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Why Funders Should Invest in Flexible Cash Assistance

Funders have an opportunity to significantly invest in and advocate for one of the most impactful financial tools that supports people in building economic security: cash. Cash assistance, whether it’s distributed as a guaranteed income over a period of time or as a one-time lump sum, has shown incredible promise and tangible changes in the lives of those who participate in cash pilots or programs.

March 25, 2024

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Living Into Shared Ways of Being that Advance Equity

Share GEO’s ways of being with the broader GEO community to highlight the work GEO is doing to advance equity internally

March 19, 2024

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GEO’s New Strategic Direction

GEO is thrilled to be sharing our new strategic direction as we continue the long-term work of transforming philanthropic culture and practice so that grantmakers work in service of thriving nonprofits and communities.

February 21, 2024

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Bridging Differences to Advance Equity: Three Lessons Community Foundations Are Learning About Engaging Donors and Community

An exciting evolution is happening among community foundations in the United States.

January 25, 2024

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Crosspost: Lessons learned: Using demographic data to move from intention to action

At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang of The California Endowment (TCE) and Allie VanHeast of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KCF) shared how they are using Demographics via Candid in practice to better understand alignment with institutional goals and measure their progress.

November 14, 2023

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A Funder’s Demographic Data Journey

GEO and Candid are partnering to bring you this conversation with two grantmakers working with Candid to get baseline demographic data and using it to measure progress.

October 5, 2023

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Crosspost: Centering lived experience: Unlocking the preconditions for equity-rooted evaluation

Kresge Strategic Learning and Evaluation Officer Arturo Garcia moderated a session at the 2023 Learning Conference of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), exploring the preconditions for centering equity in evaluation.

September 20, 2023

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What makes collaboration effective? And what doesn’t?

CLIPF is a supportive community where grantmakers can identify best practices and recommendations for creating the organizational conditions that support nonprofit success – in collaboration with like-minded peers. Shari Silberstein offers reflections on why connection and community are important to grantmaking effectiveness.

September 11, 2023

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Connecting Internal Culture and Practice Shifts to External Organizational Impact

GEO created the Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship (CLIPF) to provide senior leaders a space to connect and address some of their most pressing culture and practice issues.

April 25, 2023

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Using Organizational Strategy to Inform Philanthropic Effectiveness

Over the last 25 years, the GEO community has led the field of philanthropy in exploring effective grantmaking. While our collective understanding of what “effective” means is always evolving, so are the ways that we help transform philanthropic culture and practice.

April 13, 2023

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