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: Communicating about strategy change

For those of you who have been through foundation strategy shifts, I am wondering what you have learned about communicating with grantees and non-grantees throughout the process? What worked well, and what did not seem to go so well?
- September 13, 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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Conversation Starter: Understanding Incentives

When certain aspects of the “old” culture seem intractable, even though new expectations have been introduced, the culprit could be that old behaviors are still inadvertently incentivised.
- July 3, 2018
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Conversation Starter: Seeing and Understanding Culture

This conversation starter will explore how foundation leaders have made organizational culture more visible to themselves and others.
- July 3, 2018
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Conversation Starter: Translating Values into Practice

Values gain meaning and immediacy when they have a direct connection to policies, practices and behaviors. This piece discusses the importance of translating values into specific, actionable behaviors that can be experienced and noticed so that the organization’s culture reflects those values.
- July 3, 2018
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Organizational Culture: Articles and Readings

This list compiles articles, reports and other readings on each phase of the culture framework.
- July 3, 2018
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Smarter Grantmaking in Action: Understanding Culture at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiated a multiyear process to shift its organizational culture. It all started with a deeper look at the current culture, the degree to which it matched the foundation’s values and aspirations, and potential changes to create more alignment.
- June 22, 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: 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
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GEOList Summary: Managing Communications When A Foundation Is Narrowing Its Focus

How do we invite conversations with the two communities we’ve identified for this shift, without sounding alarms both within those communities (by some who might fear that the Foundation will impose an unwelcome agenda) and outside those communities (by former grantees who will no longer be eligible for funding)?
- March 27, 2018
- Aerial Reese