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Your Partner in Philanthropic Effectiveness

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Improve Your Effectiveness

CEP’s assessments provide unique insights into your effectiveness by gathering candid and actionable feedback from grantees, donors, and funder staff and benchmarking results with other grantmakers.

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