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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  • Related Materials Members Only

    Excerpt: Knowledge Gaps

    An excerpt from GEO’s upcoming publication, On the Money: The Key Financial Challenges Facing Nonprofits Today — and How Grantmakers Can Help.
    • July 30, 2009
  • GEOList Members Only

    GEOList Summary: Operating Grants for Coalitions Using a Fiscal Sponsor

    Thoughts on awarding operating grants to coalitions using a fiscal sponsor.
    • July 16, 2009
    • Rumsha Ahmed
  • GEOList Members Only

    GEOList Summary: Program Related Investments

    Regarding program related investments, what are the payment requirements? What is the process to convert a PRI into a grant? What is the typical length of a loan? Are PRIs ever used as bridge funding?
    • July 7, 2009
    • Rumsha Ahmed
  • Publication

    Smarter Grantmaking in Challenging Economic Times

    A collection of resources and examples of GEO members showing steady leadership in addressing the economic crisis.
    • April 28, 2009
  • Executive Summary Members Only

    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
  • Executive Summary Members Only

    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
  • GEOList Members Only

    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
  • Publication

    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.

  • Toolkit Members Only

    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
  • GEOList Members Only

    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