The Grantee Perception
Report®(GPR) is a management tool that provides foundation
CEOs, boards, and staff with comparative data on grantee perceptions
of their foundation's performance on a variety of dimensions. The
GPR has been commissioned by more than 170 foundations, and each
has found the report useful in informing management decisions or
providing baseline data on the foundation's overall performance.
The GPR is based on a comprehensive survey of grantees covering
issues such as interactions during the grant, the application and
reporting processes, and perceived foundation impact.
CEP’s
surveys also inform field-wide research on grantee perceptions,
such as the research explored in CEP’s reports, Listening
to Grantees: What Nonprofits Value in Their Foundation Funders (2004), Foundation
Communications: The Grantee Perspective (2006), and In
Search of Impact: Practices and Perceptions in Foundations' Provision
of Program and Operating Grants to Nonprofits (2006).
Foundation Subscribers
For a list of foundations that have commissioned a Grantee Perception
Report® from CEP, click
here.
Read Published Grantee
Perception Reports®
For links to foundation that have made their GPR ® reports and excerpts public, click here.
CEP is currently preparing for the next round of grantee
surveys. Sign up by December 11, 2009, to participate. For
information about participating, please contact one of CEP's managers:
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Read What GPR
Subscribers Have to Say
- Foundations that have received a GPR are making changes on the basis of what they learned, according to a recently released report from LaFrance Associates, LLC (LFA). Actions taken by foundations on the basis of their results range from major changes in grantmaking strategy to improvements in grantmaking processes and communication with grantees.
The report draws on a survey of GPR subscribers undertaken in early 2008 by LFA. CEP commissioned LFA in 2005, 2007, and again in 2008 to conduct the survey in order to understand how the GPR has been used to gather feedback to guide CEP as it seeks continually to improve the tool.
To download the entire 2008 report, click here (pdf).
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy profiled CEP,
focusing primarily on the GPR. The article noted that GPRs "have
resulted in changes in foundation operations and have fostered
a frank dialogue between grant makers and charities, which historically
have been wary of speaking out against their supporters for fear
of losing money." To read the entire article, click
here.
- The New York Times reported on the
experience of GPR subscribers in an April 23, 2004 article. The
article noted that the GPR is helping to break down the "code
of silence" between nonprofits and foundations. "Foundation
executives say one ... beneficial aspect was the survey's ability
to show how they compared with peers, something they are unable
to learn with their own studies." To read the entire article,
click
here.
A discount is available for Premium Members of Grantmakers
for Effective Organizations (GEO).
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