Collective action is an effective way for nonprofits to increase their impact, but key capacities are needed to enable these types of partnerships to thrive. This publication offers insights on the core capacities nonprofits need to collaborate and how funders can help.
We know that we need a different mindset to tackle complex, systemic challenges. This publication sets out to crack the code behind that mindset, empowering grantmakers and other leaders to succeed at building networks for social change.
Grantmakers often work with intermediaries to extend their reach and impact. This publication offers insights from intermediaries about the grantmaker practices that help or hinder their effectiveness.
Pathways to Grow Impact is for any grantmaker who wants his or her grant dollars to have a greater effect. The publication offers a framework for understanding different approaches to scaling impact, stories from nonprofit leaders who have successfully grown their organizations? impact, and practical recommendations for grantmakers seeking more effective ways to achieve better results.
Funders are finding ways to use the power of convening to benefit their grantees and their communities in countless ways. GEO’s digital publication contains a series of ideas to help grantmakers become better at bringing stakeholders together.
This briefing shares five principles for engaging community stakeholders in evaluation planning, data collection and the interpretation and use of findings as part of place-based initiatives.
This publication explores how learning communities can be powerful tools in creating and shaping peer connections that help expand knowledge, deepen skills and enhance practice. Learn and Let Learn offers key insights for grantmakers…
Scaling What Works: Grantmakers Engaged in the Social Innovation Fund (2010-2012) as Collaborating Funders
Co-published by GEO and REDF as an update to REDF’s 2008 article “Out of Philanthropy’s Funding Maze: Roadmap #1, Strategic Co-Funding,” designed to re-introduce the idea of strategic co-funding and highlight effective strategies and current examples.
Evaluation is about more than ensuring that grantees are doing what they promise, or that a specific program area at a foundation is meeting its goals. Rather, it’s about advancing knowledge and understanding among grantmakers, their grantees and their partners about what’s working, what’s not and how to improve their performance over time.
Through examples from the field, the publication provides concrete steps grantmakers can take to build a gut-level connection with their stakeholders.
Using Evaluation to Become an Effective Learning Organization