Ellie manages research projects and supports research design and analysis training and work across CEP’s teams. Ellie is managing CEP’s Big Gifts study, a three-year research project designed to understand how nonprofit organizations are using large, unrestricted gifts and what the impact of those gifts has been. She is a leading authority on foundation strategy, foundation performance assessment, and foundation-grantee relationships, as well as an expert in research design and statistical analysis. She has authored or co-authored numerous reports, articles, opinion pieces, and blog posts on issues related to foundation effectiveness, including Foundations Respond to Crisis: Lasting Change, Persevering Through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits, and Crucial Donors: How Major Individual Givers Can Best Support Nonprofits.
Ellie is also a Certified Professional Coach (CPC). She has coached professionals in the United States, Canada, China, and India. She is a graduate of the International Coach Academy and credentialed by the International Coach Federation as an Associate Certified Coach. Ellie volunteers with The Women’s Impact Alliance, a nonprofit that provides coaching to young women leaders of high potential impact.
Before joining CEP in 2004, Ellie led the design and analysis of education and health-related research projects at Cornell University, Tufts University, and a variety of nonprofit organizations. She taught courses on statistics at Tufts University and published research in a number of journals. She received a PhD in Social-Personality Psychology from City University of New York Graduate Center and a BA in Psychology, awarded with Great Distinction, from McGill University in Montreal.
