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Changes in Board Leadership at CEP

The New Year has marked important changes for the CEP board of directors as Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, completed  his three-year term as board chair. Phil Buchanan spoke of the effect he has had on CEP at a board dinner last fall, citing his ability to raise the standard for board discussion and deliberation and thanking him for all he has done for the organization.

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More Grant Makers want to Evaluate their Work but Struggle with How

In this op-ed piece from the Chronicle of Philanthropy Phil Buchanan reflects on past and current attitudes regarding foundation assessment.

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TNTP to Incorporate Student Surveys into Evaluation

Education Week

Teacher-training group TNTP plans to incorporate a student-feedback measure into the system it's developing to evaluate its teachers, becoming one of the first organizations in the nation to use such measures formally.

Though the conversation about teacher evaluation has been dominated by talk of "value added" measures and systems for observing classroom practice, student surveys have also been identified as a promising measure. For instance, preliminary results from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching project have found a positive relationship between teachers who are identified by students as being especially good at conveying and explaining content and teachers' value-added growth measures...

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New Nonprofit Survey Initiative from The Center for Effective Philanthropy

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) today announced a new initiative to bring the voice of nonprofits to foundation funders.  The initiative, The Grantee Voice: Feedback for Foundations, will be a panel of nonprofit leaders from across the country who will share their perspectives about their experiences working with foundations, through a series of...

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