Northern California Grantmakers

Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy has assembled a blog team of funders and philanthropic professionals to cover the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) annual conference next week.

Guest bloggers include NCG members Carrie Avery of The Durfee Foundation, Paul Connolly of TCC Group, Carla Javits of REDF, Stephanie McAuliffe and Kathy Reich of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Daniel  Silverman of The James Irvine Foundation and Linda Wood of the Walter & Elise Haas Foundation.

Check out the first pre-conference blog post by guest blogger Melinda Tuan.

Yesterday the Foundation Center’s PhilanTopic blog posted an interview with Courtney Bourns, Director of Programs for Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO).

During the 16 minute interview, Patricia Pasqual, Director of the Foundation Center’s Washington D.C. office,  discussed with Courtney the new report Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field.

“Co-published by GEO and the Council on Foundations, the report examines a number of approaches to evaluation and offers real-life examples of their implementation.”

Check out the full PhilanTopic blog post and listen the interview online.

Just a reminder that early bird rates for GEO’s national conference April 12 – 14, 2010 expire December 31st.

Next year’s conference, “Unleashing Philanthropy’s Potential: Smarter Grantmaking for Better Results,” will be at The Pittsburg Hilton (Pittsburg, PA).

To learn more visit the GEO conference web page.