Community-Driven Philanthropy - 2024 Remote Learning Series
2024 Remote Learning Series
Event Details
Through the Community-Driven Philanthropy series, participants will have the opportunity to explore the practices that matter most to nonprofits through a combination of in-depth conversation, practical examples, and thought-provoking discussions with the GEO community.
Start: Thursday, September 5, 2:00 PM Eastern
End: Wednesday, October 30, 4:00 PM Eastern
If you have any questions about this Remote Learning Series, please contact our Program Team at programs@geofunders.org.
Registration Period Extended!
Registration for the 2024 Community-Driven Philanthropy Remote Learning Series is now open via Jotform and closes on Wednesday, September 4, or once we reach 50 participants, whichever comes first.
The registration period has been extended. Any new participants will have their form processed and receive their welcome note with resources on the next business day.
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PHILANTHROPY REMOTE LEARNING SERIES COST
- $650 - Current GEO Members
- $1000 - Non-GEO members
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PHILANTHROPY REMOTE LEARNING SERIES DATES AND TIMES
- Session 1: Thursday, September 5th, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
- Session 2: Thursday, September 19th, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
- Session 3: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
- Session 4: Thursday, October 17th, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
- Session 5: Thursday, October 24th, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
- Session 6: Wednesday, October 30th, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
Sessions will be facilitated via Zoom. Registered participants will receive pre-reading materials and login information 1 week prior to the series start.
About the Community-Driven Philanthropy Remote Learning Series
This 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. Participants will explore the practices that matter most to nonprofits through a combination of in-depth conversation, practical examples, and thought-provoking discussions.
Participants will:
• Build their own capacity for having difficult conversations around the historically rooted relationship between philanthropy and community distrust.
• Understand the conditions necessary to build and sustain trust with community members and the need for building the capacity for long-term social change.
• Start to map and analyze power at the individual, organizational, and community levels to create plans to identify ways in which philanthropy can equitably cede power in communities and with nonprofit partners.
• Understand and use the Community and Nonprofit Participation Spectrum* and Philanthropic Processes for Participation to map current and future community-driven actions.
• Do a deep dive on listening and feedback as a critical way to inform community-driven philanthropy, gaining familiarity with key competencies for high-quality feedback loops and their connection to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Get an overview of different toolboxes in the sector to help their future community-driven philanthropy efforts, including Fund for Shared Insight Listening & Feedback Funder Action Menu, NCRP Power Moves, and the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project.
• Lean into current diagnoses, analyses and interpretations of our roles and the sector of philanthropy; and envision a future of community-driven integration and systems change.
• Connect and build relationships with other GEO members who can be a resource and support in implementing community-driven philanthropy in their work.
The series is highly interactive and active participation is required to gain the most from this course.
Participant Eligibility
GEO Remote Learning Series 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. Additionally, participation is limited to a maximum of three individuals from a given organization in the Remote Learning Series.
Our Remote Learning Series participant eligibility policy intends to create a space where participants can speak openly and candidly about challenges within their work while also allowing people from a variety of grantmaking and philanthropy-supporting organizations to participate in the series.
GEO will only accept participant registrations that are in accordance with our eligibility policy. GEO has the discretion to edit your submission, in accordance with our policies, and will alert participants to any changes.
If you are not a GEO member and are interested in becoming a member, please visit our membership page or email Membership Manager Bo Dorsey at membership@geofunders.org.
