Resources

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

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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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GEOList Summary: E-mail Subscriber Tools

Our foundation has multiple external contact lists: some with email addresses, others with physical addresses, and some with both. We would like to combine all of these into a single database. We also are looking for an email marketing and subscriber service.
- March 30, 2009
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Conflict of Interest Policy for Foundation Staffs Volunteer Activities

We are looking for examples of policies regarding potential conflicts of interest – real or perceived – around our staff volunteering with local nonprofits as individuals and as foundation staff persons.
- March 24, 2009
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Conflict of Interest Policies for Review Panels

If anyone has conflict of interest policies and/or confidentiality agreements for review panels that you could share, particularly for review of scientific research proposals, I would greatly appreciate it!
- March 24, 2009
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: How and Who Approves a Grant Application

Does your foundation have a formal strategy regarding who makes the decision on grant applications, how & who approves the grant applications?
- March 1, 2009
- Rumsha Ahmed
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Executive Summary: Assessing the Impact

A presentation of two approaches in assessing the impact of general operating support grants: one that emphasizes pre-grant assessment and one that relies more on assessment during and after the grant.
- February 27, 2009
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Executive Summary: Investing in Leadership Vol. 2

This volume is intended for donors, staff members and leaders of grantmaking organizations and giving pro-grams who are thinking about how best to support the nonprofit sector?s most precious asset: its people.
- February 27, 2009
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Executive Summary: Imagine Involve Implement

Real change is happening in philanthropy as pioneering grantmakers find new ways to break down the traditional barriers standing in the way of nonprofit success.
- February 27, 2009
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Executive Summary: Investing in Leadership Vol. 1

Given the vast literature on leadership development and the challenges of translating research and theory into practice, this publication explores a sampling of the leadership development literature.
- February 27, 2009
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Executive Summary: Supporting Next-Generation Leadership

Finding tomorrow's nonprofit leaders requires more than beating the bushes for fresh faces and new talent and supporting new or expanded leadership programs. It also requires a top-to-bottom look at the nature of nonprofit organizations and nonprofit careers; consideration of the fiscal challenges facing nonprofits as they work to identify, recruit and support next-generation leaders; and commitment to building a more diverse workforce, in terms of race, gender and age.
- February 27, 2009
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Executive Summary: General Operating Support

A study about general operating support grantmaking. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that few foundations make GOS grants and also show the strategic perspective of the staff and boards who do provide GOS.
- February 27, 2009