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Notebook

GFE's Notebook, a benefit to members, featured reflective essays by seasoned grantmakers and leaders about the craft of education grantmaking, as well as profiles of foundation staff at GFE member organizations.

In recent years, Notebook has been replaced with online communications, such as our monthly e-newsletter, News to Use.

Publications denoted with a lock icon can be downloaded only by GFE members.

	Spring 2008 (PDF)	In this issue of the newsletter: Michael Bangser, Blouke Carus and Robert Walker, and an interview with Mark Popovich.
	Fall 2007 (PDF)	In this issue of the newsletter: Susan Herr, Clifford Adelman, Lucy Friedman and Gisele Huff.
	Summer 2007 (PDF)	In this issue of the newsletter: Hedy Chang & Cindy Guy, Ron Haskins & Susanna Loeb, and Julie Petersen & Kim Smith, and an interview with Rosa Smith.
	Winter-Spring 2007 (PDF)	In this issue of the newsletter: Rex Babiera, Paul Brest, Paul Herdman and Dorothy Jacobson, and Ellen Hershey.
	Fall 2006 (PDF)	In this issue of the newsletter: La Piana Associates, Corinne Allen and Jack Murrah, Tom Vander Ark, and Ray Bacchetti and Thomas Ehrlich.
	Sum. 2006 (PDF)	In this issue of the newsletter: Emily Froimson and Joshua Wyner, Douglas Root, Arthur Reynolds and a discussion with Wallace Foundation staff.
	Winter 2006 (PDF)	In this issue of the newsletter: Lynn Huntley and Steve Suitts, Frederick Hess, Bruno Manno, and a dispatch from GFE's 2005 annual conference.

Read more and register for GFE's 14th annual conference, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence and Equity. The conference is the nation's largest gathering of education grantmakers.

Read our new report From Access to Success: A Funders' Guide to Ensuring More Americans Earn Postsecondary Degrees, which captures lessons from our recent member briefing.

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Deepen your strategic grantmaking with Benchmarking 2009, GFE's annual report on trends in education philanthropy. Learn what Education Week says about the impact the report is having on the field of education reform.

Listen to Secretary Arne Duncan’s June 24th call with education grantmakers.

Access new GFE member benefits, including Philanthropy In/Sight, a dynamic mapping tool from the Foundation Center, and a discounted subscription to Foundation Review, the peer-reviewed quarterly from the Johnson Center for Philanthropy.

View GFE's web seminar: Expanded Learning Opportunities: A Key Lever to Turn Around Low-Performing Schools. 07/15/2010 (~ 1 hr)

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Watch provocative suggestions from Secretary Arne Duncan, Professor Nichole Pinkard, Matt Miller, and Larry Keeley on how grantmakers can transform education, by transforming their own funding strategies.

Access resources from recent GFE programs. Stream audio, view slides, watch video and read presentations from GFE web seminars and our annual conference.

Peruse News to Use, GFE's members-only monthly newsletter, highlighting learning activities, new reports and critical developments in the field of education grantmaking.