Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

Join GEO this month for new learning and networking opportunities! We have many exciting opportunities to learn and network with your peers. Keep reading to learn more about the resources and engagements offered this month to change philanthropic culture: 📅 July 15-17: 2024 United Philanthropy Forum Annual Conference 📅 July 15: The Value of Learning in Grantmaking to Migrant Communities 📅 July 16: GEO in St. Louis, MO: Networking Event 📅 July 18: Equitable Operations Peer Community: Burning Topics 📅 July 25: New Member Orientation 🌟 Coming Soon: 📅 July 31- August 21: Foundations of Racial Equity For more information, visit our Events page: https://lnkd.in/dkWTjHFJ

CompassPoint is a 50-year old nonprofit leadership development practice based in Oakland, CA committed to helping social justice leaders, nonprofit organizations, and movements realize their full power through leadership development, coaching, peer networks, consulting, and research and publication. Following the 2020 racial reckoning, CompassPoint navigated plenty of discomfort and generative tension to internally shift their practice away from a decades-old framework of “cultural competence” to one that is explicitly pro-Black through experiments in shared leadership and racial justice-focused promotion and compensation. Learn more about this transformation in the REACH Fund's new resource, Meeting the Moment, Keeping the Momentum: Stories of Racial Equity and Liberatory Practices from the Field. https://lnkd.in/dYM9UVY8

NEW on the CEP blog: In response to CEP's State of Nonprofits 2024 survey, Claire Poelking reveals how the MacArthur Foundation has embraced changes to their grantmaking practices, aligning with the key findings of the CEP report. Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/dJhj2Yrf Read the full State of Nonprofits 2024 Report here: https://lnkd.in/eNtfGGhW #research #report #nonprofits #philanthropy #funders #blog #leaders #resources #burnout

🎉 Join us in celebrating the 15th anniversary of The Foundation Review! Published by the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, The Foundation Review is the nation’s first peer-reviewed journal of philanthropy, sharing knowledge and insights to inform the work of foundation staff and boards. Download and start exploring the new issue today — for free!  → https://lnkd.in/gpiikvWW #TheFoundationReview #philanthropy

Following a national search and extensive process, this morning the Weingart Board of Directors met and have enthusiastically and unanimously voted to appoint Joanna Jackson and C.E.O. of the Foundation effective immediately. Watch this message from our Board Chair to learn more: https://bit.ly/3XhtFJh

But what exactly is system capacity, why should funders invest in it, and how have staff successfully aligned their foundations with this approach? Join us on June 27 from 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., to explore these questions in a conversation led by Susan Misra, Principal and Founder of Aurora Commons, and Marissa Guerrero, program officer at Civil Society and Leadership at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. They will be joined by Judy Wright, director of state programs with the Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity (CGRE). Learn more and register here: ➡ https://bit.ly/45lnFBn.

New Remote Learning Opportunity: The 2024 Community Driven Philanthropy Remote Learning Series is a highly-interactive, six-session online learning series gives grantmakers in the GEO community the opportunity to learn from their peers about Community-Driven Philanthropy grantmaking approaches. Interested engaging in in-depth conversation and thought-provoking discussions with other members of the GEO community? Learn more and register today: https://lnkd.in/eDzbYb4s

Perspectives: New on the GEO Blog Reimagining Philanthropy with Humanity at the Core by Debbie Chang "Structural and systemic efforts don't change the conditions of communities by themselves. We must invest in the work of shifting hearts and minds so that people's consciences can create and support the change." Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eSg5pqKZ

Another incredible GEO conference has come to an end. #GEO2024 was full of insights and connections. Together, we sparked ideas, created space to rest, explored the challenges and dived into tools and frameworks for a philanthripic culture rooted in intersectional racial equity! Thank you to our partner Philanthropy California, our attendees, supporters, vendors and committee members for making this all possible!

Join us for the Closing Plenary of #GEO2024 on Wednesday, May 22. This session explores the concept of community care, delving into its individual, organizational, and systemic dimensions, and taking into account self-care within the current sociopolitical landscape. We'll end #GEO2024 on a high note, featuring: Taiko Center Drummers, GEO's own Akilah Massey, Nadia Brigham of Brigham Consulting, Rebecca Fox of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Enjolie Lafeurie of Cihupactli Collective and Gina Clayton-Johnson of the Essie Justice Group.