Peer Communities & Cohorts

Through GEO peer communities and cohorts, participants harness the power of community to share insights and experiences, advance racial equity and transform philanthropy. Peer communities offer GEO members ongoing opportunities to learn and collaborate around shared practices and roles, while cohorts and fellowships offer more intensive, time-bound learning experiences.

Capacity Building Champions Peer Community

A peer community of grantmakers who embrace grantee-centered capacity building as a strategy for supporting nonprofits to thrive.

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CEO Peer Community

A peer community for philanthropic leaders interested in practicing anti-racist leadership and exploring what it means to lead with care, integrity and accountability to communities.

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Change Leaders In Philanthropy Fellowship

An intensive peer cohort program for senior leaders who are responsible for developing and guiding change efforts in their organizations.

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Community-Driven Philanthropy Peer Community

A peer community for grantmakers engaged in and committed to building intentional relationships with nonprofits and communities and deepening community-driven grantmaking practices.

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Equitable Operations Peer Community

A peer community dedicated to identifying, interrogating and shifting internal practices within human resources, finance, risk management and information technology.

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Funders Who Fundraise Peer Community

A peer community focused on interrogating traditional fundraising practices and identifying sector-wide trends to help align fundraising with organizational values.

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Measuring Love Cohort

An intensive peer cohort program exploring what it means to practice love in philanthropy and how that practice can shift relationships, trust and resources in service of nonprofits and communities.

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Staffing Boards Peer Community

A peer community for non-CEO staff who work closely with grantmaker boards to strengthen governance practices.

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Strategic Learners Network Peer Community

A peer community for grantmakers committed to leveraging research, evaluation and learning to transform philanthropic culture and practice.

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Past Cohort

Equity-Embedded Change Management™

Equitable Operations

GEO’s Equitable Operations Community is dedicated to identifying, interrogating and shifting internal practices with the goal of operationalizing intersectional racial equity. In areas from human resources and finance to risk management and information technology, the community supports participants to strengthen internal policies and practices in ways that match a grantmaker’s equity commitments.

In the Change Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship, the tools, the facilitation within each of the retreats, the dialogue between fellows between retreats have been so valuable. I really think I have gone miles ahead of what I probably would have had I not been a part of the Fellowship.