💻 Perspectives: New on the GEO Blog Learning Together: The Value in Community Convening by Executive Director Taryn Taddeo Palumbo of Orange County Grantmakers. Taryn gives us her thoughts on how coming together can spark insight, discussion, connection and action. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4bX3z1V
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
Non-profit Organizations
Washington, DC 17,724 followers
GEO is a community of funders committed to transforming philanthropic culture and practice.
About us
The GEO community makes the difference between grantmaking as usual and transformational change. We’re more than 6,000 grantmakers working together to turn a hunger for more effective philanthropy into clear pathways for achieving it. We’re cutting through the noise to lift up the practices that matter most to nonprofits. The GEO community gives grantmakers the opportunity to work with others navigating the same journey to improve. With conferences focused on solving of-the-moment challenges, regular opportunities for peer learning, and publications that lift up best practice and examples from peers, GEO speeds grantmakers’ progress on the road to effectiveness. Four out of five GEO members outpace the field in adopting smarter grantmaking practices. To learn more about how GEO is making faster progress possible, visit www.geofunders.org.
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http://www.geofunders.org
External link for Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1997
- Specialties
- organizational effectiveness, trends in philanthropy, smarter grantmaking, behavior change, learning and evaluation, leadership development, general operating support, stakeholder engagement, innovation, multiple approaches to scale, capacity building, strengthening relationships, change management, philanthropy, grantmakers, community, and collaboration
Locations
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Primary
1725 DeSales Street NW
Washington, DC 20036, US
Employees at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
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Anita Patel, MPP
Vice President of Grantmaking at Bush Foundation
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Lydia Guterman (she/her)
Philanthropy Advising for Ambitious Changemakers
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Cozzie (cozy) King
Nonprofit Professional | Chaos Coordinator |Emerging Leader | Thought Partner | Always Grateful | Joy Seeker |The Protagonist (ENFJ-A)|
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Tiffany Musa
Creative Storyteller. Content Manager. Connector. Fierce advocate for mothers of color.
Updates
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The wait is over! Tune into a special episode of Break Fake Rules featuring leading antiracist scholar and director at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Marcus Walton. Filmed in front of a live audience of rule breakers at #GEO2024, this episode digs into the fake rules that divide us by race and identity. 🎙️Learn from Dr. Kendi about the construct of race and how racist division prevents us from living into our full humanity. ”Racist ideas and bigotry across different areas not only prevents us from recognizing the full humanity of the other, but in being unable to recognize the full humanity of the other, we're actually not able to live in the full humanity of ourselves,” says Dr. Kendi. 💡 Hear Marcus Walton connect what this means for philanthropy, and why we must break the institutional barriers that prevent us from realizing philanthropy’s true purpose. “Institutionalizing a thing, that is philanthropy, that has existed within human relationships since the beginning of humanity dehumanizes it by definition.” 💡 Which fake rules do we need to break to create an #antiracist society? Watch the episode to find out! Tune in to the full episode on your favorite podcast platform: https://lnkd.in/eztBc7Aa Or catch the insightful discussion on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gtEMAWrH 🗞️ Sign up for The Emancipator newsletter for up to date news on the people, organizations, and topics shaping the antiracism movement today. #BeAntiracist #BreakFakeRules #BecauseChangeCantWait #StupskiFoundation #GrantmakersforEffectiveOrganizations #Philanthropy
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Are you facing barriers in implementing an equitable practice to your organization's operations? Join the Equitable Operations Peer Communities "Burning Topics" discussion on July 18th! The Equitable Operations Peer Community is a forum where members bring their burning topics to draw from the wisdom of a group of equitable operations practitioners to brainstorm solutions. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eCXks5RS
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Get ready to Break Fake Rules with leading antiracist scholar and director at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) , Marcus Walton, and Stupski Foundation CEO, Glen Galaich! Catch a sneak peek 👀 of the episode dropping on July 17 on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. “We have been taught that freedom is chaotic, so we’ve run back into slavery,” says Dr. Kendi. Find out which fake rules we need to break to create an #antiracist society. Subscribe to Stupski Foundation’s YouTube channel to get notified when the full episode drops. ⏰ https://lnkd.in/gNupMBB9 #BeAntiracist #BreakFakeRules #BecauseChangeCantWait #StupskiFoundation #GrantmakersforEffectiveOrganizations #Philanthropy
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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
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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
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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
Let’s Go Beyond ‘One Foundation’: The Promise of Changing Practices in Philanthropy | The Center for Effective Philanthropy
https://cep.org
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🎉 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
Celebrating 15 Years of Knowledge Building for Transformation
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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) reposted this
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
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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.