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Staff Spotlight: Abebaw Abitie

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? My career began eighteen years ago as a logistics assistant driver in a local, non-governmental...

Five Considerations for Setting Up Your Grants Management System for Success

Whether your grants management system (GMS) is a software tool that spans your entire grant lifecycle, a tool that plugs into one part of your...
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Senior Advisor Spotlight: Neil Sumilas

What has your career path looked like? How did you initially become interested in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors? I started my career in a...
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A Brief Contribution to the Debate over Philanthropic Pluralism

The debate began with an open letter from leaders of several ideologically disparate private foundations that made the case for philanthropic pluralism. This was swiftly...
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Senior Advisor Spotlight: Michael Layton

What has your career path looked like? How did you initially become interested in philanthropy?As an undergraduate at Haverford College, I made two decisions that...
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Expanding Your Circle of Influence: How Investing in Prospect Coordination Can Rally Funders to Your Cause

In the last few years conflict, climate crisis, social unrest, and pandemics have all impacted and shifted philanthropic funding flows. While funding trends may come...
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Staff Spotlight: Kasey Oliver

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global?  I won a bet in a high-stakes poker game! Just kidding. That would be more...
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Your Reading List: Philanthropy’s Role in Combatting the Child Care Crisis

Now that we are three years into the pandemic, it’s time to act and revitalize the broken child care system so that both families and...
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Staff Spotlight: Abdechafi Boubkir

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? No two staff members share similar career journeys at Geneva Global (though teaching is a...

Geneva Global Launches Senior Advisory Group

These new Senior Advisors — who have decades of combined leadership experience in philanthropy and international development — represent an outstanding complement to our growing...
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Staff Spotlight: Jessica Flamholz

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? I started out my career with a strong conviction of wanting to do good in...
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Exploring Ways to Support Teachers and Teaching in Systems in Crisis

Such stress might result from active or recent armed conflict, economic crisis, or radical regime change. Among other factors, the ensuing system failure is evident...
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World Teachers’ Day

We wish to acknowledge especially the nearly 2,000 teachers who have operated classes in Ethiopia and Uganda as part of Geneva Global’s Speed School Program...
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Staff Spotlight: Josh Maillet

  How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? My career journey is still unfolding, but it has been serendipitous so far! My...

Philanthropy in a Time of Austerity

None of that feels like it’s letting up, with an increasingly complex horizon facing philanthropists and their partners. Among them: Despite the dark clouds looming,...
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How to Increase Employee Enthusiasm As We Head Back to the Office

With more and more businesses returning to the office in the coming months (whether full-time or hybrid), employers and leaders are fielding increasingly pointed questions...
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Staff Spotlight: Dani Hale

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? After college, my career has taken me from Counselor in the Massachusetts Department of Correction...
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Staff Spotlight: Juanita Nyce

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? My career journey began at PwC’s LA office providing HR advisory consulting services. I learned...

Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month

An article from Al Jazeera about the struggles Arab Americans have faced for representation and why progress like the recognition of Arab American Heritage Month...
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Three Seismic Shifts That Will Impact Philanthropy in 2022

1. Inflation will have a real (and negative) impact on giving. If macroeconomic forecasting holds, rising inflation this year will weaken the ability of everyday donors to...
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Philanthropy in an Era of Hard Power

It certainly didn’t come out of nowhere; the rise of nationalism in dozens of countries in the past fifteen years coupled with the political success...
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Staff Spotlight: Ellen Carney

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? When I graduated from college, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do next. I...

Celebrating Black History Month

Black History Month’s Origins and More Via the JEDI Team NPR shared “the story behind Black History Month — and why it’s celebrated in February.”...

Why Dr. Maribel Morey’s “White Philanthropy” is an Essential Read for Philanthropy Advisors

In many ways, this rigorous (yet highly accessible) scholarly work should be required reading for any philanthropy advisor in 2022. It offers several important lessons...
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Staff Spotlight: Alanna Casselle

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? I started my career journey teaching in the Dominican Republic, but I think my path...
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Is a Fiscal Sponsorship Right for Your Organization?

While fiscal sponsorships have been around for a long time, we have begun to see new use cases for them throughout the philanthropic sector. Our...
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Celebrating International Day of Education

“In these exceptional times, business as usual is no longer an option. If we are to transform the future, if we are to change course, we must rethink...

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

Sharing Native American Stories via Christa Lane Hooper To celebrate this month, I’m happy to share stories that celebrate and honor Native American perspectives and...

Staff Spotlight: Samantha Grant

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? It wasn’t a straight path at all, which I think greatly benefitted me in the...

Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month and Indigenous Peoples’ Day

To learn more about the Month’s history and why the dates chosen have a special meaning, check out this article from History.com. Bonus, here are...
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Why Teachers Are My Heroes

Who is a teacher? A teacher is much more than someone who transmits information and techniques to our children, translating the curriculum into knowledge for...
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Staff Spotlight: Lisa Grewe

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? My career has taken a circuitous track. Graduating with a degree in Interior Design from...

Ethiopia Inaugurates New Speed School Unit to Reach Out-of-School Children

What does the institutional adoption of education innovation by a government look like in practice? After a decade of observing and years of implementing the...

Imagining the Program Officer of the Future

A year ago, most of us here at Geneva Global were in the “jury is still out” camp. With the passage of time, I’m now...

Celebrating Pride Month

Pride Flags via Maggie Geiger Johnson While you may be used to seeing rainbow flags (not just in June but year-round), have you been seeing...

Staff Spotlight: Rebecca Ecwou

What does your role at Geneva Global involve? As a Country Director, my role evolves around oversight to the country program i.e., ensuring that the...

Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month

AAPIs On (and Behind) Screen via Arlene D’Attilio To highlight its Asian American and Pacific Islander creators and talent during AAPI Heritage Month, Netflix has...

Your Reading List: Trust-Based Philanthropy

What does trust-based philanthropy mean to you—and what does it mean for you? Here is a reading list to get you up to speed quickly....

Statement on the Chauvin Verdict

The conviction alone will not solve the persistent assault on Black lives by police let alone the scourge of structural racism in the US, however. That responsibility is on...

Resources to Support the Asian American Community

Geneva Global’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee condemns these acts of hate filled violence and in light of these tragedies, we asked ourselves what we can do to support AAPI communities...

A Big Step Forward for Girls in the Dominican Republic

This milestone would not have been possible without the support of the Girls First Fund (GFF). In 2018, GFF chose the DR as one of...

When the Problem with Epilepsy Treatments Goes Beyond a Lack of Medication

As Program Director at Geneva Global, I began to work with Gardiner Lapham at the BAND Foundation to solve this problem, a continuation of ongoing...
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Education Cannot Wait, Geneva Global, and Partners Launch Multi-Year Education Program

Jan. 28, 2021, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The Government of Ethiopia — Ministry of Education (MOE), UNICEF, Geneva Global, and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) –...
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Staff Spotlight: Móira Cahill

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? While studying political science as an undergrad, I was uncertain how to take the variety...
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Staff Spotlight: Dr. Joshua Muskin

How did your career journey lead you to Geneva Global? My path to Geneva Global was simultaneously serendipitous and natural. I have been working in...

What No-Minimum Donor Advised Funds Could Mean for the Future of Philanthropy

They offer immediate tax benefits to donors, avoid some of the more onerous compliance requirements associated with operating private foundations, and provide anonymity in a...
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