In a series of posts on the CEP blog in summer 2020, leaders from more than a dozen policy-oriented foundations responded to five key questions that arose from the CEP research report, Policy Influence: What Foundations are Doing and Why. This series, packaged here in its entirety, shares these funders’ thoughts — in their own words — on why and how foundations can effectively engage in public policy to achieve their goals.
Foundation Governance Today:
How Boards and CEOs Are Navigating Risk, Accountability, and a Shifting Landscape
While nonprofits report facing existential threats in CEP’s recent “Sector in Crisis” report, this brief “snapshot” report offers insight into the specific challenges reported by foundation leaders in the current context and what they need from their boards to respond...
