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In the third post of our series of profiles of funders that are exemplary in their provision of non-monetary support to grantees, as assessed by the Grantee Perception Report, we take a look at the William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund. Based in Hamden, CT, The...
There have been predictions for years that there will be wholesale nonprofit executive turnover as the baby boomer generation of nonprofit founders and leaders reach retirement age. The Great Recession and its aftermath postponed many planned exits due to the...
Foundation staff matter. That was the main point of a series of data-based blog posts written by CEP President Phil Buchanan earlier this month. In the series’ penultimate post, Phil mentioned that, during the opening plenary at our May 2015 conference, I shared...
These past few months have marked my third summer living in Connecticut. After far too long, I decided it was finally time to take advantage of New England’s incredible music scene. And so I spent an amazing evening at the Newport Jazz Festival and another, a few...
This post, part of our Blog Rewind series, originally appeared in December 2010. When I was fresh-faced and just starting to work in philanthropy at a women-focused community foundation, I made lists. I would write down the problem or issue I wanted to tackle, then...
Organized American philanthropy was born with bold and audacious goals. Andrew Carnegie challenged philanthropy to “do real and permanent good in this world.” In a similar vein, John D. Rockefeller wrote that “The best philanthropy…is not what is usually called...
On the CEP blog this week and next, CEP President Phil Buchanan is discussing, in a series of eight posts, recent critiques of large, staffed foundations and assertions that recently-established, “lean” foundations are paving a promising new path without being saddled...
This post, which is part of our new Blog Rewind series, originally appeared on the CEP blog in March 2014. As part of the opening plenary at this year's CEP Conference, I had the privilege to speak to a few hundred foundation leaders about the ways in which...
In the second post of our series of profiles of funders that are exemplary in their provision of non-monetary support to grantees, as assessed by the Grantee Perception Report, we take a look at the S.H. Cowell Foundation. Based in San Francisco, the Foundation works...
On June 2, Don Matteson, chief program officer at The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation, joined CEP’s Naomi Orensten for an informative and lively webinar about the Grantee Perception Report® (GPR). In the conversation, Don discussed what The Foundation has...