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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.
![Bringing the Beneficiary Voice into the Boardroom](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bigstock-A-row-of-five-voting-booths-wi-37520674-1.jpg)
![Embracing Our Values and Engaging in the Public Policy Conversation](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/northwest-blog-1.png)
Embracing Our Values and Engaging in the Public Policy Conversation
![Placing Our Education Bets on the Community](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bigstock-Paint-brushes-26660846-1.jpg)
Placing Our Education Bets on the Community
![Foundation Transparency: Are Foundations and Nonprofits Seeing Eye to Eye?](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/raindrop-window-feature-1.png)
Foundation Transparency: Are Foundations and Nonprofits Seeing Eye to Eye?
![What I’ll Be Reading (and Re-Reading) This Weekend](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/old-book-feature-1.png)
What I’ll Be Reading (and Re-Reading) This Weekend
![A Foundation Success Story](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gavin1-1-1080x675.png)
A Foundation Success Story
![Go Sock-Less](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tying-business-shoe-feature-1.png)
Go Sock-Less
![Northern Philanthropy: The Effectiveness of Community](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/montreal-skyline-feature-1.png)
Northern Philanthropy: The Effectiveness of Community
![A Real Job: New Report on Being a Foundation CEO](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/beach-juggling-feature-1.png)
A Real Job: New Report on Being a Foundation CEO
![Helping Community Foundations Adapt for the Future](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/community-garden-feature-1.png)
Helping Community Foundations Adapt for the Future
![Are Foundations and Nonprofits Seeing Eye to Eye?](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/eyechart-feature-png-1.png)
Are Foundations and Nonprofits Seeing Eye to Eye?
![Outcomes, Knowledge, Wisdom & Time](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/house-clock-books-feature-1.png)
Outcomes, Knowledge, Wisdom & Time
![A Thank You to Someone Who Never Wanted the Spotlight](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thank-you-beach-feature-1.png)
A Thank You to Someone Who Never Wanted the Spotlight
![Legitimate Questions about Governance at a Foundation Deserve Answers](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/jordan-desert-feature-1.png)
Legitimate Questions about Governance at a Foundation Deserve Answers
![Critiques of Foundations, Learning from Success, and #GivingTuesday](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bigstock-The-word-Give-48394007-1.jpg)
Critiques of Foundations, Learning from Success, and #GivingTuesday
![Foundation Helpfulness in Nonprofit Efforts to Assess Progress](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/surveyor-feature-1.png)
Foundation Helpfulness in Nonprofit Efforts to Assess Progress
It is no secret that nonprofit organizations are facing increasing pressure to measure and assess their progress toward their goals. In our 2012 report on nonprofit performance assessment, CEP found that 81 percent of nonprofits say that understanding the progress...
![Datapoint: Donor Engagement and Donor Satisfaction](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/group-hike-1.png)
Datapoint: Donor Engagement and Donor Satisfaction
![Emerging Views of Emergent Strategy](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/students-cheating-feature-1.png)
Emerging Views of Emergent Strategy
![What is Foundation Effectiveness?](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/redwoods-feature-1.png)
What is Foundation Effectiveness?
![Taking Aim](https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/soccer-in-net-feature-1.png)