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.

About 116 results.

Member Story
Who is Having Success with Learning? Global Fund for Children

Global NGO develops tools to track grantee progress and its own performance.
- March 6, 2014
Member Story
Who is Having Success with Learning? The Colorado Health Foundation

Grantmaker refines evaluation model to enhance grantee and organizational accountability, while positioning it to inform and support decision-making.
- March 6, 2014
Publication
Learn and Let Learn

This publication explores how learning communities can be powerful tools in creating and shaping peer connections that help expand knowledge, deepen skills and enhance practice. Learn and Let Learn offers key insights for grantmakers...
- October 24, 2012
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Four Essentials for Evaluation

Evaluation is about more than ensuring that grantees are doing what they promise, or that a specific program area at a foundation is meeting its goals. Rather, it’s about advancing knowledge and understanding among grantmakers, their grantees and their partners about what’s working, what’s not and how to improve their performance over time.
- May 30, 2012
- Discussion Guide: Four Essentials for Evaluation
  
  How We Learn and How We Can Learn Better: A discussion guide for grantmakers
- Executive Summary: Four Essentials for Evaluation
  
  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.
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Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field

This publication offers a brief overview of how grantmakers are looking at evaluation through an organizational learning and effectiveness lens.
- December 15, 2009
- Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field
  
  This publication offers a brief overview of how grantmakers are looking at evaluation through an organizational learning and effectiveness lens.
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Learning for Results

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.
- March 8, 2007