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strategy implementation
Designing a Better Partnership
October 9th, 2012
The authors of Room for Improvement have found that performance assessment often has different conceptual and practical meanings for nonprofits and foundations. Both groups, of course, want to see benefits of program participation accruing to program beneficiaries. ...
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. ...
How Evaluation Measures Up: A CEO’s Perspective
June 19th, 2012
Foundations and trusts play a critical role in supporting the work of nonprofit organizations, dispersing more than $40 billion a year to address a broad spectrum of community need. Yet, those impressive figures say little about the “social return on investment” that foundations hope to achieve, nor do they illuminate whether or not the programs funded are effective. ...
Our Starry-Eyed Idealization of Markets
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. ...
Data Point: Strategy Implementation Challenges
November 11th, 2011
Much of the talk about strategy in philanthropy focuses on its development. Less frequently discussed is implementation. ...
Data Point: Stakeholders’ Understanding of Foundation Goals and Strategies
September 30th, 2011
The use and management of data stands at the core of the work undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. The set of survey tools CEP has developed as well as field-wide research builds comparative data drawn from key constituent groups—grantees, donors, staff members and others—providing insights that enable funders to better define, assess and improve their effectiveness. ...
A CEP Advisory Board Member Weighs In
September 26th, 2011
Two weeks ago, CEP released a report about strategy at community foundations. Last Thursday, Ellie Buteau wrote a blog post about some responses we have received since the report’s release. ...
New Report on Strategy at Community Foundations Sparks Debate
September 22nd, 2011
The topic of strategy has long been central to research undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, because we are convinced that strategy is essential if foundations are to maximize their impact on people, communities and issues. For this reason, we have spent considerable energy exploring how to define strategy in philanthropy and how to determine the degree to which foundations do – or don’t – use strategy in their day-to-day work. ...
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community foundations
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conferences
developing strategy
Donor Perception Report
economy
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Essentials of Foundation Strategy
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Funder/Grantee Relationships
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Grantee Perception Report
grantee perspectives
Grantee Voice
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nonprofit sector
overall foundation performance assessment
performance assessment
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role of philanthropy
social media
Staff Perception Report
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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...
