Scanning the Landscape
Publication date:
04/2004
... a new program or contemplating a shift in strategy. Using learning networks, grant makers are starting to scan ...
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Can Feedback Fuel Change at Foundations?
Publication date:
05/2011
When foundations make a commitment to getting consistent feedback from their grantees that is candid and comparative, they can make substantive changes that result in different—and better—grantee experiences. Foundations that use the Grantee Perception Report (GPR) more than once are making changes that are benefiting the organizations they fund. In addition to describing the data, the report identifies four keys to driving change as a result of the GPR, based on CEP’s experience delivering results to some 200 foundations.
Grantees Report Back: Helpful Reporting and Evaluation Processes
Publication date:
01/2011
Foundations often use grantee reporting and evaluation processes to gauge the effectiveness of their work. At the same time, many funders seek to simplify reporting and evaluation processes for grantees so that these nonprofits can spend more time doing their work. How do grantees experience reporting and evaluation processes? What makes them most helpful? How can foundations improve them?
Big Banks Are Too Stingy, Says Watchdog
Release Date:
01/03/2013
The philanthropic track record at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo is “lackluster,” according to a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Representatives of the banks disputed the report’s...
In New Brand of Philanthropy, Nonprofits Invest in For-Profits
Release Date:
12/11/2012
This article on the rise of impact investing in the foundation world mentions two recent projects funded by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Sequestering the Sector
Release Date:
02/28/2013
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman discusses what the sequester could mean for the nonprofit sector.
President, Again, Attacks Charitable Deduction
Release Date:
04/11/2013
This examination of President Obama’s federal budget proposal includes comments from Michael Peterson, President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Peter Buffett Takes to Twitter to Advance Critique of Philanthropy
Release Date:
09/19/2013
In this episode of the Social Good podcast, the NoVo Foundation Co-Chair discusses why he decided to write his New York Times op-ed and how social media are helping to spread a thoughtful debate about the future of philanthropy.
Carnegie UK Trust Announces 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals of Philanthropy Honorees
Release Date:
09/24/2013
The Medals of Philanthropy are awarded every two years to families and individuals around the world who, like Andrew Carnegie, have dedicated their private wealth to the public good. (Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian is...
Simplify: A New Data-Sharing Process for Funders & Grantees
Publication date:
01/2014
Simplify is a data-sharing and standards-setting process that eliminates the repetitive elements of grant applications.
Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Suggests New Way of Preventing Diabetes-Associated Blindness
Release Date:
05/26/2015
... but they don’t work for all patients A study using patient samples, human cells and mice shows that ...
Ford Joins Foundations In Giving Inside Scoop on Grantee Feedback
Release Date:
05/31/2016
This very short video highlighting three funders — Barr Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Einhorn Family Charitable Trust — that have used the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s Grantee Perception Report (GPR) to solicit and act on grantee feedback.
Commonwealth Fund Finds Insurers Selling More of Their Individual Health Plans in ACA Marketplaces
Release Date:
06/02/2016
... for individual coverage on and off of the exchanges, using insurers’ most recent projections for ACA-compliant ...
Sarah Eagle Heart of Native American Philanthropies Clarifies Debate Around Labels for Indigenous Communities
Release Date:
02/02/2017
There is a lot of confusion for people who would be allies around the language to use to address indigenous communities. Are you first nations? Are you Native American? American Indian? What's the right label?
Helmsley Charitable Trust's Rural Healthcare Program Gives $400K to Community Hospital
Release Date:
04/12/2017
Pender Community Hospital has received a $400,000 grant to be used to purchase a new CT scanner.
Watch Grant Oliphant, President of The Heinz Endowments and Former Board Chair of The Communications Network, Give A Rousing Keynote Address At ComNet17
Release Date:
10/25/2017
Grant Oliphant, president of The Heinz Endowments and former Board Chair of The Communications Network, gave a rousing, inspirational, and impactful keynote address at ComNet17, urging social sector communicators to use their voices and speak up for...
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Food Chains - Documentary Film Series
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 -
4:30pm to 8:45pm
... sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States. Food Chains reveals the human ...
PNY's 36th Annual Meeting Will Be a Critical Conversation on International Grantmaking
Release Date:
05/05/2015
“Global Perspectives, Universal Connections” will focus on cross-border philanthropy and practical learning that all grantmakers, regardless of their funding areas, will be able to apply to their work.
Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp
Release Date:
05/14/2019
A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp.
FORE Awards New Grants to Catalyze the Federal Response to the Opioid Crisis
Release Date:
05/31/2023
Today, FORE announced two new grants that build on recent federal policies and laws governing the nation’s response to the continuing opioid crisis.