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.

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GEOList Summary: Examples of Curbside Consulting

Seeking examples of “curbside consulting” or other examples of free, limited consulting and guidance that foundations offer to the staff of nonprofit organizations. Does your foundation offer a program like this, either to your grantees or to the general public, or something similar?
- July 25, 2007
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Big Ideas: Expanding the Way We Approach Grantmaking Opportunities

Examples of how "big ideas" were adopted or developed and how they shifted culture.
- July 25, 2007
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Nonprofit Financial Capacity-Building Best Practices

Capacity-building models that specialize in fiscal turnarounds.
- July 24, 2007
- Rumsha Ahmed
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Listen, Learn, Lead: Grantmaker Practices that Support Nonprofit Results

GEO's Change Agent Project seeks to inspire change in grantmakers so they can help their grantees achieve meaningful results. This report on Phase 1 of GEO's Change Agent Project delves deeper into what is necessary to instill change in grantmaking practices. This publication was reprinted in 2010.
- June 27, 2006
- Executive Summary: Listen, Learn, Lead
  
  GEO's Change Agent Project seeks to inspire change in grantmakers so they can help their grantees achieve meaningful results. This report on Phase 1 of GEO's Change Agent Project delves deeper into what is necessary to instill change in grantmaking practices.
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Executive Summary: Listen, Learn, Lead

GEO's Change Agent Project seeks to inspire change in grantmakers so they can help their grantees achieve meaningful results. This report on Phase 1 of GEO's Change Agent Project delves deeper into what is necessary to instill change in grantmaking practices.
- June 27, 2006
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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
- Discussion Guide: Investing in Leadership Vol.2
  
  Discussion Guide: Investing in Leadership Vol.2
- 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.
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Investing in Leadership (Vol. 1): A Grantmaker's Framework for Understanding Nonprofit Leadership Development

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.
- June 27, 2005
- 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.
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Assessing Startup Organizations: A due diligence supplement for grantmakers

Assessing Startup Organizations: A due diligence supplement for grantmakers
- June 13, 2003
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In Search of Strategic Solutions

This publication is the result of a five-year national study on strategic restructuring of nonprofits.
- January 6, 2003
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Capacity Building for Impact: The Future of Effectiveness for Nonprofits

Capacity Building for Impact: The Future of Effectiveness for Nonprofits
- March 1, 2002