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Volume 9, Issue 1

A Note from Phil Buchanan

Dear Colleagues,
 
I am pleased to share an update on the latest developments at CEP. We are working hard to prepare for our conference May 21-22 in Detroit, with a special pre-conference seminar for assessment tool users on May 20. We'll be sharing new insights from...

 

 

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Listening to Those Who Matter Most, the Beneficiaries

In this Stanford Social Innovation Review Article, Fay Twersky, Phil Buchanan, and Valerie Threlfall discusses how beneficiary feedback has already aided improved practice and better outcomes in both the education and healthcare sectors. 

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Philanthropy’s Data Boom

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Huge quantities of data are a blessing and a curse for many industries these days. Philanthropy is no exception. In a recent industry forecast “Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013,” written by self-described “philanthropy wonk” Lucy Bernholz, all the big shifts she identifies in philanthropy are data-related. The way she sees it, “foundations, donors, and nonprofits are soon to be drinking from the ‘data firehose.’”

What exactly does this mean? For philanthropists...

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New Report Illuminates Keys to Foundation Staff Satisfaction

CAMBRIDGE, MA—In a report released today, Employee Empowerment: The Key to Foundation Staff Satisfaction, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) shared the key to creating satisfied employees in the philanthropic sector.

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