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
What Mindset is Needed to Support Collaboration?

Throughout history, social change has been possible only through the contributions and dedication of many people and organizations connected in tight and loose groups. Recognizing that operating within the confines of a single organization is often insufficient to create widespread, lasting change, grantmakers are adopting a different mindset that helps them see and do their work as part of larger, more diverse and powerful efforts.
- July 18, 2014
Playbook
Where Can We Go to Dig Deeper on Collaboration?

This document contains resources and websites that can assist grantmakers in exploring different ways to work with peers, grantees, community members and others to achieve shared goals.
- July 17, 2014
Playbook
Why Do Funders Work with Intermediaries?

Why Do Funders Work with Intermediaries?
- July 15, 2014
Playbook
What is Strategic Co-Funding?

What is Strategic Co-Funding?
- July 15, 2014
GEOList Members Only
GEOList Summary: Supporting Nonprofit Collaboration

Understanding the complexities of collaborations, please share any information on how funders can be effective supporters of nonprofits seeking to collaborate/partner without prescribing something that is doomed to fail?
- June 19, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
Member Story Members Only
GEOAsks: Vini Bhansali, IDEX

In this issue of GEOAsks we talk to Rajasvini Bhansali, executive director of IDEX, to learn about the collaborative process the foundation underwent to develop this new theory of change.
- June 11, 2014
GEOList Members Only
GEOList Summary: Investing in Social Enterprise

What funders out there are either currently funding social enterprises (and if so, how and why), or are thinking about it (and why)?
- June 5, 2014
- Rumsha Ahmed
Playbook
What Capacities do Nonprofits Need in Order to Collaborate?

Collective action is an effective way for nonprofits to increase their impact, but they often lack the key capacities that enable these types of partnerships to thrive. Nonprofits need time and space to explore and employ the power of collective action to advance their missions. They also need organizational slack, and board and staff leaders who are adept at building relationships and sharing power and responsibility.
- May 29, 2014
Member Story
Member Story: Living Cities

Member Story: Living Cities
- May 20, 2014
Member Story
Who is Working Well Together? Marguerite Casey Foundation

Seattle-based grantmaker builds regional networks of organizations working to engage low-income families as advocates for change.
- May 15, 2014