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  • Equity in Practice: Advancing Community-Driven Philanthropy Workshop Registration

  • Thursday, December 10, 2026; 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

    Location: Colorado Health Foundation, 1780 Pennsylvania St, Denver, CO

    What does it look like to move community voice, partnership, and shared power from aspiration into everyday grantmaking practice? This interactive workshop brings grantmakers together to explore practical ways to build trust, strengthen relationships, and make funding practices more community-driven. Through hands-on activities, useful tools, and peer exchange, participants will identify where their current practices are strong, where there is room to grow, and what meaningful next steps could look like. You’ll leave with fresh ideas, practical strategies, and approaches you can adapt to your own grantmaking context.

    Key Learning Objectives:

    • Explore grantmaking practices that build trust, shift power, and strengthen relationships with grantees and communities
    • Gain tools to assess and strengthen alignment between current grant practices and community-driven philanthropic practices
    • Develop actionable next steps to align current grantmaking practices and strategy to participation, partnership, and shifting power
    • Exchange examples, stories, and approaches with peers to deepen understanding of how community-driven philanthropy can be embedded in practice and identify adaptable ideas for their own contexts.

    To learn more, click here. Please await registration confirmation before securing travel and lodging. 

  • Registrant Information

  • Format: (000) 000-0000.

  • Demographic Information

    To be as effective as possible in supporting communities to solve society’s most deep-rooted problems, we must all do more to intentionally incorporate racial diversity, inclusion and equity into our work. We are asking for the following demographic data as a step toward understanding and creating a diverse cohort experience in our programming.
  • Gender*
  • What is your race or ethnicity? (Select all that apply)*

  • Dietary Requirements

    Your registration cost includes an networking reception on Dec. 9th and lunch on the 10th.
  • Do you have any dietary requirements? (Please select all that apply.)*
  • We will host a GEO Connect reception for workshop registrants and other local and regional grantmakers the evening before on Wednesday, December 9th from 4:00 - 6:00 PM. Will you be able to attend?*

  • Short Answer Questions

    Your responses will help GEO facilitators finalize the program to meet your needs. Please keep your answers brief (3 - 5 sentences maximum).
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  • Code of Conduct

  • Our in-person workshop spaces are dedicated to learning, but participants can’t learn if they don’t feel safe. GEO is committed to creating a harassment free environment for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of anyone including participants, staff, or speakers in any form and reserve the right to remove anyone from a program if such conduct occurs. GEO appreciates your partnership in ensuring that the learning environment we share is one defined by mutual respect and inclusiveness, where dignity and diversity are valued.

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  • Media Release

  • Photographs and/or video may be taken in the full group spaces at this event. By attending this event, you consent to your image/likeness and/or voice being used in photographs and/or film, and any reproductions or adaptations thereafter, by GEO to use in any and all print and digital media in perpetuity.

    If you do not wish to be photographs and/or filmed, please contact us at programs@geofunders.org.

  • Participant Eligibility

  • GEO workshops are open to current GEO-members and member-eligible non-members; all staff and trustees of grantmaking institutions; staff of philanthropy-supporting infrastructure groups, such as regional associations of grantmakers and affinity groups; and staff of academic institutions and programs focused primarily on the study of philanthropy and the practice of giving.

    Our workshop participant eligibility policy intends to create a space where participants can speak openly and candidly about challenges within their work while also allowing people from a variety of grantmaking and philanthropy-supporting organizations to participate in the series.

    Consultants who are member-eligible will be limited to five (5) or 10% of registration numbers, whichever is lower. Consultants will be approved on a case-by-case basis and will need to agree to a no-solicitation policy by refraining from soliciting other participants for business, clients, or funding while at the workshop. Participants may, and are encouraged to share their experience and expertise, but promotional materials and pitches will not be allowed.

    GEO will only accept participant registrations that are in accordance with our eligibility policy. GEO has the discretion to edit your submission, in accordance with our policies, and will alert participants to any changes.

    Additionally, we encourage organizations to have multiple individuals at their organization participate in order to apply your learning together. 

    If you are not a GEO member and are interested in becoming a member, please visit our membership page or email our membership team via membership@geofunders.org.

  • GEO in-person workshops are offered to the GEO-member community and to GEO-eligible participants. You can review our participant eligibility policy above.*

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      • If you are a GEO-eligible member and work for an intermediary organization or a smaller community foundation with an annual budget under $200,000, and you need financial assistance to attend, please contact the GEO staff for more information. Through the partnership between The Colorado Health Foundation and GEO, limited support may be available to help offset participation costs for groups like yours whose attendance would otherwise be limited due to resource limitations.

        If you're interested, enter COMMUNITY2026 in the Coupon Code field above so you can complete registration. After reviewing your request, we’ll be in touch within 5-7 days. 

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