A Welcome from Phil Buchanan

Welcome to CEP’s new blog. Here, we hope to bring data and insight to bear on the pressing issues related to philanthropic effectiveness and impact. We’ll weigh in with perspectives based on our research efforts – and we’ll also draw on what we’ve learned providing assessment tools to more than 200 foundations.

Frequent CEP bloggers will include Kevin Bolduc, our vice president – assessment tools, and Ellie Buteau, PhD, our vice president – research, as well as other key CEP staff. In addition, we’ll feature guest bloggers who we have come to know as particularly thoughtful on questions of foundation effectiveness: people like Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Vice President – Learning Robert Hughes, whose posts will appear in the coming weeks; and Georgia Levenson Keohane, a former executive at the September 11 fund, McKinsey consultant, and consultant and writer whose pieces on philanthropy and social and economic policy issues have appeared in publications such as Slate, and the American Prospect.

I’ll weigh in frequently, too, and invite you to do the same by adding your comments in response to what you read here.

This is an exciting time for CEP, with the launch of our new Web site and the release of our new research report, Essentials of Foundation Strategy, and an accompanying case on the Stuart Foundation’s Child Welfare program. Also just-released is an online strategy self-assessment that allows foundation staff to reflect on how strategic they are in their work. I hope you’ll try it out and give us your feedback.

My colleagues and I will be blogging more about our strategy research in the coming days. I hope you’ll check our blog frequently or just subscribe to our RSS feed and draw on what you find here as you work to achieve your goals.

Phil Buchanan

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