Knowledge management

Grantmakers for Education has developed a web-based system to help grantmakers collect and share knowledge with each other about effective education philanthropy. To visit the newly launched Knowledge Center, click here (you must first be logged into this site).

This knowledge management initiative will help grantmakers identify experts, share the latest information about education grantmaking strategies and learn from one other. The initiative will help communities of grantmakers with common funding interests work together to have greater impact on student outcomes.

Learn more about GFE's knowledge management initiative

• Read the project description.
• Read the executive summary of our recent study of our members’ knowledge needs.

Knowledge management resources for grantmakers

• Marketing Your Knowledge: A Report to Philanthropy's R&D Organizations (PDF)
  This report, commissioned by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, examines obstacles to knowledge-sharing among philanthropic organizations and proposes 10 effective practices to foster communication and knowledge-sharing.
• Nonprofit Knowledge Management
  In this brief article from Nonprofit Online News, Michael Gilbert outlines some of the guiding principles and lessons learned in fostering knowledge-building communities.
• Spending Smarter: Knowledge as a Philanthropic Resource (PDF)
  This paper by Lucy Bernholz encourages philanthropy to leverage its knowledge investments to increase philanthropic impact by adopting knowledge management strategies.
• Grantmakers for Effective Organizations website
  GEO has a number of knowledge management resources for grantmakers in its searchable database.
• Knowledge Management Comes to Philanthropy
  This article from the McKinsey Quarterly makes the case for adopting knowledge management strategies and offers a case study of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's knowledge management efforts.