Crafting Capacity-Building Support that Counts
When grantmakers consider providing capacity-building support for the first time or refining their existing capacity-building...
Improving Philanthropic Performance
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on the development of data and insight to enable higher-performing funders. CEP’s mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness — and, as a result, their intended impact.
This mission is based on a vision of a world in which pressing social needs are more effectively addressed. It stems from a belief that improved effectiveness of philanthropic funders can have a profoundly positive impact on nonprofit organizations and the people and communities they serve.
Latest Blog Posts
The Art Of Philanthropy: Empowerment and Diffusion
This is the second post in a series on “The Art of Philanthropy,” a high-altitude...
A Failure to Communicate
The relationship between foundations and grantees is a topic that the social sector has been...
Grounding our Work in Listening and Learning
Foundations use knowledge to make decisions. A recent report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy,...
