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“An old friend of Robert Frost’s was driving him home on a moonlit August night, with huge stars in the sky. The friend mused, ‘On a night like this, I keep thinking that life is so short, and there is so little time.’ Frost put a hand on his arm and said, ‘It’s the...
In its recent report, Bracing for a Downturn: Nonprofits, Charitable Deduction Worries, and How Foundations Can Help, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) uncovers nonprofit and foundation leaders’ thoughts about the potential impact of new tax legislation on...
This interview with The Heinz Endowments President and CEP Board Chair Grant Oliphant, by Nell Edgington, originally appeared on the Social Velocity blog. In today’s Social Velocity blog interview, I’m talking with Grant Oliphant, president of The Heinz...
Among the many myths that pervade the nonprofit sector, the Overhead Myth is perhaps the most destructive. It is the erroneous idea that nonprofits must keep their fundraising and administrative costs cripplingly low, which leads to anemic organizations that are not...
The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s latest research report, Sharing What Matters: Perspectives on Foundation Transparency, released last week, provides some startling data about the state of transparency in the foundation world. While for the most part, foundation...