Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

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Creating a Race Equity Culture™ Together

Rebekah Gowler and Jaser Alsharhan explain that a crucial part of doing philanthropy differently is making room to think and act in transformational ways to embody a Race Equity Culture™.

January 20, 2022

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Equity in Event Planning: Lessons Learned in Creating an Access-Centered Virtual Environment

Allison Punch-Turner and Cassie Maxwell reflect on lessons they learned in creating an access-centered virtual environment for GEO's 2021 Learning Conference.

January 10, 2022

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Is Philanthropy Ready? End of Year Reflections from GEO President & CEO, Marcus Walton

GEO President & CEO Marcus Walton reflects on the past year and asks if philanthropy is ready to become who society is calling us to be.

December 10, 2021

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Philanthropy’s Next Stage Imperative: Meaningfully Moving Foundation Assets for the Common Good

Henry A. J. Ramos explores how grantmakers can meet the moment of recent racial reckonings and other forms of institutional exclusion.

December 3, 2021

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New GEO Publication Examines Culture, Systems and Power in Capacity Building Practices

Strengthening nonprofit organizations is not just a nice-to-have but an essential part of our work as grantmakers to ensure that nonprofits have the resources they need to address today’s most pressing social concerns.

November 17, 2021

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Five Principles to Advance Equity and Justice in Philanthropic Strategy

Anand Dholakia explores five principles that help grantmakers ensure their strategies and practices advance equity and justice.

November 2, 2021

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Seeing Philanthropy in a New Light

How might philanthropy change over the next ten years? The new Monitor Institute by Deloitte report outlines four emerging “edges” of philanthropy.

October 26, 2021

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In Search of the Unattainable – Why Setting Impossible Goals Isn’t Always a Bad Thing for Philanthropy

Strategies set out what we’ll achieve and how; if we’re not realistic, we set ourselves up to fail. But what does this mean for ambition in a world that needs transformative change? Executive Director of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, Michael Jarvis and TAI Steering Committee member, Megan Colnar look back on the 2017–19 TAI strategy to ask whether there’s still a place for unattainable goals.

September 30, 2021

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Giving While Learning: How Regrantors Enable Every Funder to Advance Racial Equity…Starting Now

In response to the converging social and public health pandemics last year, people organized, voted, donated, and resisted, all united by the desire to transform reality into a more equitable future. This showed up in philanthropic giving through an unprecedented surge of commitments to funding for racial equity.

September 28, 2021

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Humility, Listening and Connectedness: Building Partner Relationships that Drive Equitable Practice

Maria Azuri unpacks how humility, listening and connectedness are central to building partner relationships that drive equitable grantmaking practice.

September 24, 2021

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