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Mission Driven Investing: Philanthropy’s Surprising Returns

by Sterling Speirn | February 20th, 2013
“We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own. ...
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Our Starry-Eyed Idealization of Markets

by Phil Buchanan | May 17th, 2012
This is the first in a series of six blog posts. One of the great puzzles of the day is that we increasingly look, starry-eyed, to business and markets to address or even solve our social problems. ...

A Step Forward for Charting Impact

by Kevin Bolduc | February 22nd, 2012
One of the most common questions I get from friends and acquaintances when I tell them I work at the Center for Effective Philanthropy is this one: “I was asked to make a donation to XYZ Charity. How do I know if they’re very good at what they do? ...

To Judge or Not to Judge: The Brainstorming Myth

by Phil Buchanan | February 14th, 2012
I hate it when that happens. In the final hour of a cross-country flight last week, I shut down my laptop as the battery flickered out and opened a New Yorker from a couple of weeks back. ...

Making Transparency Matter

by Phil Buchanan | December 8th, 2011
There has been lots of talk lately about foundations and “transparency.” Perhaps the most prominent foundation transparency initiative is a website called Glass Pockets, launched about a year ago by Foundation Center. ...

What Foundations are Doing to Understand their Effectiveness

by Ellie Buteau, PhD | September 7th, 2011
One of the first research projects undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) after it was founded 10 years ago was an effort to understand what foundations were doing to assess how effective they are. What we learned in 2001-2002 was that foundation leaders were frustrated by how limited their ability was to determine how well the foundations they lead were doing. ...

The State of Performance Assessment, 10 Years Later

by Phil Buchanan | September 6th, 2011
A decade ago, I started my job at CEP and we launched a study on performance assessment at large foundations. It’s not as if we were the first to think the question of whether a foundation was achieving its desired results was important. ...

Assessing Foundation Performance

by Jim Canales | April 15th, 2010
At last year’s CEP conference in Los Angeles, I presented on the Irvine Foundation’s approach to assessing foundation performance, joined by David Colby from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. I think it’s fair to say that David and I were presenting approaches used by our respective foundations that remain works in progress – Irvine’s even more so than RWJF’s given its focus on this area for many more years. ...

Has Anything Really Changed in Philanthropy?

by Phil Buchanan | April 12th, 2010
Sean Stannard-Stockton, CEO of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors, and founder of the terrific blog Tactical Philanthropy, invited me to join a team of bloggers sharing thoughts on the GEO conference this week in Pittsburgh.  What follows are some musings on what’s changed since the first GEO conference I attended in 2002. ...

Can Foundations Be Learning Organizations?

by Bob Hughes | January 19th, 2010
Nobody dislikes learning, at least in the abstract.  It ranks right up there with apple pie, baseball, and foundation partnerships – almost everyone is in favor of it. ...
 
Will What Was Said in Detroit Stay in Detroit?
Carola Weil on May 30th
While I unable to attend the conference, I was interested in this edition of your blog. As someone who has moved in and out of...
Lessons from a Risk Taken
Julia Coffman on May 2nd
I really appreciate your willingness to share this and your assessment of what didn't work out as planned or anticipated. Thanks.
Lessons from a Risk Taken
Kevin Bolduc on April 30th
Jon, thanks for the comment. If there’s one thing we learned, it’s that the cost in time and effort and dollars were all higher than...
Lessons from a Risk Taken
Jon Pratt on April 25th
Thanks for sharing the lessons learned, and what I sense are second thoughts about the cost/benefit of the whole enterprise. I appreciate the thirst for...
Foundations and Impact Investing: What Is Really Going On?
The Children's ISA on April 22nd
Great insight. Sometimes it's great to invest in multiple countries as security as the economy in one country might decrease and increase in another.
 
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