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: Web-Based Grants System

    We are a small foundation looking for a web-based grants management system with a good track-record. Can you let us know what you use and if you like or don't like it?
    • February 27, 2009
    • Rumsha Ahmed
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    GEOList Summary: Special Grant Cycles and Financial Accountability

    Examples of an application to "fund what our partners need" and documentation for grantee finances.
    • February 23, 2009
    • Rumsha Ahmed
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    GEOList Summary: Staff Policies for Entry-Level Positions

    I'm curious to know if any of you has a policy for staffing entry level positions with young people right out of college, with an eye toward fairly quick turnover?
    • January 27, 2009
    • Rumsha Ahmed
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    Supporting Next-Generation Leadership: Action Guide

    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.
    • December 16, 2008

    • 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.

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    Assessing the Impact: General Operating Support Volume 2

    Many grantmakers agree that general operating support can boost effectiveness and impact for nonprofits. At the same time, however, the field continues to struggle to answer a question that has become a significant barrier to the wider use of general operating support: How are we going to measure its impact? This supplement to GEO?s General Operating Support Action Guide was created to demonstrate how some grantmakers are assessing the impact of general operating support.
    • December 1, 2008

    • 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.

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    GEOList Summary: Return on investment statistics?

    Can anyone point me to any known and documented “return on (social) investment” statistics that pertain to programs for children and youth, (ECD, health, high school graduation rates, college acceptance, literacy, etc)?
    • November 11, 2008
    • Rumsha Ahmed
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    GEOList Summary: Measuring Cost per Person Served for Grantees Programs

    Cost per unit indicators: Rationale and lessons learned.
    • November 3, 2008
    • Rumsha Ahmed
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    GEOList Summary: Helping Nonprofits Through Tough Times

    Questions about how foundations are helping their nonprofit partners through tough economic times.
    • September 16, 2008
    • Rumsha Ahmed
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    Mapping a Strategy: Three Approaches to General Operating Support

    General operating support insights, lessons and ongoing explorations from The Philadelphia Foundation, The Endowment for Health and Social Venture Partners Seattle.
    • September 16, 2008
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    GEOList Summary: Grantmaking Policies Regarding 501(c)(3)s

    Does your foundation require an applicant to have its own 501-c-3 status to be eligible to compete for funds? If not, and the organization can apply as part of a larger entity with 501-c-3 status, does the larger organization have to be the ‘official applicant’?
    • June 28, 2008
    • Rumsha Ahmed