The power of CEP’s Grantee Perception Report (GPR) received a strong endorsement this week from Jeff Raikes, President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A widely published AP news story sparked by the giant foundation’s newly released annual report focused on the challenge of getting honest and useful feedback from grantees—and how effective CEP’s tools have been to that end. You can see the article online or in a host of newspapers.
In an interview with AP reporter Donna Gordon Blankinship, Raikes made the connection between the survey and need for his organization to be more in sync with grantees around the world.
“If we can work more effectively with our grantees, that will increase the impact that we aspire to,” Raikes said, according to Blankinship.
After talking with Jeff Raikes, Blankinship interviewed Phil Buchanan at CEP, who talked about the ongoing need for foundations to develop credible and objective information about the relationship between grantee and funder.
You can see an overview of the Grantee Perception Report here.
David Trueblood is vice president — communications and programming at the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
