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Alice Mei

Senior Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services

Alice leads relationships with funders using CEP’s assessments. She designs data collection instruments, analyzes quantitative and qualitative data, writes reports, and presents insights, with a particular focus on custom engagements. She is also the key point person for CEP’s GPR Learning Network, which convenes senior foundation leaders to share knowledge and foster data-informed change efforts.

Before joining CEP, Alice provided mixed-methods research support on evaluations of federal workforce development and adult education programs at the Urban Institute. Her professional experience also includes developing and delivering leadership trainings to a diverse set of non-profits as a community organizer in the Seattle area, planning and managing large-scale fundraising events, and serving as a writing mentor to high-school students.

Alice is a proud graduate of Carleton College with degrees in Political Science and Psychology. She currently resides in San Francisco, California, where you can find her planning a dinner party, perusing home decor stores, or playing volleyball on the beach.

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A ‘Perfect Storm’: One Nonprofit Leader on Fear, Funding, and Finding a Way ThroughCaroline Gasparini Coordinator, Research, CEPElizabeth Lindsey Executive Director, Genesys Works National Capital Region
A ‘Perfect Storm’: One Nonprofit Leader on Fear, Funding, and Finding a Way Through

“We have had to be agile, flexible, and optimistic in ways that I haven't experienced before.” Elizabeth Lindsey, who leads the Washington, DC area location of the youth-empowerment nonprofit Genesys Works, has spent most of her career in the...

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An Urgent ‘Passing Gear’ Call to Action: Leveraging Foundation Grantmaking in a Landscape of RetrenchmentJon Pratt Senior Research Fellow, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Nonprofit Financial CommonsRuth McCambridge Director of Content, Nonprofit Financial Commons
An Urgent ‘Passing Gear’ Call to Action: Leveraging Foundation Grantmaking in a Landscape of Retrenchment

In CEP’s latest research report, “The State of Nonprofits 2026,” one of its three major findings is that “despite ongoing financial challenges, many nonprofits are making strategic adaptations to their work in order to survive.” That is absolutely right — but is...

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