Guest author Anne Warhover shares how the Colorado Health Foundation is using data to measure performance and influence strategy.
How Evaluation Measures Up: A CEO’s Perspective
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Moving Beyond Business as Usual
Guest author Antony Bugg-Levine discusses results from Nonprofit Finance Center’s State of the Sector Survey and suggests steps funders can take to ease the financial burdens of their grantees.
Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?
Guest author Joel Orosz examines the sometimes frustrating experience of applying for a grant — and what that means for practitioners of philanthropy.
Time for a Gold Standard of Use
Fay Twersky of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation believes it is time for the social sector to make better use of best practices in data collection and usage.
Stupid Funder Tricks
Paul Beaudet finishes his series on the funder/grantee relationship by calling on the philanthropic sector to take a critical look at collective bad habits and offering advice on how to maximize the potential of the partnerships all funders forge with their grantees.
Putting Grantees In the Center of Your Map
Paul Beaudet’s second guest post further explores the funder/grantee relationship, focusing on the effect of using strategy to shape funders’ work with grantees.
Doing Less With Less
Paul Beaudet challenges the notion that ‘doing more with less’ is the answer for philanthropy in an era of limited resources.
What Strategy Is…And Isn’t – Hint: It’s Not Rocket Science
A guest post from Cindy Gibson lays out the tenets of a process for developing effective strategies at foundations.
Evaluation Roundtable Study Highlights the Role of the CEO in Evaluation
A report written by Elizabeth Heid Thompson and Patricia Patrizi (and currently available on the CEP website) explores the extent to which foundations evaluate the results of their work. An examination of 31 foundations that have demonstrated a commitment to...
Guest Post: How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Seeks To Improve
At the Center for Effective Philanthropy, we believe that improved performance of philanthropic funders can have a positive impact on nonprofit organizations and the people and communities they serve. As part of our work, we aim to highlight stories from funders who...