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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    GEOList Summary: Family Leave Policies

    What sort of paid maternity, paternity, and/or family leave does your Foundation offer and who does it cover – ie, birth parents, adoptive parents, employees providing caregiving for aging parents?
    • July 16, 2018
    • Austin Frizzell
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    Racial Equity Training Specifically for Foundations

    I’m looking for recommendations of consultants and/or organizations that offer racial equity training specifically for foundations and grantmakers.
    • July 10, 2018
    • Austin Frizzell
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    GEOList Summary: Contracts with a DEI Lens

    We’re interested in more equitable hiring practices as well as contracting language around ownership of ideas & information generated, reciprocal confidentiality clauses, hiring of subcontractors, and anything else related to the terms of a contract.
    • June 30, 2018
    • Austin Frizzell
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    2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Funding for Justice and Change

    To achieve our vision for individuals and communities, grantmakers must work to address the historic, emerging, dynamic and collective forces at work to suppress racial, social and economic justice.
    • June 13, 2018
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    2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: The GEO Community at 20

    Over the last 20 years, the GEO community has worked to transform a desire for results into real improvements by creating spaces where grantmakers learn together and use that learning to drive concrete changes in the way grantmaking work gets done. As a field, we've made progress. And, as we continue learning together, our understanding of effective philanthropy evolves.
    • June 13, 2018
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    2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Automating Austerity

    Virginia Eubanks, professor at the University at Albany, SUNY and author of Automating Inequality offered lessons from twenty years of research and reporting on the use of digital tools in public service programs to place the big data revolution in its political and economic context.
    • June 13, 2018
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    2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Creating Space for Systems Change

    Raj Jayadev of Silicon Valley De-Bug shared how De-Bug has been transforming the criminal justice system using a "participatory defense" approach that empowers families and community members to sway the result of court cases. He suggested ways grantmakers can support systems change work led by nonprofits and communities, and how creating space allows for the innovation that's needed to tackle oppressive systems and institutions.
    • June 13, 2018
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    2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Stories as Catalysts for Widespread Change

    American culture and narratives are rooted in a collective ambivalence about how we formed this country - in both oppression and opportunity; open doors to some, closed to others; welcoming from afar but often discriminatory day-to-day. But traditional messaging campaigns and op-eds aren't generally effective at moving people toward a greater sense of shared fate.
    • June 13, 2018
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    2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: The Implications of Implicit Bias

    Focusing on equity necessitates reflection on ourselves and reckoning with the impact of our actions, regardless of our intentions. Understanding how implicit bias can manifest in behavior is crucial to understanding how our organizations may perpetuate the very inequities we seek to reduce.
    • June 13, 2018
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    2018 National Conference Discussion Guide: Centering Philanthropic Change in Community

    Organizations seeking to support authentic change on complex, multi-layered issues often find that listening to and being in relationship with impacted communities is central to the work.
    • June 13, 2018