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Most reports can be viewed online using the Adobe Acrobat reader, and you are welcome to print and reproduce these publications. Publications with a lock by the name can be downloaded only by GFE members.

	Taking Stock: Evaluating the Impact of Education Grants	This report summarizes information from a special member briefing GFE organized in November 2007 to help funders confront the challenge of evaluating the impact of the activities they support.
	Benchmarking 2008: Trends in Education Philanthropy	The Benchmarking survey asked our members questions about their organizations, which revealed trends in education philanthropy. (2008)
	Effective Education Grantmaking Case Studies	A series of case studies that consider the issues, challenges and approaches of more effective education grantmaking. (2006)
	Maximizing Impact: Essays on Improving the Effectiveness of Education Philanthropy (PDF)	Essays by three exceptional leaders in our field – Dan Katzir, Stan Litow and Ralph Smith – that suggest how education philanthropy could be more effective. (2003)
	Maturing Investments: Philanthropy and Middle Grades Reform (PDF)	This report documents and analyzes various foundations' efforts to support and advance school reform at the middle level. (2003)
	Learning from Each Other (PDF)	This report documents three foundations' long-term experiences investing in system-wide improvement efforts in school districts. (2000)

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.