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The Continued Need for Vastly Stepped-Up Giving — and the Role of DAFs

Race, Equity, and Unavoidable Challenges for Philanthropy

Mission First: Giving Counter-Cyclically

Supporting Our Unsung Heroes in a Moment of Crisis: Part 4

A Call to Funders to Increase Giving in an Unprecedented Time

Supporting Our Unsung Heroes in a Moment of Crisis: Part 3

Supporting Our Unsung Heroes in a Moment of Crisis: Part 2

Supporting Our Unsung Heroes in a Moment of Crisis: Part 1

Looking Back, Looking Forward Part 4: Hopes and Dreams

Looking Back, Looking Forward Part 3: Philanthropic Practice

Looking Back, Looking Forward Part 2: Big Questions

Looking Back, Looking Forward Part 1: Business Knows Best … or Not

From Lamenting to Learning

The Challenge of Nonprofit Leadership: Navigating a Perilous Moment

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Foundation Boards

Thank You and Farewell to an Unsung CEP Star

Five Questions Every Foundation Board Should Be Discussing Right Now

Nonprofits and Philanthropy Need to Take Center Stage

Giving Done Right

Giving Is Not Like Investing

Putting Critiques in Perspective in Pursuit of More Effective Philanthropy

Seeking Input on CEP’s Revised Definition of Philanthropic Effectiveness

The Need for a Strong Voice for Institutional Philanthropy

Too Many Foundation Boards Are Failing at Diversity

Essential Responsibilities of Foundation Governance

On Perpetuity and Limited Life Foundations

Barbs, Jabs, and the Roles of Community Foundations

Life After Charlottesville: Choosing Our Paths

General Support and Myths about New Funders

Foundations React to Shifting Winds in Washington

Losing Our Religion: Against Sector Agnosticism

An Insider’s Guide to the CEP Conference

Influencing Philanthropic Practice Responsibly

Making a Conference Worth Attending

Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

Policy Advocacy: Best Weapon in a Foundation’s Arsenal — or a Threat to Democracy?

Foundations and Policy: A Different Conversation

Learning History to Make History

The Big Issues: OK, So What Did I Miss?

Big Issue 5: A New Sophistication in Considering how to Support Nonprofits Effectively

Big Issue 4: The Embracing of — or Return to — Aligned Action

Investing in Infrastructure

Big Issue 3: Evolving Notions of Strategy and Measurement

Big Issue 2: Questioning the “Traditional” Approach to Endowment Management

Big Issue 1: Fundamental Questions about the Role of Philanthropy

Timeless Dimensions of Effectiveness

Slow, Steady, and Humble

Drawing Inspiration from What Has Worked

An Evolving Definition of Foundation Effectiveness

Four Questions about the Data on Foundation Boards

Confronting Overwork

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Foundation Boards

Embracing Reality

Staff Quality Matters

What the Data Tells Us: You Need Staff to Do Certain Things Well

Staffing a Foundation for Impact

No One Model

It Takes Staff to Get to Know Nonprofits, Communities, and Fields

Are the New Big Foundations Lean or Just In the Process of Staffing Up?

Are Big Staffed Foundations Obsolete?

Is Maximizing Returns the Right Approach for Foundation Endowments?

Why Are Foundations Putting Small Dollars Toward Impact Investing?

Making History

A Misguided Call for “Reform”

New Data from CEP on Foundation Practices

How Do You Spend Your Time?

Making a Conference Worth Attending

A Moral Imperative

“Like a Business:” Toward a Deeper Discussion of “Overhead”

Hearing from Students: YouthTruth 3.0

A Foundation Success Story

A Real Job: New Report on Being a Foundation CEO

A Thank You to Someone Who Never Wanted the Spotlight

Legitimate Questions about Governance at a Foundation Deserve Answers

Critiques of Foundations, Learning from Success, and #GivingTuesday

Emerging Views of Emergent Strategy

Taking Aim

More Debate About Claims: An Update

Methodology Matters, Part 2: A Claim about Companies’ Role in Education in SSIR

Methodology Matters: HBR’s Weak Cover Story on Work vs. Life

Off to GEO 2014: Some Thoughts on Foundations – and Effectiveness – Today

A New Look and New Offerings

A Working Definition of Foundation Effectiveness

11 New Year’s Wishes

Looking Back at 2013: CEP’s Detroit Conference

Not Gettin’ It: Dispatch from After the Leap

Helping Grantees Assess and Improve

Looking Within for the Next Foundation CEO

Foundations Get Ready: There’s a #GivingTuesday Coming

Philanthropy End of Summer Beach Reading: Part 3

Philanthropy End of Summer Beach Reading: Part 2

Philanthropy End of Summer Beach Reading: Part 1

On Peter Buffett’s Op-Ed

Studying Philanthropy for Its Own Sake

Getting Clear About Overhead, Part 2: Questionable Fundraising Costs

Getting Clear About Overhead, Part 1

‘Strategy’ Is Not a Bad Word

Foundations and Impact Investing: What Is Really Going On?

Sifting Through the “Research”

Making Evaluation Matter

When “Dependency” is Not a Bad Word

Which Data? And Who Will Pay for It?

Gloves Off Wisdom for Donors from the UK: A Philanthropy “How-To”

Transparency Starts at Home

The Risks Posed by a Sector’s Silence: Toward a Forceful and Positive Articulation of the Nonprofit Sector

Companies to the Rescue

“Business Thinking”

Wearing it Proudly: Clarity on Being Nonprofit

The Need for Clear Boundaries

Our Starry-Eyed Idealization of Markets

Where Did All the Women Go? Leadership at the Big Foundations

The Winding Path to Being a Foundation CEO

Transitions at CEP and YouthTruth: Appreciating a Leader

To What End?

The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Foundation Boards

Data Matters: Let’s Look Within To Find Our Exemplars

To Judge or Not to Judge: The Brainstorming Myth

Seven “New” Concepts that Are Not So New After All: Reflections on a History of Philanthropy

The Unique and Urgent ‘Business’ of Philanthropy

Making Transparency Matter

The State of Performance Assessment, 10 Years Later

What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Education, Philanthropy and Metrics

Avoiding a False Choice (Why We Need Both ‘Morality’ and Assessment)

Why Foundations Need to Make a Leap of Reason

Does ‘Daring to Lead’ Draw the Right Conclusions from the Data?

Passion Needed For Data Driven Analysis in Philanthropy

CEP Releases 2010 Video Annual Report

Challenging Without Silencing

Addressing Concerns: Why We Invited Esther Duflo to CEP’s Conference

Don’t Believe the Hype, Believe the Data

A New Must-Read Book Offers Advice to Donors and Foundation Officials

The Plan for CEP 2011-2014, Part II

The Plan for CEP 2011-2014

Organizational Changes at CEP

Here’s Some Philanthropy Advice for Mark Zuckerberg

Introducing Guest Blogger Crystal Hayling

Working with Grantees: Why Good Relationships Matter

Monitor Institute and CEP Join Forces to Scale Data Visualization Tool

“Open-Source Strategy” (Part 4): Foundation Strategy Development and the Perils of Isolation

“Open-Source Strategy” (Part 3): Getting Burned by Openness

“Open-Source Strategy” (Part 2): The Benefits of Engagement

“Open-Source Strategy” (Part 1): Community Engagement and Building Take-Overs

Creative Destruction, Oversimplification, and Assessing Philanthropy

Fighting a Phantom: Reflections on a Caution Against Over-Emphasizing Metrics

CEP’s 2011 Conference: Learning from the Veterans and the New Players

Challenging How We Think, Part II: Michael Mauboussin

Challenging How We Think: Esther Duflo

Introducing Guest Blogger Ron Ragin

Know Your Sector

Getting Over Our Identity Crisis

No More Messing Around Like We Have Been: A Thank You to a Crusader for Better Philanthropy

Report Watch: Rejecting False Dichotomies

Report Watch: The Future of Philanthropy (and Your Next Board Meeting)

Education Funders: Step Up and Hear from Those You Seek to Help

Those Who Should Matter Most

Report Watch: Engaging Stakeholders

Wall Street Saves the World!

BP Oil Spill: A Cautionary Tale on Blurring of Sector Boundaries?

Funders Agree: More Must Be Done to Assess Performance

Introducing Guest Blogger Kathleen Enright

Naming Names: Five of the Best Program Officers

Crystal Hayling Reminds Us of 5 Things We Know, But Keep Forgetting

Jim Canales to Address Overall Foundation Performance Assessment as CEP Guest Blogger

Has Anything Really Changed in Philanthropy?

Foundations, Obama, and Independence

Introducing Guest Blogger Joel Orosz

Some New Trousers for Foundations, with Glass Pockets

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