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Will What Was Said in Detroit Stay in Detroit?
May 30th, 2013
Thanks to those of you who recently spent time with us in Detroit during our national conference, Pursuing Results: Effective Foundation Practice. Whether it was an idea from a breakout session, an insight from a plenary, or a promise to keep talking with a colleague, I hope the conference made your trip to the Motor City worthwhile. ...
Grantee Feedback: A Tool for Assessing Program Officers
October 24th, 2012
In my role as a Senior Research Analyst at CEP, I’ve read through thousands of grantees’ comments about working with the foundations that support them. The tenor of these comments varies widely and is often influenced by the nature of grantees’ relationships with their funders, particularly when it comes to their interactions with program officers. ...
From the Pony Express to the Twittersphere
July 26th, 2012
My father tells me the story of when he was a very young boy and his much older sister worked as an operator for the phone company. She called home, her voice traveling through a wire on a new contraption called a telephone, and my Dad answered. ...
Moving Beyond Business as Usual
May 10th, 2012
When Nonprofit Finance Fund’s fourth annual State of the Sector Survey of nonprofit financial health came out a few weeks ago, I tried to convince a journalist about the urgency of covering the results. My pitch didn’t work. ...
Data Point: Finding Out Whether Your Assistance to Grantees Makes a Difference
March 1st, 2012
Believing that their foundations’ effectiveness depends on the effectiveness of those they fund, many foundation leaders have embraced the idea of adding value “beyond the money.” In the words of one program officer interviewed for our More Than Money research, “It can often mean the difference between making a grant and making an impact. ...
Data Point: How Can Foundations Help Grantees Secure Funding from Other Sources?
December 16th, 2011
In a recent data point post, we shared that the most significant factor program staff consider when determining what type of assistance beyond the grant to provide is specific requests from grantees. In our research, program staff also told us that the most frequent assistance beyond the grant request they receive from grantees is help raising money from other sources. ...
Data Point: How Do Program Staff Decide What Assistance to Provide Beyond the Grant?
November 18th, 2011
CEOs and program staff believe that providing assistance beyond the grant is important both for the achievement of their goals and those of their grantees. Yet few know whether the assistance they provide to those grantees is proving helpful. ...
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. ...
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Will What Was Said in Detroit Stay in Detroit?
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...
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
I really appreciate your willingness to share this and your assessment of what didn't work out as planned or anticipated. Thanks.
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
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...
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
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...
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?
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.
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.
