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Our Starry-Eyed Idealization of Markets
Phil Buchanan President, CEP

May 17, 2012 | Developing Strategy By Phil Buchanan, Developing Strategy Developing Strategy, Developing Strategy Managing Operations

Phil Buchanan starts a series of six blog posts clarifying the boundaries between the business and nonprofit sectors by questioning our idealization of markets.

Why Staff Feedback Should Matter for Everyone
Austin Long Senior Director, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP

Apr 12, 2012 | Assessment Tools Assessment Tools, Assessment Tools Managing Operations

Austin Long makes the case that regularly checking the pulse of foundation employees is a critical step in assessing organizational effectiveness.

To Judge or Not to Judge: The Brainstorming Myth
Phil Buchanan President, CEP

Feb 14, 2012 | Managing Operations Administration, Managing Operations By Phil Buchanan, Managing Operations Managing Operations

Phil Buchanan reflects on the limits of brainstorming after having his assumptions challenged by a recent article from the New Yorker by Jonah Lehrer.

Doing Less With Less
Birch Beaudet Executive Director, Wilburforce Foundation

Jan 18, 2012 | Guest Author Funder/Grantee Relationships, Guest Author Guest Author, Guest Author Managing Operations

Paul Beaudet challenges the notion that ‘doing more with less’ is the answer for philanthropy in an era of limited resources.

Seven “New” Concepts that Are Not So New After All: Reflections on a History of Philanthropy
Phil Buchanan President, CEP

Jan 10, 2012 | Developing Strategy By Phil Buchanan, Developing Strategy Developing Strategy, Developing Strategy Managing Operations

After reading Olivier Zunz’s new book Philanthropy in America, Phil Buchanan reflects on the often overlooked history of the sector in the United States.

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: 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.

Guest Post: How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Seeks To Improve
Dee Colello Senior Manager, Program Operations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Oct 3, 2011 | Guest Author Assessing Performance, Guest Author Assessment Tools, Guest Author Guest Author, Guest Author Managing Operations

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...

Challenging Without Silencing
Phil Buchanan President, CEP

Jun 14, 2011 | Managing Operations By Phil Buchanan, Managing Operations Managing Operations

Phil Buchanan discusses how CEP’s May conference helped him reflect on a challenge he faces as CEP’s president: How do leaders get the best out of people by encouraging them to speak up while simultaneously fostering a culture in which people challenge each other to get to the best solutions?

Does Transparency Make Foundations More Effective?
Bruce Trachtenberg Executive Director, The Communications Network

May 11, 2011 | Managing Operations Managing Operations

The subject of foundation transparency – especially to whom and for what purpose – can sometimes be murky. While there's no doubt that foundations should be transparent – and I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with that – to me it's not simply a question of whether...

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