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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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    Executive Summary: Pathways to Grow Impact

    Whether you are strategically working to scale up some of your successful grantees or are simply trying to provide support that will make the biggest difference to the nonprofits you fund, the vision is the same - you want your grantmaking to have the greatest impact possible. Pathways to Grow Impact - the result of collaborative research from GEO, Ashoka, Social Impact Exchange, Taproot Foundation and TCC Group - explores four approaches to growing impact and the role that grantmakers can play in supporting nonprofit success.
    • February 28, 2013
  • Related Materials Members Only

    Discussion Guide: Pathways to Grow Impact

    Growing Your Impact: A Discussion Guide for Grantmakers
    • February 28, 2013
  • Publication

    Pathways to Grow Impact: Philanthropy's Role in the Journey

    Pathways to Grow Impact is for any grantmaker who wants his or her grant dollars to have a greater effect. The publication offers a framework for understanding different approaches to scaling impact, stories from nonprofit leaders who have successfully grown their organizations? impact, and practical recommendations for grantmakers seeking more effective ways to achieve better results.
    • January 29, 2013

    • Discussion Guide: Pathways to Grow Impact

      Growing Your Impact: A Discussion Guide for Grantmakers

    • Executive Summary: Pathways to Grow Impact

      Whether you are strategically working to scale up some of your successful grantees or are simply trying to provide support that will make the biggest difference to the nonprofits you fund, the vision is the same - you want your grantmaking to have the greatest impact possible. Pathways to Grow Impact - the result of collaborative research from GEO, Ashoka, Social Impact Exchange, Taproot Foundation and TCC Group - explores four approaches to growing impact and the role that grantmakers can play in supporting nonprofit success.

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    GEOAsks: Vic De Luca, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

    In this issue of GEOAsks, we speak to Vic De Luca, president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, about the opportunities and challenges of funding in the movement-building space.
    • January 29, 2013
  • GEOList Members Only

    GEOList Summary: Fiscal Cliff and Budget Cuts

    If your foundation currently has a program similar to award funding - would you be willing to share your thoughts, guidelines, procedures and due-diligence criteria.
    • January 9, 2013
    • Rumsha Ahmed
  • GEOList Members Only

    GEOList Summary: Grant Applications and Reporting Examples

    Examples of other grant application and reporting procedures that you have found to be particularly effective for different types of grants (including challenge grants) and across program areas.
    • December 27, 2012
    • Rumsha Ahmed
  • GEOList Members Only

    GEOList Summary: Exit Strategies for Long-Term Operating Grants

    A grantee partner has asked our advice about exit strategies for long-time recipients of operating support grants. Any lessons and thoughts on exit strategies for operating support would be helpful.
    • December 20, 2012
    • Rumsha Ahmed
  • Member Story

    George Kaiser Family Foundation

    Nov. 2012 Member Spotlight: George Kaiser Family Foundation
    • November 6, 2012
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    GEOAsks: Alice Shobe, Building Changes

    In this issue’s GEO ASKS we talk to Alice Shobe, executive director of Building Changes in Seattle.
    • October 24, 2012
  • Publication

    Strategic Co-Funding: An Approach for Expanded Impact

    Co-published by GEO and REDF as an update to REDF's 2008 article "Out of Philanthropy's Funding Maze: Roadmap #1, Strategic Co-Funding," designed to re-introduce the idea of strategic co-funding and highlight effective strategies and current examples.
    • October 17, 2012