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GEO is planning a major website redesign with content and customer relationship management system integration in support of our organizational goals and meet our evolving needs. This Request for Proposals is to identify a vendor partner with the skills, experience and vision to support this effort.

Could you share information related to your overall performance management process, including examples of your performance review document and/or supporting tools, timing of the reviews, and any innovative approaches that you may be utilizing.?

We are looking at different project management software to coordinate our work among staff and are thinking of using Project 2010. Has anyone used this software, or have any suggestions for other programs they’ve used successfully?

Here are five key lessons learned from our pilot Change Incubator program, along with examples from our participating foundations.

We are looking to develop new language in our Grant Agreement forms/contracts that requires grantees to notify us of planned executive leadership change. Please share language and other approaches that your foundation uses.

Do you have examples of organizational guidelines, policies, or procedures that describe how electronic documents are managed within an organization?

GEO frequently hears that grantmakers, no matter their role, want to make meaningful changes in how they operate in order to make progress on the issues that matter most to them. The most recent GEO member surveys show that nearly two-thirds of members are involved in some kind of change effort, driven by a desire to better serve the nonprofits and the communities they support. Determining exactly how to lead, implement and sustain that change can be tricky. Grantmakers understand that thoughtful and intentional efforts — a process, a plan, a team-oriented approach — are necessary to make real change.

Having real conversations about where we want philanthropy to go is crucial for building a shared vision for what we want to see from our field and beyond.

My name is Brad Cameron, and I’m a program associate at the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation in Little Rock, Ark. Along with a number of my colleagues, I’m proud to be a part of GEO’s inaugural Change Incubator cohort. I wanted to take a moment to share a little bit about what we’re learning through the program — and the change we’re making.

GEO’s Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship (CLIPF) launched in 2016 to offer an intensive, peer coaching-focused learning experience for senior leaders in philanthropy. This blog series features the perspectives and stories of several CLIPF fellows.