Survey Says: Understanding Employees’ Perceptions Helps Drive Improvement
A few weeks ago, Kevin Bolduc and Karina Kocemba of CEP were here at the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) to lead an all-staff discussion of the results of our most recent Staff Perception...
View ArticleCreating Community at The Commonwealth Fund
We at The Commonwealth Fund are delighted to have our work featured in the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s latest report, Employee Empowerment, which highlights the key to employee satisfaction....
View ArticleThree Employee Empowerment Lessons from Show and Tell
“Can I take the puppy to show and tell tomorrow?” Countless children have asked this question of parents. Parents say no—and kids probably expect that response, but they ask anyway. They understand the...
View ArticleMission Driven Investing: Philanthropy’s Surprising Returns
“We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when...
View ArticleChasing Staff Satisfaction
After reading our latest research report, Employee Empowerment: The Key to Foundation Staff Satisfaction, and discussing CEP’s own Staff Perception Report results from 2012, I found myself asking the...
View ArticleGetting Clear About Overhead, Part 1
To many donors, the percentage a nonprofit spends on “overhead” is important in their decision about which organizations to support—too important, in my view. What matters most is not the way a budget...
View ArticleGetting Clear About Overhead, Part 2: Questionable Fundraising Costs
In my last post on overhead, I discussed the way in which a lack of investment in the capacity for nonprofits to assess performance contributes to overhead ratios becoming a sort of default measure by...
View ArticleSix Tips for Improving Staff Performance Reviews
Over the next few weeks, our staff will complete and discuss their individual self-assessments, a practice CEP has undertaken each summer over the last few years. As I prepare to communicate the...
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...
View ArticleLeadership Aggregation in Nonprofits: Maximizing the Value of Nonprofit...
The practice of capital aggregation – when a foundation or coalition of donors pool their resources to target a group of nonprofit organizations over several years – holds much promise as a more...
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