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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Playbook
How Should We Approach Capacity-Building Work?

How Should We Approach Capacity-Building Work?
- March 6, 2014
Playbook
How Can We Be More Supportive of Nonprofit Financial Sustainability?

Grantmakers can take a number of steps to ensure that the support we provide to grantees, and the policies and procedures connected to that support, enables nonprofits to effectively fulfill their missions. The goal, as described by Clara Miller, formerly of Nonprofit Finance Fund, should be to “create an enterprise that can reliably attract revenue and deliver quality program over the long term.”
- March 5, 2014
Playbook
What Are the Different Ways to Collaborate?

In the nonprofit sector there are various forms of collaboration, ranging in formality, actors and purposes. Some of the most common types of collaboration include networks, coalitions, movements, strategic alliances, strategic co-funding, public private partnerships and collective impact initiatives.
- March 5, 2014
Playbook
How Can Grantmakers Support Movements?

Today, many grantmakers recognize the role of social movements in advancing opportunity, well-being and justice for all people. And more grantmakers are making a shift from solely supporting individual organizations and programs to supporting the multiple organizations and intersecting networks that make up movements.
- March 5, 2014
Publication
Smarter Philanthropy for Greater Impact: Rethinking How Grantmakers Support Scale

This special supplement was created to capture the latest thinking about how nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, public funders and social entrepreneurs can increase the impact of successful solutions to urgent social challenges.
- February 20, 2014
Member Story
Member Story: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

Member Story: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
- February 20, 2014
Member Story Members Only
GEOAsks: Paul Shoemaker, SVP Seattle

In this month’s GEO ASKS, we speak with Paul Shoemaker, executive connector of SVP Seattle, to learn about why his organization provides unrestricted support.
- February 13, 2014
GEOList Members Only
GEOList Summary: Funder Collaborative Bylaws

I am hoping to gather some sample funder collaborative bylaws – both for more informal funder groups and for those that have a more formal structure (who align or pool funding).
- January 27, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
Member Story
Member Story: The Patterson Foundation

Florida foundation with unfettered charter focuses on how best to support partnerships and collaboration among nonprofits and other organizations.
- January 15, 2014
Playbook
What Are Three Principles for Supporting Nonprofit Capacity

There is not one “right way” to provide capacity-building support because each leader and organization is unique and circumstances are always changing. Grantmakers should keep “The Three Cs” in mind when providing capacity-building support: make it contextual, continuous and collective.
- January 14, 2014