Kevin Bolduc looks back at the origins of the Grantee Perception Report 10 years ago and thanks the funders who supported it from the beginning.
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Kevin Bolduc looks back at the origins of the Grantee Perception Report 10 years ago and thanks the funders who supported it from the beginning.
Ellie Buteau presents the key findings from “Room for Improvement: Foundations’ Support of Nonprofit Performance Assessment,” the first report from The Grantee Voice panel.
Phil Buchanan reviews Caroline Fiennes’ new book, “It Ain’t What You Give, It’s the Way You Give It.”
Ellie Buteau shares her perspective on and discusses some of the questions raised by CEP’s new research report, “Grantees’ Limited Engagement with Foundations’ Social Media.”
While the philanthropic sector wrestles with the issue of external transparency, Phil Buchanan argues that foundation leaders must also cultivate internal transparency.
Ellie Buteau shares a data point with a lesson for foundations on how to make the evaluation process more helpful for their grantees.
Phil Buchanan finishes his six-part series by urging the nonprofit sector to more forcefully articulate its success and value.
In the penultimate installment of his six-part series, Phil Buchanan questions the assertion that business is more likely to solve societies greatest problems than the nonprofit sector.
The fourth post in Phil Buchanan’s blog series advises nonprofits to avoid buying into the widely held notion that “business thinking” is a synonym for effectiveness.
Phil Buchanan continues his blog series with a third installment defending the nonprofit label and discussing why “nonprofitness” matters.
In the second of a six part blog series, Phil Buchanan argues against the blurring of boundaries between the business and nonprofit sectors.
Phil Buchanan starts a series of six blog posts clarifying the boundaries between the business and nonprofit sectors by questioning our idealization of markets.
Following up on his last post about the background of CEOs at the 100 largest foundations, Phil Buchanan further delves into the question of gender breakdown of that cohort.
Ellie Buteau highlights a data point on one measure of how foundation leaders openly present their strategies.
Phil Buchanan examines where current foundation CEOs came from and what that means for the future of philanthropic leadership.
With the announcement of a transition in leadership, Phil Buchanan reflects on the past and future of the YouthTruth project.
Austin Long makes the case that regularly checking the pulse of foundation employees is a critical step in assessing organizational effectiveness.
Ellie Buteau presents findings drawn from our Grantee Perception Report on the level of communication funders and their grantees are having related to racial diversity.
Ellie Buteau and Kevin Bolduc introduce the ways in which CEP has begun to study racial diversity in the philanthropic sector.
Amber Bradley shares some lessons learned from our collection of feedback on the GPR and offers two steps we’re taking in response.