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Discover how private foundations navigate the investment challenge in this informative session. Hear thought leaders explain the essential strategies for crafting an impactful and efficient investment policy. Key topics include setting objectives, managing spending needs, optimizing asset allocation, rebalancing strategies, selecting managers, and structuring performance reporting. After the presentation, join the discussion to explore how these approaches are implemented by different foundations.
What's stopping your grantees from applying?
Americans interact with foundations and nonprofits on a daily basis, but research shows that most people don’t know what philanthropy actually does. How do you reach the communities you work with and communicate the work you do? Enter personas.
Persona building is an essential tool for grantmakers as they try to form meaningful connections with grantees and communities. Attend this session to learn how to use research to understand the values, worldviews, and identities of your audiences, and craft messages that actually resonate with the people you’re trying to reach.
Hear from Lilly Endowment Inc. and their work with community foundations.
While capacity building is a critical part of our work, traditional models of capacity building do not always account for culture, systems, and power in their design, failing to keep equity centered in their approach. GEO’s latest publication, Reimagining Capacity Building, explores principles for centering equity in our capacity-building efforts, explores the way inequities can show up, and offers steps we can take to address and mitigate those inequities.