Resources

From publications to toolkits, GEO’s resources lift up experiences from your peers to help you turn knowledge into action.

Publication

A Change Management & Deep Equity Primer: The What, Why, How & Nuance

This publication from Movement Tapestries offers insights and guidance for organizations navigating equity-embedded transformations, and the challenges that can come with embarking on such journeys.

January 16, 2023
Sheryl Petty, Ed.D.

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GEO Summary: Time Tracking Policy

The Finance Department at Global Fund for Children is working towards redesigning the way we manage and report on institutional grants. We are interested to know how you allocate program staff’s time who works on multiple grants in your accounting system.
- January 23, 2019
- Austin Frizzell
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GEOList Summary: Student Loan Payments as an Employment Benefit

Does anyone have resources/information on providing student loan payments to employees as an employment benefit?
- January 18, 2019
- Austin Frizzell
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GEOList Summary: Written Policies and Procedures

As we strive to be more efficient we need to create manuals containing this information as well as an employee manual. Is there a template that is available for us to use and tailor for our needs?
- January 17, 2019
- Austin Frizzell
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GEOList Summary: Grappling with Privacy versus Transparency in a Family Foundation

Does anyone know of any sources/policies that touch upon the issue of Family foundations’ with regard to privacy versus transparency?
- January 16, 2019
- Austin Frizzell
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GEOList Summary: Staff Travel Guidelines

The Arcus Foundation is seeking information about fellow funders’ policies and protocols for when staff travel. We’re interested in example guiding principles or expectations and other best practices that help ensure staff safety while traveling as well as enable workflow continuity. Please let us know if you have resources or strategies that might be of assistance to us.
- January 10, 2019
- Austin Frizzell
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GEOList Summary: Scholarships for Trainings and Conferences

As part of our capacity building program, we would like to provide scholarships for our grantees to attend trainings and conferences (both local and out-of-town) focused on racial equity. From GEO members who do provide scholarships, I'd love to hear more of the details of your program.
- January 2, 2019
- Rylan Kepner
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GEOList Summary: Financial reserves Best Practices

We are researching best practice for a reserve amount that would ensure stability and sustainability of program funding. Any experience, feedback or resources on the area of reserves would be appreciated.
- December 28, 2018
- Rylan Kepner
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GEOList Summary: Strategic Planning Lessons Learned

We are venturing into a strategic planning process for a 2 and 5 year internal strategic plan, and we have engaged a consultant to support us in this process. I am curious to hear/read any key lessons learned in the process of strategic planning (we should have done that, wish we didn’t do that, oh my I never thought of that – these kinds of things).
- December 27, 2018
- Rylan Kepner
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GEOList Summary: Grantees on Your Board

If you include current or past grantees on your board, how do you handle the possibility of those organizations applying for funding? I’d love to know your rationale and/or guidelines for allowing or not allowing them to apply for grants from your foundation.
- December 19, 2018
- Rylan Kepner
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GEOList Summary: Relocation Allowence

Would you mind sharing your relocation allowance policy? I’m trying to get a sense on whether we are offering new hires a fair and competitive benefit.
- December 18, 2018
- Rylan Kepner