Chloe Heskett

Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, Programming and External Relations

Chloe supports the Programming and External Relations team’s marketing and external communications.

Prior to joining CEP in 2021, Chloe worked as an editor and content creator for an admissions consulting firm. While there, she took advantage of her remote-first role to travel and live in the U.K., New Zealand, Canada, and Germany. Chloe studied French and politics at the University of Virginia, although she claims her real major was in journalism as an editor for the student paper. When not behind her laptop poring over Word documents, Chloe loves to be in the mountains trail running, climbing, hiking, and camping.

Chloe Heskett's Blog Posts

Editor’s Picks: The Best of the CEP Blog in 2024

In the final weeks of a year, when content calendars slow and we collectively begin to reflect on the year nearly gone — and plan, with some level of disbelief, for the one to come — we editors indulge in a favorite past-time: the curation of the year-end ‘best of’...

Perspectives on Intermediaries: Responding to ‘Bridging the Gap’

Introducing CEP's research on grantee experiences with intermediary funders, lead author Emily Yang notes "a significant rise in both the interest in and number of intermediary organizations." Accompanying this rise in interest in funding through intermediaries –...

Insights from Grantees: A CEP Blog Series

Funders have used CEP's Grantee Perception Report to gather candid, comparative feedback from their grantees for more than two decades. In addition to sharing confidential reports with individual funders to enable them to continually improve their own work with...

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Funders, I Want to Tell You About My Donkeys

by Katya Fels SmythChloe Heskett | Jan 29, 2025

This post originally appeared on the author’s Medium page. Read it here and find out more about the Full Frame Initiative here. Anyone who has known me for more than a minute knows I love donkeys so much that I have five of them. Real live donkeys. They’re fabulous....

Standing Strong for DEI

by Phil BuchananSarah Martin | Jan 27, 2025

The remarkable and rapid capitulation of many corporations to the new administration’s anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) crusade is not just craven, it’s likely to impede the performance (and profitability) of these companies. Late last week, Target became...

What’s in a Name: The Politics of Trust and What We Lose When We Talk Past Each Other

by Joseph LeeChloe Heskett | Jan 22, 2025

Recently, I had a call with a funder who was considering whether to commission a Grantee Perception Report (GPR) for the very first time. Usually, these kinds of conversations have a predictable cadence and arc — an overview of CEP’s comparative dataset and the unique...