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How Foundations Are Supporting Grantee Staff Well-Being
This CEP Research Snapshot offers insight into foundation leaders’ perspectives and actions related to the well-being and burnout of staff at the organizations they fund.
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Featured Resources
State of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need to Know
This report takes the pulse of nonprofit leaders in 2024, based on a nationally representative panel of U.S. nonprofits, and also offers insight into these organizations’ financial results and their experience with their funders.
New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision Of Multiyear General Operating Support
Nonprofit Diversity Efforts: Current Practices And The Role Of Foundations
Foundations Respond to Crisis: Lasting Change?
Policy Influence: What Foundations Are Doing And Why
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Grace Nicolette, Vice President, Programming and External Relations
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