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Room for Improvement: Foundations’ Support of Nonprofit Performance Assessment

81 percent of nonprofits surveyed believe that nonprofits should demonstrate the effectiveness of their work by using performance measures.

Ellie Buteau, PhD

Director of Research Projects and Special Advisor on Research Methodology and Analysis, CEP

Andrea Brock

Former Manager, Research, CEP

An-Li Herring

Former Analyst, YouthTruth

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Amidst growing pressure for nonprofits to measure and assess their performance, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) finds that nonprofits sorely lack the support they need. CEP finds that 81 percent of the nonprofits surveyed believe that nonprofits should demonstrate the effectiveness of their work by using performance measures.

This report is co-authored by Andrea Brock, Ellie Buteau, Phd, and An-Li Herring.

The survey used to gather information for this report is available here.

September 2012

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