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Executive Summary: Investing in Leadership Vol. 2

This volume is intended for donors, staff members and leaders of grantmaking organizations and giving pro-grams who are thinking about how best to support the nonprofit sector?s most precious asset: its people.

Executive Summary: Assessing the Impact

A presentation of two approaches in assessing the impact of general operating support grants: one that emphasizes pre-grant assessment and one that relies more on assessment during and after the grant.

Executive Summary: General Operating Support

A study about general operating support grantmaking. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that few foundations make GOS grants and also show the strategic perspective of the staff and boards who do provide GOS.

Executive Summary: Supporting Next-Generation Leadership

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.

Executive Summary: Investing in Leadership Vol. 1

Given the vast literature on leadership development and the challenges of translating research and theory into practice, this publication explores a sampling of the leadership development literature.

Executive Summary: Listen, Learn, Lead

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.