Data Point: Donor Motivations for Initially Establishing Funds at Community...
Grace Nicolette shares a data point about donor motivations relevant to the ongoing debate over the charitable tax deduction and the fiscal cliff.
View ArticleWho Wants to Go to Detroit?
Mark Russell expresses his excitment about the work philanthropy is undertaking in Detroit and explains the reasoning behind why it was chosen as CEP's 2013 conference host city.
View ArticleBetter Funder/Grantee Dialogue: From Elusive to Imperative
Guest author Antony Bugg-Levine reflects on findings from the Nonprofit Finance Fund 2013 State of the Sector Survey, discussing how foundations can help nonprofits adapt to do more with less.
View ArticleOne Foundation’s Efforts to Support Grantees in a Time of Need
In the last half of 2009, CEP began asking grantees about their funders’ communications and helpfulness in response to the downturn. The data, gathered from surveys of over 6,000 grantees of 37...
View ArticleThoughts on General Operating Support in Uncertain Times
The Hewlett Foundation has long been an advocate of making general operating support grants when appropriate alignment between an organization’s goals and strategies and those of the Foundation...
View ArticleGiving As Good As We Get
A recent Harris Interactive poll suggests that Americans intend to give less in 2010 than in 2009. A combination of high unemployment and economic uncertainty have caused generous people to feel...
View ArticleThe Need for Clear Boundaries
This is the second in a series of six blog posts. It has become an article of faith that the “boundaries are blurring” between nonprofits and companies, and that this is inarguably positive. But what...
View ArticleWearing it Proudly: Clarity on Being Nonprofit
This is the third in a series of six blog posts. Beating up on the label “nonprofit” has become an almost reflexive habit of those speaking and writing about the sector. “Anyone who has thought about...
View ArticleCompanies to the Rescue
This is the fifth in a series of six blog posts. In my last several posts, I have described what I regard as worrisome trends: the way many (inside and outside the nonprofit sector) push for a...
View ArticleThe Risks Posed by a Sector’s Silence: Toward a Forceful and Positive...
This is the final installment in a series of six blog posts. Why are we, in the nonprofit sector, putting corporations on a pedestal? The recent damage caused by the unethical, if not illegal,...
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