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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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    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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    Discussion Guide: Investing in Leadership Vol.2

    Discussion Guide: Investing in Leadership Vol.2
    • January 15, 2008
  • Publication

    Imagine Involve Implement: Action Guide

    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.
    • January 1, 2008

    • Imagine Involve Implement: Action Guide

      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.

  • Publication

    The Departing: Exiting Nonprofit Leaders as a Resource for Social Change

    The study presents a variety of approaches to leveraging departing executive directors to benefit the broader community or field in which they have worked; suggests ways grantmakers can help seasoned leaders identify opportunities for making future contributions.
    • October 1, 2007
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    GEOList Summary: Addressing the Leadership Deficit

    How are foundations addressing the leadership deficit?
    • April 26, 2007
    • Rumsha Ahmed
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    Investing in Leadership (Vol. 2): Inspiration and Ideas from Philanthropy's Latest Frontier

    This publication explores a sampling of the leadership development practices being utilized now in the nonprofit sector.
    • June 28, 2005