clear on how we're going to pay for it, and our structure, and what it means to the philanthropic community in Georgia. And our relationships to our partners. I think these are just things we'll have to spend some time to get clear on. • Without going into detail, I think it's just worth examining or re-examining what it means for GGA, a grant-makers alliance versus the other affinity groups that exists? What does it mean? Who's expected to do what, who should be lead on what? Maybe just state clearly what the differences are. Sometimes it's confusing and sometimes it's exhausting to try to keep up with everything. ASPIRATIONS National and Coalition Building – 13 • The thing that keeps coming to mind for me to support is a peer to peer networking; it's that shared knowledge among grantmakers, and expanding their outside of metropolitan Atlanta, and understanding there's a lot outside of Atlanta. • Yeah, I think it would be great for GGA to be that place where relationships can be accelerated. If GGA can play a role in accelerating the time it takes for foundations to find innovative and on the vanguard organizations, that could make a big difference in the community. • GGA is not a place where you have to wait to receive a coveted invitation, but this is a place where you can present yourself. Organizational Excellence – 6 • I would hope again, like the financial capital is not the end of philanthropy's role in our community, but ultimately over time, being able to track that, they're investing differently. • I think part of what GGA has done, but what they could do more powerfully is perhaps, help do sufficient research that is needed to get national capital into the south. • Well I certainly think having a deeper impact on our state and an impact on social issues and all those things, I think we should have goals like that and goals for collaboration with foundation leaders. Policy and Equity Focus – 8 • I'm thinking about whether there could be some real, tangible policy change or policy enacted due to GGA's activity; I think that's a big aspiration. • I think it understands how policy, public policy, and policy change affect the nonprofits' work they fund. One of the things, one of the goals that they had before, was educating their participants from a beginner, intermediate, and advanced level, and so I think I haven't seen that. • There has been an up-and-down commitment to policy and research. I think there was more emphasis on it when I started, but I haven't seen as much of it now. Reimagining Philanthropy - 5 • I was connected to funders I have not been associated with through GGA, especially in the early part of the pandemic. I'm just trying to learn enough to make informed reports back to my trustees on what's the thinking going on in the funding world, especially the Georgia funding world, because we're place-based and that's what our board members are most focused on.
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