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Data Point: Strategy Implementation Challenges
Ellie Buteau, Ph.D. Director of Research Projects and Special Advisor on Research Methodology and Analysis, CEP

Nov 11, 2011 | Data Point Data Point, Data Point Managing Operations

Much of the talk about strategy in philanthropy focuses on its development. Less frequently discussed is implementation. But, as former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Steven A. Schroeder contends, good strategy is useless if it isn’t implemented well. ...

Data Point: Getting Input When Developing Strategies
Ellie Buteau, Ph.D. Director of Research Projects and Special Advisor on Research Methodology and Analysis, CEP

Nov 4, 2011 | Developing Strategy Constituent Feedback, Developing Strategy Data Point, Developing Strategy Developing Strategy

Being “strategic” in philanthropy is sometimes equated with being isolated, arrogant, or top-down, with foundation leaders asserting detailed theories of change to rigidly guide grantmaking. But CEP’s research suggests that the opposite is the case. Those who are...

Data Point: How Foundation CEOs Use Information About the Effectiveness of their Programmatic Work
Ellie Buteau, Ph.D. Director of Research Projects and Special Advisor on Research Methodology and Analysis, CEP

Oct 28, 2011 | Assessing Performance Assessing Performance, Assessing Performance Data Point, Assessing Performance Managing Operations

Ellie Buteau, PhD., presents a Data Point about the use of information drawn from programmatic experience and insight by foundation CEOs.

Data Point: Learning From Failure
Ellie Buteau, Ph.D. Director of Research Projects and Special Advisor on Research Methodology and Analysis, CEP

Oct 21, 2011 | Assessing Performance Assessing Performance, Assessing Performance Data Point, Assessing Performance Programming and Communications

Ellie Buteau presents a second data point drawn from a survey of foundation CEOs on the status of performance assessment.

Data Point: Developing Shared Measurement Systems
Ellie Buteau, Ph.D. Director of Research Projects and Special Advisor on Research Methodology and Analysis, CEP

Oct 14, 2011 | Developing Strategy Assessing Performance, Developing Strategy Data Point, Developing Strategy Developing Strategy

The use and management of data stands at the core of the work undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. The set of survey tools CEP has developed as well as field-wide research builds comparative data drawn from key constituent groups—grantees, donors,...

Data Point: Importance of Social Networks to Donors
Kevin Bolduc Vice President, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP

Oct 7, 2011 | Constituent Feedback Assessment Tools, Constituent Feedback Constituent Feedback, Constituent Feedback Data Point, Constituent Feedback Programming and Communications

Kevin Bolduc presents data from CEP’s Donor Perception Report on the importance of social networks to this foundation constituency.

Data Point: Stakeholders’ Understanding of Foundation Goals and Strategies
Kevin Bolduc Vice President, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP

Sep 30, 2011 | Developing Strategy Data Point, Developing Strategy Developing Strategy

The use and management of data stands at the core of the work undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. The set of survey tools CEP has developed as well as field-wide research builds comparative data drawn from key constituent groups—grantees, donors,...

Data Point: Talking About Staff Performance
Kevin Bolduc Vice President, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP

Sep 23, 2011 | Data Point Assessment Tools, Data Point Data Point

Kevin Bolduc presents a data point taken from findings derived from CEP’s Staff Perception Report.

Data Point: Influencing Donors Who Give to Community Foundations
Kevin Bolduc Vice President, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP

Sep 16, 2011 | Data Point Assessment Tools, Data Point Data Point

The use and management of data stands at the core of the work undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. The set of survey tools CEP has developed as well as field-wide research builds comparative data drawn from key constituent groups—grantees, donors,...

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