Chris Cardona, Author at The Center for Effective Philanthropy

Foundations and the Depth of Racial Equity
Shireen Zaman Program Officer, Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD), Ford Foundation
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Feb 10, 2022 | Guest Author Guest Author

As program officers at the Ford Foundation who helped commission CEP’s two-part study, Foundations Respond to Crisis, we’re heartened to see that many funders plan to maintain the more flexible practices they adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and racial...

What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Hilary Pennington Executive Vice President of Programs, Ford Foundation
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Dec 14, 2020 | Guest Author Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Guest Author Guest Author

Foundations and Racial Equity in 2020 The second of three CEP reports on foundations’ response to crisis in 2020, focused on racial equity, reveals a striking truth about our field: we often don’t know what we don’t know. And that prevents us from acting, which,...

Making It Count: The Evolution of the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Data Collection
Megan Morrison Officer, Strategy and Learning, Ford Foundation
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Sep 20, 2018 | Guest Author Diversity, Guest Author Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Guest Author Guest Author, Guest Author Research

CEP's report on nonprofit diversity efforts comes at a time when we at the Ford Foundation have been thinking critically about how we collect, analyze, and act upon diversity data from grantee organizations. As a funder, we know we can play a role in normalizing...

What’s Unique about Funder Capacity?
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Jan 6, 2015 | Guest Author Developing Strategy, Guest Author Funder/Grantee Relationships, Guest Author Guest Author

Foundation effectiveness, as CEP’s own Phil Buchanan has helpfully summarized, is about four things: clear goals, coherent strategies, disciplined implementation, and relevant performance indicators. As the field has sought how to achieve greater effectiveness, “one...

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Foundations and the Depth of Racial EquityShireen Zaman Program Officer, Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD), Ford FoundationChris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Don’t KnowHilary Pennington Executive Vice President of Programs, Ford FoundationChris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Making It Count: The Evolution of the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Data CollectionMegan Morrison Officer, Strategy and Learning, Ford FoundationChris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

What’s Unique about Funder Capacity?Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Foundations and the Depth of Racial Equity
Shireen Zaman Program Officer, Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD), Ford Foundation
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Hilary Pennington Executive Vice President of Programs, Ford Foundation
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Making It Count: The Evolution of the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Data Collection
Megan Morrison Officer, Strategy and Learning, Ford Foundation
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

What’s Unique about Funder Capacity?
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation