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Breakfast will be served in LOCUST 1
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Lunch will be served in LOCUST 1
Soup and Salad Buffet:
Breakfast will be served in Locust 1
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A productive, equitable, internal culture aligned with a foundation’s mission and goals is essential to support nonprofit resilience and success. In other words, if we are striving to have more impact, we should look not just at our external strategies and theories of change but also at how our organizational behaviors, assumptions, and values either support or potentially undermine what we are trying to achieve.
What would it look like to have nonprofits and communities truly drive our work? How much participation is required to center our work on community needs? Grantmakers have a genuine desire to make a positive impact in the communities we serve, live, work, and play. To create the greatest impact, we must work with nonprofits and listen to individuals' lived experiences to understand the problem, and what is not being said and define the assets available to determine a sustainable path forward.
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.