Funders have used CEP’s Grantee Perception Report to gather candid, comparative feedback from their grantees for more than two decades. In addition to sharing confidential reports with individual funders to enable them to continually improve their own work with grantees, CEP uses this rich aggregation of tens of thousands of grantees’ experiences to put a spotlight on grantee experiences, to analyze trends and changes in grantmaking practices, and to conduct research on the ways that funders can best work with grantees. Collected here are a number of recent posts on the CEP blog that mine the unique “GPR dataset,” offering insight into philanthropic practice from grantees themselves.
A Pride Month Call to Action: Highlighting the Less Positive Experiences of LGBTQ+ Grantees
“(E)very funder should be concerned that LGBTQ+ identified grant recipients have significantly less positive experiences with and perceptions of their funders than their straight peers do — at least as measured through response to CEP’s Grantee Perception Report (GPR) surveys.”
Kevin Bolduc, Vice President, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP and Liz Kelley Sohn, Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP
Silently Shrinking Grants: Is Inflation Reducing the Value of Your Grant?
“At least from what I can see in CEP’s Grantee Perception Report (GPR) data, even though the size of many funders’ grants has grown in real terms over time, a meaningful proportion haven’t kept pace with inflation.“
Kevin Bolduc, Vice President, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP
How Gender Differences Show Up (and Don’t) in CEP’s Grantee Perception Report
“(N)onbinary, gender nonconforming, and respondents who selected multiple gender identities rated their funders lower than those that identified only as men or women on a wide range of topics…”
Katarina Malmgren, Former Associate Manager, Research, CEP and Kevin Bolduc, Vice President, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP
Staffing for Success: What We Know about Staffing for Strong Funder-Grantee Relationships
“(S)taffing varies greatly across funders and…there is not one “right” model of staffing that fits all. Rather than relying on one metric, such as caseload, it appears that listening to multiple perspectives can help ensure that the choices you make about staffing are working well within your context and serving your strategies in service of impact.”
Alice Mei, Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP
