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grantee perspectives
We’re Talking. Who’s Listening?
August 9th, 2012
In a perfect world, our ideal audiences would read every one of our tweets, consume every blog post, and make sure not a day goes by they don’t check Facebook for our latest updates. But we know it’s not a perfect world, and for proof we have the results of a Center for Effective Philanthropy survey that examined grantees’ engagement with foundations’ social media. ...
Just One Piece of the Communications Pie
August 7th, 2012
As part of a Community Foundation that tweets, blogs, posts, and shares, I was intrigued by the CEP study on foundations and social media. It’s a useful snapshot of the interaction between grantees and social media as deployed by some foundations: clearly, social media isn’t reaching our grantees and nonprofit partners to the extent we all hope for. ...
Using Social Media to Shift from Delivering Information to Creating Value
August 3rd, 2012
Nonprofits often perceive foundations as monolithic black boxes into which emails and grant proposals disappear. Unfortunately, that sentiment does little for Knight Foundation’s mission of fostering informed and engaged communities. ...
If a Tweet Falls…
August 1st, 2012
Suppose a foundation is organizing a casual meeting for its grantees. The idea is to bring about 100 nonprofit leaders together to network with the foundation staff and with each other. ...
Data Point: How Helpful Do Grantees Find Foundation Reporting and Evaluation Processes? (Not Very.)
June 27th, 2012
As foundations strive to understand their impact, many are pushing to obtain evidence of success from the organizations they support. Nonprofits are facing increasing expectations from their funders to demonstrate progress and effectiveness. ...
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. ...
Are Funders and Their Grantees Discussing Racial Diversity?
April 10th, 2012
As my colleague Kevin Bolduc and I discussed in a previous post, CEP sought to understand the degree to which funders and their grantees are communicating about racial diversity. Between spring 2010 and fall 2011, we collected data about this topic from more than 10,000 grantees of 70 US funders. ...
CEP’s Work to Date on the Topic of Racial Diversity in Philanthropy
April 5th, 2012
In the past several years, discussions about foundations and diversity – in particular diversity as it relates to race – have surfaced more frequently in philanthropy. Perhaps one of the most widely known – if highly controversial – efforts came from The Greenlining Institute’s work on The Foundation Diversity and Transparency Act. ...
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. ...
Gates Annual Report Highlights CEP Role in Increasing Global Impact
August 5th, 2011
The power of CEP’s Grantee Perception Report (GPR) received a strong endorsement this week from Jeff Raikes, President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A widely published AP news story sparked by the giant foundation’s newly released annual report focused on the challenge of getting honest and useful feedback from grantees—and how effective CEP’s tools have been to that end. ...
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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.
Foundations and Impact Investing: What Is Really Going On?
Great questions. It is likely still too early to get a handle on whether the (potential) results reflect the hype meaningfully. However, I will be...
Great questions. It is likely still too early to get a handle on whether the (potential) results reflect the hype meaningfully. However, I will be...
