Chloe Heskett

Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, Programming and External Relations

Chloe supports the Programming and External Relations team’s marketing and external communications.

Prior to joining CEP in 2021, Chloe worked as an editor and content creator for an admissions consulting firm. While there, she took advantage of her remote-first role to travel and live in the U.K., New Zealand, Canada, and Germany. Chloe studied French and politics at the University of Virginia, although she claims her real major was in journalism as an editor for the student paper. When not behind her laptop poring over Word documents, Chloe loves to be in the mountains trail running, climbing, hiking, and camping.

Chloe Heskett's Blog Posts

Editor’s Picks: A Month-by-Month Review of 2025
Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP

Few will doubt that 2025 has earned a notable place in the history books of the future. There are far too many moments of significance to attempt to summarize here (I refer you, for a quick refresher, to the opening of Phil Buchanan’s recent post on this blog); I...

A Perilous Moment in the ‘Long Arc’: Day Three at CEP2025
Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP

The third and final day of CEP2025 began with a concise but comprehensive history lesson: Kelly Lytle Hernández, Thomas E. Lifka endowed chair in history professor at UCLA presented a sweeping tutorial of the history of immigration control in the U.S. If yesterday’s...

‘The Light Is Already On’: Day Two at CEP2025
Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP

As elections took place across the U.S., day two of CEP’s 2025 conference got underway and democracy in the U.S. — and around the world — was a key theme throughout the day. The main stage saw a back-and-forth with philanthropy leaders about the role of...

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Philanthropy in Prose: Why Better Grantmaking Matters Now More Than Ever
Daniel Stid Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

by Daniel StidLauren Chan | Jun 4, 2026

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has recently shared some sobering survey data in “State of Nonprofits 2026: What Funders Need to Know.” The proportion of nonprofit CEOs who report that their own sense of feeling burned out is “very much a concern” has...

A ‘Perfect Storm’: One Nonprofit Leader on Fear, Funding, and Finding a Way Through
Caroline Gasparini Coordinator, Research, CEP
Elizabeth Lindsey Executive Director, Genesys Works National Capital Region

by Caroline Gasparini, Elizabeth LindseyLauren Chan | Jun 2, 2026

“We have had to be agile, flexible, and optimistic in ways that I haven't experienced before.” Elizabeth Lindsey, who leads the Washington, DC area location of the youth-empowerment nonprofit Genesys Works, has spent most of her career in the...

An Urgent ‘Passing Gear’ Call to Action: Leveraging Foundation Grantmaking in a Landscape of Retrenchment
Jon Pratt Senior Research Fellow, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Nonprofit Financial Commons
Ruth McCambridge Director of Content, Nonprofit Financial Commons

by Jon Pratt, Ruth McCambridgeChloe Heskett | May 28, 2026

In CEP’s latest research report, “The State of Nonprofits 2026,” one of its three major findings is that “despite ongoing financial challenges, many nonprofits are making strategic adaptations to their work in order to survive.” That is absolutely right — but is...