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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Racial Equity Training Specifically for Foundations

I’m looking for recommendations of consultants and/or organizations that offer racial equity training specifically for foundations and grantmakers.
- July 10, 2018
- Austin Frizzell
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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
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2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Automating Austerity

Virginia Eubanks, professor at the University at Albany, SUNY and author of Automating Inequality offered lessons from twenty years of research and reporting on the use of digital tools in public service programs to place the big data revolution in its political and economic context.
- June 13, 2018
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GEO's Resources on Learning and Evaluation

In your first year of GEO membership, to help you stay informed of the emerging trends and promising practices from the field, we'll point you to GEO's publications, research and peer conversations. Below, find links to tools and resources on learning and evaluation. We hope these are helpful as you explore how GEO can support your work.
- April 9, 2018
- Austin Frizzell
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GEOList Summary: Policy and Advocacy Evaluation Workshop Facilitator

Interact for Health is interested in organizing a workshop focused on how to plan, implement, and use policy and advocacy evaluation.
- March 19, 2018
- Aerial Reese
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GEOList Summary: Knowledge Mobilization Strategy

The Ontario Trillium Foundation is in the process of developing a three year Knowledge mobilization strategy.
- December 14, 2017
- Aerial Reese
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GEOList Summary: Grant Cycles and Reporting Requirements

How many grant cycles do you have in one year? How is your foundation aligning grant cycles with reporting requirements?
- November 28, 2017
- Aerial Reese
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GEOList Summary: 360 Evaluations Documents and Information

We are interested in hearing about any organizations that currently use 360 evaluations. We are asking how other organizations developed policies/procedures around this process and if you have documents to share.
- November 3, 2017
- Aerial Reese
Publication
Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter?

Through our research over the past 20 years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has identified a set of grantmaker practices that help nonprofits achieve better results. Every three years, GEO conducts a study to help us understand how we are doing as a field, including trends over time as well as new areas of inquiry.
- November 1, 2017
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GEOList Summary: Job Description Templates for Director of Learning & Impact

Borealis Philanthropy is a philanthropic intermediary that is creating a new position “director of learning and impact”. We are seeking to assess both the impact of our grantees on their respective communities as well as the impact we are having on our own funders. This is a new position for us and we would welcome similar job descriptions from other GEO members.
- October 16, 2017
- Aerial Reese