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Smarter Relationships, Better Results: Making the Most of Grantmakers' Work with Intermediaries

Publication date: 
04/2013
Grantmakers often work with intermediaries to extend their reach and impact. GEO’s digital funders' brief offers insights from intermediaries and examples of grantmaker practices that help or hinder the effectiveness of intermediaries. Readers will find a breakdown of three grantmaker-intermediary relationship models, step-by-step relationship building recommendations, and more.
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Grants Managers
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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Building Community Capacity for Participation in Evaluation: Why It Matters and What Works

Publication date: 
01/2013
Engaging community residents in evaluation and learning not only strengthens programs by enabling grantmakers to make more informed decisions, it also helps ensure evaluation efforts are measuring the right things and builds community capacity to use evaluation data to support sustainable solutions. Explore why it matters and what works through five recommendations.
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Great Power, Great Responsibility: Grantmakers’ Role as Conveners

Publication date: 
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

Publication date: 
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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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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The State of Foundation Performance Assessment: A Survey of Foundation CEOs

Publication date: 
09/2011
Over the past decade foundations have worked to assess their performance in the fields and communities they seek to address. Data-driven forms of measurement have become more widely used to judge the results of programs, as part of a broader range of information used, as CEOs place great importance on assessing their foundations’ effectiveness.
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Evaluation
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Can Feedback Fuel Change at Foundations?

Publication date: 
05/2011
When foundations make a commitment to getting consistent feedback from their grantees that is candid and comparative, they can make substantive changes that result in different—and better—grantee experiences. Foundations that use the Grantee Perception Report (GPR) more than once are making changes that are benefiting the organizations they fund. In addition to describing the data, the report identifies four keys to driving change as a result of the GPR, based on CEP’s experience delivering results to some 200 foundations.
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Grants Managers
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Evaluation
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