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The CEP blog aims to offer a range of perspectives, experiences, and opinions related to effective philanthropic practice. We welcome submissions that address crucial issues facing individual and institutional donors and are not self-promotional in nature. The views expressed in these posts are not necessarily CEP’s own.
For the past few decades, a large and narrow country in South America has been calling international attention for its political and economic progress. Chile has shown democratic stability and the highest degree of social progress in Latin America in areas like...
In the second post of our series of profiles of funders that are exemplary in their provision of non-monetary support to grantees, as assessed by the Grantee Perception Report, we take a look at the S.H. Cowell Foundation. Based in San Francisco, the Foundation works...
School’s out for summer. At YouthTruth, that means time for reflection, innovation, and preparation for the year ahead — including taking a deeper look at the aggregate student perception data we’ve accrued from surveys of hundreds of thousands of students around the...
This post originally appeared on the Social Velocity blog. When it comes to the debate about the social impact of endowment investments, college and university campuses — not foundations — seem to be where the action is. Foundations have hundreds of billions of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This post originally appeared on the blog of Giving Evidence, which encourages and enables charitable giving based on sound evidence. Most charities hate the reporting which funders make them do. Notionally a learning process,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“We assume that they feed everything to a giant fiery furnace.” This was the best guess of a frustrated nonprofit executive in the first round of Project Streamline research when I asked what foundations did with the...
Impact investing at independent foundations is a mile wide and an inch deep. I think that’s a fair summary of CEP’s latest research report released in May, Investing and Social Impact: Practices of Private Foundations, based on a benchmarking survey of private...
A young donor behind a large, new foundation said something recently that really struck me — and in a good way. It happened in May in a session at CEP’s conference that I moderated on “new models in philanthropy” (some of which of course are not so new at all), and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We’re excited to share that videos of several talks from May’s CEP Conference are now posted on our YouTube channel! During the conference and over the past month, we’ve heard from several attendees asking if we had recordings of...
Gathering feedback and data and helping foundations act on that information is at the heart of what we do here at CEP. But we need feedback to improve, as well. To that end, in 2015 CEP commissioned Harder+Company Community Research to conduct an independent...
