COVID has changed everything, including funding for nonprofits. Join funders & nonprofits for a discussion about the future of funding. ABOUT THIS EVENT How can funders truly support the growth and success of nonprofits? How can nonprofits and funders work together to create long-term change? Nonprofits closest to the communities most affected by diet-related...
Perhaps one of the few things that Americans can agree on is the fact that the nation is deeply polarized and divided. But like with so many other things, Americans differ on the importance and implications of this division — with some calling for concerted efforts for healing and coming together, and others believing we...
We have experienced and learned a lot in these past long months. The disparities exposed by the pandemic, the violence exacerbated by it, and the renewed spotlight on racial injustice have led us to a point of inflection. We can take this opportunity to broaden our leadership, reexamine our missions and values, and act in...
Impact is often an elusive concept in philanthropy. What is the most effective way to monitor grants? How do families define and measure success? What is the burden on grantee partners and how might it be mitigated? Successful family philanthropies employ a formative framework for impact that typically involves a process to define the sought-after...
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...