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: Board Compensation

I am inquiring whether any peer foundations within GEO offer stipends for board participation, and if so, what is the dollar amount and how is it determined?
- August 12, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
Member Story Members Only
GEOAsks: Anne Sherman, The Social Impact Exchange

n this issue of GEOAsks we talk to Anne Sherman, vice president of nonprofit strategy at Growth Philanthropy Network.
- August 7, 2014
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GEOList Summary: Capacity-Building Consultant Work

The majority of the consultant proposals organizations have received are for exactly the “up to” amount. I am interested in knowing if this is or has been an issue for others. How has your foundation addressed this issue and what language you have used to eliminate it?
- August 5, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Employee Volunteer Program

Does your foundation have an employee volunteer program? I’m interested in knowing how you approached the idea, what values or assumptions or goals led to its implementation and what you’ve gained (or lost) from it.
- August 1, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Matching Gifts Policy

Do any of your foundations match contributions of staff/board members other than cash donations or volunteer hours to a nonprofit?
- August 1, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
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GEOList Summary: Building Board Membership

What methods have you used or seen used to encourage community members to join nonprofit boards? What has been your success rate?
- July 30, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
Member Story
Who Is Supporting Nonprofit Financial Sustainability? Pierce Family Foundation

Chicago foundation provides multiyear operating grants to core grantees, plus a range of focused capacity-building support.
- July 24, 2014
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GEOList Summary: Nonprofit Health Index

Our goal is to identify any studies or indexes that create a baseline of organizational health indicators from which capacity builders can address collectively.
- July 24, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
Playbook
What Makes a Successful Learning Community?

Learning communities are powerful vehicles for both individuals and communities to amass a shared collection of experience around learning and results from collective action. Grantmakers are well positioned to provide the types of support that catalyze, develop and sustain learning communities. This piece offers key learning for grantmakers about the design, execution and outcomes of learning communities.
- July 21, 2014
Playbook
How Can We Grow Impact?

In the midst of a mounting imperative to achieve better and more substantial results, grantmakers of all kinds are shifting the way they think about scale, emphasizing not size or reach but impact. Growing impact doesn’t necessarily require organizational growth or the wholesale replication of programs — it may instead require expanding an idea, technology, advocacy or policy change.
- July 18, 2014