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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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Building Collaboration From the Inside Out

Looking inward and ensuring that an organization has the right elements in place to be a good partner and collaborator is necessary even though the tactics of how to collaborate vary depending on who an organization may work with or on the size, type and formality of the effort.
- October 26, 2015
- Collaboration Profile: Dallas Women's Foundation
  
  Participating in the North Texas Asset Funders Network provided an opportunity for the Dallas Women’s Foundation to leverage grant dollars, elevate its profile, expand its reach, advance its mission and strengthen its impact.
- Collaboration Profile: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  
  The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation takes an intentional approach to supporting networks within the field of ocean conservation by employing strategies that weave together organizations into networks and foster productive grantmaker-grantee relationships.
- Collaboration Profile: Greater Houston Community Foundation
  
  Responding to donor interest in achieving greater impact through collaboration.
- Collaboration Profile: Iowa West Foundation
  
  Shifting from responsive grantmaking to strategic investments requires new skill sets, a new communications approach and new partnerships.
- Collaboration Profile: Kaiser Permanente
  
  Capturing and documenting how and when to partner with others so staff have a clearer idea of the organization’s collaboration approach -- and what works.
- Collaboration Profile: Missouri Foundation for Health
  
  Using facilitation skills and developmental evaluation tools to build a more collaborative relationship with partners in a collective impact initiative.
- 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.
- Collaboration Profile: The Philadelphia Foundation
  
  Supporting nonprofit collaboration by building funder collaborations.
- 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.
- 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.
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Collaboration Profile: Dallas Women's Foundation

Participating in the North Texas Asset Funders Network provided an opportunity for the Dallas Women’s Foundation to leverage grant dollars, elevate its profile, expand its reach, advance its mission and strengthen its impact.
- October 26, 2015
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Discussion Starter: Our Culture

The discussion starter can be used to delve into questions that are often challenging to raise and to surface issues that may be invisible.
- October 22, 2015
Member Story
Member Story: R.J. McElroy Trust

Member Story: R.J. McElroy Trust
- October 21, 2015
Publication
The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

Philanthropy evolves slowly, despite (or maybe because of) very few external constraints or imperatives. Historically, good stewardship of philanthropic resources has focused on preserving capital and growing assets for the benefit of future generations. But given the complex, evolving nature of challenges like poverty and climate change, as well as what we have learned about how best to support nonprofit success and community impact, we must shift our conception of good stewardship in order to make significant progress in solving large-scale problems.
- October 8, 2015
- Discussion Starter: Our Culture
  
  The discussion starter can be used to delve into questions that are often challenging to raise and to surface issues that may be invisible.
Playbook
How Do We Determine the Right Role to Play in Collaboration?

Collaborations — groups of grantmakers, nonprofits and other stakeholders aligning around a shared vision and targeting resources and activities in support of that vision — require partners to play various roles to be successful. Once grantmakers make the decision to work together, the next step is to consider what role(s) we play in the collaboration. This piece outlines a variety of roles grantmakers can play in collaboratives and offers tips for identifying the right role(s) for each organization.
- October 8, 2015
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Collaboration Profile: Missouri Foundation for Health

Using facilitation skills and developmental evaluation tools to build a more collaborative relationship with partners in a collective impact initiative.
- October 4, 2015
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Collaboration Profile: Greater Houston Community Foundation

Responding to donor interest in achieving greater impact through collaboration.
- October 4, 2015
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GEOList Summary: Lessons Learned on Scaling a Model Program

The Sobrato Family Foundation (SFF) is looking for examples where a foundation has incubated a program and then made decisions about how to best structure it for scale.
- October 1, 2015
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Document Management Policies and Procedures

Do you have examples of organizational guidelines, policies, or procedures that describe how electronic documents are managed within an organization?
- October 1, 2015
- Rumsha Ahmed