Speakers Phil Buchanan Pradeep Nair Pritha Venkatachalam Arif Ekram
Join EPIP Bay Area for an Article Club to discuss the Center on Effective Philanthropy's recent article, Giving is Not Like Investing. Come prepared to connect and discuss a few questions to start: • What feelings does this surface for you? • Do you agree with the sentiment? • Do you see your organization reflected...
CEP will share our latest findings, drawn from just completed research, in this free interactive webinar. About this event In 2020, foundations shifted their grantmaking practices quickly to respond to multiple compounding crises, but it was unclear whether these changes would be sustained -- as we highlighted in CEP’s Foundations Respond to Crisis series released...
Join us for a discussion of CEP's findings on the lack of foundation support for AAPI and Native American nonprofit leaders and communities. About this event Recent years have seen increased attention from philanthropic leaders to questions about race, systemic racism, and systemic inequities. This increased attention was heightened by the ways that the COVID-19...
What are nonprofits and foundation leaders doing to address climate change, in their mission-related work and in their investment practices? How pressing of a problem is climate change from the perspective of foundation and nonprofit leaders, and how do they think climate change will affect their work? Moreover, how are leaders of organizations that do...
Foundation leaders often cite their boards as an impediment to the shifts in practices they see as necessary in these times, CEP research has shown. Moreover, boards’ racial diversity is correlated with some of these very practices, and yet most foundation boards remain overwhelmingly white. How can foundation CEOs and boards evolve so that boards...
Philanthropic support for nonprofits has seen big changes in recent years. Donors like MacKenzie Scott are setting a new standard for unrestricted giving that puts the power into the hands of recipients—allowing nonprofits to decide how and where funds are best spent to serve their constituents. Is this model a passing fancy or the new normal? And...
Join us on May 18th for our next Leadership Learning Series session, hosted in partnership with the Center for Effective Philanthropy! While organizational resilience has long been a focus of those in the nonprofit sector, this topic has gained new urgency as institutions and movements continue to navigate the repercussions of the pandemic, increasingly volatile...
More than three years after an unprecedented period of challenge for nonprofit organizations began with the COVID-19 pandemic, what do individual and institutional donors need to know about how nonprofits are faring today, how they are experiencing funders, and what big challenges they face? Was 2020 a watershed year, leading to permanent shifts in how...
Since she began giving large, unrestricted, and often unannounced gifts to nonprofits, MacKenzie Scott’s giving has diverged from more common approaches in philanthropy, earning both praise and critique. With new data in year two of a three-year study, we further analyze the effects and emerging impacts of these gifts. For the first time, we examine...
Funding nonprofit endowments can be a tool to ensure the stability of an organization, as well as to advance equity and shift power to frontline organizations. However, according to new Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) research, endowment giving remains relatively rare and represents a very small fraction of foundation giving. CEP’s research also reveals that,...