Resources

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

Publication

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.

About 210 results.

Executive Summary Members Only
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
Executive Summary Members Only
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
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
Publication
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.
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.
GEOList Members Only
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
Playbook
What is Coaching and What are the Benefits?

Coaching is a process that supports individuals to make more conscious decisions and take more effective action. In a coaching relationship, an individual with leadership and coaching experience (the coach) provides customized support to one or more nonprofit leaders (coaches) for a limited period of time.
- March 10, 2008
Related Materials Members Only
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