Member Call: How Can We Be In This Together? Highlights and Resources
Highlights, Key Takeaways and Resources from the October 16, 2017, Member Call: How Can We Be In This Together? A Funder Discussion with Nonprofits.
Resource Type: Event Materials
The Learning Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Culture in Action
Recognizing the need for adopting and maintaining a learning culture in our organizations is just the first step. How do we go about addressing the challenge of actually creating and living out this culture in our daily work and across our organization? What does it mean to have an active learning culture in your organization?
The Learning Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Visualizing Data for Your Audience
Jon Schwabish’s Short Talk at GEO’s Learning Conference 2017 offered ways to expand how we think about about sharing information by considering the many ways to visualize data and how those visualization efforts help different audiences.
The Learning Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Listening to Communities for Transformational Change
At GEO’s Learning Conference 2017, Rami Nashashibi, the executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), discussed how funders can engage with American Muslim identity, community activism and social justice issues for effective and truly transformative grantmaking.
The Learning Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Disrupting a City’s Culture Using Evidence-Based Optimism
As the managing director of Chicago Beyond, a philanthropic venture investing in ideas and programs to amplify impact for Chicago’s youth, Liz Dozier discussed at GEO’s Learning Conference 2017 how Chicago Beyond is bringing community voice into data collection to answer thorny questions and spur the innovation it seeks for the young people of Chicago.
The Learning Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Who Do You Think We Are?
At GEO’s Learning Conference 2017, Trabian Shorters of the BMe Community discussed how negative portrayals of black men and African American communities affect the ways we interact with communities. And Trabian outlined how “asset-framing” and changing the way we think and talk about certain communities can be used to combat bias, shift perspective and inspire constructive action.
The Learning Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Escaping the Echo Chamber
Jessamyn Shams-Lau, the executive director of the Peery Foundation, gave a Short Talk at GEO’s Learning Conference 2017 that offered an insider look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of building an organizational culture of seeking, discussing, and implementing feedback at a family foundation.
The Learning Conference 2017 Discussion Guide: Learning and Equity Plenary
Grantmakers committed to equity know that it must be incorporated into every facet of their work, including learning and evaluation. This session showcases different perspectives on this topic.
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