A Call to Rethink How We Support Grantees
Perhaps your reaction after reading the latest CEP report, Assessing to Achieve High Performance: What Nonprofits are Doing and How Foundations Can Help, was similar to mine — skepticism. Perhaps you...
View ArticleGetting to Assessment and High Performance
Nonprofit organizations — and foundations — talk a lot about accountability. And one of the best ways to be accountable is to demonstrate impact. While you or I would be hard pressed to think of a...
View ArticleThe Importance of Collecting and Sharing Formative Assessment Data in...
As I read CEP’s Assessing to Achieve High Performance report, several thoughts came to mind. First, “Ooh, these graphics are so pretty!” Second, “Yeah, funders need to provide more money to nonprofits...
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Seeking Confidence in Your Impact? Broaden Your Definition of Evidence
How can funders better inform their own assessment of progress and earn their – and others’ – confidence in any impact achieved? That’s the question that jumped out at us here at the Center for High...
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How Far Have We Come In…Understanding Impact?
In the past decade, foundations have become more deeply engaged in assessing their performance. But performance assessment is only a means to an end. The real question is – do foundations feel like...
View ArticleTaking Aim
Times are changing for foundations and donors. The launch by NCRP of Philamplify, an initiative to publicly assess foundations, along with the introduction late last year of the website Inside...
View ArticleOutcomes, Knowledge, Wisdom & Time
“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.” ~ Pericles In a recent press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated that the data on inflation was on the “high side.” Then, she...
View ArticleClosing the Citizen Feedback Loop
What do people actually want? Are they getting it? If not, then what should we do differently? These are the three questions that should be at the center of any funder’s strategy and operations. Yet...
View ArticleTurning the Tables: Assessing Our Own Assessment Tool
Gathering, analyzing, and acting upon feedback are key priorities here at CEP. These are the values that have driven us to develop our assessment tools, publish research reports that draw on the voices...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Performance Assessment
The issue of nonprofit performance assessment seems to cause a lot of anxiety among nonprofits and funders. On one hand, there is agreement that assessment is necessary to achieving high performance —...
View ArticleMaking Philanthropy More Business-Like Is a Big Mistake
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