What Do Community Foundation Donors Value? Ask Them!
As the year draws to a close, the holiday giving season provides essential support for many nonprofits facing budget shortfalls – particularly following such a tough economic year. Yet of nearly 400...
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A Dose of Honesty: And Now, a Word from Your Donors
In the last few months, CEP officially launched the Donor Perception Report (DPR), a donor survey for community foundations and other donation-receiving funders. So far we’ve had eight community...
View ArticleHow Community Foundations Use Donor Perspectives to Improve Their Work
While donors are the lifeblood of community foundations, at times it can be tough to know exactly what they want from their foundations. For two leading community foundations, learning about their...
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Data Point: Influencing Donors Who Give to Community Foundations
The use and management of data stands at the core of the work undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. The set of survey tools CEP has developed as well as field-wide research builds...
View ArticleThe Power of Donor Feedback
The conversation at the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) tends to move rapidly toward the subject of feedback. The assessment tools we provide to foundations make it possible to collect...
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Data Point: Importance of Social Networks to Donors
The use and management of data stands at the core of the work undertaken by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. The set of survey tools CEP has developed as well as field-wide research builds...
View ArticleThe Unique and Urgent ‘Business’ of Philanthropy
The following blog post is adapted from a talk presented at a meeting of the Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington. As Suk Rhee mentioned in her introduction, I am a native Oregonian, so I...
View ArticleWalking the Talk: Collecting Feedback from Our Donor Perception Report...
At CEP, we are in the business of gathering feedback. A significant part of our work involves helping philanthropic funders gather comparative feedback from key stakeholders. But we need feedback on...
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Data Point: Donor Motivations for Initially Establishing Funds at Community...
As the nation discusses ways to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,” there has been widespread debate over the likely impact of changes to the charitable tax deduction. Since 2009, CEP has been...
View ArticleA New System to Meet Evolving Needs
As Kevin Bolduc discussed in a series of blog posts late last year, we practice what we preach in terms of using feedback to improve our work. It had become clear that the regular users of our...
View ArticleWe Listen, Too: Collecting Feedback from our Donor Perception Report Subscribers
At CEP, we watch the development and progress of new assessment tools very closely, using the same kind of data-driven feedback that we provide to our foundation clients. The first few years of a new...
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