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Windows of Opportunity are the Defining Issue of Our Time
Fred Blackwell Chief Executive Officer, The San Francisco Foundation

Mar 31, 2015 | Guest Author CEP Conference, Guest Author Guest Author

Expanding opportunity is the defining challenge of our time. In the Bay Area, far too many of our families are being left behind, struggling to make ends meet, spending two-thirds of their income on housing and transportation alone. As a region, we are experiencing...

Finishing Strong: How Terminal Evaluation Can Accelerate Impact
Benjamin Kerman Executive, Strategic Learning and Evaluation, Atlantic Philanthropies
Barbara Kibbe Director of Organizational Effectiveness, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

Mar 26, 2015 | Guest Author CEP Conference, Guest Author Developing Strategy, Guest Author Guest Author

All foundations confront exits. Whether due to shifting strategic priorities, limited-time enterprises, or other organizational changes, the decision to leave a field challenges foundation leaders, staff, routines, relationships and results. Writing on the subject is...

New Thinking about Networks Makes the Field Better, Stronger, More Effective
David Biemesderfer President and CEO, United Philanthropy Forum

Mar 11, 2015 | Guest Author Developing Strategy, Guest Author Guest Author

The giving sector deserves credit for many things, but efficiency is not always one of them. For as long as there have been foundations investing in worthy causes, there have also been critics rightfully pointing out the duplicative, even wasteful ways with which the...

The Power of Connecting Grantees to Skills-Based Volunteers
Dana Raviv Senior Partnership Manager, Catchafire

Feb 18, 2015 | Guest Author Developing Strategy, Guest Author Funder/Grantee Relationships, Guest Author Guest Author

Foundations interested in helping nonprofit grantees build capacity can choose from many potential routes to accomplish those goals. From direct technical assistance to grant-funded consultant support, many funders grapple with the best approach to providing...

What’s Unique about Funder Capacity?
Chris Cardona Managing Director, Discovery, Exploration, and Programs New Work, MacArthur Foundation

Jan 6, 2015 | Guest Author Developing Strategy, Guest Author Funder/Grantee Relationships, Guest Author Guest Author

Foundation effectiveness, as CEP’s own Phil Buchanan has helpfully summarized, is about four things: clear goals, coherent strategies, disciplined implementation, and relevant performance indicators. As the field has sought how to achieve greater effectiveness, “one...

A Turning Point for Philanthropy in Ireland
Bernard Kirk Director, Galway Education Centre

Dec 11, 2014 | Guest Author Assessing Performance, Guest Author Developing Strategy, Guest Author Guest Author

Ireland, recently placed 4th in the CAF World Giving Index 2014, is a country that has benefited greatly from philanthropy. However research by Philanthropy Ireland in 2011, found that only 25% the population understood the term philanthropy. Ironically many believe...

Are We Losing Our Humanity, While Saving the World?
Trista Harris President, Minnesota Council on Foundations

Nov 13, 2014 | Guest Author Developing Strategy, Guest Author Guest Author

A program officer was doing a site visit with a small nonprofit that worked with at-risk teens. The organization didn’t have a lot of resources, but they developed good relationships with the kids and were making a difference. At the end of the visit the executive...

Understanding Your Customers…the Beneficiaries
Paul Shoemaker Executive Connector, Social Venture Partners Seattle; Founding President, SVP International

Nov 6, 2014 | Guest Author Assessing Performance, Guest Author Constituent Feedback, Guest Author Guest Author

I gotta say reading Hearing From Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback really spoke to me, not just because of our work at Social Venture Partners, but because it resonated so strongly from my days at Nestle and Microsoft,...

Imagining a World Where Beneficiary Feedback is the Norm
Valerie Threlfall Founder and Executive Director, Listen4Good

Nov 4, 2014 | Guest Author Constituent Feedback, Guest Author Guest Author

I was extremely heartened to read CEP’s latest research report, Hearing from Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback. In particular, it was amazing to see that more than 92 percent of nonprofits surveyed collect feedback...

Philanthropy’s Special Role in Supporting Community Recovery from Disasters
Ronna Brown President, Philanthropy New York

Oct 29, 2014 | Guest Author Guest Author

This week marks the two year anniversary of “Super Storm Sandy” hitting the Eastern Seaboard of the US, the Caribbean and Canada. Many of the hardest hit communities were in New York and New Jersey – the storm’s destruction has been well documented. A full recovery...

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