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Funder Uses YouthTruth Data to Spark Community Engagement
September 9th, 2011
When the California Endowment’s Laura Olson began working in the far northern region of Del Norte County, California, she faced a dilemma. Del Norte County (and Adjacent Tribal Lands) is one of 14 communities that make up the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities program. ...
How Community Foundations Use Donor Perspectives to Improve Their Work
July 22nd, 2011
While donors are the lifeblood of community foundations, at times it can be tough to know exactly what they want from their foundations. For two leading community foundations, learning about their donors’ views from a comparative survey served as a catalyst to get both their donors and their board members more excited and involved in foundations’ work. ...
Michael J. Fox: Getting Results By Going the Unconventional Way
June 30th, 2011
Almost from the start, Michael J. Fox and Debi Brooks began upending the way foundations typically do business. ...
How Jeff Raikes Approaches the Challenges of Foundation Strategy
June 7th, 2011
Growing up on a Nebraska farm, Jeff Raikes learned something about the fun and not-so-fun aspects of work. “Every farm kid wants to drive the tractor – that’s the cool thing,” said Raikes, chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) 2011 conference. ...
Grantee Feedback Fuels Changes at Foundations
May 10th, 2011
Collecting feedback from grantees about a foundation’s performance seems like a good idea, but does it lead to any change? “Since we began [the Grantee Perception Report®] eight years ago, a big question is whether collecting feedback from grantees that is candid, confidential and comparative in nature leads to any change,” said Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) President Phil Buchanan at CEP’s Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact pre-conference seminar on May 9. ...








