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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Collaboration Profile: Woods Fund Chicago

Woods Fund Chicago, a member of the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance, demonstrates that funding collaboratives can be successful when funders participate equally regardless of their financial contributions.
- October 4, 2016
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Collaboration Profile: United Way of Washtenaw County

United Way of Washtenaw County believed nonprofits could achieve greater impact with more efficiency if local funders coordinated and streamlined the grantmaking process.
- October 4, 2016
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Collaboration Profile: Sand Hill Foundation

Sand Hill Foundation’s adaptability helped sustain a long-term funder–nonprofit collaborative even as leadership roles shifted, nonprofit capacities improved and funding partner staff turned over.
- October 4, 2016
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Collaboration Profile: The Philadelphia Foundation

Supporting nonprofit collaboration by building funder collaborations.
- October 4, 2016
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GEOList Summary: Grantmaking Options to Individual Members of a Collaborative

If anyone has provided a pool of funding to a group and put the power of distribution in its hands or conversely, has held a competitive process within a collaborative effort, I’d be interested to hear your advice and lessons learned
- October 1, 2016
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Grants to Incentivize Collaboration

I was wondering if any other foundations offer grants or additional grant dollars on top of a regular grant to incentivize collaboration amongst the nonprofits in your community?
- October 1, 2016
- Rumsha Ahmed
Member Story
Member Story: The Missouri Foundation for Health

Member Story: The Missouri Foundation for Health
- August 17, 2016
Member Story
Member Story: The Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

Member Story: The Fannie E. Rippel Foundation
- June 23, 2016
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GEOList Summary: Advancing Systems Level Change

We are looking to other foundations who have funded promising programs and/or partnerships on this issue. Please send us your experiences with these programs/partnerships.
- May 13, 2016
- Rumsha Ahmed
Publication
Systems Grantmaking Resource Guide

Philanthropy is ever on a quest to increase effectiveness. Over the last few decades, there have been efforts to be more proactive, strategic, outcomes focused, learning oriented and inclusive. Along this journey, grantmakers have increasingly recognized that impact does not happen in isolation. The daunting problems facing society today are deeply embedded in a web of intractable issues, fragmented relationships and unpredictable events.
- February 17, 2016