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Featured Resources
BRIDGING THE GAP: Grantee Perspectives on Intermediary Funders
What are grantees’ experiences with intermediary funders? Read CEP’s research on the topic – the largest study of grantee experiences with intermediary organizations to date.
New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision Of Multiyear General Operating Support
Much Alarm, Less Action: Foundations & Climate Change
Foundations Respond to Crisis: Lasting Change?
Bridging the Gap: Grantee Perspectives on Intermediary Funders
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From the Blog

Rethinking Scale: Community-Led Approaches to Strengthening Sustainability During Uncertain Times
In times of increasing uncertainty, from shifting federal priorities to crises like the wildfires devastating Southern California, nonprofit organizations face growing challenges in sustaining their work and responding to the evolving needs of their communities....

How Funders Can Respond to an Unprecedented Threat to Nonprofits
The scope and scale of the Trump administration’s ambitions are now strikingly clear, as is the degree of the administration’s hostility for the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and around the world. A White House memo issued Friday, February 7 states: “The United States...

Now is the Time to Lay the Foundation for Long-Term Civic Resilience
Just as we adults are processing the White House's actions since the presidential inauguration, so too are our children. For those of us with young people in our lives — educators, parents, grandparents, and youth-serving professionals of all types — making sense of...