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Conferences
September 17, 2018—September 17, 2018Los AngelesCA
In this session, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations will share the benefits of building authentic relationships with nonprofits and community members and offer several tools and key questions that can guide a participatory approach to philanthropy.
Participants will think through how microcultures do or do not contribute to their organization’s overall effectiveness before brainstorming ways to bridge microcultures so that their organizations can best support their grantees.
Hello GEO Members,
The McGregor Fund is interested in hearing from other funders that offer grants (either in addition to programmatic funding, or as stand-alone grants) for grantee evaluation capacity and/or data infrastructure. These grants might support evaluation consultants, or experts in data management or data system acquisition. They might support training to strengthen grantee data collection, evaluation, or performance measurement.
In my scan of GEO archives and the web so far, I have found numerous foundations that fund research, or evaluation of the impact of their funding, and some who fund IT infrastructure, but less that are focused on building grantee capacity to better manage and use their data to inform programmatic and strategic decision-making.
If you know of any funders that do this, or do something similar yourself, I would love to hear from you, and am curious about how these grant opportunities are assessed by staff, and any reflections on the value of these grants.
How many staff are assigned to your grant making? What types of funding opportunities do you offer (e.g. operational, capacity, etc.) How many grant cycles do you have a year? Are you contemplating a change in your grant making process or have you recently made one?
If so, any lessons learned or advice to share?
Join GEO and Technology Association of Grantmakers to learn how grantmaking organizations are continuing to invest in change management through internal practices, policies and programs.
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.
