Learn more about CEP’s partnership with the William Penn Foundation to explore their peer funders’ strategy review processes, and about what the Surdna Foundation learned about multigenerational board engagement at family foundations.

Learn how the David and Lucile Packard Foundation worked with CEP to design and implement a set of Grantee Experience Standards to strengthen their interactions with grantees and how CEP-led focus groups of Barr Foundation grantees helped the Foundation improve their relationships and communications with funded partners.

Learn more about recent engagements with Co-Impact and the Arcus Foundation; both funders partnered with CEP on customized surveys followed by interviews with key internal and external partners.

This peer-learning network is designed to help funders implement trust-based philanthropy practices, informed by CEP’s two decades of research. Network participants connect with a supportive group of peer leaders while deepening their knowledge of trust-based principles, troubleshooting barriers, and creating change at their foundations.

Read what Northern California Grantmakers learned from their member survey. Common survey themes include member satisfaction, the use and helpfulness of available resources and networks, and members’ suggestions for near- and longer-term impact. CEP offers members of United Philanthropy Forum a discount on their first CEP member survey. Learn more here.

Learn more about recent engagements with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Read about this topic on CEP’s blog: Demographic Data Collection: The Personal, The Practical, And The Potential For Impact

Learn more about CEP’s partnership with The Dyson Foundation and other Mid-Hudson Valley Funders to understand nonprofit perspectives on funders’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a survey commissioned by the Community Foundation Sonoma County and Napa Valley Community Foundation dealing with the needs of organizations in the wake of Northern California’s wildfires.