Evaluating a Culture
This past September, the Howard Gilman Foundation received its first Grantee Perception Report (GPR) results from CEP, which included...
From Zero to Sixty: One Foundation’s Start-Up Story
A considerable number of philanthropists and foundations seem to be trying to get their philanthropic...
Funder Q&A: Turning Grantee Feedback into Effective Change
A couple of weeks ago, CEP Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services, Charlotte Brugman was joined...
A CEP Presence in Europe in 2019
A decade ago I was managing grants for a nonprofit in Swaziland when the representative...
Why Support for Communications, Staffing, and Fundraising is Necessary
In CEP’s recent report, Strengthening Grantees: Foundation and Nonprofit Perspectives, Meher Shulman, associate director, Nonprofit...
What Does It Take to Shift to a Learning Culture in Philanthropy?
If there was ever any doubt that greater openness and transparency could benefit organized philanthropy,...
Funders that Don’t Seek Feedback Are Out of Excuses
In a Telegraph interview several years ago, Lisa Marie Presley said, “Something happens to people...
Insights from a Fourth Grantee Perception Report
Gluttons for punishment or navel gazers? Who would have thought that the fourth time our...
Sharing Back What You Learn from Grantees
Feedback is important for every funder — and so is closing the loop to share...
Deepening Commitment in a Moment of Change
I grew up in a small Midwestern farm town and have always had a passion…
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