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Apr 21, 2022 | Assessment & Advisory ServicesAssessment & Advisory Services
Part of my work on the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) assessment and advisory services team is to help funders listen and learn by raising up the voices of grantees, declined applicants, donors, staff, and a variety of other stakeholders.
Jun 21, 2018 | Funder/Grantee RelationshipsAssessment & Advisory Services, Funder/Grantee RelationshipsConstituent Feedback, Funder/Grantee RelationshipsFunder/Grantee Relationships
Feedback is important for every funder — and so is closing the loop to share what you learn and how you plan to respond. Funders of every type and size work with CEP to listen to and learn from grantee feedback through the Grantee Perception Report (GPR)....
May 15, 2018 | Constituent FeedbackAssessment & Advisory Services, Constituent FeedbackConstituent Feedback
For the past decade-plus, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) has been an important colleague of CEP’s as we both work toward strengthening the philanthropic sector. The GEO community brings together more than 5,000 grantmakers around the world so they can...
Aug 4, 2016 | UncategorizedUncategorized
As a director on the Assessment and Advisory Services team here at CEP, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with many regional philanthropy associations, national philanthropy-supporting organizations, and different affinity groups. In fact, through CEP’s advisory...
Jun 18, 2015 | Assessing PerformanceAssessing Performance, Assessing PerformanceAssessment Tools, Assessing PerformanceConstituent Feedback
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...
Feb 18, 2014 | Funder/Grantee RelationshipsAssessment Tools, Funder/Grantee RelationshipsDeveloping Strategy, Funder/Grantee RelationshipsFunder/Grantee Relationships
In a recent blog post from my colleague Kevin Bolduc, he shared inspiring examples of two funders trying something a bit different: sharing the results of their Grantee Perception Reports (GPR) in-person with their grantees. While we often see foundations sharing...
Apr 12, 2012 | Assessment ToolsAssessment Tools, Assessment ToolsManaging Operations
Austin Long makes the case that regularly checking the pulse of foundation employees is a critical step in assessing organizational effectiveness.