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Assessing the Impact: General Operating Support Volume 2

Many grantmakers agree that general operating support can boost effectiveness and impact for nonprofits. At the same time, however, the field continues to struggle to answer a question that has become a significant barrier to the wider use of general operating support: How are we going to measure its impact? This supplement to GEO?s General Operating Support Action Guide was created to demonstrate how some grantmakers are assessing the impact of general operating support.

Imagine Involve Implement: Action Guide

Real change is happening in philanthropy as pioneering grantmakers find new ways to break down the traditional barriers standing in the way of nonprofit success.

General Operating Support: Action Guide

What is general operating support? How are grantmakers providing it? GEO’s answer to these questions (and more) were inspired by a spirited conversation that took place in early 2007 on the GEO listserv.