Resources

From publications to toolkits, GEO’s resources lift up experiences from your peers to help you turn knowledge into action.

Publication

A Change Management & Deep Equity Primer: The What, Why, How & Nuance

This publication from Movement Tapestries offers insights and guidance for organizations navigating equity-embedded transformations, and the challenges that can come with embarking on such journeys.

January 16, 2023
Sheryl Petty, Ed.D.

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Member Story
Member Story: Lancaster County Community Foundation

Member Story: Lancaster County Community Foundation
- September 29, 2010
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GEOList Summary: Policies on Grant-Funded Personnel Benefits

We’ve recently been discussing how we translate our value on health and equity into our grantmaking and other activities. Do you have specific language that you use to articulate the importance and value placed on offering employee benefits in a grant?
- September 27, 2010
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOAsks: Peter Laugharn, Firelight Foundation

This month GEO ASKS Peter Laugharn, executive director of the Firelight Foundation about organizational learning.
- September 16, 2010
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GEOList Summary: Supporting Leadership Development/Executive Education

We are interested in learning if and how other foundations provide support for leadership development and/or executive education for individuals employed by their grantee organizations.
- August 26, 2010
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Grantmaking to School Districts

Has your foundation made grants directly to school districts? Where did you target your investments? Whare are some lessons learned?
- August 10, 2010
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Query on Advisory Panel

Does your foundation have an advisory group that is not directly involved in the review or approval of grants? If not, have you ever had such a group? If you do have an advisory group, how does it contribute to your foundation's work?
- July 30, 2010
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Exit Strategies

What tools, templates, decision guides, communication guides have you found to be helpful when you are exiting an initiative or funding priority?
- July 20, 2010
- Rumsha Ahmed
Member Story
Member Story: MeHAF

Member Story: MeHAF
- July 15, 2010
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GEOList Summary: Elements of a Social Media Strategy

I'm drafting a Social Media Strategy for the Foundation and have looked extensively at what's been done the corporate, public and NFP sectors. What's been done in the philanthropic sector? Can you share what you've put in writing at your foundation?
- July 8, 2010
- Rumsha Ahmed
Publication
Do Nothing About Me Without Me: An Action Guide for Engaging Stakeholders

There is a growing movement in philanthropy — a movement founded on the belief that grantmakers are more effective to the extent that they meaningfully engage their grantees and other key stakeholders. Grantmakers doing this work have arrived at an understanding that much of the knowledge and experience they need to solve the problems they want to solve, and to help them do a better job as grantmakers, resides in the communities they serve.
- June 30, 2010
- Do Nothing About Me Without Me: An Action Guide for Engaging Stakeholders
  
  There is a growing movement in philanthropy — a movement founded on the belief that grantmakers are more effective to the extent that they meaningfully engage their grantees and other key stakeholders. Grantmakers doing this work have arrived at an understanding that much of the knowledge and experience they need to solve the problems they want to solve, and to help them do a better job as grantmakers, resides in the communities they serve.