For Immediate Release

Center for Effective Philanthropy President Phil Buchanan Named Top Nonprofit Leader

Cambridge, MA — For the second year in a row, Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), has been named to The Nonprofit Times "Power and Influence Top 50." This honor recognizes leaders who have had a major impact on the nonprofit field in the last twelve months, and whose leadership is responding to, and growing with, challenges in the charitable sector.

Buchanan's placement on 2008's Top 50 list reflects CEP's significant influence on the functioning and performance of grantmaking foundations. Buchanan joined CEP, which develops comparative data to enable higher-performing foundations, as its first staff member in 2001. Since then, nearly 200 foundations have used CEP's groundbreaking assessment tools, and CEP's research publications — including the 2007 report Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy — have influenced practice at many of the largest philanthropic funders in the world.

CEP's innovative work has also been recognized in dozens of industry and mainstream publications, including The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. A profile in The Chronicle of Philanthropy recognized CEP as an organization "that in a relatively short time has shaken up the foundation world."

Buchanan, 38, has overseen the growth of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based organization to a staff of 30, with a new office in San Francisco slated to open in October. CEP's 11-member Board of Directors includes many respected leaders from within and outside the foundation sector, including Greater Cincinnati Foundation CEO Kathy Merchant, another member of The Nonprofit Times "Power and Influence Top 50," and Massachusetts Commissioner of the Division of Energy Resources, Phil Giudice, who serves as Chair and helped found the organization.

Born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Portland, Oregon, Buchanan currently lives in Bedford, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. His past experience includes strategy consulting at the Boston-based Parthenon Group and six years in higher education administration, as assistant to the presidents of Wesleyan and Mount Holyoke College. He will be honored with the fellow members of the "Power and Influence Top 50", Class of 2008, this September at an awards reception in Washington, DC.

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and impact. CEP received initial funding in 2001 and is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information on CEP's work, including its research, publications, and assessment tools, see www.effectivephilanthropy.org.