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.

Filters

About 67 results.

  • Publication

    Culture Resource Guide: Shift

    Shifting culture doesn’t simply mean developing a fresh values statement or identifying three or four cultural attributes that we want to define us. Rather, we need to back up these actions with real work to create a culture that will make our organization and our grantees more successful.
    • July 3, 2018
  • Related Materials

    Organizational Culture: Articles and Readings

    This list compiles articles, reports and other readings on each phase of the culture framework.
    • July 3, 2018
  • Publication

    Culture Resource Guide: Tend

    Creating a productive foundation culture — one that accelerates impact and supports nonprofits to be successful — is the result of intentionality and constant tending. Tending culture means understanding what we’re trying to achieve and then continually aligning strategy, operations, talent and culture in that direction.
    • July 3, 2018
  • Related Materials Members Only

    Worksheet: Culture Lily Pond Activity

    Culture is the collective behaviors and underlying assumptions of an organization. How does your culture manifest at your organization?
    • July 2, 2018
  • Publication

    Culture Resource Guide: Assess

    Once we have gained a good understanding of the culture of our organizations, it’s time to assess the degree to which that culture supports our values, goals, mission and vision. This means asking tough questions about which aspects of our current culture reflect and reinforce the values and strategies at the heart of our work, and which aspects do not.
    • July 2, 2018
  • Publication

    Culture Resource Guide: Understand

    A productive internal culture aligned with a foundation’s mission and goals is essential to support nonprofit resilience and success. In other words, if we are striving to have more impact, we should look not just at our external strategies and theories of change, but also at the ingrained behaviors, assumptions and values that drive our daily work and our interactions with grantees and other partners.
    • July 2, 2018
  • Publication

    Culture Resource Guide: Overview

    After more than 15 years promoting grantmaker practices that support nonprofit results, GEO is convinced that a strong culture inside foundations is critical for effective philanthropy. The following sections of this guide provide more perspective on each of these phases of culture change: understand, assess, shift and tend.
    • July 2, 2018
  • Member Story Members Only

    Smarter Grantmaking in Action: Understanding Culture at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiated a multiyear process to shift its organizational culture. It all started with a deeper look at the current culture, the degree to which it matched the foundation’s values and aspirations, and potential changes to create more alignment.
    • June 22, 2018
  • Related Materials

    Worksheet: Culture Mad Libs

    Pinpoint the nuances that make your current culture unique.
    • June 22, 2018
  • Event Materials Members Only

    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.
    • June 13, 2018