Searching for Certitude in the Nuance of Numbers
An alternate, condensed version of this post can be found on the Markets for Good blog. We all know it. The look of sheer delight that crosses a child’s face the first time he or she toy-hammers that...
View ArticleBuilding Through Collective Experience
Philanthropy tends to work on big problems, where the way forward isn’t necessarily clear and even the end point is up for debate. Given that ambiguity and the scope of work required to make meaningful...
View ArticleFoundations and Impact Investing: What Is Really Going On?
Impact investing has been hailed as potentially transformational by nonprofit sector, corporate, and foundation leaders. Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment...
View ArticleFoundations Get Ready: There’s a #GivingTuesday Coming
Foundations should start planning for #GivingTuesday, which falls on December 3 this year. #GivingTuesday, launched last year, is intended to create “a national day of giving to kick off the giving...
View ArticleExpanding the Boundaries of Philanthropy through Giving Circles
How can we achieve a bigger impact deeper within a community? Are there ways we might better leverage the knowledge and skills of donors who are intimately involved with our issue areas? How can...
View ArticleLooking Within for the Next Foundation CEO
Does the appointment of La June Montgomery Tabron as president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, falling on the heels of the Ford Foundation’s appointment of Darren Walker as its new CEO, signal a trend...
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Data Point: Nonprofits Struggle with Meeting Demand, Using Technology, and...
It can be difficult for funders to know what grantees really want from their funders – beyond grants. In our report Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do we explored the most pressing...
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If Progress on Goals is a Glass, It’s Half Empty and Half Full
Today, CEP released a new report on foundation CEOs’ perceptions of progress and barriers to impact. In the coming weeks on this blog, we’ll be posting reactions from leaders in philanthropy. The first...
View ArticleAn Openness Pledge?
CEP has been a steady producer of insightful research, and How Far Have We Come? Foundation CEOs on Progress and Impact is no exception. The report, which shares results of a survey of how well...
View Article11 New Year’s Wishes
Every New Year, we tend to dream of what the next year might bring. In that spirit, here are my wishes for what we’d see in foundationland in my imagined 2014. Let me emphasize that these are not...
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