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Four Essentials for Evaluation

Publication date: 
06/2012
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations created this guide to help grantmakers get to the next level in their evaluation efforts and embed evaluation practices more deeply in the work of their organizations. GEO pinpoints four essential steps —Lead, Plan, Organize and Share— and includes the stories of 13 GEO members who have demonstrated effective evaluation in action.
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Evaluation
Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Increasing Impact, Enhancing Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Leading Corporate Philanthropy

Publication date: 
04/2012
What is the role of corporate philanthropy in business and society? This guide offers original field research and provides clear and practical paths forward for the future of the field and the role of corporate foundations, including a five element agenda for leaders of corporate foundations and giving programs to advance their practice and profession.
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Corporate Funders
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Governance
Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Scanning the Landscape 2.0: Finding Out What's Going on in Your Field

Publication date: 
04/2012
GrantCraft talked with funders working in the U.S., Europe and internationally about when, why and how it’s useful to scan the landscape for new ideas and new directions. An update of their 2004 publication, with 15 new interviews, Scan 2.0 is filled with examples of scans that have helped funders find a strategic direction, hear from key constituencies, understand emerging issues, map the funding environment and synthesize information and find gaps.
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Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? A National Study of Philanthropic Practice

Publication date: 
03/2012
GEO's new national field survey of grantmaking practice (conducted by research partner TCC Group) examines the connection between listening to and learning with grantees and improving practices to achieve better results. In light of the global economic downturn, this survey also highlights some of the key shifts in grantmaking since 2008 and what they mean for supporting nonprofit resilience.
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Evaluation
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors
Related Organizations 
TCC Group

Forty Years of LGBTQ Philanthropy: 1970-2010

Publication date: 
01/2012
Published on the occasion of Funders for LGBTQ Issues' 30th anniversary, this report documents the first 40 years of U.S. foundation support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities. Among the report's findings: in total, 799 U.S. foundations have invested more than $771 million and nearly 36,000 grants in LGBTQ issues from 1970 to 2010, with the Arcus Foundation as the largest single foundation donor by dollar amount (the Ford and Tides foundations are also in the top ten).
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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors
Funding Area 
LGBTQ
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Arcus Foundation

Catalyzing Networks for Social Change: A Funder’s Guide

Publication date: 
11/2011
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and Monitor Institute explore what it takes for grantmakers to cultivate a network mindset, and offer recommendations for how funders can effectively build the capacity of networks and share what they’re learning with the broader field.
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