Events

Join GEO and the Nonprofit Finance Fund for this webinar designed to help funders make sense of their role by understanding the different needs and opportunities in providing immediate response funding that enables organizations to survey and recovery funding that accelerates their path back. Participants will be challenged to consider how our actions now can lay the groundwork for a more resilient future in which nonprofits and funders forge relationships based on mutual trust and a shared commitment to center equity as we rebuild our nonprofit sector.

In this interactive webinar, GEO and Ashoka will grapple with the messy, non-linear nature of systems change – and what it takes to fund it well.

Hear from sector leaders who will discuss the long-term philanthropic response to the COVID-19 crisis, how to support grantees with an equity lens, and ways that funders can bolster the long-term financial and organizational health of the sector.

Expanding the Bench (ETB) is based on the belief that learning and evaluation have the power to shape policy, programs, and practice and that evaluators from diverse communities increase the likelihood that methods, analyses, and interpretation benefit the communities they serve.

Culture impacts nearly everything, from how decisions are made to how strategies are evaluated and how work gets done. Yet rarely do grantmakers take time to intentionally build and maintain culture. Building on research and the experiences of two foundations, this webinar will explore how grantmakers can create and nurture culture, focusing on behaviors that drive the outcomes they're looking for. You'll leave the session with examples, frameworks, and guiding questions for intentionally building culture and identifying and systematizing behaviors that get to results.

This webinar will introduce equitable evaluation (EE), an emerging evaluative paradigm guided by a set of core principles grounded in equity. We will explore how common approaches to evaluation can undermine equity, explain the core principles of equitable evaluation, and share resources to spur your thinking about how your organization could apply equitable evaluation to its work.

This webinar will explore how foundations can take specific steps to better support knowledge-sharing, by providing an introduction to Candid’s #OpenForGood initiative and related field scan and how-to guide, and asking participants to identify challenges and possible solutions when it comes to opening up knowledge for the greater good.

Please join us to hear stories about how the implementation of these complementary efforts to build racial equity capacity are changing hearts and minds and furthering advocacy for health equity in Colorado.

Join us for a conversation on the release of GEO's latest publication, Learning in Philanthropy: A Guidebook. We'll discuss the contents of the guidebook, hear from Maurice Samuels on how the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation approaches learning and dig deeper into taking action.