Conferences

CEP's recent national conference, Assessment to Action: Creating Change, was held March 8-9, 2007, in Chicago. Click here to order or download the report on this event.

CEP is currently planning its next conference, Aligning for Impact: Connecting the Dots, to be held March 31-April 1, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA..

Past Speeches

2007

• MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton spoke about the potential, and risks, of focusing on foundation effectivness, drawing on his experience as leader of one of the largest foundations in the country at CEP's March 8-9 conference.

2006

CEP gathered more than 50 key early supports on September 14, 2006 to celebrate CEP's five-year anniversary in New York.

• Phil Buchanan discussed “The Foundation Effectiveness Imperative” and called on a group of funders and early adpoters of CEP's assessment tools to embrace "five elements of foundation effectiveness."
• Lumina Foundation for Education's CEO Martha Lamkin described Lumina's approach to performance assessment.
• Surdna Foundation Executive Director Edward Skloot and the Monitor Institute's Barbara Kibbe discussed barriers to improved foundation effectiveness.
• Duke University's Joel Fleishman, who discussed CEP's achievements and his thoughts on its future.

2005

• Executive Director Phil Buchanan stressed the importance of a "new language of assessment for foundations" in opening remarks to 230 foundation leaders at CEP's 2005 seminar in San Francisco.

2003

• Michael Bailin, former President of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, drew on his foundation's experience as he described the challenges foundations face on the path to greater effectiveness and accountability during his keynote address at CEP's 2003 seminar in New York.
• Edward Skloot, Executive Director of the Surdna Foundation, affirmed the value of striving for effectiveness and accountability, but also challenged seminar participants to look beyond management tactics and breathe new life into funder-grantee relationships during his address at CEP's 2003 seminar in New York.

Past Seminars

Higher Impact: Improving Foundation Performance (pdf)
March 17-18, 2005

Foundation Effectiveness: A Seminar for Foundation CEOs, Senior Executives and Trustees (pdf)
October 9-10, 2003