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Great Power, Great Responsibility: Grantmakers’ Role as Conveners

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01/2013

Funders are finding ways to use the power of convening to benefit their grantees and their communities in countless ways. Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' digital publication contains a series of ideas to help grantmakers become better at bringing stakeholders together.

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Learn and Let Learn

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10/2012

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ publication explores how learning communities can be powerful tools in creating and shaping peer connections that help expand knowledge, deepen skills and enhance practice.

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Coaching and Philanthropy, An Action Guide for Grantmakers

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02/2010

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and its partners on the Coaching and Philanthropy Project took a deep dive into learning about the nonprofit sector’s support for and use of coaching, and consolidates that knowledge here into action guides and an online toolkit.

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Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field

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12/2009

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and the Council on Foundations explore how evaluation can help grantmakers learn and improve practices (not just "prove" results).

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On the Money

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09/2009

This Grantmakers for Effective Organizations publication highlights the financial challenges nonprofits face and the ways in which grantmakers are both improving the situation as well as perpetuating the problem.

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Finance & Asset Management

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Finance Staff

Grants Managers

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Nonprofit Financials

Assessing the Impact: General Operating Support Vol. 2

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10/2008

A Grantmakers for Effective Organizations presentation of two approaches in assessing the impact of general operating support grants: one that emphasizes pre-grant assessment and one that relies more on assessment during and after the grant.

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General Operating Support: A GEO Action Guide Vol. 1

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07/2007

A report inspired by a spirited discussion on GEOList among Grantmakers for Effective Organizations members about general operating support, its limitations and its advantages.

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Investing in Leadership Volume 2: Inspiration and Ideas from Philanthropy’s Last Frontier

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02/2006

A Grantmakers for Effective Organizations publication that explores a sampling of the leadership development being utilized now in the nonprofit sector. Also contains case studies about leadership development.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $41.5 Million in Grants

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07/20/2013

The grants are to organizations working in the areas of education, health, the arts and social welfare, and will also go in part to the foundation’s three-year commitment to help address the effects of the prolonged socioeconomic crisis in Greece.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Grantmaking

What is the business of your organization? Explore the core cycle of how foundations make grants, as well as how foundations give, ways to manage relationships with grantees, and where implicit bias plays a role in grantmaking.

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FAQ: Trust-Based Philanthropy Cohort with a Racial Equity Lens

Release Date:

01/26/2022

... them. To help share this information across the network, we put together this brief FAQ of some of the most common questions. We hope this leaves you with a better understanding of the ... shape our lived...

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Appointments & Transitions

Four Freedoms Fund Names New Director

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11/14/2014

... She has worked in the U.S., Latin America and Africa , managing large and complex nonprofit programs, ...

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More than Test Scores: What Young People Need to Succeed

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03/23/2015

... like self-control, time management and goal-setting. We know that these social and emotional competencies predict ... academic performance and work outcomes. But while we know that these factors matter,...

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Education

To Combat Islamophobia, Start Where You Are

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03/23/2016

... ignite similar vitriol. Working at a local foundation, we also brace ourselves for the effects that events here and ... that serve Muslim Arab and South Asian communities. We know from past experience that...

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Looking Back on Philanthropy New York's 2013

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12/12/2013

... at Philanthropy New York are especially reflective because we are marking the end of a very productive year and -- with our new strategic plan in place for 2014-2016 -- we are excited about the next era...

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How to Win the Lottery

Release Date:

02/27/2018

... come in handy one of these days.) As philanthropists, we envision communities that value and support people in all their diverse manifestations. We promote equality of opportunity and equitable outcomes. Yet,...

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