Guest author Peter Sims calls for more courage and creativity from philanthropists in order to lead the way toward solving complex social problems.
This Revolution Will Be Improvised
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Programming and Communications
Diving Deeper into Nonprofit Performance Assessment
Addy Ashiru introduces the recording from a recent CEP panel discussion on the role funders can—but currently fail to—play in supporting nonprofit performance assessment.
Building Through Collective Experience
CEP Vice President Kevin Bolduc lays out the agenda for a preconference seminar for users of CEP Assessment Tools, highlighting our keynote presenter and touting the virtues of peer-to-peer learning.
Pursuing Results: What We Hope to Learn in Detroit
Mark Russell explains the theme and previews the agenda for CEP’s 2013 National Conference this May.
Who Wants to Go to Detroit?
Mark Russell expresses his excitment about the work philanthropy is undertaking in Detroit and explains the reasoning behind why it was chosen as CEP’s 2013 conference host city.
Data Point: Helpfulness of Foundations’ Social Media for Grantees
Research Manager Andrea Brock shares a data point on how grantees are interacting with their foundation funders through social media–and how they aren’t.
Engaging Grantees In Foundations’ Social Media and How To Tell If It’s Working
Elizabeth R. Miller of Knight Foundation shares a list of tips for foundations on how to engage with grantees through social media and tools on how to measure those efforts.
We’re Talking. Who’s Listening?
Bruce Trachtenberg of the Communications Network offers some alternate perspectives on how to interpret CEP’s social media research.
Just One Piece of the Communications Pie
Guest author Stuart Comstock-Gay shares how the Vermont Community Foundation has found success deploying social media as a piece of their overall communications model.
Using Social Media to Shift from Delivering Information to Creating Value
Guest authors Jon Sotsky and Elizabeth Miller discuss Knight Foundation’s social media strategy to increasingly engage with their grantee partners.