At the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, our current work is focused on a long-term audacious goal to increase the rate of high school graduates who are ready for college and…
Phil Buchanan reviews a new internal working paper from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and discusses why distinctions in evaluation practices matter.
Mark Russell reflects on the lessons from our conference, specifcally about the challenge of truly listening.
Most funders have good intentions when they set out to build capacity among their grantee partners. But whose intentions really matter? When it comes to building meaningful capacity, the goals…
On the CEP blog this week and next, CEP President Phil Buchanan is discussing, in a series of eight posts, recent critiques of large, staffed foundations and assertions that recently-established,…
Phil Buchanan weighs in on the issue of overemphasis on overhead as a measure of nonprofit effectiveness.
The advice is as ubiquitous as it is nonsensical: “Run your nonprofit like a business” or “like a start-up.” What does that even mean? It’s not at all clear, and…
