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Are Foundations and Nonprofits Seeing Eye to Eye?

Date: July 29, 2014

Ramya Gopal

Former Associate Manager, Research, CEP

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For foundations and nonprofits to work effectively together, they need to understand each other’s perspectives. But do they? Drawing on data from CEP surveys, Ellie Buteau, Mark Chaffin and I compared foundation and nonprofit perspectives on four aspects of foundation practice. Our findings are covered in this just-released article in the Foundation Review. In the video below, Mark and I share the highlights of our analyses.

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Editor’s Note: CEP publishes a range of perspectives. The views expressed here are those of the authors, not necessarily those of CEP.

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