(Community Matters) GEO: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations presented their Change Agent Project to a group of funders over lunch yesterday.
The mission of GEO is understanding that grantmakers are successful only to the extent that their grantees achieve meaningful results, GEO provides strategies and practices that contribute to grantee success.
The KDK-Harman Foundation organized bringing the presentation to Austin, also sponsored by the Webber Family Foundation and Topfer Foundation. Lots of discussion about GEO’s research and recommendations from grantees on how funders could enable the process, further the success of grantee programs. We spoke a lot about the idea of common grant applications, unrestricted funding, build vs buy and the different objectives of philanthropists.
At my table, lucky to spend a couple of hours with Kim Wilson (Greenlights), Teresa Miller (Dell, Inc), Michelle Walker-Moak (Applied Materials), Sharon Reddehase (Double Line Partners) and Kay Kirchner (Applied Materials). Others attending included Jennifer Esterline, Melanie Riddings, Chris Earthman, Meeta Kothare, Janet Harman, MariBen Ramsey, John Long, Erica Ekwurzel, Jackie Matta, Amy Allen, Tara Kirkland and Jessica D’Arcy.
Interesting conversation and brainstorming. I suspect it’ll carry over to today’s meeting about potentially pooling monies for health & human services NPO emergency grant funding.
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