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Browse helpful resources for funders, including evidence-based reports, profiles of funders making change, case studies, and blog series.
Overlooked (Part One) – Foundation Support for Asian American and Pacific Islander Leaders and Communities
Across four research studies the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has conducted in the past two years, we’ve noticed two concerning trends emerge for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Native American nonprofit leaders and communities (trends that...
Overlooked (Part Two) – Foundation Support for Native American Leaders and Communities
Across four research studies the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has conducted in the past two years, we’ve noticed two concerning trends emerge for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Native American nonprofit leaders and communities (trends that...
FOUNDATIONS RESPOND TO CRISIS: Lasting Change?
Calls for changes in foundation practice have come for decades from philanthropic and nonprofit leaders and others in the sector. The ways in which foundations responded to these calls at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 have been well-documented and...
FOUNDATIONS RESPOND TO CRISIS: Toward Equity? – The Second in a Series of Three Reports
The disproportionate public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on certain communities, along with nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice, have intensified the calls for foundations to focus on equity and reckon with...
Nonprofit Diversity Efforts: Current Practices and the Role of Foundations
How do nonprofits see diversity as relevant to their goals? How do they want their foundation funders to be involved in their diversity efforts? In discussions about diversity at foundations, it’s essential that the perspectives of grantees be included in the...