Kate Wolford, Author at The Center for Effective Philanthropy

A Changing Civic Landscape in Minnesota and Beyond

Feb 21, 2019 | Guest Author CEP Conference, Guest Author Guest Author, Guest Author Programming & External Relations

I love working in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and what is sometimes affectionately called the "Land of 10,000 Nonprofits.” We’re an increasingly diverse state with more than 100 languages spoken and home to 11 Native Nations. In Minnesota, we take pride (in our modest...

Let’s Embrace Our Philanthropic Fiduciary Duty

Dec 15, 2016 | Guest Author Guest Author, Guest Author Research

This post from Kate Wolford, president of The McKnight Foundation, is the fourth in a series of eight essays from foundation CEOs reflecting on findings from the CEP research report, The Future of Foundation Philanthropy: The CEO Perspective, commissioned by the...

Transparency for Impact

Mar 18, 2016 | Guest Author Guest Author, Guest Author Transparency

This post originally appeared on The McKnight Foundation blog. If my email inbox had a theme in the past few weeks, it’s been transparency. The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) just released a report called Sharing What Matters: Foundation Transparency. In a...