaches to growing impact and the role that grantmakers can play in supporting nonprofit success.
This is the Executive Summary of GEO’s latest publication, Four Essentials for Evaluation, which offers practical steps that grantmakers can take to build or strengthen the capacity of their organizations to tap the transformative power of evaluation for learning.
This is an executive summary of the publication, Widespread Empathy, from GEO and Jump Associates.
The executive summary for Due Diligence Done Well.
This is an executive summary of the publication, Do Nothing About Me Without Me, from GEO and Interaction Institute for Social Change. The guide offers an overview of how grantmakers are reaching out to grantees, community members and other partners for smarter grantmaking.
Online toolkit Executive Summary Coaching and Philanthropy Action Guide for Grantmakers
Executive Summary: Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field
Despite a wave of interest in recent years in what it takes to build stronger, more effective nonprofits, the sector as a whole still suffers from a chronic case of financial stress that inhibits effectiveness. Philanthropy can be a part of the problem, but also a part of the solution.