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Della Menhaj

Senior Manager and Data Systems Lead, Assessment and Advisory Services

Della leads relationships, analyzes data, produces reports, and presents assessment findings to CEP clients. She is an experienced project manager and helps lead the Assessment and Advisory Services team’s development and maintenance of its data-processing and display systems as well as managing datasets.

Prior to joining CEP in October 2015, Della served as a corps member with City Year Boston. Before that, she attended the University of Rochester, majoring in Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. As an undergraduate, she did research on endangered Iranian languages and was an avid hiker in the Adirondacks. Outside of work, Della can be found hiking in the wilderness, reading epic fantasy novels, or cooking at home.

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Recent Blogs

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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