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Workshop: Exploring Culture to Effectively Reach Your Mission

Join Grantmakers for Effective Organizations in partnership with North Carolina Network of Grantmakers for a culture workshop designed for mid- to senior-level leaders who are at the early stages of centering equity within their organizational culture or those who are looking to shift their organizational culture to center equity to better support their values, mission and goals.

Interested in learning how your organizational culture either supports or detracts from your organization’s effectiveness? Join Grantmakers for Effective Organizations in partnership with North Carolina Network of Grantmakers for this full day interactive workshop designed for mid- to senior-level leaders who are at the early stages of centering equity within their organizational culture or those who are looking to shift their organizational culture to center equity to better support their values, mission and goals.

Through this workshop, you will have the opportunity to deeply engage with your peers and participate in activities designed to help you understand and assess your current organizational culture and its impact on your effectiveness and the success of your nonprofit partners.

After this workshop, you will:

  • Understand GEO’s culture framework and where your organization’s culture currently falls within that framework.
  • Explore your current and aspirational culture while centering equity related to a specific organizational goal, challenge or opportunity and identify next steps for making progress.
  • Learn approaches for assessing and strengthening alignment between stated organizational values and actual behaviors.

 

Registration for this workshop is closed. Please reach out to programs@geofunders.org with any registration-related questions.

Stay tuned to the GEO events page for upcoming programs.

GEO and NCNG’s culture workshop will be held at: Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC 27701.

The nearest airport to Durham is the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) Airport which is about 15 miles from the Durham Arts Council. Other nearby airports include Greensboro (GSO) (66 miles) and Fayetteville Municipal (FAY) (97 miles).

For lodging accommodations, we recommend any of the following options, each about a five-minute walk from the Durham Arts Council: the Durham Marriott City CenterThe Durham Hotel, or 21c Museum Hotel Durham.

Please do not make travel arrangements until you have registered for the event and received confirmation of your registration from GEO’s registration team. If you have any questions, please contact programs@geofunders.org.

GEO workshops are open to current GEO members; all staff and trustees of grantmaking institutions; staff of philanthropy-supporting infrastructure groups, such as regional associations of grantmakers and affinity groups; and staff of academic institutions and programs focused primarily on the study of philanthropy and the practice of giving.

Limiting participation to organizations that are eligible for GEO membership creates a space where participants can speak openly and candidly about challenges within their work.

To achieve this, GEO workshops are not open to nonprofits and grant seekers unless invited to speak at the workshop. Similarly, consultants are not eligible to attend GEO workshops unless they are invited to speak or are registered to represent a current client foundation. Should consultants wish to attend on behalf of a current client foundation, GEO requires confirmation from the client foundation confirming the consultant’s affiliation, and consultants should be registered as part of or by the client foundation.

Please visit our membership page for additional information on GEO membership and conference participation eligibility.

Please note our refund policy: all workshop registrations are non-refundable. No requests for refunds will be granted for no shows. Participants may choose to transfer their registration to a colleague or peer with the same membership level. Transfers must be requested to Allison Beck at beck@geofunders.org by September 20th, 2024. No refunds will be issued for transferred registrations.

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