Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

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Important Update on #GEO2024 National Conference Date and Location

We’re writing today with an important update regarding GEO’s 2024 National Conferences in Los Angeles. With the support of the conference host committee, program committee and the GEO board, we made the decision to cancel our contract with the JW Marriott Los Angeles LA Live in solidarity with the hotel workers. Our conference will now take place on May 20 – 23, 2024 at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles.

December 12, 2023

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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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Keeping the Faith in Democracy: Why America’s Faith Communities Can’t be Overlooked

The following is adapted from a guide for funders on investing in faith and democracy, co-authored by Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) and Democracy Funders Network.

October 25, 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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No More Excuses: Child and Youth Participation is the Future of Philanthropy

How can philanthropy and civil society build the future world we want without centering the people who will be living in it?

March 20, 2023

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Philanthropy is a Leverage Point in the Systems We Seek to Shift

Philanthropy is beginning to understand that in order to get different results, we must support work to change the systems that are producing inequitable results.

March 7, 2023

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