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A Huge Thanks To Guest Bloggers from the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference 2012

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A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. Efrain Gutierez, Associate, FSG.

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This Week on Beth’s Blog: Stronger Grantmaking, Stronger Nonprofits, Stronger Results

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This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Paul Shoemaker, Executive Connector, SVP Seattle.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

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Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Luckily, the learning, evaluation and knowledge management pioneers want to keep talking and meeting. Photo by Aaron Schmidt.

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How Can We Learn in Public?

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Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. But the next question was not so easy: “When it comes to evaluation and strategy development, there’s no such thing as “too transparent.”

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Learning in Public Challenges and Actions

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Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful.

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New recipes for capacity building for nonprofits and foundations

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Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Flickr photo by DoroQuez. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Diffuse best technologies for work (i.e.

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Can you have your cake and eat it too?

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Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. They were also able to leverage an evaluation and learning community to develop common definitions for policy. Photo by Sea Turtle. When does it work?