There is No One Way to Spend Down
While a small number of foundations giving $5 million or more annually in grants have…
Big Issue 4: The Embracing of — or Return to — Aligned Action
This post is the fifth in a series of seven excerpting CEP President Phil Buchanan’s…
Big Issue 3: Evolving Notions of Strategy and Measurement
This post is the fourth in a series of seven excerpting CEP President Phil Buchanan’s…
What’s the Value Proposition of Emergence?
With all of the talk about emergent strategy, including Phil Buchanan’s comments in a widely-read…
Where Does Good Strategy Start? Listen Up.
This post, part of our Blog Rewind series, originally appeared in December 2010. When I…
Addressing Nasty, Widespread Problems: Lessons for Philanthropic Practice in Social Change
Organized American philanthropy was born with bold and audacious goals. Andrew Carnegie challenged philanthropy to…
Returning to Relationships: Effective Consulting Partnerships (and Beyond)
The funder-grantee relationship is one of the major thematic areas covered by CEP’s grantee survey,…
“Like a Business:” Toward a Deeper Discussion of “Overhead”
The advice is as ubiquitous as it is nonsensical: “Run your nonprofit like a business”…